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Florida’s Private Prison Movement Alive and Well by David Reutter With the promise of saving taxpayer dollars to house a growing prisoner population during a cyclical crime wave in the early 1990s, Florida decided to experiment with private prisons. From the start, those involved in the push to privatize were …
California Jail’s Psychotropic Medication Policy Leads to Lawsuit, Settlement by David Reutter Cost cutting is a staple of most prison and jail systems. However, a mid-2007 decision by California’s Fresno County Jail (FCJ) to restrict psychotropic drugs for prisoners turned out to be a short-sighted exercise that resulted in human …
Idaho Prison Population Drops, Out-of-State Prisoners Re-turned by Christopher Zoukis In a positive sign of declining prison populations, on February 10, 2016, Idaho Department of Correction Director Kevin H. Kempf announced that all 173 state prisoners remaining at the Kit Carson Correctional Center, a Colorado facility operated by Corrections Corporation …
Publication • May 1, 2016
United States Marshals Service Could Better Estimate Cost Savings and Monitor Efforts to Increase Efficienceies, US Gov Accountability, 2016 United States Government Accountability Office Report to Congressional Committees May 2016 PRISONER OPERATIONS United States Marshals Service Could Better Estimate Cost Savings and Monitor Efforts to Increase Efficiencies GAO-16-472 May 2016 …
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Texas Parole Records Mistake Could Cost Taxpayers Millions by Gary Hunter Prisoners in Texas and their families are still feeling the impact of a botched Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) policy change in 2012 that led to the destruction of documents for some 86,000 parole-eligible prisoners, whose files were …
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 …
Probation Department - Budget, Juvenile Halls and Camps Operating Costs, and Contracting Procedures, Los Angels Co DAC, 2015 COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF AU DITOR.CONTROLLER KENNETH HAHN HALL OF ADMINISTRATION 5OO WEST TEMPLE STREET, ROOM 525 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 9OO1 2.3873 PHONE: (213) 974-8301 FAX: (213) 626-5427 JOHN NAIMO …
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 …
Review of Solitary Confinement in Texas Lacks Funding to Proceed by Joe Watson A legislatively-mandated, detailed review of the use of solitary confinement in Texas prisons—where the average stay in administrative segregation, or "ad seg," is more than three years—had not been initiated four months after Gov. Rick Perry signed …
'Smart Justice' Leads to Lower Recidivism Rates in Michigan, 6 Other States by Joe Watson Several states appear to be advancing effective policies to foster successful reentry and reduce recidivism, according to a report from the New York-based Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center. Based on data tracking prisoners …
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
Decision on prison won’t be revealed until late summer by Letcher County residents may have to wait until the end of the summer to find out whether or not a federal prison will be constructed in Letcher County. Tom Webber, Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) chief of Capacity Planning and Construction …
New Michigan Law Requires Sex Offenders to Pay $50 Annual Fee; Court Challenge Fails by Derek Gilna A recently-enacted statute, Mich. Comp. Laws § 28.725a(6), requires registered sex offenders to pay a $50 annual fee to help defray the cost of the state’s online sex offender registry. Offenders are required …
Article • February 29, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016
Filed under: Cost of Prison Systems
Prison Supply Chains Reveal Some Surprises by Adeshina Emmanuel by Adeshina Emmanuel, The Chicago Reporter Most people see a jail and think about crime, tragedy and heartbreak. Others see dollar signs. That’s because incarceration can be a big money maker. Consider the drab polyester and cotton scrubs worn by detainees …
Kansas Sex Offender Civil Commitment Program Under Scrutiny by Matthew Clarke The Sexual Predator Treatment Program, operated by the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services, is at the heart of a debate over whether civil commitment programs are truly designed to rehabilitate offenders convicted of sex crimes, or are …
Article • February 29, 2016 • from PLN March, 2016
Professor Urges Study of Unintended Consequences of Court-ordered Prison Reform by Derek Gilna Prison reform, including reforms mandated by the judiciary, is an issue that everyone but shareholders in private prison companies thinks is a positive development, for a number of reasons. Even former advocates of mass incarceration now generally …
Publication • February 25, 2016
Private and Public Prisons - Studies Comparing Operational Costs andor Quality of Service, GAO, 1996 United States General Accounting Office GAO Report to the Subcommittee on Crime, Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives August 1996 PRIVATE AND PUBLIC PRISONS Studies Comparing Operational Costs and/or Quality of Service G A …
Publication • February 25, 2016
State Sentencing and Corrections Policy in an Era of Fiscal Restraint, Sentencing Project, 2002 514 10TH S TREET NW, S UITE 1000 WASHINGTON, DC 20004 TEL: 202.628.0871 • FAX: 202.628.1091 S TAFF@S ENTENCINGPROJECT.ORG WWW.S ENTENCINGPROJECT.ORG State Sentencing and Corrections Policy in an Era of Fiscal Restraint Ryan S. King and …
Publication • February 25, 2016
The Punishing Decade - Prison and Jail Estimates at the Millennium, JPI, 2000 Justice Policy Institute May 2000 Washington, D.C. The Punishing Decade: Prison and Jail Estimates at the Millennium As the century draws to a close, we can safely predict that America will end the 1990s by having put …
Publication • February 24, 2016
Filed under: Cost of Prison Systems
1 in 31 - Long Reach of American Corrections, Pew Center, 2009 one in 31 THE LONG REACH OF AMERICAN CORRECTIONS MA R C H 2 0 0 9 ABOUT THIS REPORT The Pew Charitable Trusts applies the power of knowledge to solve today’s most challenging problems. The Pew Center …
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