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17 Nov 2016, 5:30 am
Here is the abstract: The American criminal justice system has an obsession with lengthy... [read post]
30 Aug 2008, 10:32 am
., was sentenced today to 15 months in prison for selling pirated video game systems, Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich and U.S. [read post]
24 Apr 2014, 12:27 pm
CEO profits and shareholder returns have no place in our criminal justice system. [read post]
22 Jan 2019, 6:59 am
Today's New York Times reports on the religious accommodations for Jewish inmates in the prison at which President Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen hopes to serve his three year sentence:What the minimum-security camp at the Federal Correctional Institution in Otisville, N.Y., does offer is a rarity in the federal prison system: a full-time Hasidic chaplain who oversees a congregation of dozens of Jewish inmates who gather for prayer services three times a… [read post]
18 Jul 2014, 7:29 am
France's prison system has become increasingly overcrowded in past years, and it reportedly does little to discourage reoffending. [read post]
16 Nov 2016, 6:50 am
The 24-hour protest was in reaction to increasing violence in the prison system and was intended to spur changes to protect prison workers. [read post]
3 Oct 2010, 5:29 pm
Associated Press – “Inmates in Connecticut prisons have access to true crime books and works of fiction that depict murder and graphic violence, with no apparent restrictions based on a reader’s criminal history, according to a review of the prison library system by The Associated Press. [read post]
11 Jun 2009, 5:45 am
Ricardo Rachell was convicted for this sexual assault and spent more than six years in the Texas prison system before readily available DNA evidence at the time of his arrest was finally tested and established his innocence. [read post]
14 Sep 2022, 4:00 am
And because prisons are never as removed from society as proponents like to think, these protocols redound far beyond the prison system itself. [read post]
3 Feb 2016, 7:21 pm
[January 26, 2016] “the Charles Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections issued a set of bold recommendations to reform the federal justice system, enhance public safety, and save the government billions of dollars. [read post]
22 Jun 2014, 5:00 pm
This isn't the first lawsuit that the Alabama prison system has faced a lawsuit for prison conditions. [read post]
25 Sep 2009, 1:14 am
An estimated 20,000 veterans are in the criminal justice system, with 8,500 behind bars, almost one in 10 of the prison population. [read post]
1 Aug 2007, 1:29 am
“The Government’s problems in handling the crisis in the prison system were compounded today when the High Court ruled that the detention of prisoners with no facilities to assess their suitability for release was ‘arbitrary, unreasonable and unlawful’. [read post]
29 Jul 2018, 4:27 am
Hundreds of Idaho prison inmates have hacked jail software to "artificially" boost the amount of money in their own accounts, officials say.The Idaho Department of Corrections said 364 inmates were "intentionally exploiting a vulnerability" to take nearly $225,000 (£171,000).Fifty prisoners credited their accounts with more than $1,000 each while another inmate transferred $9,990. [read post]
15 May 2010, 2:54 pm
"Anyone interested in America's prison system should read it," concluded The Dallas Morning News assessment of "Texas Tough," a new book covering the history of the state's corrections system.One group with a natural interest in the subject has yet to crack the book's cover, however: Texas prisoners themselves. [read post]
17 May 2010, 2:22 pm
In 1995, the state spent $1.6 billion running its penal system, while in 2010, the budget calls for $2.4 billing in spending. [read post]
16 Nov 2008, 7:45 pm
View the article here 11/16/2008 By Jonathan Saltzman Sentencing changes urged to ease overcrowding in system MILFORD - The number of inmates in Massachusetts prisons is projected to reach about 12,000 next year for the first time, prompting the head of the prison system to call for sentencing changes that ease overcrowding and to proceed with a controversial plan to double-bunk inmates at a maximum-security facility. [read post]
3 Jun 2010, 9:08 pm
Unless and until the sociopaths who sanction, build and run the systems can be reformed, unless and until we as a society can let go of our belief that prison should suck, the reformation of prisoners is impossible. [read post]
12 Jan 2017, 4:28 am
The post Trump Brushes Off DoJ on Private Prisons appeared first on Legal Reader. [read post]
19 May 2011, 5:18 am
Westword The story of Scott Howard, who endured extortion and rape by an inmate gang in Colorado's prison system, was told in detail for the first time in my feature "The Devil's Playground" three months ago. [read post]
