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Minnesota's 'Million-Dollar Prisoners' Become Scapegoats in Tough Economy by Weathered old-timers often postulate that incarceration preserves the human body. Absent the stresses of life on the street—no bills to pay, no job to grind, no imbibing hard booze or drugs—the body heals, even reverses course, and rests peacefully until their …
Article • August 26, 2016
Filed under: Cost of Prison Systems
New York Prison Towns Frustrated Over Lost Funds After Governor Closes Facilities by The upstate New York region of Mohawk Valley lost a major source of revenue in the summer of 2011 after Governor Andrew Cuomo announced he was shutting down prisons in several counties and putting the properties up …
Article • August 25, 2016
Wisconsin Civil Commitments a Major Expense by Matthew Clarke When the Wisconsin Legislature first passed the Sexually Violent Persons Law allowing for civil commitment of certain sex offenders who had served all of their prison sentences, the additional expense was expected to be minimal. Today's reality proves that such a …
Article • August 24, 2016
California: Trendsetter... as Always by Item: California's 33 state prisons are operating at 190 percent of capacity. On January 10, 2002, Governor Gray Davis responded to this crisis by proposing to close five prisons with 1,400 beds. Item: California is facing a $20 billion budget shortfall. It costs $70 per …
Escapes and Crime at New Jersey's Privately-Run Halfway Houses by Matthew Clarke New Jersey has embarked on a grand experiment – shifting state prisoners from expensive state prisons into less expensive, privately-run halfway houses. The state prison system bas less than 25,000 beds while the around two dozen halfway houses …
Article • August 23, 2016
Report: 17 States Reduce Recidivism, Save Billions By Reinvesting Wisely by A blueprint for better public safety, long-endorsed by reform advocates and scoffed at by tough-on-crimers, has emerged in 17 states that have managed to reduce recidivism since 2007: Stop building new prisons and reinvest the savings in cost-effective programs …
Article • August 23, 2016
High Costs, Not Human Rights, Forces Georgia to Release Its Sickest Prisoners by For now, fiscal crises in Georgia will have to suffice for human decency with the state's Board of Pardons and Paroles releasing dozens of sick and elderly prisoners annually to save millions in medical spending. But even …
Article • August 22, 2016
Sale of Texas Private Prison Falls Through by The City of Littlefield, Texas sold the Bill Clayton Detention Center (BCDC) at an auction, but the deal fell through. The BCDC is a 363-bed prison private prison developers talked city officials into building in this 6,500 person community. Mesmerized by the …
Study Shows Private Prison Companies Use Influence to Increase Incarceration by Matthew Clarke A June 2011 report by the Justice Policy Institute entitled "Gaming the System: How the Political Strategies of Private Prison Companies Promote Ineffective Incarceration Policies reveals how private prison companies (PPCs) use political campaign donations, political lobbyists …
Publication • August 19, 2016
Profiting from Probation - America’s “Offender-Funded” Probation Industry, Human Rights Watch, 2014 H U M A N R I G H T S W A T C H PROFITING FROM PROBATION America’s “Offender-Funded” Probation Industry Profiting from Probation America’s “Offender-Funded” Probation Industry Copyright © 2014 Human Rights Watch All rights …
Publication • August 11, 2016
Public Safety Realignment – What is it?, CPOC, 2012 changes occurring in the wake of the new sentencing options; however, prior to October, there had already been a trend of decreasing felony probation grants. It is expected that Realignment will have an impact on regular felony grants of probation, but …
Article • August 10, 2016
New GAO Study of BOP Budget Reveals Salaries, Pensions Top Outlays by Derek Gilna Congress is looking to cut the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Bureau of Prisons (BOP) budget, and at its request the federal government’s General Accounting Office (GAO) has published a comprehensive study of that budget for the …
Report Says Lawmakers Should Choose Alternatives to Incarceration by Joe Watson A new report from Human Rights Watch (HRW) argues that U.S. lawmakers and "tough-on-crime" advocates have relied on incarceration as a default approach to criminal justice for far too long, not only costing billions of taxpayer dollars and endless …
Article • August 10, 2016
Federal Prisoners in Canada Have Limited Access to Libraries Due To Funding Cuts by Christopher Zoukis A number of federal prisons in Canada are cutting library hours and library staff, limiting access to books, making it harder to improve literary skills to prepare for reintegration to society. Correctional Investigator Howard …
Article • August 10, 2016
Arkansas Jail Finally Begins Serving Hot Meals by Christopher Zoukis Arkansas' Benton County Jail has, for years, served its prisoners three cold meals a day.  It has been doing so despite several lawsuits, and renewed requests that it serve hot meals, from the community.  The jail had no plans to …
Article • August 10, 2016
BOP X-Ray Machine Installations a $4 Million Failure by Derek Gilna Contraband is a constant problem in Bureau of Prisons (BOP) facilities, and although some of it is just a nuisance -- tobacco, alcohol, and creatine, for instance -- it constitutes a potentially serious threat in higher-security institutions when guns, …
Article • August 10, 2016
Report: Virginia's Prisons, Jails Overburdened by Nonviolent Drug Offenders by Joe Watson Virginia should decriminalize drug-related behavior and treat drug abuse as a public health issue, while increasing educational resources and opportunities in low-income communities of color in order to improve public safety and lower the state's prison population, according …
Article • August 10, 2016
Filed under: Cost of Prison Systems
Prison Chief Blames Rising Prison Budget on Pennsylvania Legislators by David Reutter When Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives forced Secretary of Corrections John Wetzel to appear before them for the annual round of grandstanding about prison costs, Wetzel turned the tables and placed the blame where it belongs: on the legislature. …
Private Prison Debt May Ruin Texas County's Bond Rating by Matthew Clarke Bernard Ammerman, the District Attorney of Willacy County, Texas believes that debt for privately-operated prisons may overwhelm the county's finances. In July 2012, he publicly complained that the county may not be able to repay the debt incurred …
Article • August 9, 2016
New Congressional Research Report Criticizes Federal Prisoner Increases by Derek Gilna The Congressional Research Service, or CRS, a non-partisan research arm of the United States Congress, has released an extensive report highly critical of the “unprecedented increase in the federal prison population” since the early 1980’s.  The report notes that …
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