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17 Nov 2016, 2:00 pm by CJLF Staff
  To combat the problem, CDCR installed a blocking system called Managed Access in 18 of the 33 state prisons, but it has proven to block and interrupt an average of 150,000 calls and texts of other people in close proximity to the prison, causing concern over its potential to interfere with emergency calls. [read post]
6 Jun 2010, 8:12 am by Jeralyn
Update: On Miguel Castro-Castro Prison and the 2006 lawsuit: Approximately 135 female prison inmates (along with about 450 male inmates) were subjected to violent attacks by guards and other state agents over the course of three days at the Castro-Castro maximum security prison. [read post]
16 Mar 2011, 10:27 am by Rebecca McCray, Center for Justice
With over 2.3 million men and women living behind bars, our imprisonment rate is the highest it’s ever been in U.S. history. [read post]
25 Apr 2013, 7:36 am by John Pfaff
In 1990, there were 44,065 women prisoners in a system with 743,382 prisoners; in 2010, there were 105,200 women in a system with 1,544,200 prisoners. [read post]
3 Jun 2007, 9:30 am
Our chief areas of interest include drug policy reform, women in prison, racial injustice, the impact of incarceration on children and families, the problems associated with re-entry and stopping the practice of using private prisons in our state. [read post]
27 Mar 2015, 8:28 am
Over the years I’ve met remarkable men and women who somehow cling to their humanity and hope in solitary. [read post]
11 May 2011, 2:17 pm by Rebecca McCray, Center for Justice
Cornell Hood II was sentenced to life in prison after his fourth marijuana-related offense under the state’s repeat-offender law. [read post]
19 Aug 2020, 6:28 pm by Brianna Smith
State Superior Court Judge Michael O’Neill recently ruled that a lawsuit against the New York Department of Corrections regarding allegations of sexual abuse may proceed. [read post]
27 Dec 2009, 7:55 am by Deven Desai
The state has long refused to allow phones of any sort for inmates in its prisons, but this year officials are installing landlines. [read post]
13 Feb 2015, 8:15 am by Gritsforbreakfast
WFAA has a story on four women who are the first of their gender elected District Attorney in Dallas, Tarrant, Rockwall and Kaufman Counties, to which you could add Harris County (where both parties nominated women). [read post]
20 Nov 2008, 5:00 pm
  Recently, Skilling was moved to a low-security federal prison in Jefferson County, Colorado because the Minnesota institution began its conversion to a women’s prison. [read post]
24 Sep 2015, 1:58 pm by Jamie Markham
For example, adult male felons are held in Central Prison or Craven Correctional Institution; misdemeanants are held at Neuse Correctional Institution; and women are held at North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women. [read post]
13 Aug 2018, 12:15 pm
The law also provides financial penalties for employers who violate these provisions and even prison sentences for repeat offenders. [read post]
17 Jun 2014, 10:00 am by JacksonWhite Law
This is only evidence that crime against women has been increasing in this state with about 208 million people. [read post]
4 Jul 2007, 2:18 pm
Black women were incarcerated in prison or jail nearly 4 times the rate of white women and more than twice the rate of Hispanic women. [read post]
17 Aug 2010, 11:18 pm
Increasingly, GPS devices such as the one I wore are looking like an appealing alternative to conventional incarceration, as it becomes ever clearer that, in the United States at least, traditional prison has become more or less synonymous with failed prison. [read post]