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8 May 2024, 1:03 pm
Solitary confinement has been a core feature of the US penal system since the 18th century — dating back to the earliest state prisons, where the inmates seen as most depraved were isolated to prevent the spread of their moral influence. [read post]
1 May 2011, 4:16 pm
Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman reports that private contractors are still seeking a piece of Texas' prison healthcare spending: "Efforts by private companies to get a piece of Texas' nearly $1 billion prisoner health care system are quietly continuing behind the scenes as company representatives make sales pitches to lawmakers and seek changes in state law to authorize privatization," he reported today. [read post]
13 Feb 2013, 7:45 am
Special Rapporteur on Torture, requesting that he investigate the New York State solitary confinement system and take all necessary steps to end the mistreatment of prisoners and bring New York in line with international human rights law and standards. [read post]
4 Jun 2007, 11:40 pm
In time, officials reasoned, the prison system could be made to pay its own way with the profits from the plantation farms. [read post]
29 Aug 2008, 10:18 am
Prisoners and the public. [read post]
28 May 2013, 9:12 am
What if what matters more is any sort of contact with the prison system, not necessarily the magnitude of that contact? [read post]
20 May 2014, 6:59 am
When that tired play didn't work, CCA then directed their ire at the ACLU: "It's unfortunate that the ACLU would advocate against those benefits [of private prisons] without themselves providing any solutions to the serious challenges our corrections systems face. [read post]
21 Oct 2010, 9:37 pm
The University of Crime is a great place of learning, the law books supplied by the system used to beat the system. [read post]
22 Jan 2011, 11:21 am
That's one of the may great unknowns facing the prison system during the 82nd Texas Legislature. [read post]
31 Jul 2008, 8:32 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced Wednesday that a Native American prisoner in Wyoming had settled his lawsuit [ACLU press release] against the Wyoming Department of Corrections after Department officials agreed to allow the man to keep up to four eagle feathers in his cell for religious purposes. [read post]
7 Sep 2008, 11:06 am
Computer firm loses prison staff dataBy Brian BradySunday, 7 September 2008 Justice Secretary Jack Straw last night ordered an urgent inquiry after it emerged that a private contractor had lost a portable hard drive holding personal details of thousands of prison workers.The huge US firm Electronic Data Systems (EDS) has owned up to losing the names, dates of birth, National Insurance numbers and prison service numbers of up to 5,000 employees of the National… [read post]
16 Mar 2018, 8:36 am
When systems do present, people may experience stomach pain, nausea, loss of appetite, fatigue, and jaundice. [read post]
18 Feb 2015, 12:26 pm
Hopefully even more policymakers will get on board and help repair Arizona’s broken prison system. [read post]
18 Feb 2015, 12:26 pm
Hopefully even more policymakers will get on board and help repair Arizona’s broken prison system. [read post]
8 Feb 2009, 1:08 am
Not only was the system of crime and punishment in America producing tens of thousands of more prisoners every year. [read post]
11 Jan 2019, 11:00 am
Delays in mail being delivered; unstocked commissaries; shuttered gyms; and no classes, visits, transfers, or library access take a toll on peoples’ well-being and the relative peace in the federal prison system. [read post]
5 Apr 2007, 4:39 am
That prison system onlyworks when they're rehabilitated. [read post]
3 Jun 2009, 7:26 am
That amounts to 17% of the 13 millions adults who go through the criminal justice system each year. [read post]
8 Oct 2015, 4:38 am
Since this is the largest single release of prisoners in history — and because it’s happening on top of the thousand-plus regularly-scheduled releases from federal prison each week — it will be an interesting test of how well suited the federal criminal justice system really is to helping prisoners reenter society. [read post]
6 Mar 2015, 10:12 am
The state prison system suffered another legal setback in its seven-year journey to avoid paying $207,000 to an insurer after contractors installed the wrong electric generator at a Cleveland detention center. [read post]
