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The Effects of Private Prison Confinement in Minnesota on Offender Recidivism by The Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) recently completed an evaluation of the effects of private prison confinement on offender recidivism. The evaluation assessed the impact of confinement at the Prairie Correctional Facility (PCF) in Appleton, Minnesota on recidivism …
Sweden’s Shrinking Prison Population by Christopher Zoukis Sweden’s prison population has seen such a sharp drop in recent years that the nation’s prison service announced in November 2013 that it had closed four correctional facilities and a remand center. Prisons in Aby, Haja, Batshagen and Kristianstad were closed in 2013; …
Article • August 15, 2013
Washington Work Release Reduces Recidivism by A report of the Washington State Institute for Public Policy (WSIPP) found that Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC) work release reduces total recidivism by 2.8 percent and felony recidivism by 1.8 percent, but had no effect on violent felony recidivism. The report concludes that …
Prison Visitation: A Fifty State Survey by Chesa Boudin by Chesa Boudin, Trevor Stutz and Aaron Littman This article presents a summary of the study’s findings. The full study and data set will be published in a forthcoming volume of the Yale Law and Policy Review: Chesa Boudin, Trevor Stutz …
Ex-Felons are About to Get Health Coverage by Michael Ollove Newly freed prisoners traditionally walk away from the penitentiary with a bus ticket and a few dollars in their pockets. Starting in January 2014, many of the 650,000 prisoners released from prison each year will be eligible for something else: …
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
Report: Total State Prison Costs at Least $5.4 Billion Over Budget Nationwide by For decades, tough-on-crime rhetoric has convinced taxpayers to finance ballooning prison budgets with no questions asked. But the price tag of mass incarceration has so grossly surpassed state corrections budgets that legislators across the country have become …
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
Time for Sentencing Reform by George Gascón From the Capitol to the courtrooms, prosecutors can chart a new path on public safety by championing at both local and state levels one of the biggest ways we can transform our justice system in this generation – sentencing reform. Right now, the …
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
Pennsylvania Officials Link Halfway House Payments to Recidivism Rates by Derek Gilna Community corrections centers, also known as halfway houses, receive a great deal of money to help prepare prisoners to reenter society. Unfortunately, according to a recent study in Pennsylvania, the state’s 38 halfway houses with 4,313 beds have …
Article • April 15, 2013
Minnesota Study Shows Prisoners Receiving Visits Have Lower Recidivism Rates by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke A report describing a study by the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) shows that prisoners who receive regular visits while in prison are 13% less likely to commit new felonies and 25% less likely …
Article • March 15, 2013
Participation in Reentry Programming Leads Ex-Offenders Back to Prison, Study Says by The results of a three-year study by researchers at the University of Kansas will likely make prisoners more skittish of reentry programming than many already are. A report from KU's School of Social Welfare, first published in August …
Prison Reforms Under Maine’s New DOC Commissioner by Lance Tapley Several weeks after firing Maine State Prison warden Patricia Barnhart on January 10, 2013, and two years after taking over the Department of Corrections (DOC), Commissioner Joseph Ponte appears determined to continue – and ramp up – his forceful program …
Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013
Unique Brazilian Prison Alternative Celebrates 40-Year Anniversary by Lyla Bugara Brazil has long been home to the largest prison population in the region. As of December 2011, the population stood at 514,582, with 37% of the incarcerated being pretrial detainees. In addition to its sheer size, the Brazilian penal system …
Article • March 15, 2013 • from PLN March, 2013
Eleventh Circuit: No Right to Spanish-language RDAP Program by In an April 2, 2012 unpublished per curiam ruling, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a federal prisoner’s lawsuit seeking reinstatement of a Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Spanish-language substance abuse program. The suit claimed that the BOP …
Article • March 15, 2013
California: CDCR Releases Latest Recidivism Report by In October 2010, in what California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) Secretary Matthew Cate billed as the first in a series of annual reports designed to provide new insights to policy-makers and correctional stakeholders with regard to the dynamics of recidivism, CDCR's …
Seventh Circuit Affirms Imprisonment Does Not Promote Correction and Rehabilitation by Derek Gilna The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the above-guidelines sentence wherein the sentencing judge stated he wanted the defendant to "get mental health treatment." In so ruling, the Seventh Circuit followed the case of Tapia v. United …
LaSalle Corrections: A Family-Run Prison Firm by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Unique circumstances have combined to make northern Louisiana a prime location for private prisons, as Louisiana sheriffs can profit by letting a private company build and operate facilities that house both local prisoners and prisoners from other jurisdictions. …
Article • February 15, 2013 • from PLN February, 2013
Johnny Cash and His Prison Reform Campaign by Danny Robins On July 26, 1972, three grizzled-looking men dressed uneasily in suits gave evidence at a U.S. Senate subcommittee on prison reform. Two of the men were former prisoners of some of the toughest prisons in the U.S. – the third …
Article • December 15, 2012 • from PLN December, 2012
Texas Slashes Prison Education Budget by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Faced with a $23 billion biennial state budget deficit, the Texas legislature has radically cut education programs in state prisons. Such short-term savings will undoubtedly result in long-term expenses, as education has been proven to reduce recidivism. Jorge Renaud, …
Report Criticizes New Hampshire’s Treatment of Female Prisoners; Lawsuit Filed by Joe Watson A two-year investigation has concluded that the New Hampshire Department of Corrections is guilty of “inexcusable neglect” of female prisoners, according to a report released on October 17, 2011. The New Hampshire State Advisory Committee to the …
Article • December 15, 2012 • from PLN December, 2012
Florida DOC Program Targets Incarcerated Veterans by The Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) has implemented a program for military veterans that includes special housing and counseling services. While some see the program as providing preferential treatment, FDOC officials view it as a way to meet the special needs of incarcerated …
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