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7 Sep 2011, 12:01 pm
The Mansfield News Journal carried a story yesterday morning about a Richland Correctional Institute inmate’s suing the state prison system, claiming his civil rights were violated when bound legal books were replaced with computers.Richland County inmate Dwayne Harris, convicted of rape, kidnapping, felonious assault, and aggravated assault in 1989, saying he no longer had access to law books, [read post]
15 Feb 2012, 6:56 am by McNabb Associates, P.C.
There are prisons in the system that are newer and nicer. [read post]
12 Feb 2008, 2:57 pm
That's what Florida's former prison secretary says he inherited when he took over one of the nation's largest prison systems two years ago.... [read post]
27 Oct 2012, 2:35 pm
The Southern Center for Human Rights filed a lawsuit in July of 2011 against the state of Georgia that also alleged systemic abuse by prison guards at Hays State Prison. [read post]
13 Oct 2014, 11:06 pm by Rebecca C. Morgan Stetson Law
A report was released in August that focused on the issue in the federal prison system. [read post]
30 May 2007, 1:47 pm
This is a huge issue in California, with a federal judge closely overseeing the state prison system. [read post]
8 Feb 2012, 12:03 pm by Julie Ebenstein, ACLU of Florida
” The issue is particularly pressing in Florida as the state operates the third-largest prison system in the United States, a $2.2 billion-a-year enterprise overseeing nearly 101,000 inmates and another 112,800 on community supervision. [read post]
20 Aug 2010, 4:13 pm by brian
Officials claim that they have fixed the serious problems plaguing the state prison medical system. [read post]
4 Sep 2012, 11:52 am by Dan Gauss
Think Outside the Box is a new web challenge created by the ACLU of California that allows people to get a real-time sense of how the bottom line in California, home of one of the nation’s most overcrowded prison systems, would fare if prisons and jails were placed at the center of the budgetary chopping block. [read post]
6 May 2021, 3:07 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
As a result, we cannot accurately determine new cases or deaths in federal prisons, which have had more people infected than any other system. [read post]
20 Mar 2013, 8:37 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Curtailing our immigration prisons: We must curtail the mass immigration prison system. [read post]
14 Aug 2008, 10:50 am
Texas prison guards would get a 20% pay hike if TDCJ officials have their way, reports the Austin American Statesman ("Big raises sought for prison workers," Aug. 14):Brad Livingston, the prison system's executive director, said the proposal would raise starting pay for correctional officers from $26,016 to $30,179 and the maximum salaries from $34,624 to $42,242. [read post]
1 May 2014, 3:20 am by Walter Olson
” is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
5 Mar 2008, 12:32 am
“The public could be at risk because of the haphazard way potentially dangerous prisoners are being assessed for release, spending watchdogs have found. [read post]
15 Mar 2012, 2:44 pm by CrimProf BlogEditor
Here is the abstract: The California Prison system is notorious for its highly racialized environment. [read post]
12 Jul 2020, 8:50 am by John Floyd
  Texas prison officials blame the increased use of force on the fact that during the same time frame, there were more than 3,000 violent offenders locked up in the prison system and that there was a corresponding significant shortage of staff to deal with them. [read post]
28 Jan 2013, 4:40 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Since the prison system could not agree with the prisoners on a way to craft an injunction, Judge Schreier simply issued an order stating, “[D]efendants are enjoined from banning tobacco used during Native American religious ceremonies. [read post]
29 Jul 2011, 8:55 am by brian
ACLU blog of rights, From Pranks to Prison (by Kimberly Humphrey, Washington Legislative Office) "More and more, the public education system operates as a criminalization system. [read post]