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6 Nov 2013, 3:49 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Via the Urban Institute, check out this graphic demonstrating federal prison population growth over the last three decades:The federal prison system is almost ten times larger today than in 1980. [read post]
26 Jul 2023, 4:47 am by Berniard Law Firm
However, proving a violation of these rights within the prison system can be challenging, as demonstrated in the following case. [read post]
30 Aug 2011, 4:10 am by Howard Friedman
Yesterday, the Texas prison system inaugurated its program to permit long-term prisoners at its Darrington Unit to earn a 4-year degree in Biblical Studies from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. [read post]
5 Aug 2009, 10:42 am
"California Prisons Must Cut Inmate Population," is Solomon Moore's report in today's New York Times.A panel of federal judges ordered the California prison system on Tuesday to reduce its inmate population of 150,000 by 40,000 â€â [read post]
3 May 2010, 8:30 am by The Health Law Partners
Huping Zhou, a former UCLA Healthcare System cardiothoracic surgeon is the first defendant in the nation to receive a prison sentence for a HIPAA privacy violation. [read post]
7 Apr 2020, 4:24 am by Jamie Markham
Other updates on recent actions taken by the prison system in response to the pandemic are described here. [read post]
13 Jun 2018, 10:20 am by John Floyd
The inmates were profit in the brutal “convict leasing” system and they are profit in the violence-infested and dangerous corrupt environment of today’s inmate warehousing system in private prisons. [read post]
25 Jul 2009, 2:34 pm
On Monday the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that the state prison system's ban on pornography did not violate prisoners' rights under the First Amendment or the state constitution. [read post]
24 Jul 2020, 1:00 pm by Chris Stephens
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) released a 28-page report Thursday highlighting unconstitutional uses of force occurring within the Alabama prison system. [read post]
24 Jan 2010, 7:08 am
Wall Street Journal NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Shares of private-prison operators fell Thursday after one of the leading companies, Corrections Corp. of America (CXW), said it may lose revenue and two prisons should the proposed Arizona state budget pass, eliminating the state's out-of-state-prisoner system. [read post]
31 Oct 2007, 2:27 am
And turnover at the second-largest prison system in the country is at a record level with one in four employees leaving the department last year. [read post]
4 Jan 2016, 11:29 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Texas has implemented external oversight for the state's juvenile correctional system, but TDCJ continues to operate the largest prison system of any state without independent oversight.Texas must acknowledge its duty to protect the rights and well being of those under the supervision of its state agencies. [read post]
19 Jul 2011, 9:15 am by Nathan Koppel
Times reports that it has sought to visit and interview the striking prisoners, but the California prison system has denied the request. [read post]
28 Nov 2009, 9:49 pm
The New York Times New York State's highest court has rejected the last vestiges of a lawsuit by families of inmates who claimed that the prison system overcharged them for telephone calls from their loved ones. [read post]
29 May 2008, 12:23 am
Yet rape and other forms of sexual assault are becoming endemic to our prison system. [read post]
4 Jun 2021, 12:28 pm by David M. Boertje
The prison system had to pay millions of taxpayer dollars to settle legal challenges that resulted. [read post]
14 Feb 2019, 5:44 am by Sara E. Teller
Gallagher, purposedly robbed bank to go back to behind bars because he had heard Wisconsin's prison system has the best healthcare. [read post]
27 Oct 2011, 9:57 am by brian
A movie-goer's concept of prison economy is likely that it's a cigarette-fueled barter system. [read post]
28 Jun 2018, 11:01 am by Ryan J. Farrick
Filed Monday, the allegations focus specifically on the DPS and North Carolina’s prison system. [read post]