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12 Aug 2010, 8:47 pm
Telling this audience that attitude is often the difference between state prison and county jail is preaching to the choir. [read post]
16 Jul 2020, 4:32 pm
We must find a way to make drug and mental-health treatment available in Texas outside the justice system. [read post]
18 Mar 2014, 3:27 am
FlynnOne year ago today, a released inmate from the Colorado prison system stalked Tom Clements, the executive director of prisons, and shot him dead at point blank range in the front door of his home. [read post]
18 Mar 2015, 5:00 pm
As our Birmingham criminal defense lawyers understand it, there are one of two basic outcomes: Either taxes are raised and we expand on the current system, or we change the way we sentence and supervise non-violent offenders. [read post]
23 Oct 2015, 10:20 am
"Kennedy assails prison shortcomings; At Law School, Supreme Court judge cites 'ongoing injustice' of system": The Harvard Gazette has this report. [read post]
25 Apr 2007, 12:30 am
But it's an example of an all too common approach that views the criminal justice system as a revenue source instead of pursuing rehabilitation goals. [read post]
9 Dec 2009, 10:04 am
” The states with the largest increases in prison population were Pennsylvania, Florida and Arizona, whose one-year increases were all greater than the federal prison system, which grew by 1,662 inmates. [read post]
14 Jun 2013, 11:19 am
Tell Sesame Street they shouldn't be taking BAE Systems' dirty money. [read post]
13 Feb 2006, 11:16 am
[JURIST] Recent race riots [JURIST report] in the Los Angeles jail system [official website] have prompted authorities to begin transferring county prison inmates to the state corrections system. [read post]
28 Mar 2009, 8:42 am
That should add predictability and comprehensibility to the 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]
30 Jan 2016, 9:14 am
All four are operated by Corrections Corporation of America:Bartlett State Jail (1,049 beds)Bradshaw State Jail (1,980 beds)Lindsey State Jail (1,031 beds)Willacy State Jail (1,069 beds)The other private units with contracts up next year don't amount to much, capacity-wise, so future prison closures beyond the state-jail system likely should extend to state-run units. [read post]
30 May 2008, 3:16 pm
As of March, 2007, there were 90,679 inmates in the Florida prison system. 81.9% of those inmates are assigned some type of work or in a substance abuse program. [read post]
9 Jul 2013, 7:29 am
So total inputs into the criminal justice system have declined, whether you start with “crime” or “arrests. [read post]
12 Jan 2017, 8:14 pm
However, the federal system remains considerably larger than the two largest state systems (Texas and California), both of which were bigger than the federal system through most of the 1990s. [read post]
23 Feb 2016, 7:28 am
Similar to the prisons in London during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that were criticized for using a privatized system that charged inmates for all services, including room and board, the current justice system improperly charges the poor. [read post]
6 Oct 2008, 12:16 pm
Firstly, even private prisons are not masters of their own fate; they are part of a system and must fit within the structures. [read post]
29 Aug 2008, 2:26 pm
Here's a picture from a state jail unit in Beaumont after the much-smaller Hurricane Rita in 2005:Sometimes the weather can provide interesting opportunities to learn something unexpected about the system. [read post]
17 Apr 2007, 9:13 pm
The Texas Journal on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights presented its annual symposium, "Re-examining Incarceration: A Discussion on Civil Rights and the Prison System," on Tuesday, April 17, at The University of Texas School of Law. [read post]
20 Aug 2008, 11:16 am
When prison fails, community sentencing can workBy Frances CrookCommunity sentencing is a vital part of our justice system, yet never attracts the headlines it deserves. [read post]
