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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 …
Murderer Registry Becomes Law in Illinois by Joe Watson For ex-prisoners hoping for a fresh start upon their release, the slope is becoming increasingly slippery. A bill signed by Illinois Governor Pat Quinn on July 21, 2011 has established the state’s first registry for convicted murderers. Also known as “Andrea’s …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
How Victim Rights Shaped Spending, Laws and the Future of Punishment in Colorado by Alan Prendergast Newly elected as a Colorado state representative, Pete Lee hit the Capitol in January 2011 fired up with big ideas. The biggest of them all was the restorative justice bill he introduced shortly after …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Survey Shows College Courses for Prisoners Reduce Recidivism, but Few Exist by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Of the various kinds of rehabilitative programs offered to prisoners, only education has been shown to unequivocally correlate with a strong reduction in recidivism. The more education a prisoner receives, the greater the …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Forty Percent of Adult Offenders Return to Prison Within Three Years of Release by In April 2011, the Public Safety Performance Project of the Pew Center on the States issued a report concerning recidivism rates for released offenders. The report, which updates a similar though far less extensive 2002 study …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
California: CDCR Releases 2011 Recidivism Report by On November 23, 2011, in the second in a series of annual reports designed to provide new insights to policy-makers and correctional stakeholders with respect to recidivism rates, the Office of Research of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) released its …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Report Says Reentry Agencies Should Hire Former Prisoners by Joe Watson When released prisoners meet throngs of otherwise upstanding, Ivy League WASPs offering transitional assistance, it’s like getting a tune-up from a mechanic with clean fingernails. It simply doesn’t inspire much confidence in the work being done. Thus, a recent …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Indiana Cuts Prison College Courses by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke After the Indiana General Assembly passed a budget for FY 2012-2013 that eliminated $9 million in financial aid for college programs for prisoners, the Indiana Department of Correction (DOC) is shifting such programs away from liberal arts studies and …
Florida Provides Lesson in How Not to Privatize State Prisons by David Reutter by David M. Reutter When Florida lawmakers used a backdoor approach to try to privatize almost 30 state detention facilities in 2011, they likely did not anticipate the outcome. By the time the political dust had settled, …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
Prisoners Contribute to Flood Control Efforts in Louisiana by In May 2011, as the rising Mississippi River threatened to flood vast stretches of riverfront territory, Louisiana prisoners from a number of parishes, including East Carroll, Madison, Tensas, Pointe Coupee and Concordia, filled sandbags in an effort to save lives, buildings …
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