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27 Aug 2012, 6:07 pm
The Nation looks at New Orleans, a city in which the Public Defender system has broken down. [read post]
2 Dec 2021, 3:30 am
In the social sciences, this generally means that even in Spain we explain the history of prison comparing ‘the system of Auburn and Philadelphia’. [read post]
23 Feb 2021, 7:46 am
The increasing use of excessive fees, fines, and surcharges to fund parts of our criminal justice system is creating punitive debt traps for millions of low-income Americans leaving prison. [read post]
22 Mar 2009, 9:49 am
I hope someone in the Obama Administration takes note of the philosophy behind the Austrian prison system. [read post]
21 May 2010, 7:38 am
Hidden in the depths of his "May Budget Revisions" (the adjustments to the annual January budge proposal that is based on actual revenue returns during April tax season and thus considered far more realistic) California Governor Schwarzenegger has included a proposal to have some state prisoners serve their time at the county level.To improve the success of felony probationers, and other offenders supervised or programmed at the local level, and reduce jail and prison… [read post]
22 Nov 2015, 1:30 pm
Erica Gammill, Prison Justice LeagueRecently, Grits reconnected with Erica Gammill, a long-time Texas criminal-justice reformer who's doing some interesting work organizing prisoners inside Texas state prisons. [read post]
28 May 2009, 1:22 pm
Prison officials have been struggling with a system that is 32 percent over design capacity and plagued by skyrocketing medical costs. [read post]
23 Nov 2020, 9:00 am
Fewer people are being roped into the system on the front end, with the biggest reduction in arrests for violent crime. [read post]
2 Mar 2024, 5:29 pm
22 Jul 2010, 2:35 am
With all these accusations about current policy flying around, it may surprise some that we have one of the least punitive systems in Europe. [read post]
30 Oct 2009, 6:24 am
A legal system that relegates the majority of our most disadvantaged populations to incarceration, and does next to nothing to help them avoid prison or to reintegrate into society upon release, invites disrespect â€â [read post]
7 Mar 2007, 10:00 pm
" The law books, courts, and criminal justice system in the United States are over-criminalized. [read post]
27 Jan 2013, 6:41 am
"It looks like the whole system should be shrinking," said state Sen. [read post]
15 Jun 2009, 9:10 pm
6-16-2009 California:A Bay Area man can sue California officials for allegedly violating his rights by keeping him in prison for 18 months after a state court had overturned the law under which he was convicted, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.William Cousins claimed in his lawsuit that the state attorney general, prison system director and prison warden should have taken steps to free [read post]
24 Feb 2017, 8:52 am
In the memo, Sessions states that the Obama-era memo "changed long-standing policy and practice, and impaired the Bureau (of Prisons') ability to meet the future needs of the federal correctional system. [read post]
20 Sep 2015, 12:44 pm
13 more former prison officials and guards have been arrested and detained over the escape of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, including the ex-head of Mexico's prison system, Celina Oseguera Parra, and the ex-warden of the prison at Altiplano,... [[ This is a content summary only. [read post]
16 Jun 2006, 2:26 am
[JURIST] Pusho Ibrahim Ali Daza Yei, Iraq's deputy justice minister, has said that Shiite militias [CFR backgrounder] control Iraq's prison system and that Iraq "cannot control the prisons. [read post]
5 Jan 2009, 8:05 pm
All suicides mentioned occurred in DECEMBER a bad time for inmates. 1-6-2009 Michigan: A new administrator charged with improving Michigan's dysfunctional prison health care system has a lot on her plate in 2009, but looking into prison suicides must become an immediate priority. [read post]
1 Sep 2021, 7:40 am
24 Jan 2018, 7:12 am
When the Gainesville stories first came out, Grits observed:These troubles mirror problems witnessed at the adult system, where sexual misconduct by staff at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is a big source of federal Prison Rape Elimination Act violations. [read post]
