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18 Feb 2008, 11:53 am
"They impact the lives of youth throughout the system in every area of court-ordered reform. [read post]
14 Dec 2009, 3:21 pm
After beating up on the New York Times' editorial work here, I must give the Old Gray Lady props for this potent front-page story about New York's prison system for juvenile offenders. [read post]
5 Jan 2019, 1:18 am by Ryan J. Farrick
Accused of enabling negligence and providing substandard care, Illinois has agreed to a series of reforms intended to improve health throughout its prison system. [read post]
5 Nov 2004, 3:02 am
[JURIST] The Japanese Ministry of Justice has warned in a report Friday that the country's prison system is overwhelmed, with some prisons unable to accommodate any more prisoners. [read post]
1 Aug 2011, 8:44 am by Dan Markel
Sasha offers us a nearly perfectly executed thought experiment paper centered on the idea: what if prisons were run on a voucher system? [read post]
24 Nov 2010, 7:04 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Indeed, prison building, he argued, has been the defining public works project of the last generation, the same way that hydroelectric dams were the defining public works program of the early 20th century and the highway system was during the period after WWII - an excellent and accurate observation. [read post]
21 Mar 2010, 5:45 am by Donald Tibbs
’s court system is the ease at which special services designed to assist those who perhaps need it the most, such as the assistance of Court-Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) who's work assists “abused, neglected and abandoned children involved in dependency court matters”, are slashed from the budget while its criminal court system, which consistently feeds the runaway growth of California’s biggest budget problem, the Prison Industrial… [read post]
20 Mar 2020, 6:21 am by Donald Barbati
Certain developments have arisen as many staff at prisons have voiced worries about an unprepared system, with officials citing short staffing and a lack of proper protective equipment. [read post]
20 Mar 2010, 8:33 am by SashaNatapoff
  Prison rape is one of those pesky moral disasters that somehow the penal system can't quite manage to fix, although the New York Review of Books two-part essay by David Kaiser and Lovisa Stannow points out that some prison systems have nearly eliminated rape, while others, e.g. [read post]
29 Jul 2008, 10:55 am
"It might be true that incarceration reduces re-offending, but the cost of the prison system still has to justify that reduction. [read post]
14 Feb 2008, 1:33 am
Iraq's prison system does not have nearly enough beds to house all of the detainees in custody, nor does the court system have the ability to try all of the [read post]
11 Sep 2009, 7:06 am
The prospect of multiple prison closings alarmed critics who say the system is already dangerously overburdened. [read post]
30 Jan 2014, 2:21 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
“The Sentencing Project released two reports that highlight states downsizing prison systems and adopting sentencing policy reforms. [read post]
1 Jul 2013, 10:35 am by CrimProf BlogEditor
From NBCnews.com: And they’re by no means alone: Prisoners older than 55 make up the single fastest-growing segment of the U.S. prison community – a largely invisible shadow population. [read post]
19 Feb 2019, 2:17 pm by [email protected]
Texas set up a new jail system a quarter of a century ago intended to keep low-level drug offenders out of the state’s overcrowded prisons. [read post]
19 Feb 2019, 2:17 pm by [email protected]
Texas set up a new jail system a quarter of a century ago intended to keep low-level drug offenders out of the state’s overcrowded prisons. [read post]
9 Aug 2018, 7:53 am by Cory Doctorow
The Florida Department of Corrections is one of the many state prison systems that rely on private contractors to supply electronic messaging and access to electronic music files and books for prisoners. [read post]
27 Jan 2011, 8:33 am by brian
A federal overseer of the state's prison system has suggested freeing the sickest inmates as a way to cut costs. [read post]