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17 Mar 2010, 7:31 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Five other states experienced total reductions of more than 1,000 prisoners: Michigan (3,260), New York (1,699), Maryland (1,315), Texas (1,257) and Mississippi (1,233). [read post]
24 Jan 2012, 5:30 am by Jonathan Rosenfeld
In California, the never ending quest to chop money from state budgets has taken a new turn as state prison officials have initiated a new medical parole program which allows medically incapacitated felons to utilize the services of private nursing homes. [read post]
8 Aug 2011, 7:28 am by Patrick G. Lee
The state passed the law, called the Inmate Sex Change Prevention Act, in 2005 after a political frenzy erupted over media reports that taxpayers were subsidizing sex changes, according to New York Law School professor Arthur Leonard. [read post]
27 Jun 2012, 9:21 am by Steve Hall
"Sentencing Ruling Reflects Rethinking on Juvenile Justice," by Ethan Bronner at the New York Times. [read post]
25 Nov 2008, 5:46 pm
New York began civil commitment for sex offenders three years ago under then-Gov. [read post]
24 Dec 2006, 8:06 am
An interesting read, in the New York Times Magazine, about the right's "jailhouse conversion" on a number of criminal-justice and prison-reform issues, including the "Second Chance Act. [read post]
2 Jun 2021, 7:55 am by Daniel Richman, Sarah Seo
New York and Iowa have empowered their attorneys general to investigate police-involved deaths. [read post]
5 Feb 2017, 6:07 am
” Jalal Sabur stands in front of the cooperatively owned, vegetable oil-powered bus he uses to drive families and food to prisons in upstate New York. [read post]
2 Jun 2008, 4:15 pm
(Read a detailed analysis of sex offender recidivism in New York State)Watch Systems' online presentation also states: "More than half of rape/sexual assault incidents happened within a mile of the victim's home. [read post]
16 Dec 2021, 12:02 pm by ACLU
Trans Women Fight Abuse in the Criminal Legal SystemIn New Jersey, the Department of Corrections recently agreed to adopt a system-wide policy to help protect transgender, intersex, and non-binary people in prisons. [read post]
5 Feb 2010, 5:13 am by SHG
• The top three states for DNA exonerations are New York (with 25), Texas (with 40) and Illinois (with 29). [read post]
6 Jan 2010, 3:16 am by SHG
The New York Times editorial contrasts the clash of two sacred cows, children and unions. [read post]
3 May 2019, 1:39 pm by jlucivero
They went the extra distance by making improvements to the bill along the way to ensure most exonerees in the state have the opportunity to receive monetary compensation from a system that failed them,” said Elizabeth Powers, state policy advocate at the Innocence Project, which is affiliated with the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law in New York, NY. [read post]
22 Jan 2007, 12:54 am
Source: New York Legislative Retrieval System (LRS) January 21, 2007. Sorted by category: Bill No.  A2190 Bacalles -- Requires non-indigent prisoners to bear the cost of medical care provided by the county or city of New York to such non-indigent prisoners while in prisonSUMM : Amd SS500-h, 500-n & 508, Cor L Requires non-indigent prisoners to bear the cost of medical care provided to them by… [read post]
20 Dec 2022, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
So far this year, nineteen pre-trial detainees have died in New York City’s jails alone. [read post]
3 Jan 2008, 8:59 am
"As of this week, the state prison system had 2,751 women prisoners, a small percentage of the total prison population of 62,626. [read post]
10 Mar 2011, 12:22 pm by Steve Hall
Illinois is the fourth state in four years to end capital punishment – the others being New Mexico, New Jersey and New York. [read post]