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23 Sep 2009, 2:18 pm
But in the past he has been harshly critical of a prison system that he said grew as a result of media-driven fears and profiteering by private corrections companies and prison guards. [read post]
28 Feb 2022, 1:15 pm by Ana Popovich
According to the AP, the facility “was converted in 2012 to one of six women-only facilities in the federal prison system. [read post]
21 Feb 2013, 8:59 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Currently, Florida operates the third-largest prison system in the United States, a $2.2 billion-a-year enterprise overseeing over 100,000 inmates and another 115,000 on community supervision. [read post]
28 Aug 2013, 8:08 am
In particular, it advocates a resocialisation-focused international penal policy delivered using restorative justice modalities post-conviction and the creation of an accountable international prison system. [read post]
12 Apr 2017, 9:30 am by azatty
This Friday, speakers at ASU Law School will offer a seminar titled “Corporatization of the Criminal Justice System. [read post]
28 Jan 2009, 2:32 pm
The American Bar Association has published this essay discussing America's ever-expanding prison population and its negative impact on the justice system. [read post]
10 Feb 2009, 2:29 am
Relying on expert testimony, the court ruled that the California prison system, the nation's largest with more than 150,000 inmates, could reduce its [read post]
5 Dec 2013, 12:27 pm by Kimberly Bennett
[JURIST] Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] on Thursday released new satellite images [text, photos, PDF] and an assessment of North Korea's political prison camps, which reveal new housing blocks, an expansion of production facilities and continued tight security. [read post]
29 Dec 2016, 8:00 am by Daniel Perlman
Each time, he has wrestled with an ethical conundrum: not the issue of whether the offenders have done something wrong, but whether the American prison system is doing something worse. [read post]
3 Aug 2015, 4:46 am by SHG
The only people who didn’t realize it are the people whose job it is to run systems where people don’t get raped. [read post]
26 Sep 2015, 6:21 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Bottom line, TDCJ is counting the number of prisoners "on hand" while the federal number counts prisoners based on their legal status at the time of custody, not whether they've formally entered the prison system or not. [read post]
2 Aug 2018, 2:54 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
The American prison system is bursting at the seams with people who have been shut out of the economy and who had neither a quality education nor access to good jobs. [read post]
The Abolitionist Law Center (ALC) published a report Tuesday detailing continued racial disparities in the Allegheny County Prison System in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [read post]
24 Sep 2007, 9:44 am
This class action lawsuit was a victory for prisoners seeking redemption of their rights through the civil justice system. [read post]
9 Feb 2009, 11:05 pm
Court Orders California to Cut Prison Population"The California prison system must reduce overcrowding by as many as 55,000 inmates within three years to provide a constitutional level of medical and mental health care, a federal three-judge panel tentatively ruled Monday.Relying on expert testimony, the court ruled that the California prison system, the nation's largest with more than 150,000 inmates, could reduce its population by shortening… [read post]
11 Feb 2009, 5:52 pm
"The Prison Overcrowding Fix": Today's edition of The New York Times contains a news analysis that begins, "In San Francisco last week, a federal court was hearing final arguments in the prison overcrowding lawsuit that led Monday to an unprecedented decision to reduce the nation's largest prison system by one-third. [read post]