Search for: "PRISON SYSTEM"
Results 181 - 200
of 24,957
Sorted by Relevance
|
Sort by Date
21 Aug 2019, 4:00 pm
Following up on yesterday's post, one of the many concerns with the US prison system, is the use of private prisons. [read post]
3 Sep 2008, 8:59 pm
Still, it seems the state's prison system is another example of Gov. [read post]
5 Mar 2021, 10:12 am
In a story straight out of a dystopian novel, a faulty computer system has kept Arizona prisoners locked up beyond their release date. [read post]
22 Sep 2008, 7:39 am
In response, four legislators co-sponsored legislation last week to use private prisons for the overflow, but the state prison system is resisting the idea. [read post]
30 May 2013, 7:34 am
In 2012, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Southern Poverty Law Center offered to pay for an assessment of the system, but the Mississippi Department of Corrections rejected the offer. [read post]
19 Sep 2008, 12:07 pm
That just makes a mockery of the system. [read post]
23 May 2011, 8:31 am
In the 5-4 decision written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, the court concluded that the extreme overcrowding of the California prison system is causing inmates to receive inadequate medical care in violation of the Eighth Amendment... [read post]
17 Apr 2015, 9:41 am
"Prison overcrowding can also be considered as a symptom of a malfunctioning justice system, and the problems of overcrowding have to be dealt with by the prison administration, although the solutions are seldom within their reach," said Piera Barzano, Senior Regional Advisor of... [read post]
5 Sep 2012, 11:14 am
Colorado does not have the same problematic numbers as the federal prison system, where more than half of all prisoners sentenced to time behind bars last year were Latino. [read post]
28 Feb 2011, 8:33 am
The digital system was installed in some jails in 2008 and was completed in 2010 according to a spokesman for the city’s Correction Department. [read post]
24 Nov 2021, 5:00 pm
The company and law enforcement officials say it is a crucial tool to keep prisons and jails safe, and fight crime, but critics say such systems trample the privacy rights of prisoners and other people, like family members, on the outside. [read post]
29 Nov 2017, 7:18 am
The disparities do not end in prison. [read post]
7 Dec 2010, 1:47 am
“The justice secretary, Ken Clarke, will today detail his plans to divert thousands of offenders from prison to bring to an end the Victorian-style ‘bang ‘em up’ culture and reduce high reoffending rates. [read post]
26 Jan 2009, 10:19 am
The Austin Statesman's Mike Ward reports that the state prison system's crackdown on cell phones and contraband have continued after a lockdown last fall supposedly began an era of "zero tolerance" ("Cell phone smuggling continues," Jan. 26):More than 200 cell phones have been confiscated in state prison cellblocks since a system-wide shakedown for contraband ended in November, almost twice as many as were seized during the lockdown. … [read post]
6 Jul 2012, 10:16 am
The New York Times, last Monday, carried an article about indigent and low-income people, "mushrooming of fines and fees levied by money-starved towns across the country and for-profit businesses that administer their system," and the inevitabilities of the three coming together with growing numbers of poor people, ending up jailed and in debt for minor infractions.Debtors' prisons, as such, [read post]
14 May 2020, 1:24 pm
Seven prisoners in the Oregon state prison system sued Governor Kate Brown, the Department of Corrections and its directors, Wednesday out of fear that COVID-19 would spread among the prison. [read post]
5 Oct 2010, 9:41 am
It illustrates that it is possible to have a robust criminal justice system that protects the public but also offers offenders the chance to improve themselves. [read post]
4 Jun 2010, 7:10 pm
Prison officials and reformers say a rethink of the system is long overdue.While cash-strapped states are responding to the nation’s economic crisis by looking for ways to reduce their prison populations, the federal prison system is heading in the opposite [read post]
15 Nov 2018, 10:45 am
In 2014 the California prison system was ordered by a federal court to grant early release credits to minimum security prisoners to comply with a population cap imposed by the U.S. [read post]
15 Aug 2018, 3:30 am
For example, Critical Resistance member Angela Davis says of the 1980s mass incarceration boom, [A]s the U.S. prison system expanded, so did corporate involvement in construction, provision of goods and services, and use of prison labor. [read post]
