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Colorado Parolees' Violent Crimes Attributed to DOC Ineptitude by Joe Watson Colorado Parolees' Violent Crimes Attributed to DOC Ineptitude By Joe Watson It took the March 2013 murder of Tom Clements, then director of the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC), to bring to light the ineptitude of the state's prisons …
Article • June 3, 2015 • from PLN June, 2015
Is Redemption Possible for Former Prisoners? by Is Redemption Possible for Former Prisoners? The three women who were kidnapped and held hostage by Ariel Castro in a “house of horrors” in Cleveland, Ohio – tortured and sexually abused for roughly a decade – have been repeatedly praised for their strength …
Publication • April 24, 2015
PA DOC community corrections contract Appendix L re recidivism measures 2014 APPENDIX L Recidivism Monitoring Recidivism Monitoring At a minimum, facilities operated by selected contractors must maintain a baseline rate of recidivism. Facilities reducing recidivism rates below the baseline recidivism range will be eligible to receive a price increase during …
How Former Prisoners Are Set Up to Fail, Especially if They're Women by Jean Friedman-Rudovsky How Former Prisoners Are Set Up to Fail, Especially if They're Women Orange Is the New Black has shined a light on women's experiences behind bars, but what happens when they're no longer locked up? …
Article • February 4, 2015 • from PLN February, 2015
Prison Legal News Interviews Musician Wayne Kramer by Paul Wright Prison Legal News Interviews Musician Wayne Kramer On October 13, 2014, PLN editor Paul Wright interviewed Wayne Kramer at his office in Los Angeles. Mr. Kramer is a musician, singer, songwriter and producer; he also served more than two years …
Private Prison Companies Reject Resolutions to Fund Rehabilitative, Reentry Programs by Private Prison Companies Reject Resolutions to Fund Rehabilitative, Reentry Programs On December 23, 2014, GEO Group, the nation’s second-largest for-profit prison firm, demonstrated it was a “grinch” by objecting to a shareholder resolution that would require the company to …
When Halfway Houses Pose Full-Time Problems by Derek Gilna When Halfway Houses Pose Full-Time Problems by Derek Gilna A recent interest among government officials in reducing prison populations as a way to cut costs, stemming from the 2008 Great Recession that resulted in significant budget deficits, has placed renewed emphasis …
America’s Prisons: A Road to Nowhere by Ben Notterman America’s Prisons: A Road to Nowhere by Ben Notterman Video of Henry McCollum’s release from a North Carolina prison in September 2014 shows the exonerated death row prisoner making his way through a crowd of excited onlookers and into his family’s …
Controversy, Criticism Plague Brooklyn Halfway House by Derek Gilna Controversy, Criticism Plague Brooklyn Halfway House by Derek Gilna Community First Services, Inc., established by Jack A. Brown III in 2005 to provide transitional services for prisoners returning to New York City, has come under scrutiny following news reports that cast …
Article • December 3, 2014 • from PLN December, 2014
Education is Better than Punishment: Something We Can All Support! by Vivian D. Nixon Education is Better than Punishment: Something We Can All Support! by Vivian D. Nixon I learned in the harshest way possible that in the United States of America, every felony conviction, no matter what the judge …
Article • October 3, 2014
Report Links Recidivism Decline to Investments in Treatment, Training and Housing by Report Links Recidivism Decline to Investments in Treatment, Training and Housing   A study brief from the Council on State Governments (CSG) revealed that the states with the greatest reductions in recidivism in recent years have done so, …
Recidivism Performance Measures for Private Halfway Houses in Pennsylvania by Alex Friedmann Recidivism Performance Measures for Private Halfway Houses in Pennsylvania by Alex Friedmann In 2013, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) officials announced they would provide financial incentives to privately-operated community corrections facilities – halfway houses – that reduce the …
Publication • September 16, 2014
PA DOC recidivism performance measures for private halfway houses 2013 APPENDIX L Recidivism Monitoring Recidivism Monitoring At a minimum, facilities operated by selected contractors must maintain a baseline rate of recidivism. Facilities reducing recidivism rates below the baseline recidivism range will be eligible to receive a price increase during the …
Publication • June 1, 2014
Is Public Safety Realignment Reducing Recidivism in California?, PPIC, 2014 Is Public Safety Realignment Reducing Recidivism in California? June 2014 Magnus Lofstrom, Steven Raphael, and Ryken Grattet with research support from Brandon Martin Supported with funding from the Smith Richardson Foundation Summary California has had one of the highest recidivism …
Publication • 2014
NYU Law Review - Private Prisoner Rehabilitation Proposal, 2014 \\jciprod01\productn\N\NYU\89-1\NYU106.txt unknown Seq: 1 18-MAR-14 13:52 WE TRIED TO MAKE THEM OFFER REHAB, BUT THEY SAID, “NO, NO, NO!”: INCENTIVIZING PRIVATE PRISON REFORM THROUGH THE PRIVATE PRISONER REHABILITATION CREDIT CASSANDRE MONIQUE DAVILMAR* Mass incarceration in the United States has led many …
Publication • May 1, 2014
CDOC - Female Realignment Recidivism Report, 2014 7 California Department of Corrections And Rehabilitation Female Realignment Report An Examination of Female Offenders Released from State Prison in the First Year of Public Safety Realignment Office of Research May 2014 You can obtain reports by contacting the Department of Corrections and …
Risk Assessment Cannot Solve Systemic Injustice of Prisons by Glenn E. Martin by Glenn E.Martin, Truthout After 40 years of waging a failed war on crime in poor communities, conservative and progressive policy makers finally are being compelled to release the pressure valve and find ways to reform our troubled criminal …
Lowering Recidivism through Family Communication by Alex Friedmann There are currently 2.2 million people held in prisons and jails in the United States,1 and an estimated 95% of prisoners currently in custody will one day be released. Based on 2012 data, around 637,400 people are released annually from state and …
Publication • April 1, 2014
BJS Recidivism Study, 2014 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics April 2014 Special Report ncj 244205 Recidivism of Prisoners Released in 30 States in 2005: Patterns from 2005 to 2010 Matthew R. Durose, Alexia D. Cooper, Ph.D., and Howard N. Snyder, Ph.D., BJS Statisticians …
Does v. Snyder, MI, Amici Curiae Brief, Management of Sex Offenders, 2014 2:12-cv-11194-RHC-DRG Doc # 82 Filed 03/07/14 Pg 1 of 34 Pg ID 3502 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION __________________________________________________________________ JOHN DOES #1-5 and MARY DOE, File No. 2:12-cv-11194 Plaintiffs, v. Hon. Robert H. …
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