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22 Apr 2013, 6:37 am
[iii] Brian Daffron, “Inmate’s Religious Rights Allegedly Violated Within Texas Prison System,” Indian Country Today (March 8, 2013), http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/03/08/inmates-religious-rights-allegedly-violated-within-texas-prison-system-148058. [read post]
13 Jul 2008, 3:45 am
Even so, violent crime rates are higher than when the nation's prison building boom started more than three decades ago.It's time to reverse failed sentencing policies, restore certain social and legal rights for ex-felons, and slow the revolving doors of the penal system with better re-entry, education and training programs. [read post]
7 Nov 2010, 10:25 am
Medium security prisons have double fences with electronic detection systems such as motion detectors, surveillance, and infrared cameras. [read post]
28 Jul 2010, 6:32 pm
According to the arrest affidavit, the woman bragged about her ability to fool the system and informed some friends the injury wasn't even work related. [read post]
1 Sep 2009, 1:54 pm
However, those neighborhoods with a strong social support system appear to do a much better job of bringing former prisoners back into society, and thus experience little if any increase in crime. [read post]
22 Aug 2016, 1:41 pm
Once released from prison, employment prospects for former inmates are usually grim. [read post]
28 Feb 2016, 11:30 pm
Since August, the retired forensic auditor had learned that if he wanted to understand how inmates were treated in the state’s troubled corrections system, he had to find a place to conduct one-on-one interviews with offenders.His conclusion: Find a very public space within the prison confines, out of earshot of corrections officers or prison staff, away from any recording equipment “and never ask what sent them to prison, unless it’s going to be… [read post]
23 Nov 2011, 12:21 pm
" On Tuesday night, President Obama did something he had not yet done as president — he commuted someone's prison term. [read post]
4 Aug 2011, 6:18 pm
Texas's juvenile justice system has often served young people poorly, ignoring constitutional protections and punishing them harshly for minor crimes. [read post]
29 Sep 2016, 10:05 am
He is an expert in workers compensation cost containment systems and helps employers reduce their work comp costs by 20% to 50%. [read post]
2 May 2014, 7:43 pm
With this spike, the U.S. now holds close to a quarter of the world’s prisoners, even though it accounts for just 5 percent of the global population.'We are concerned that the United States is past the point where the number of people in prison can be justified by social benefits,' said Jeremy Travis, president of John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the chair of the committee behind the study. 'A criminal justice system that makes less use of… [read post]
6 Jan 2010, 12:01 pm
Unfortunately, the Governor seems to envision that this will be achieved by reducing spending on prisoners, not by reducing prisoners. [read post]
18 Apr 2023, 4:02 pm
Navalny is facing 35 years in prison on other charges. [read post]
30 Aug 2024, 9:00 am
Why It Matters: Right now, the U.S. criminal legal systems hold more than 1.9 million people in prisons, detention centers, jails and other carceral systems. [read post]
21 Aug 2011, 11:50 pm
About 700 people were added to the prison system in the past week. [read post]
10 Feb 2009, 9:22 pm
If I did the math right, California’s prisons hold 7.2% of the nation’s prisoners, which currently number about 2.29 million. [read post]
10 May 2007, 11:07 pm
Indeed, says the writer:it is encouraging, from this conservative Christian's perspective, to see the Texas prison system being used to reform prisoners rather than to simply punish them, to see the system being paved as a road to redemption rather than to perdition.It's encouraging to me to see that that's encouraging to him! [read post]
21 Jan 2010, 2:44 pm
currently has the dubious distinction of being, by far, the world's largest incarcerator, both in sheer numbers and in terms of percentage of the population.More than one in every 100 adults is currently in prison or jail in this country, and the number of women in state and federal prisons and jails increased by more than 800 percent between 1980 and 2002. [read post]
25 Mar 2018, 9:31 am
If you are treated as a youthful offender, the maximum sentence that you can serve is six years in prison. [read post]
5 Mar 2023, 4:49 am
A Cambodian court Friday sentenced leading opposition figure Kem Sokha to 27 years in prison for treason. [read post]
