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23 Aug 2023, 5:51 am
For centuries within American women’s prisons,... [read post]
1 Oct 2019, 3:58 pm
Let’s take a moment to reflect on a quarter-century of grid-based sentencing. [read post]
15 Feb 2012, 1:23 pm
A fire that broke out in a Honduras prison killed as many as 356 people and is now being called one of the deadliest prison fires in a century. [read post]
5 Apr 2013, 11:14 am
This is, of course, 21st Century America. [read post]
10 Jul 2013, 7:12 am
It also marks the culmination of a quarter-century long campaign by the ACLU to end HIV segregation throughout the nation. [read post]
30 Jan 2016, 9:14 am
And some older units built a century ago or more have exorbitant cost-per-prisoner ratios, creating a natural closure-target list of the most expensive ones, if such things were based on a pure cost-benefit analysis.Finally, there are units which meet none of those criteria but which lie on real estate that would be worth much more to local developers and the tax rolls if the property were redeveloped to reflect it highest, best use. [read post]
28 Sep 2010, 4:16 am
Despite years of campaigning, reformers have yet to come up with a solid evidence-based reform to our current prison system. [read post]
11 Dec 2010, 8:10 pm
On Friday, the Supreme Court agreed to resolve a longstanding circuit split on the question of whether a federal sentencing judge may set the length of a prison term based on what the judge believes will be necessary for a defendant to complete a prison-based treatment program. [read post]
13 Dec 2010, 10:36 am
On Friday, the Supreme Court agreed to resolve a longstanding circuit split on the question of whether a federal sentencing judge may set the length of a prison term based on what the judge believes will be necessary for a defendant to complete a prison-based treatment program. [read post]
15 Mar 2016, 3:00 pm
It’s time for the Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex to step into the 21st century. [read post]
19 Apr 2019, 4:52 am
Prison was the kinder, gentler punishment of its day, justified by its isolating the criminal from the public, with an overlay of justification based on some imagined deterrent effect. [read post]
13 Sep 2012, 7:01 am
Prisoners with HIV are even barred from the faith-based dormitory and the dormitory for seniors. [read post]
14 Jul 2021, 1:33 pm
Today’s discontent with prisons and policing closely resembles that of half a century ago. [read post]
27 Oct 2010, 4:45 am
Five years have passed since the European court of human rights decided that the general, automatic and indiscriminate restriction on voting by convicted prisoners was a breach of the human rights convention” “The Prison Reform Trust submitted that the disenfranchisement of sentenced prisoners was a relic from the nineteenth century which dated back to the Forfeiture Act 1870, the origins of which were rooted in a notion of civic death. [read post]
20 Mar 2022, 9:00 pm
Reminding us of the specter of Ruffin, one prisoners’ rights advocate noted in February of this year that, “Our current system is based on practices that are rooted in slavery and the lack of regard for human beings. [read post]
7 Jul 2008, 1:08 pm
They recognised that a remand prisoner's home circumstances may change during a period of detention, and therefore recommended that it would be sensible for the names of remanded prisoners to be recorded as ‘other electors' rather than against any fixed address. 1 The disenfranchisement of prisoners in Great Britain dates back to the 19th century. [read post]
17 Jan 2007, 11:19 am
[official website], the huge New York-based company that owns Ramada, Howard Johnson, Avis, Coldwell Banker and Century 21, was sentenced Wednesday to 12 years and seven months in prison pursuant to a October 2006 conviction [US DOJ press release] arising from a multi-billion dollar accounting fraud in the 1990s. [read post]
13 May 2019, 3:30 am
Continue reading "Law and Public History: The Legal History of Memory Regulation in Twentieth-Century Europe"The post Law and Public History: The Legal History of Memory Regulation in Twentieth-Century Europe appeared first on Jotwell. [read post]
29 Nov 2006, 4:08 am
Will the new Democratic majority take a serious look at alternatives to the failed "lock 'em up" policies of the last quarter century? [read post]
24 Jan 2018, 7:12 am
Grits has argued that the push to raise the age of adult criminal culpability in Texas from 17 to 18 is an effort to bring Texas into the 20th century, but not the 21st. [read post]
