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13 Feb 2021, 7:37 am
Prisoners suffered horrific acts of torture at the hands of military personnel and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agents and nine have died in custody. [read post]
14 Nov 2014, 9:54 am
Second, prisons: Several committee members raised the United States’ overreliance on solitary confinement—a practice on which the U.S. is an international outlier in a very bad way. [read post]
4 Feb 2007, 8:34 am
They maintain that even a 4 percent decrease in crime is not much for a 10 percent increase in incarceration.38 Indeed, Spelman himself characterizes a 2 to 4 percent crime reduction as a fairly limited impact given the sizable financial obligation states have incurred in incarcerating so many people.Given that central conundrum in Spelman's findings, I was happy to see Vera go on to cite additional research I hadn't seen before that I think better characterizes the more… [read post]
2 Sep 2009, 2:51 am
So Chairman Allen changed his legislation to keep the penalty at state-jail felony levels, but required judges to sentence offenders to probation on first-offense less-than-a-gram possession cases - a move that diverted around 4,000 offenders from prison per year at a savings of more than $30 million annually.That model - reducing incarceration by diverting offenders to probation and keeping more of them there until they're off supervision - became the central… [read post]
19 Aug 2016, 10:00 am
Private prisons, the memo stated, “compare poorly” to federally run prisons. [read post]
19 Feb 2008, 3:33 am
Santiago appeared in San Bernardino County, Central District, Superior Court Friday, February 8, 2008, and was sentenced, as part of a plea agreement, to sixteen months in state prison for filing a false deed and forgery. [read post]
13 Aug 2014, 8:36 am
Aug 2 – A state appeals court has upheld the life sentence of a Central Texas woman who contended her imprisonment for a third felony conviction for driving while intoxicated was improper cruel and unusual punishment. [read post]
7 Jul 2011, 3:27 pm
One in eight state workers and seven percent of most state general funds are dedicated to running prisons. [read post]
20 Dec 2007, 9:14 am
View the article here | Texas Prison Bid'ness BlogThe United States government holds some 500 immigrant children and their families in a converted prison in central Texas. [read post]
19 Nov 2006, 8:23 pm
Federal and state police who raided the prison when the gunshots rang out found the three lawyers and an inmate dead, Garcia said. [read post]
7 Aug 2013, 10:04 pm
The 54-year-old, a former prison guard who was jailed for three years in 2004 for "illegally petitioning" the central government about corruption in his hometown [wow - you get paid for that in the States], reckons the operation was even more lucrative than the physical labour that prisoners were also forced to do. [read post]
6 Oct 2008, 12:16 pm
All the Orders and Instructions that roll down from HQ apply just as much as in state prisons. [read post]
2 Jan 2023, 8:37 am
The court sentenced the soldiers to 20 years in prison, one day before the expiration of the ultimatum issued by the Western African heads of state. [read post]
25 Jul 2008, 8:40 am
On the US side, new enforcement expenditures by states and the feds have either done nothing to reduce the crisis or made things worse.If politics were about issues that matter instead of issues that poll well, we'd see cartel violence and US drug policy become a central debate point in the US presidential race. [read post]
16 Dec 2023, 10:54 am
Businessman Raffaele Mincione and broker Gianluigi Torzi, who received 5.5 and 6 years in prison, respectively, played a central role in the scheme. [read post]
10 Aug 2011, 1:34 pm
If you've ever seen (or read) Master in Commander, you may recall that the central character was attempting to flee debtor's prison. [read post]
22 Apr 2006, 11:06 am
[JURIST] State prison administrators carried out the execution of Willie Brown, Jr. [read post]
4 Jun 2012, 11:48 am
County Sheriff Lee Baca announced that he intends to close much of the nation’s largest jail, Men’s Central. [read post]
26 Sep 2010, 1:00 am
Here are the tax presentations at this weekend's Central States Law Schools Association Annual Meeting at North Dakota: Danshera Cords (Albany), Lien on Me: Virtual Debtors Prisons, The Practical Effects of Tax Liens and Proposals for Reform, 49 Brandeis L.J. ___ (2010): "This Article explores three specific problems relating to... [read post]
18 Jan 2009, 3:54 pm
Mukasey frustrated and angered some senators by refusing to state that waterboarding, the near-drowning technique used on three prisoners by the Central Intelligence Agency, is in fact torture.... [read post]
