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26 Mar 2013, 1:31 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Studies have shown that prisoners with strong ties to home and an outside support system are less likely to return to prison and more likely to successfully reintegrate into society. [read post]
18 Jul 2015, 11:00 am by Moseley Collins
The problems of the prison healthcare system first came to light back in 2006. [read post]
14 Jul 2021, 1:33 pm by Cyrus J. O’Brien, PhD
Why did prison systems metastasize so devastatingly when they seemed so vulnerable? [read post]
28 Dec 2015, 12:45 pm by Ralph Behr, Esq
First, you file your petition with the Bureau of Prisons by sending it to the warden at the federal detention facility. [read post]
3 Aug 2016, 3:31 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
The Texas Tribune quoted your correspondent in a story today titled, "Prison system ponders $250 million in budget cuts. [read post]
11 Jul 2010, 11:00 pm
An insightful Fault Lines segment examines how prison systems have become America's largest psychiatric hospitals, with a substantial focus on the Harris County and Texas prison systems. [read post]
3 Apr 2015, 12:19 pm by By David Fathi, National Prison Project
A disturbing image hit the newswires this week, highlighting the barbaric conditions that are all too common in the American prison system. [read post]
6 Jul 2012, 11:04 am by The Law Firm of Shein & Brandenburg
Sentencing reform and, especially, sentence reduction, is desperately needed throughout the federal and states' systems, Bloom asserts, and she easily cites to a number of diverse facts and statistics to support her view. [read post]
9 Dec 2016, 11:38 am by Scott Grabel
What would be the impact of releasing more than half a million prisoners from our nation’s prison system? [read post]
11 Oct 2009, 2:13 am
Around two-thirds of all juvenile prisoners have one or more mental health diagnoses and the system lacks enough therapists, leading many experts in mental health to believe the juvenile corrections system faces a crisis.Rather than receiving the mental health [read post]
25 Aug 2011, 4:56 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Those felons will have to remain in Texas, state officials said.Bryan Collier, deputy executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice that runs the prison system, said about 11,500 of Texas' 156,000 state prisoners are not U.S. citizens — and about 6,000 of those currently have a deportation order pending against them.This is probably the most significant bill passed in the 82nd Legislature aimed at reducing incarceration pressure at Texas… [read post]
28 Jan 2008, 4:21 am
The AP reported today that Senator Kastama of Puyallup has sponsored a bill to establish an independent agency that would investigate claims of prisoners. [read post]
20 Feb 2007, 1:47 am
In but a few short weeks we have heard that the legal system is in ‘crisis’, various law officers and senior members of the profession are having affairs,   the prisons are full and barristers are briefless. [read post]
24 May 2021, 5:16 pm by Collins & Collins, P.C.
The prison medical grievance system is supposed to protect inmates who are not getting constitutionally adequate medical care. [read post]
8 Feb 2013, 8:21 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Indeed, there is nothing about the modern criminal justice system that promotes equality for all people. [read post]
26 Jan 2016, 8:59 am by Chris
By Marcy Mistrett In a historic moment yesterday, President Obama used his executive authority to end the use of solitary confinement for youth in the federal prison system. [read post]
12 Nov 2008, 11:03 am
It is a shame that the Prison Service does not have more people with their qualities in the system because not only would prisoners benefit but also the public at large. [read post]
23 Sep 2008, 7:41 am
Regular readers know that the Texas Legislature in the last two sessions successfully forged remarkable bipartisan agreements supporing key first steps toward reforming the criminal justice system in ways that reduce the number of new inmates entering Texas prisons, though we still have a long way to go.In California, by contrast, partisan bickering this month killed a legislative package aimed at cutting the state's prison population and reducing the corrections… [read post]
18 Oct 2018, 2:15 pm
It’s barbarous that a prison system could sentence someone to slow torture by an untreated medical condition. [read post]