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6 Jun 2008, 7:09 pm
" The official press release from BJS provides this explanation of what the latest official data shows:The growth in the number of prisoners under state or federal jurisdiction slowed during the first six months of 2007, the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reported today. [read post]
6 Nov 2013, 3:49 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
By contrast, Texas' prisoner numbers recently topped out and have begun to decline, allowing the state to close three prison units in the last two sessions. [read post]
6 May 2018, 6:43 am by Ben Vernia
On May 4, the Department of Justice announced that a Bureau of Prisons employee in Texas had agreed to pay $50,000 to settle civil Anti-Kickback Act allegations that he accepted payments from a prison health contractor (who had settled its own liability for the scheme in 2017). [read post]
19 Jun 2009, 9:09 am
The rise in the number of Floridians convicted of crimes and sent to jail is a factor in the rise in the US prison population according to Allen Beck, the chief prison demographer for the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the statistical arm of the US Justice Department. [read post]
25 Mar 2020, 12:21 pm by Margaret Taylor, Benjamin Wittes
Surely, the Justice Department does not mean that HHS should prioritize distribution to Justice Department components over, say, health care workers. [read post]
In 2019, there were around 116,000 prisoners held in privately operated facilities, representing about seven percent of all state prisoners and 16 percent of federal prisoners, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. [read post]
4 Mar 2011, 11:55 am by brian
Beck and Paul Guerino Bureau of Justice Statistics, 62 pp., available at bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov National Standards to Prevent, Detect, and Respond to Prison Rape: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking by the United States Department of Justice Federal Register, Vol. 76, No. 23 (February 3, 2011), 56 pp., available at federalregister.gov/a/2011-1905 Initial Regulatory Impact Analysis for Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Proposed National… [read post]
1 Feb 2022, 10:47 am by Irene
The Department of Justice (DOJ) issued the new guidelines a few weeks ago to ensure that the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) “properly identifies, tracks, and provides services to the transgender population. [read post]
14 Mar 2024, 2:00 am
FACED UP TO 15 YEARS IN PRISON MERELY BECAUSE OF THEIR MEDICAL CONDITIONAccording to a press release issued by the United States Department of Justice in mid-February, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) allegedly discriminated against those sex workers who were impacted by the human immunodeficiency virus (or “HIV”), by imposing harsher criminal penalties.When prostitutes were criminally prosecuted, charges were increased… [read post]
1 Nov 2011, 3:56 am by Richard Renner
In July, the American Federation of Government (AFGE) Employees Council of Prison Locals called on Attorney General Eric Holder and the United States Congress in July to hold Bureau of Prisons (BOP) leadership accountable for failure to make changes to the climate of retaliation and discrimination that’s running rampant in the federal prison system. [read post]
5 Jan 2017, 10:30 am
  In August, the Justice Department concluded that private prisons “compare poorly” to federally run prisons and directed the Bureau of Prisons to begin phasing out its private prison contracts. [read post]
9 Jun 2023, 6:05 am by Allison Mollenkamp
Also, in 2022, DOJ created a Domestic Terrorism Unit and updated the Justice Manual to provide guidance around domestic terrorism cases. [read post]
7 Feb 2010, 8:07 am by Andis Kaulins
See the 2004 Report of the ABA Justice Kennedy Commission Fact Sheet which stated:"The United States imprisons more people than any other country in the world.- The nationwide inmate population today is about 2.1 million people. [read post]
22 Sep 2008, 9:36 pm
Lawrence Yontz, 48, of Arlington, Virginia, faces a maximum of a year in prison when sentenced in December, the Justice Department said. [read post]