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Colorado Governor Tells Lawmakers to Open New Prison by On March 18, 2026, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) told state lawmakers that the state must immediately move to open a new new prison to account for a projected growth in prisoner numbers, according to The Colorado Sun. Gov. Polis’ demand …
Utah Pushes for Additional $130 Million to Expand Prison that Cost $1 Billion by In 2022, when Utah opened a new prison, the Utah State Correctional Facility, it was the largest construction project in the state’s history and cost more than $1 billion to build. Now, lawmakers are asking for …
Article • March 1, 2026 • from PLN March, 2026
Colorado Lawmakers Approve Prison Bed Funding, Despite DOC Understaffing by Just days after the Colorado legislature’s Joint Budget Committee (JBC) blocked a request from the state Department of Corrections (DOC) for hundreds of new prison beds, lawmakers backtracked and voted to approve the additional beds in a 5-1 vote on …
Article • March 1, 2026 • from PLN March, 2026
Colorado Law Intended to Reduce Prison Population Hasn’t Improved Conditions by Michael Thompson by Michael Thompson In 2018, Colorado lawmakers unanimously passed a law designed to relieve overcrowded state prisons. It was set to trigger whenever the total vacancy rate for state prison beds drops below 2% for more than …
Article • December 1, 2025 • from PLN December, 2025
CDCR May No Longer Use Sentence Credits to Advance Parole Eligibility of Some California Prisoners Serving Indeterminate Sentences by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In a tough ruling for some California prisoners, the state Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District, said on July 28, 2025, that a 2016 voter initiative …
New York State Closes Yet Another Prison by In November 2025, the state of New York announced that it will close the Bare Hill Correctional Facility (BHCF), a prison near the Canadian border, by March of next year. The closure of the facility, which has a staff of 293 and …
Article • November 1, 2025 • from PLN November, 2025
South Dakota Approves $650 Million New Prison Construction by On September 23, 2025, lawmakers in South Dakota approved the construction of a new state prison in Sioux Falls at the cost of $650 million. The future men’s prison, once built, will replace the South Dakota State Penitentiary, which is known …
Carty v. Bryan, VI, Order, Inhumane Prison Conditions, 2023 Case: 3:94-cv-00078-RAM-RM Document #: 1385 Filed: 03/15/23 Page 1 of 1 IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS DIVISION OF ST. THOMAS AND ST. JOHN LAWRENCE CARTY, et al., Plaintiff, v. ALBERT BRYAN, et al., Defendant. ) ) ) ) …
Carty v. Bryan, VI, Order Appointing Glenn Corbett as the Fire Expert, Inhumane Prison Conditions, 2023 Case: 3:94-cv-00078-RAM-RM Document #: 1386 Filed: 03/15/23 Page 1 of 1 IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS DIVISION OF ST. THOMAS AND ST. JOHN LAWRENCE CARTY, et al., Plaintiff, v. ALBERT BRYAN, …
Carty v. Bryan, VI, Order Appointing Michael Gatling as Security Environmental Safety Expert, Inhumane Prison Conditions, 2023 Case: 3:94-cv-00078-RAM-RM Document #: 1387 Filed: 03/15/23 Page 1 of 1 IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS DIVISION OF ST. THOMAS AND ST. JOHN LAWRENCE CARTY, et al., Plaintiff, v. ALBERT …
Publication • 2022
US DOJ-Bureau of Justice Statistics-Statistical Tables, March 2022 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics March 2022, NCJ 303184 Rich Kluckow, DSW, and Zhen Zeng, Ph.D., BJS Statisticians A t yearend 2020, an estimated 5,500,600 persons were under the supervision of adult correctional systems in …
Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
Modest Decline in Prison and Jail Populations in Spring 2021 by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In June 2021, the Vera Institute of Justice issued a report entitled People in Jail and Prison in Spring 2021, detailing the changes in jail and prison populations through the end of March 2021. …
Article • June 1, 2021 • from PLN June, 2021
Connecticut Prisoner Population Lowest in Over Three Decades Due to Coronavirus by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney According to the Connecticut Post, as of January 23, 2021, the number of people confined in Connecticut jails and prisons was 9,083—the lowest it has been in the last 32 years. That number …
Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021
People in jails are using more phone minutes during the COVID-19 pandemic, despite decreased jail populations by Andrea Fenster Our study of 14 jails finds that there were 8% more overall minutes used during the pandemic, despite the fact that nationwide jail populations have fallen about 15%. by Andrea Fenster, Prison …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
DOJ Report: Carceral Population Falls, 2017-2018 by Matthew Clarke By Matt Clarke According to a report by the United States Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics published in August 2020, the number of people in the U.S. under carceral supervision—prison, jail, probation, or parole—declined 2.1% from 2017 to 2018. …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
COVID-19: What Texas Must Do to Save Prisoners’ Lives by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon By December 2020, despite calls to release or parole prisoners at risk of COVID-19 — especially the elderly — the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) had reduced its prisoner count by only about 20,000, …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
Decline in South Dakota State Prisoners Not Due to COVID by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Since the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020, South Dakota’s state prisoner population declined by a self-reported 11 percent as of late-September. The Associated Press and The Marshall Project showed an 8 percent nationwide …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
California Appellate Court Orders 50% Reduction in San Quentin Population Over Fears of COVID-19 Spread by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On October 20, 2020, after finding the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) was deliberately indifferent to a prisoner’s COVID-19 risk, the state’s First Appellate District Court …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Jails and Prisons Have Reduced Their Populations in the Face of the Pandemic, but Not Enough To Save Lives by Emily Widra, Peter Wagner Our updated analysis finds that the initial efforts to reduce jail populations have slowed, while the small drops in state prison populations are still too little …
Article • June 1, 2020 • from PLN June, 2020
Number of California Prisoners Falling; Lifer Population Declines Slightly as Well by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon As of April 1, 2020, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) counted just over 122,000 prisoners in custody, more than 25 percent lower than its 2006 peak, continuing a downward trend …
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