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8 Aug 2011, 8:10 am
The tugboat pilot could be sentenced to a maximum of 10 years in prison and three years of supervised release. [read post]
27 Aug 2009, 2:25 pm
Or we could just continue to pump money into the prison system by choosing to pretend that it’s not a problem (approximately 40% of offenders go back to jail, as high as 70% in California). [read post]
10 Mar 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
On the one hand, anti-system politics reflects how the policy space between politicians and political parties of the centre right and left have converged on a broader role for competitive markets, including in what had hitherto been regarded as non-market institutions – such as the police, prisons, public health services and education systems, and a consequent narrowing of electoral choice. [read post]
5 Feb 2021, 7:00 am by Dani Selby
Racial discrimination and bias has been ingrained in the criminal legal and law enforcement system from its earliest days and continues to pervade every level of the system today. [read post]
14 Aug 2009, 11:49 am
  PLRA was designed to insulate state prison systems from prison condition lawsuits at a time when mass imprisonment was being implemented all over the country and encouraged by earlier federal legislation by creating a host of obstacles to prison litigants. [read post]
22 Jul 2011, 11:42 am by Rebecca McCray, Center for Justice
Prison issue: Lack of care for people with mental illness This editorial highlights a disturbing trend in our country’s criminal justice system: the criminalization of the mentally ill. [read post]
20 Feb 2014, 4:20 am by Howard Friedman
In Philadelphia yesterday, Herbert and Catherine Schaible were sentenced to three and one-half to seven years in prison in the faith-healing death from pneumonia of their 8-month old son last year. [read post]
28 May 2021, 11:19 am by Reggie Shuford
He also has more work to do to effectively improve the criminal legal system in Philadelphia. [read post]
5 Apr 2012, 12:47 pm by Steve Hall
Prison logs indicate that his lawyers visited him a total of three times. [read post]
8 Dec 2015, 9:45 am by Law Offices of Jeffrey S. Glassman
   While it may seem strange to sentence someone life plus 80 years, in the federal system, life may only be 36 years, but after that, she would have to serve 85 percent of 80 years, so she will never be able to get out of prison. [read post]
30 Nov 2010, 2:46 pm
Yet, even if that goal is met, the system would still hold 30,000 more inmates than it is designed to. [read post]
19 Nov 2014, 7:34 am
Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (City of Philadelphia), the injured worker, a prison guard, suffered a very severe injury to her left shoulder, arm, wrist and hand while restraining an inmate. [read post]
27 Apr 2009, 5:53 am
The uneven treatment strikes at the heart of the justice system. [read post]
27 Jul 2009, 8:41 am
"You could be maintaining them in prison for less, but that's essentially what they are , they are in prison for life through an expensive process," Dieter said. [read post]
8 Nov 2017, 2:00 pm
He spoke of the “structural racism in our criminal justice system” and of the need to fight against the for-profit prison industry. [read post]
7 Apr 2010, 12:20 pm by Steve Hall
Society has an obligation to these prisoners to explore our flawed justice system and re-evaluate the death penalty. [read post]
6 Jun 2007, 1:22 pm
From the NY Times: The Guantánamo camp was created on a myth — that the American judicial system could not handle prisoners of “the war against terror. [read post]