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1 Aug 2010, 7:31 am by Gritsforbreakfast
States slashing spending costs, closing unitsSome states actually shutting down prison unitsEmptying prisons makes Wired magazine's 'Smart List' [read post]
17 May 2011, 2:40 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
" The House budget proposed closing the Central Unit in Sugar Land, while the Senate budget lamentably eschewed prison closures. [read post]
29 Mar 2011, 4:23 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Whitmire called keeping the Central Unit open "a concession from me to Ogden. [read post]
27 Dec 2005, 3:47 pm
The central government, with help from US forces, is trying to take charge of the prisons after [read post]
14 Feb 2007, 2:58 am
[JURIST] The European Parliament voted 382-256 Wednesday to approve [press release] a report condemning member states for cooperating with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in operating illegal secret prisons and extraordinary rendition flights [JURIST news archives] in Europe. [read post]
24 Feb 2009, 9:55 am
While I agree most of his suggestions for saving money on state corrections costs, I dispute the final contention in a column by Marc Levin from the Texas Public Policy Foundation that greater reliance on private prisons would save the state money. [read post]
6 Sep 2011, 5:14 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"In Texas, prison officials have always prided themselves on the state's robust prison-industry program. [read post]
29 Jan 2007, 12:35 am
The court held that while verbal harassment disparaging a prisoner's religious beliefs "does not embody the type of coercive pressure which amounts to a substantial burden on religious exercise" under RLUIPA, a claim that a prisoner was terminated from his prison employment because of his religion does state a valid RLUIPA claim. [read post]
5 Jan 2012, 7:22 am by Gritsforbreakfast
There's an interesting if macabre story from the NY Times today with the same title as this post on a mostly hidden aspect of the system: the solemn, longstanding administration of a pauper's field for Texas inmates in Hunstsville dating from the earliest days of statehood in the 1840s (the Texas Republic had before then repeatedly rejected a central prison, which was pushed through in the first Texas state Legislature). [read post]
12 May 2015, 7:13 am by Steven Wildberger
[JURIST] Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] officer Jeffrey Sterling was sentenced Monday to 42 months in prison after being convicted of telling New York Times journalist James Risen [NY Times profile] about classified plans to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions. [read post]
16 Sep 2013, 8:30 am by John Pfaff
I want to start, though, with a very simple argument for why we should be skeptical of the longer-sentences-are-central-to-prison-growth argument. [read post]
13 Jun 2018, 10:20 am by John Floyd
State corrections officials understand that 95 percent of prison inmates will return to society. [read post]
4 Oct 2021, 9:03 pm by Madeline Verniero
Louis and central Michigan as case studies. [read post]
Bruce sentenced Philip Buyno to five years in prison in the Central District of Illinois on Monday after he attempted to commit arson against a future reproductive healthcare center. [read post]
28 Feb 2020, 4:00 am by eileen peck
Blazer became a central figure in an FBI investigation of college sports programs. [read post]
18 Oct 2011, 7:25 pm by John Musca
A central Florida woman has been sentenced to five years in prison for a fatal DUI crash. [read post]