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Alabama Forced to Confront Criminal Justice Reform by David Reutter “We’re at a fork in the road,” Alabama state Senator Cam Ward, chairman of the Prison Reform Task Force, said in June 2014. “We have two paths to choose from and neither one is easy. Those of us on the …
Article • March 30, 2016
New Thurston County, Washington Jail Finally Opens After Sitting Empty by It didn’t matter that in 2004, the citizens of Thurston County, Washington voted against building a new county jail. In 2010, County Commissioners took it upon themselves to borrow $44 million from county coffers to build the new facility …
Article • March 7, 2016
New Report Details California Counties’ “AB 109” Correctional Priorities by Derek Gilna A new report issued by Stanford University explores how California Assembly Bill 109 (AB 109), also known as the “realignment bill,” has shifted control of local correction activities to county agencies from the state.  Funded by state block …
Article • March 7, 2016
California Counties Say Jail Space is Lacking Because Of Red Tape, Recession by Joe Watson Bureaucratic hurdles and the Great Recession are being blamed for a purportedly dire lack of jail space in California, where the state's "realignment" law has forced overcrowded prisons to transfer low-level offenders to the custody …
Article • March 1, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016
Filed under: Overcrowding, Jail Specific
Judge Orders Ohio County to Cap Jail Population, Release Prisoners by Joe Watson A federal judge has decided the best way to solve the overcrowding problem at the Lucas County Jail in Toledo, Ohio is by simply enforcing the law. On November 5, 2014, U.S. District Court Judge James Carr …
Brief • February 17, 2016
Carruthers v. Jenne, FL, Exhibit - Order Setting Evidentiary Hearing, Conditions of Confinement, 2016 Case 0:76-cv-06086-DMM Document 913-6 Entered on FLSD Docket 02/17/2016 Page 1 of 6 (Entered as document 746) UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT • SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA MIAMI DIVISION CASE NO. 76-6068-CIV-HOEVELER OLLIE CARRUTHERS, et al., Plaintiffs, …
Publication • February 16, 2016
BOP Growing Inmate Crowding Negatively Affects Inmates, Staff, and Infrastructure (Overcrowding), GAO, 2012 GAO September 2012 United States Government Accountability Office A Report to Congressional Requesters BUREAU OF PRISONS Growing Inmate Crowding Negatively Affects Inmates, Staff, and Infrastructure GAO-12-743 September 2012 BUREAU OF PRISONS Growing Inmate Crowding Negatively Affects Inmates, …
Senate Letter to Director of FBOP re relocation of female inmates Danbury FCI, US Senate, 2013 tinitnl �tatrs �rnatr WASHINGTON. DC 20510 October 4, 2013 The Honorable Charles E. Samuels, Jr. Director Federal Bureau of Prisons 320 First Street NW Washington, DC 20534 Dear Director Samuels: Thank you for your …
Publication • February 12, 2016
Filed under: Advocacy, Overcrowding, Water
Resolution Oppositing Expansion of La Salle Co RDF, Encinal Economic Development Corporation, 2005 Encinal Economic Development Corporation Resolution # 08-22-05 August 22, 2005 A RESOLUTION OPPOSING THE EXPANSION OF THE LA SALLE COUNTY REGIONAL DETENTION FACILITY OR THE CREATION OF ANY OTHER PRISON OR DETENTION FACILITY IN OR NEAR ENCINAL …
Publication • February 11, 2016
Filed under: Prison Reform, Overcrowding
Public Safety Realignment - Impacts So Far, PPIC, 2015 September 2015 Public Safety Realignment: Impacts So Far Magnus Lofstrom Brandon Martin Summary Prompted by a federal court order to reduce prison overcrowding, California’s 2011 historic public safety realignment shifted many correctional responsibilities for lowerlevel felons from the state to counties. …
Publication • February 11, 2016
Contract re confinement of ADC inmates in Bowie Co, 2015
Vermont’s Policy of Sending Prisoners Out-of-State Found Unconstitutional by David Reutter A Vermont Superior Court held the policy of the Vermont Department of Corrections (VDOC) to send hundreds of male prisoners to out-of-state facilities, regardless of whether they have close bonds with their young children, while keeping all women prisoners …
Article • February 2, 2016 • from PLN February, 2016
Human Rights Groups Condemn Worsening Conditions in Venezuelan Prisons by Matthew Clarke As long ago as 1997, the advocacy group Human Rights Watch issued a report that characterized conditions in Venezuelan prisons as “violat[ing] both Venezuelan law and international human rights standards.” The group pointed to dangerous overcrowding as perhaps …
California’s Jail-building Boom: What Comes After Mass Incarceration? Local Incarceration. by Anat Rubin by Anat Rubin, Marshall Project In the desert city of Indio, California halfway between Los Angeles and the Arizona border, a small monument to the state’s prison downsizing experiment is materializing in a shopping center storefront, where …
Article • January 13, 2016
Illinois County Settles Pro Se Jail Conditions-of-Confinement Suit for $10,500 by Matthew Clarke In June 2013, St. Clair County, Illinois, settled a federal civil rights lawsuit brought by three former prisoners of the St. Clair County Jail alleging unconstitutional conditions of confinement at the jail. Each man received $3,500 in …
Article • January 12, 2016
Texas Counties Still Stuck With Empty Public-Private Prisons by Matthew Clarke By Matt Clarke It was a bad deal for Texas cities and counties when, prison-construction entrepreneurs talked them into building publicly-financed prisons, for private corporations to operate; housing a surplus of prisoners at a profit. The counties went deep …
Article • January 12, 2016
Overcrowding Causes Unrest in Oklahoma Jail by Matthew Clarke By Matt Clarke Around 43 prisoners in Oklahoma's Bryan County Jail took part in unrest on August 18, 2013. According to Bryan County Sheriff Ken Golden, the prisoners, who had been sentenced to serve time in prison and were awaiting transfer …
Article • January 12, 2016
Ohio County Jail Overcrowded, Understaffed and On Verge of 'Catastrophe' by Joe Watson The results of a September 2013 inspection of the Hamilton County Jail in Cincinnati, Ohio, revealed that the facility failed to adequately meet 48 of 69 standards set by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC). …
Article • January 12, 2016
Filed under: Overcrowding, Booking Fees
Overcrowds Its Jail with People Who Can't Pay Court Fines and Fees by Joe Watson A recent analysis by the Tulsa World found that the percentage of bookings into the Tulsa, Oklahoma, County Jail involving warrants for failure to pay court fines and fees has more than tripled since 2004, …
Article • November 10, 2015
No Resources for Programs to Help Prisoners Make Parole in West Virginia by Christopher Zoukis No Resources for Programs to Help Prisoners Make Parole in West Virginia by Christopher Zoukis West Virginia's prison and jail population has continued to grow despite the passage of a sweeping prison reform bill, so …
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