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13 Jun 2016, 11:35 am
"Home Free: How a New York State prisoner became a jailhouse lawyer, and changed the system. [read post]
29 Jul 2008, 11:52 am
. -- Male prisoners in the nation's largest corrections system, long kept segregated by race in an effort to temper violence, will soon be sharing cells with inmates of other ethnicities. [read post]
9 Apr 2007, 9:42 am
Director of the Nevada Corrections Department Howard Skolnik reports that the federal government may take over the Nevada prison system based upon overcrowding issues, reports the Las Vegas Sun in its article "Too Many Prisoners. [read post]
7 Apr 2019, 10:48 am
The investigation into Alabama's male prison system began under the Obama administration with the bulk of the investigation continuing under the present administration.... [read post]
19 Apr 2019, 4:52 am
Abolition means not just the closing of prisons but the presence, instead, of vital systems of support that many communities lack. [read post]
26 Jun 2019, 12:49 am
Suspended sentences offer an alternative to short to medium term custodial sentences and are more economical than imprisoning people for relatively minor offences, relieving pressure on the prison system. [read post]
15 Sep 2016, 2:34 pm
Today, private prisons are illegal in Oregon, and our state is one of 11 that do not use the private system at all, according to a 2012 report by The Sentencing Project. [read post]
27 Sep 2011, 8:22 am
Wrote reporter Jazmine Ulloa:Inside his small, gray cell within the Texas prison system, Church forgot the world and it forgot him. [read post]
11 Dec 2007, 4:22 am
"Prisons are full again and the parole system is working to free up beds. [read post]
10 Jun 2018, 4:37 am
Convict Labor System. [read post]
26 Aug 2010, 2:24 pm
The survey paints a grim picture of a system of mass incarceration where all too many prisoners, stripped of their autonomy or ability to defend themselves, spend their sentences terrorized by sexual predators.Defying some of the pop-cultural stereotypes, however, it turns out most of that predation is carried out by guards, rather than inmates.You can read the study HERE. [read post]
2 Mar 2009, 1:22 pm
The sentencing and release laws passed inthe 1980s and 1990s put so many more peoplebehind bars that last year the incarceratedpopulation reached 2.3 million and, for the firsttime, one in 100 adults was in prison or jail.The escalation of the prison population has beenastonishing, but it hasn't been the largest area ofgrowth in the criminal justice system. [read post]
4 Oct 2007, 3:54 pm
Rush (D-Ill.) has been fired from his job with the Illinois prison system for allegedly having sex with female inmates, the Sun-Times has learned.Jeffrey M. [read post]
23 Oct 2018, 1:20 pm
System Of Debtors’ Prisons The problem with targeting parents for child support payments they cannot afford, is that it creates a system of debtors’ prisons. [read post]
31 Mar 2021, 9:32 am
Texas ended "convict leasing" - essentially hiring out prisoners as slave labor - just more than a century ago, but the prison system's Agricultural Division never really stopped so much as they brought the practice in house.TDCJ officials have testified under oath that having prisoners pick cotton in the summer heat is "essential" to the agency's operations. [read post]
6 Mar 2018, 2:29 pm
The third prong of the Standard Story that Pfaff describes is the impact of a “prison industrial complex” that encourages those who profit from private prisons and other components of the prison system to lobby for more and longer sentences. [read post]
2 Mar 2020, 12:51 pm
The defendant and her aide contracted with the University of Maryland Medical System to deliver 20,000 books in each series for $5 per copy. [read post]
19 Dec 2011, 9:07 am
Over the next few days, we’ll run a series of blog posts on the developments, good and bad, that have shaped our justice system – from overincarceration and sentencing policy to the treatment of prisoners and capital punishment. [read post]
3 Feb 2011, 11:14 am
We've seen states like California have their prison system taken over by the federal government; seen counties (like Maricopa County, Arizona) go to extremes to cut costs (such as housing prisoners in tent cities, feeding them on less than $2 a day); seen reintegration services for released prisoners cut to bare bones or nothing. [read post]
18 Jul 2016, 3:16 pm
Louis Cardinals to nearly four years in prison Monday for hacking the Houston Astros’ player personnel database and email system in an unusual case of high-tech cheating involving two Major League Baseball clubs. [read post]
