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16 May 2019, 8:30 am
A Georgia jail system just implemented one of the strictest bans we’ve seen, preventing prisoners from possessing any books other than a bible. [read post]
20 Aug 2010, 10:29 am by Bill Otis
Hence today's story of the capture and arrest of an escaped killer, from which I excerpt the following tidbits about prison security:   The prison has a badly defective alarm system, a perimeter post was unstaffed, an outside dormitory door had been propped open with a rock and the alarms went off so often that prison personnel often just ignored them, the report said. [read post]
22 Feb 2023, 5:21 am by Bob Kraft
Navigating the federal prison system can be an intimidating and overwhelming experience for both the person who is incarcerated and their family. [read post]
9 Aug 2020, 7:43 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Here, we will regularly update these figures counting the number of people infected and killed nationwide and in each prison system until the crisis abates. [read post]
5 Sep 2021, 1:15 pm by John Floyd
  The Texas prison system is not alone in dealing with the prevailing crises facing both the state and federal prison systems. [read post]
7 Jul 2011, 5:25 am
Former Women’s Prison To Become International Corrections Training Center | Security ManagementIn a Brazilian prison, it wouldn’t be uncommon for a person serving time for stealing car stereos to be housed with a gang member accused of multiple murders.The Brazilian prison system’s lack of a classification system has garnered criticism from human rights groups like Amnesty International and [read post]
11 Sep 2014, 12:32 pm by Jennifer Bard
This news item reporting on the release after 30 years of two North Carolina brothers, described in news reports as both being “mentally disabled” after being declared innocent based on DNA evidence is a timely excuse to bring up a topic that no one likes to discuss—as John Oliver put it in song, dance and puppets a few weeks ago, American’s Prisons are Broken. [read post]
5 Nov 2015, 9:58 am by John Floyd
The reason is obvious: American taxpayers cannot continue to bear the exorbitant costs of the nation’s prison system. [read post]
3 Jun 2020, 2:19 pm by Jamie Markham
The prison system is considering additional updates to its sentence credit policy. [read post]
11 Feb 2014, 4:01 am by Cynthia Miley
The California prison system currently houses about 120,000 inmates but is only designed to hold about 80,000. [read post]
20 May 2013, 8:34 am by Gritsforbreakfast
 In the late 70's and 80's the Texas Prison System was plagued with chronic under funding, which resulted in the Federal courts taking over the prison system. [read post]
24 Jun 2015, 9:15 pm by Walter Olson
[Ed Krayewski, Reason; earlier] Tags: police unions, prisonersPrivate prison lobbying — and the public kind is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
27 Oct 2010, 5:53 am
NPR's police and prisons correspondent Laura Sullivan and Jonathan Turley, director of the Project on Older Prisons, discuss the options available to prison systems in dealing with thousands of inmates growing old behind bars. [read post]
6 Jul 2008, 1:01 pm
This weekend Charon interviewed John Hirst of Prison Law Inside Out about his experience of life in prison, his thoughts on the penal system and about his victory a couple of years ago in the European Court of Human Rights in Hirst v UK, in which he successfully challenged the legal bar preventing prisoners from voting. [read post]
5 Apr 2012, 4:07 pm
Prison bill to allow CSPII closure introduced - The Pueblo Chieftain: Local News DENVER — Bills were introduced in the Colorado Legislature on Wednesday to authorize closure of a Canon City prison and launch a study to guide future management of the state’s prison system. [read post]