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22 Nov 2015, 1:30 pm
Erica Gammill, Prison Justice LeagueRecently, Grits reconnected with Erica Gammill, a long-time Texas criminal-justice reformer who's doing some interesting work organizing prisoners inside Texas state prisons. [read post]
18 Dec 2014, 8:08 am
Like so many people caught up in the criminal justice system, Tatyana had a difficult childhood and then got into trouble, committing the identity theft crimes that landed her in prison. [read post]
12 Jul 2013, 11:06 am
In the California prison system, where it takes weeks just to classify an incoming prisoner, the idea that a thousand men could be cycled through Pelican Bay every fifteen days just is not credible. [read post]
27 Apr 2010, 11:17 am
20 Aug 2008, 11:16 am
When prison fails, community sentencing can workBy Frances CrookCommunity sentencing is a vital part of our justice system, yet never attracts the headlines it deserves. [read post]
24 Apr 2010, 4:14 am
The Colorado Department of Corrections announced the Four Mile Prison E. coli outbreak in Canon City, saying the state health department is investigating. [read post]
27 Aug 2007, 9:04 am
"More on mental health issues in the criminal justice system is here. [read post]
3 Jun 2011, 6:08 am
In July 2009, state lawmakers passed a budget with $1.2 billion in cuts to the prison system, but no specific plan was formulated [AFP report]. [read post]
30 Sep 2007, 6:11 am
The solution to the 40 million plus Americans without health insurance may lie in our prison system. [read post]
6 Dec 2007, 9:36 am
The Los Angeles Times published an extensive article on serious problems with health care at Ely State Prison. [read post]
1 Feb 2016, 11:14 am
In many respects, too many federal judges have become tolerant, if not comfortable, in a sentencing scheme that treats all offenders are incorrigibles who must be sent into a prison system that treats them like waste disposal products. [read post]
5 Feb 2015, 12:26 pm
Chuck Lindell at the Austin Statesman has an item up (Feb. 5) adumbrating their findings, which opens:Texas prisons keep too many inmates in solitary confinement for too long — sometimes years — damaging their mental health and placing communities at risk when the prisoners are eventually released, a study by civil rights groups concluded.Released Thursday, the report criticized Texas for keeping 4.4 percent of its inmates in solitary confinement —… [read post]
13 May 2008, 4:42 am
Sonny Perdue's signature devotes $1.2 billion to the state's prison system. [read post]
17 Aug 2011, 12:36 pm
"In the criminal justice system, Prison Legal News said recently that "reports of prisoner assaults increased dramatically" in Georgia after meals were scaled back to two per day. [read post]
12 Feb 2007, 4:30 am
Thirty percent of Texas prison inmates are former clients of the state's mental health system, and mentally ill inmates who've been declared incompetent remain warehoused for months in jail with inadequate treatment waiting for hospital space to open up.Two items I saw this weekend describe some of the local efforts to address this problem. [read post]
10 May 2012, 7:51 am
“Smith’s death was a direct result of the interaction between her mental health issues and the prison environment, and the failure of the Correctional Service of Canada to respond appropriately to her mental health needs,” states the report.IHRP director Renu Mandhane, along with 2L students Elizabeth Bingham and Rebecca Sutton, set out to prove that Smith’s case was not an isolated incident. [read post]
12 Aug 2019, 7:37 am
Texas undeniably has made significant progress.For example, the latest annual statistical report on the Texas corrections system (2018) is out. [read post]
18 Sep 2016, 9:34 am
State budget cuts have crippled or closed many of these mental health facilities. [read post]
2 Jun 2011, 8:29 am
"For years the medical and mental health care provided by California’s prisons has fallen short of minimum constitutional requirements and has failed to meet prisoners’ basic health needs. [read post]
30 Aug 2012, 2:59 am
Illnesses were caused by at least 6 strains The Salmonella outbreak at Arkansas Prison's 96-year-old Tucker Unit was more complex than most, according to health officials.The outbreak, involving almost 600 prisoners and staff, was due to at least 6 different serotypes of Salmonella, including S. [read post]
