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21 Mar 2007, 10:00 pm
Throughout the nation, the criminal justice system is overgrown, over-oppressive, and over unjust. [read post]
13 Feb 2010, 9:47 am
The biggest loophole in any criminal justice system is that offenders are more than capable of outsmarting it. [read post]
7 Oct 2010, 11:33 am
GREG BEATO: The Return of Debtor’s Prison: Collection agencies use the criminal justice system to pocket credit card debts. [read post]
6 Jan 2011, 11:49 am
The ACLU advocates for a system that increases public safety by treating prisoners humanely, seeking proven and cost-effective solutions to incarceration and actually rehabilitating prisoners so they are equipped to re-enter society at the end of their sentences. [read post]
19 Aug 2013, 7:13 am
Fellner discusses what it's like for someone in their late 80s or even their 90s to live in prison and what it's like for the prison system to try to look after them. [read post]
17 Mar 2010, 12:12 pm
Regardless of this, since 1987, MDOC has performed mandatory HIV tests on all prisoners entering the state prison system, and has permanently housed all male prisoners with HIV in a segregated unit at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, the state’s highest security prison. [read post]
19 Jun 2013, 9:12 am
Lauren Salins and Shepard Simpson have posted Efforts to Fix a Broken System: Brown v. [read post]
4 Apr 2011, 5:27 pm
AP – “A Louisiana man sued Virginia’s prison system Monday, claiming its policy banning him from buying a spoken word CD by a renowned British author for an inmate but allowing music and religious CDs is unconstitutional. [read post]
27 Mar 2024, 8:30 am
Harris (University of Pittsburgh - School of Law) has posted Toward a Better Criminal Legal System: Improving Prisons, Prosecution, and Criminal Defense (Created and Presented Jointly by Students from State Correctional Institution - Greene, Waynesburg, PA, and University... [read post]
31 Jan 2012, 5:28 am
This piece from NPR.org provides an interesting discussion of the issue and highlights the disparity among sentences under the current system. [read post]
16 Mar 2022, 6:50 am
Laura Appleman (Willamette University College of Law) has published "Bloody Lucre: Carceral Labor and Prison Profit" on SSRN. [read post]
19 Nov 2008, 9:25 am
“The criminal justice system is failing people with learning disabilities from the point of arrest to their release from prison, a report suggests. [read post]
18 Jan 2013, 8:17 am
Today, Roll Call published an op-ed we wrote on how curtailing immigration prisons is an easy way for Congress to begin to reduce the deficit, cut government spending, and reform our flawed immigration system. [read post]
31 Aug 2013, 4:44 am
The new rules regulate how much prison systems and vendors can profit from phone revenue, setting maximum "safe harbor" rates for phone calls where excessive rates are presently on the books.On the campaign's website, there's a fascinating chart (pdf) created before the FCC ruling showing how widely states vary in prison phone costs. [read post]
20 Sep 2015, 7:14 am
We do not have a solution to the mental health crisis now afflicting the nation’s prison system. [read post]
26 Aug 2014, 7:13 am
The massively overcrowded prison system is one of the biggest strains on the state General Fund budget, costing nearly $395 million for the 2015 fiscal year. [read post]
2 Aug 2018, 1:15 pm
The report highlighted a quota system at a prison near Houston. [read post]
2 Aug 2018, 1:15 pm
The report highlighted a quota system at a prison near Houston. [read post]
14 Oct 2022, 10:31 am
But in Texas, everything comes back to the justice system, and baseball historian Bill Staples, Jr. schooled me today on an aspect of the Texas prison system I never knew about: It used to have its own baseball league! [read post]
6 Mar 2020, 8:49 am
Many people in prisons and jails are in relatively poor health and suffer from serious chronic conditions due to lack of access to healthcare in the community, or abysmal healthcare in the correctional system. [read post]
