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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 …
New Study Details Billions of Dollars Wasted In Immigration Enforcement by Derek Gilna The National Immigration Forum, a well-respected, non-partisan organization based in Washington, D.C., has published its most recent study of national immigration enforcement policies, entitled, “The Math of Immigration Detention: Runaway Cost for Immigration Detention Do Not Add …
Article • August 9, 2016
New Hepatitis C Treatment to Dramatically Increase Texas Prison Health Costs by Matthew Clarke Hepatitis C is a slow-progressing potentially-fatal viral disease that ultimately destroys the liver. Unlike HIV, the hepatitis C virus (HCV) is resilient, capable of surviving for weeks outside the human body. It is spread by blood-to-blood …
Colorado Shuts Down $208M Boondoggle; Taxpayers On Hook for Empty Prison by A new Colorado prison built exclusively for solitary confinement was itself abandoned by the state on Nov. 1, 2012, much like the people it was supposed to incarcerate. Now, unless the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) bails out …
Article • August 9, 2016
Filed under: Cost of Prison Systems
New Contracts Pull Wisconsin Prison Industry Out of Red for 2012 by Fiscal year 2012 was a profitable year for Badger State Industries. A memorandum from the Wisconsin Department of Correction (WDOC) to the co-chairs of the Joint Committee on Finance shows WDOC’s prison industries gained $3.6 million for the …
Publication • August 9, 2016
Filed under: Cost of Prison Systems
Bureau of Prisons - Information on Efforts and Potential Options to Save Costs, GAO, 2014 United States Government Accountability Office Report to Congressional Requesters September 2014 BUREAU OF PRISONS Information on Efforts and Potential Options to Save Costs GAO-14-821 September 2014 BUREAU OF PRISONS Information on Efforts and Potential Options …
Publication • August 9, 2016
Alternatives for Financing Prison Facilities, Association of State Correctional Administrators, 1999 Association of State Correctional Administrators Alternatives for Financing Prison Facilities 213 Court Street • Middletown, CT 06457 • (860) 704-6410 Alternatives for Financing Prison Facilities Prepared by Brown & Wood LLP 1999 TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ......................................................................................................... iii …
Plan to Reduce Correctional Costs and Achieve Savings for Reinvestment, VT DOC, 2007 PLAN TO REDUCE CORRECTIONAL COSTS AND ACHIEVE SAVINGS FOR REINVESTMENT Vermont Department of Corrections December 12, 2007 In compliance with Act 65, Sec. 153a of the 2007 69th Biennial Session of the General Assembly of the State …
Private Corporations Rake in the Cash From DOJ and BOP by Derek Gilna Despite recent efforts to reduce federal prisoner counts and corrections expenses, private corporations continue to reap a financial windfall from other people's misfortune.  Several corporations have fattened their balance sheets as private prison operators and numerous health …
Report Finds Fiscal Crisis of Increasing Low-Risk, High-Cost Older Prisoners by Matthew Clarke A report released by the Osborne Association found American prisons facing a crisis of aging in which an increasing percentage of older prisoners who are at low risk for recidivism are driving up the cost of running …
Article • August 4, 2016
Plaquemines Parish Jail Grand-Opening Faces Shuttered Wasteful Cells by David Reutter Hurricane Katrina destroyed the 800 plus bed Plaquemines Parish Detention Center (PPDC). Plans to house out-of-jurisdiction prisoners and corruption by the former sheriff resulted in building a state-of-the-art facility. As of October 2014, the construction of this facility--much larger …
Publication • August 4, 2016
Aging Behind Bars, Urban Institute, 2014 Aging Behind Bars Trends and Implications of Graying Prisoners in the Federal Prison System KiDeuk Kim Bryce Peterson August 2014 Acknowledgments This report was prepared with intramural support from the Urban Institute. The authors would also like to acknowledge the insightful advice and support …
Solutions: American Leaders Speak Out on Criminal Justice, Brennan Center for Justice, 2015 SOLUTIONS: AMERICAN LEADERS SPEAK OUT ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE Edited by Inimai Chettiar and Michael Waldman at New York University School of Law Foreword by President William J. Clinton Authors Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Cory Booker Chris Christie …
Number of State Prisoners Age 55 and Over Increased 400% in 20 Years by Derek Gilna Although much of the attention concerning the huge increase in America’s prison population has focused on the federal prison system, a new U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) report found that the number of prisoners …
Report Reveals “Guaranteed Minimums” Drive ICE Detention by An updated report by Detention Watch Network (DWN), in cooperation with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), has exposed the practice of “guaranteed minimum” bed quotas in detention facilities operated by or for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The term refers to …
Article • August 2, 2016 • from PLN August, 2016
Prison Policy Initiative Shines Spotlight on Probation and Parole Data by Derek Gilna A recent study by the Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) places its emphasis not on the number of people incarcerated in the United States, but rather on an often-ignored figure – how many individuals are on probation and …
In-house Parole Costs New Mexico Over $10 Million Annually by Matthew Clarke Inefficiencies in the New Mexico Corrections Department (NMCD) and the state’s Parole Board have resulted in hundreds of prisoners being kept in prison long beyond their parole release dates. The cost of incarcerating each prisoner during this so-called …
Report: How Private Prison Companies Cut Corners to Generate Profit by Derek Gilna Private prison companies like Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and the GEO Group earn hundreds of millions of dollars each year, averaging between $2,771 and $3,366 in profit per prisoner based on 2014 data. According to In …
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