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1 Jan 2008, 12:31 am
A majority of those exonerations will come from Dallas County.TYC's inmate population will fall to 2,000 or fewer by the end of the year, down from more than 4,500 at the beginning of 2007, thanks to SB 103 and new rule changes allowing earlier release.TDCJ will face litigation over poor inmate health care that will force the next Legislature to significantly increase spending.In a bitterly fought election, incumbent Harris County District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal will lose… [read post]
31 Dec 2007, 3:28 am
" This policy makes no one happy: Conservatives who want immigration enforcement will be disappointed because, despite all the hype, none of the money goes toward that purpose, while anyone concerned with battling drug cartels will find little direct correlation between new money spent and outcomes on the ground.Healthcare in prisons and jails nearing crisisWith the federal government having ordered the state of California to open up the taxpayers collective wallet to pay for… [read post]
29 Dec 2007, 11:13 pm
[to] help educate fellow offenders about preventive health care as it relates to HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, hepatitis A, B and C, as well as diabetes and staph infections. [read post]
29 Dec 2007, 3:41 pm
Only it's real, and it's happening in California prisons. [read post]
28 Dec 2007, 8:00 pm
and taxes combating poverty education improving business climate (for domestic and foreign enterprises) motivating the unemployed (out of necessity vacancies now filled by foreign employees) health care the political system (currently there are way too many parties) Curacao's future relationship with The Netherlands crime & prison issues social security & seniors families & children environment (improving or selling oil refinery) It is a long… [read post]
26 Dec 2007, 9:23 am
LVSun 12/25/07 Editorial: Prison officials must avoid health-care battle. [read post]
20 Dec 2007, 1:14 pm
Carranza-Reyes's lawsuit highlighted the dangers of running our country's prisons to generate revenue. [read post]
19 Dec 2007, 1:54 pm
People like Ramos who are in desperate need of proper treatment and care deserve better than to have to rot away in prison, tossed aside and forgotten about, while their urgent mental health needs go unattended to. [read post]
19 Dec 2007, 11:57 am
For more information on reproductive rights in prison check out Know Your Rights: Pregnancy-Related Health Care in Prison or Jail and Women Don't Check Their Reproductive Rights at the Jailhouse Door [read post]
18 Dec 2007, 6:34 am
These children, whose ranks have grown with the rising prison population, need caring adults willing to mentor them. [read post]
15 Dec 2007, 5:00 am
On December 13, 2007, the owners of five separate Miami-based health care corporations have were sentenced to prison. [read post]
14 Dec 2007, 9:09 pm
Of course, many states already have laws to deal with gang activity, but it is nearing election time, and the Democrats in Congress, who were too cowardly to stop the war in Iraq, and cannot deliver health care for some children living on the edge, have to deliver something to the people. [read post]
13 Dec 2007, 1:27 am
(Regular readers know that Texas jails and prisons warehouse tens of thousands of mentally ill inmates.) [read post]
12 Dec 2007, 1:11 pm
Nevada Department of Corrections Director Howard Skolnik and lawyers for the ACLU National Prison Project will hold a teleconference on Friday to address allegations of inadequate health care for Ely State Prison inmates. [read post]
11 Dec 2007, 11:19 pm
My hope is to make (the prison agency) run more efficiently. [read post]
11 Dec 2007, 9:28 pm
In a 2005 complaint, the ACLU described Unit 32 like this: …profound isolation and unrelieved idleness; pervasive filth and stench; malfunctioning plumbing and constant exposure to human excrement … grossly inadequate medical, mental health and dental care; the routine use by security staff of excessive force; and the constant pandemonium, night and day, of severely mentally ill prisoners screaming, raving and hallucinating in nearby cells. [read post]
9 Dec 2007, 8:20 am
A couple of other interesting articles worth reading: First, this guest op-ed in the Courant, title “More Prisons Wrong Approach“, which argues that Although these bills claim to reform the justice system, most of them propose a more extreme form of the existing system, which over-funds imprisonment and de-funds education, health care, welfare, basic human services and job training. [read post]
8 Dec 2007, 8:41 am
Obama is storing up trouble for health reformers by suggesting that there is something nasty about plans that “force every American to buy health care. [read post]
7 Dec 2007, 5:28 am
But jails and
prisons -- never designed for therapeutic care -- often
trigger deeper crises, Lamb said. [read post]
6 Dec 2007, 9:36 am
The Los Angeles Times published an extensive article on serious problems with health care at Ely State Prison. [read post]
