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U.S. Prisons Filled with America’s Mentally Ill by Derek Gilna In April 2014, the National Sheriffs’ Association and Treatment Advocacy Center released a comprehensive joint report titled “The Treatment of Persons with Mental Illness in Prisons and Jails: A State Survey.” Authored by both experts in mental illness and law …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
California: City Council Hears Proposal to Repurpose Empty Prison as Pot Farm by The Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga houses around 2,300 prisoners and employs about 1,000 area residents, but the local economy was hit hard by the 2011 closure of the smaller, city-owned Claremont Custody Center. In a …
Increasing Number of Jails, Prisons Using Full-body Digital Scanners by Matthew Clarke In 2012, the Hamilton County Jail in southwest Ohio was the first jail in the state to purchase a SecurPass full-body digital scanner, using a $243,000 federal grant. Thereafter, prisoners at the facility were subjected to scans in …
Problems with California’s New Medical Prison by Matthew Clarke With construction costs of $840 million and a capacity to provide care to almost 3,000 patients, California’s new medical prison near Stockton is the largest and most expensive in the nation. Unfortunately, that expense has not resulted in a smooth-running operation; …
California’s Broken Death Penalty System by Christopher Zoukis While California taxpayers have spent over $4 billion on capital punishment since it was reinstated in 1978, more than 900 prisoners have been sentenced to death but only 13 have been executed – an average cost of around $308 million per execution. …
Company Owes Nevada Prison Industries $428,000 by Bob Sloan Nevada’s state-run prison industry program, Silver State Industries, came under attack from citizens and business owners in 2014. One criticism of the program involved the loss of jobs to non-incarcerated workers and fewer jobs available to the unemployed. Another complaint was …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
U.S. Department of Education Offers Second Chance Pell Pilot Program by Christopher Zoukis On July 31, 2015, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) announced a new pilot program that will provide federal funding to colleges to provide classes at select prisons. The Second Chance Pell Pilot Program will help prisoners …
Louisiana Parish Saddled With Large Jail, Large Costs by Matthew Clarke Before he pleaded guilty to taking bribes and illegally spending around $150,000 of his campaign money, resulting in a 46-month federal prison sentence in 2013, former Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana Sheriff Jiff Hingle may have started his parish on a …
Publication • 2016
EOP - Economic Perspectives on Incarceration and the Criminal Justice System, 2016 ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES ON INCARCERATION AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM April 2016 Contents Executive Summary....................................................................................................................................... 3 Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 7 I. Defining the Landscape: Current Criminal Justice Policies and Historical Context.................................. 10 Incarceration Growth and the Criminal Justice System .......................................................................... …
Publication • 2016
Louisiana Legislative Auditor - Evaluation of Strategies to Reduce Louisiana's Incarceration Rate and Costs for Nonviolent Offenders, LLA, 2016Louisiana Legislative Auditor - Evaluation of Strategies to Reduce Louisiana's Incarceration Rate, 2016 EVALUATION OF STRATEGIES TO REDUCE LOUISIANA’S INCARCERATION RATE AND COSTS FOR NONVIOLENT OFFENDERS PERFORMANCE AUDIT SERVICES ISSUED AUGUST 31, …
Publication • 2016
Brennan Center for Justice - How Many Americans Are Unnecessarily Incarcerated, 2016 HOW M A N Y A MER IC A NS ARE UNNECESSARILY INCARCERATED? Dr. James Austin and Lauren-Brooke Eisen with James Cullen and Jonathan Frank Preface by Inimai Chettiar Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School …
The Economic Burden of Incarceration in the U.S., Concordance Institute for Advancing Social Justice, 2016 The Economic Burden of Incarceration in the U.S. Working Paper #CI072016 Michael McLaughlin, MACC, MBA, Washington University in St. Louis Carrie Pettus-Davis, MSW, PhD, Washington University in St. Louis Derek Brown, MA, PhD, Washington University …
Publication • May 26, 2016
The High Cost of Incarceration in Florida - Recommendations for Reform, Reason Foundation, 2015 Reason Foundation Policy Study No. 444 April 2015 The High Cost of Incarceration in Florida: Recommendations for Reform by Lauren Galik Reason Foundation Reason Foundation’s mission is to advance a free society by developing, applying and …
Publication • May 26, 2016
Economic Perspectives on Incarceration and the Criminal Justice System, Executive of Office of the President, 2016 ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES ON INCARCERTATION AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM April 2016 Contents Executive Summary....................................................................................................................................... 3 Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 7 I. Defining the Landscape: Current Criminal Justice Policies and Historical Context.................................. 10 Incarceration Growth and the …
Article • May 13, 2016
Report: Six States Shuttered Prisons, Reduced Bed Space in 2013 by Joe Watson A new report from the Sentencing Project highlights prison closures and correctional bed reductions in a half-dozen states in 2013 and outlines the dynamics for more closures in 2014 and beyond. North Carolina led what the Sentencing …
Article • May 12, 2016
Medicare Again Embarrassed by Funding Drugs For Prisoners by Derek Gilna At a time when both federal and state governments are struggling to pay their bills, a new government report by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) reveals that Medicare has improperly paid out …
Article • May 12, 2016
New Ohio Jail Regulations Limit Prisoners to Shower Every Other Day, Two Meals a Day on Weekends by Christopher Zoukis An Ohio regulatory panel imposed new standards for the 90 full-service jails in the state, which detain some 20,000 prisoners in the state's county and municipal jails. On April 15, …
DOJ Increases Budget Even as Americans Tire of Costs of Drug War by Derek Gilna Sometimes the federal government just can’t help itself.  At a time when the majority of Americans still feel that their country is headed in the wrong direction, and have expressed their weariness of the “war …
Article • May 12, 2016
Louisiana Drug Offender Program Leaves $5 Million Shortfall by David Reutter A 2013 law passed by Louisiana lawmakers was expected to save $6 million by diverting drug offenders to treatment and shortening the prison sentences of such offenders by having them complete a drug treatment program. The law has not …
Article • May 5, 2016 • from PLN May, 2016
Corrections Agencies Use Obamacare to Pay for Prisoners’ Medical Care by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis and Matt Clarke The Affordable Care Act (ACA), President Obama’s signature piece of legislation, has resulted in an unintended windfall: a means to shift the cost of expensive hospital care for state and local …
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