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15 Mar 2021, 6:00 am by Yona Admin
According to Bureau of Justice Statistics figures, more than 14,000 federal inmates are now confined in privately-operated facilities, or about 8.1 per cent of a total federal inmate population of nearly 152,000. [read post]
22 Aug 2016, 3:00 am by Jon Katz
The Justice Department’s information release about the shift away from private prisons points to the initial need for such prisons when the federal prison population started increasing in the 1980’s at a faster pace than new prisons could be built. [read post]
12 Aug 2016, 10:30 am
Department of Justice inspector general released a scathing report on the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ monitoring of “contract prisons,” a shadow network of private, for-profit prisons that hold about 11 percent of the nation’s 193,000 federal prisoners. [read post]
25 Jul 2019, 1:24 pm by Leanne Winkels
US Attorney General William Barr on Thursdaydirected the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to adopt an addendum resuming capital punishment after nearly two decades. [read post]
3 Oct 2016, 7:15 am
This August, the Justice Department made history when it announced that the Bureau of Prisons would curtail — and eventually end — its use of private prisons. [read post]
19 Aug 2016, 10:29 am by Gwenyth Gamble
The Deputy US Attorney General announced [official statement] Thursday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] will phase out privately operated prisons. [read post]
11 Oct 2015, 10:51 am by James S. Friedman, LLC
  The Justice Department has an annual budget of about $27 Billion, a third of which is spent on operating the federal Bureau of Prison’s 120 facilities. [read post]
5 May 2008, 11:45 pm
Speakers were: Chaplain Joseph Pryor (Federal Bureau of Prisons); Steven T. [read post]
6 Jun 2016, 6:28 am by SHG
Copyright © 2007-2016 Simple Justice NY, LLC This feed is for personal, non-commercial and Newstex use only. [read post]
27 Jan 2020, 7:36 am by Jacob Dougherty
The US Department of Justice filed a lawsuit on Friday against the State of California claiming that a new banning the operation of private prisons is invalid because the State cannot dictate with whom the Federal Government can contract. [read post]
30 Sep 2008, 9:16 pm
Marshals in 2005, the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today.... [read post]
19 Feb 2021, 8:38 am by Cecillia Wang
Garland must use the massive power of the Justice Department to show America that nobody is above the law, and take advantage of his department’s responsibility to enforce federal civil rights laws, advance racial equity, protect immigrants’ due process rights, and ensure justice and integrity in the federal criminal legal system. [read post]
16 Jul 2018, 8:35 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice is the state's third largest employer, according to Grits' calculations.I began to investigate that ranking after seeing an article from US News and World Report titled, titled, "Can the Rural Prison Economy Survive the Decarceration Era? [read post]
17 Feb 2021, 7:35 am by Milo Inglehart
The Trump Department of Justice spent its final days putting thousands of people at greater risk of catching COVID-19 during the height of the pandemic. [read post]
13 Apr 2020, 11:32 am by Kanya Bennett
” These are the words that Attorney General William Barr used on April 3rd when he directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to reduce the federal prison population in the wake of COVID-19. [read post]
28 May 2008, 7:44 pm
Cost calculations were made by the Bureau of Prisons, the Department of Justice's Office of Federal Detention Trustee, and the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. ..Source.. [read post]
10 Mar 2020, 1:00 am by Scott J. Limmer
Attorney General William Barr also directed the Bureau of Prisons to use a single-drug lethal injection protocol using the sedative pentobarbitol sodium. [read post]
15 Apr 2014, 7:26 am by Bill Otis
 The amount going to the entire Justice Department, much less the Bureau of Prisons, is essentially invisible.If we want to cut the federal debt, we have to go to where the money is. [read post]