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31 Jul 2007, 4:37 am
  Here are excerpts:Chronic prison overcrowding has corrections officials in Hawaii and at least seven other states looking increasingly across state lines for scarce prison beds, usually in prisons run by private companies. [read post]
23 Jun 2022, 4:21 pm by Lee Kovarsky
In the dissent’s world, prisoner claimants would proceed under Section 1983 if they were facing execution in states with a legislatively authorized alternative, and prisoners in other states would go through federal habeas. [read post]
4 Aug 2009, 5:43 pm
The Los Angeles Times reports that a three judge panel has ordered California to release nearly 43,000 prisoners as the state’s prison system is so overcrowded that it is violating inmates' constitutional rights. [read post]
5 Dec 2007, 9:12 pm
" This annual bulletin reports the number of persons in State and Federal prisons at year end, compares the increase in the prison population during... [read post]
7 Aug 2020, 9:00 pm by Katharine Van Tassel
Of Bioethics, National Institute of Health), Prisons and Pandemics, SSRN: This Article examines the public health response to COVID-19 within federal and state prisons and local jails. [read post]
18 Oct 2008, 10:38 am
In short, a pathetic Bonnie and Clyde scenario.The Daily Telegraph report tries to create the holiday camp scene by stating Stephens "was allowed to spend most of his time on the outside" of the prison, and adding "He also had a job, making £14,000 a year working for a cold storage firm". [read post]
5 Apr 2008, 10:43 am
State population in 1982: 510,000 State population in 2006: 515,000 Increase in state population from 1982 to 2006: ~1 percent Number of inmates in state prisons in 1995: 1,300 Number of inmates in state prisons in 2008: 2,043 Increase in prison population from 1995 to 2008: 57 percent Number of employees managing/working in local jails and state prisons in 1982: 583 Number [...] [read post]
21 Jul 2008, 3:18 pm
Washington has been sending some prisoners to out-of-state prisons for the last six years. [read post]
8 Apr 2019, 3:30 am by SpearIt
The issue Frank raises is critical in the age of mass incarceration, where state and federal penal systems rely on prison as a mainstay punishment for felony crimes. [read post]
22 Oct 2006, 10:02 am
Arnold Schwarzenegger [official website] aimed at relieving prison overcrowding by transferring prisoners to out-of-state facilities is set for implementation next month. [read post]
5 Feb 2018, 4:22 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Murtagh is the executive director at Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York: “The New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision’s announcement that incarcerated people in the state will receive free computer tablets is a welcome policy change, farsighted and sophisticated. [read post]
30 Jun 2009, 10:29 pm
7-1-2009 Maine:Over the past year, the Maine State Prison has been the scene of a murder (Sex Offender Sheldon Weinstein, 64, from New Hartford, N.Y), a hunger strike and a hostage crisis that have frayed nerves at the 900-inmate facility in Warren. [read post]
14 Sep 2018, 10:30 am
They took control of the prison and sought to negotiate with state officials over their demands. [read post]
24 Oct 2009, 9:14 am
An excerpt: State officials will soon seek bids from private companies for 9 of the state's 10 prison complexes that house roughly 40,000 inmates, including the 127 here on death row. [read post]
4 Jul 2020, 1:34 pm by lennyesq
*** As COVID-19 spread earlier this year, prison facilities across the country suspended visits from family and lawyers. [read post]
24 Oct 2009, 9:14 am
An excerpt: State officials will soon seek bids from private companies for 9 of the state's 10 prison complexes that house roughly 40,000 inmates, including the 127 here on death row. [read post]
30 Apr 2014, 8:00 am by Dan Ernst
Most of the prison museums in the United States are in California, Colorado, and Texas. [read post]
8 Oct 2013, 7:35 am by Gritsforbreakfast
”The notion that state prison closures are the cause of Harris jail overcrowding is a pure red herring. [read post]