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23 Jan 2023, 10:32 am by Maria Morris
The court’s recognition that the care must be qualitatively appropriate should mitigate the tendency of ADCRR, like many prison and jail systems throughout the country, to treat health care as a box-checking exercise. [read post]
23 Jun 2023, 6:37 am by Noam Biale
”  These circumstances included situations in which the sentencing court had been dissolved or the prisoner otherwise could not be transported there – the saving clause, Thomas noted, was enacted before the construction of the Interstate Highway System. [read post]
A few days ago, Mie Lewis blogged on the importance, and challenges, of protecting women in the criminal justice system. [read post]
17 Mar 2008, 5:06 am
But because officials project a 4.6 percent annual growth in prisoners, the system could be short 900 beds by 2011.... [read post]
31 Jul 2007, 1:44 am
In California, a federal court official overseeing a revamping of the prison medical system reported more than 170,000 prisoner moves within the state in the first three months of this year. [read post]
30 Mar 2010, 4:59 am by Gritsforbreakfast
In California, according to the Sacramento Bee:the prison system could save $213 million over five years by paroling just 32 inmates identified as severely incapacitated. [read post]
29 Nov 2016, 7:00 am
Despite his decades in prison and good behavior, he’s not yet eligible for parole under our current system. [read post]
18 Aug 2007, 3:38 am
The last of these institutions apparently was handed over to the state prison system at some point, which continues to operate it to this day.I don't blame public health officials for trying to avoid a panic, but neither should these unexplained deaths and illnesses be swept under the rug. [read post]
19 Dec 2011, 3:07 am by SHG
Granted, smuggling tobacco, perfectly lawful in prison until it was banned in 2004, when nannies said it might damage the health of prisoners (because being in prison wasn't damaging enough), doesn't smack of heinousness. [read post]
4 Sep 2013, 4:37 am by Wade C. Jacobsen
She highlights the role of the youth's social environment and mental health and finds evidence in favor of family-based treatment models. [read post]
15 Mar 2023, 11:04 am by Lisa Siegel
The intersection of mental health and law enforcement creates a situation where more mental health care occurs in jails and prisons than in state-wide treatment facilities, taxing the law enforcement community and underserving those with mental health impairments as their primary condition. [read post]
22 Aug 2008, 8:57 am
Just a few bits of telling data about Texas' criminal justice system compiled from prior Grits posts:Proportion of Texas adults under control of the criminal justice system (in prison, jail, on probation or on parole): 1 in 21Increase in Texas' overall population 1978-2004: 67%Increase in Texas' prison population 1978-2004: 573%Number of felonies on the books in Texas: 2,324Number of Texas felonies involving oysters: 11Percentage of TDCJ inmates… [read post]
9 Jun 2020, 7:20 am by Tracy Thomas
The attorney featured in this ABA story, Julie Abbate, and I were colleagues many years ago at the law firm of Covington & Burling. [read post]
28 Nov 2011, 6:28 am by Gritsforbreakfast
As a result, “'We’ve won the race to the bottom,' said Matt Roberts, president of Mental Health Association of Greater Dallas," to Kevin Krause.The justice system has a lot of moving parts, some of which, as with community-based mental health services, aren't formally even part of the justice system. [read post]
21 Dec 2010, 10:46 pm
  If the Supreme Court affirms the order, then California will probably have to release approximately 40,000 prisoners (though it can, in theory, build more prisons or pay for prisoners to be transported to facilities outside the state prison system). [read post]
8 Apr 2019, 2:00 am by Dinita L. James, Gonzalez Law, LLC
The Arizona prison system settled an earlier lawsuit more than four years ago over inadequate inmate health care. [read post]