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Report Links Recidivism Decline to Investments in Treatment, Training and Housing by A study brief from the Council or State Governments (CSG) revealed that the states with the greatest reductions in recidivism in recent years have done so—under the guidance of the federal Second Chance Act—by investing revenue in treatment. …
Liberty for Sale: Should Ohio Prisoners be Commodities in a For-Profit Venture? by German Lopez by German Lopez, Cincinnati CityBeat In 1997, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) opened a private prison in Youngstown, Ohio. The Northeast Ohio Correctional Center was to hold out-of-state prisoners with the promise of profits and …
Solitary Confinement Subject of Unprecedented Congressional Hearing by Alex Friedmann by Alex Friedmann1 It’s an awful thing, solitary. It crushes your spirit and weakens your resistance more effectively than any other form of mistreatment. — U.S. Senator John McCain, on his treatment as a P.O.W.2 On June 19, 2012, the …
California Female Prisoners Eligible for Early Release, but Disqualified Due to Lack of Local Rehabilitative Services by In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Plata v. Brown, mandating that California take immediate steps to reduce prison overcrowding, state officials have proposed innovative ideas to help accomplish that …
The Price to Call Home: State-Sanctioned Monopolization in the Prison Phone Industry by Drew Kukorowski Ed. Note: In April 2011, Prison Legal News published a comprehensive cover story on the prison telephone industry based on two years of research into prison phone contracts, rates and kickbacks nationwide. This article provides …
Article • September 15, 2012 • from PLN September, 2012
GAO Report on Drug Courts Criticized by Drug Policy Alliance by Joe Watson The Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), the nation’s “leading organization promoting alternatives to current drug policy,” often has to wade through murky data to expose the ineffectiveness of the nation’s drug court system. But a recent federal study …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
Florida Reports Indicate Restoration of Civil Rights Reduces Recidivism by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Advocates of automatic restoration of civil rights for ex-offenders have long maintained that such a policy helps former prisoners reintegrate into society and therefore reduces recidivism. Two reports by the Florida Parole Commission (FPC), …
Article • July 15, 2012
Tight Budgets Push States to Consider Alternatives to Incarceration by In January 2012, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, together with the American Civil Liberties Union, released a report analyzing the use of official state estimates of the savings or costs of proposed legislation, specifically in the arena of …
Article • July 15, 2012 • from PLN July, 2012
Audits Identify Problems with Michigan Prisoner ReEntry Initiative by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Two audit reports, one by Michigan’s Office of the Auditor General in 2012 and the other by the State Budget Office in 2011, both found shortcomings with the Michigan Prisoner ReEntry Initiative (MPRI). Michigan took …
Article • July 15, 2012 • from PLN July, 2012
Most Second Chance Act Money Goes to Government Agencies by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna and Brandon Sample When the Second Chance Act (SCA) was signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2008, the legislation was intended to fund programs to help former prisoners find jobs, reintegrate into …
Background Checks that Bar Employment of Ex-offenders May Violate Civil Rights by A report by the National Employment Law Project (NELP) released in March 2011 concluded that the growth in background checks by employers, combined with a lack of enforcement of civil rights and consumer protections for an estimated 65 …
ACLU Report Proves Smart Criminal Justice Policy Reform is Possible by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The American Civil Liberties Union released a report in August 2011 that calls for reforming the U.S. criminal justice system. The report makes recommendations for systematic reforms, front-end reforms and back-end reforms; it …
Article • June 15, 2012
The Private, Nonprofit Prison by David Pozen After decades of inaction, Congress is debating whether to pass America's first comprehensive plan for dealing with recidivism. Studies have long shown that nearly two-thirds of former prisoners are rearrested for a felony or serious misdemeanor within three years of release. With nearly …
Article • May 15, 2012 • from PLN May, 2012
Prisons: An Unsustainable Jobs Program by by Alexandra Cox Employment has been at the center of national debates about the economy, as evidenced by the bickering in Congress and the protests on Wall Street. A number of jobs have been lost through the deinstitutionalization of prison systems in recent months, …
Article • May 15, 2012 • from PLN May, 2012
California Pilot Program Reduces Recidivism by A pilot program enacted by the California legislature in 2009 appears to be achieving its intended goal of reducing recidivism, according to a June 2011 report prepared by Dorothy Korber with the California Senate Office of Oversight and Outcomes. With three-year recidivism rates hovering …
The Criminalization of Mental Illness in Missouri by Christopher Cross In response to the 1999 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that prohibits states from forcing people with mental health disabilities to live in state mental institutions when they are capable of living in community settings, state governments turned to using jails …
Louisiana Trustee Impregnates 11-Year Old; Trustee Program Cancelled by Louisiana's Morehouse Parish Sheriff's Office has ended its jail trustee work program in the wake of a detainee impregnating his 11-year old step-daughter while on trustee status. Rodney Morrison, 37, was arrested on August 14, 2006, for raping his 11-year old …
Article • May 15, 2012
35,948 Arrested Yesterday by Maya Schenwar Wednesday, 23 May 2012 11:16 By Maya Schenwar, Truthout Last Friday, the day the NATO 3 were arrested, approximately 35,948 people were arrested across the United States. On Sunday, when at least 45 protesters were arrested at Chicago's NATO summit protests, approximately 35,948 Americans …
Michigan’s Abu Ghraib? Teaching Anthropology inside a Women’s Prison, On the Edge of a $100 Million Sex Abuse Scandal by Brian McKenna Brian McKenna Every prison has a story. At the Robert Scott Correctional Facility, in Michigan, the women were not allowed to touch one another or risk a "major …
Article • April 15, 2012 • from PLN April, 2012
Rehabilitation Finding Eliminates 30-Year Minimum Sentence for Aggravated Murder, but Oregon Parole Board Balks by Mark Wilson In Oregon, a rehabilitation finding under ORS 163.105(3) eliminates the 30-year mandatory minimum sentence for state prisoners convicted of aggravated murder and requires the Board of Parole (Board) to immediately set a parole …
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