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Publication • September 1, 2016
Brutality Case Summaries, PLS Plattsburgh Office, 1997 BRUTALITY CASE SUMMARIES for the PLATTSBURGH OFFICE of PRISONERS’ LEGAL SERVICES OF NEW YORK Prepared and compiled by Michael Cassidy, Managing Attorney for Litigation, Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York, 22 Broad Street, Plattsburgh, New York 12901 Revised, October 1997 1 I. Successful …
PREA Review Panel: 'Cultural Change' Needed to Reduce Sexual Victimization in Prisons by Popular culture, as a recent federal report laments, continues to make jokes about sexual assaults in prison. But U.S. Department of Justice hearings on prison rape in the spring and fall of 2011 in Washington, D.C. produced …
Study Argues that Conjugal Visits Can Reduce Number of Prison Rapes by Researchers at Florida International University contend that states where sexual intercourse between prisoners and their visiting spouses is allowed have fewer rapes and sexual assaults than states where conjugal visits are prohibited, El controversial finding that disputes the …
Article • August 26, 2016
GAO Study: Federal Grants Bypass Indigent Defense In Favor of Law Enforcement by A report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) confirms what most criminal defendants too poor to pay for an attorney already assumed: While hundreds of millions in federal tax dollars support prosecutors and law enforcement every year. …
Article • August 25, 2016
Forced to Die Alone – A Lonely Bed to Substitute God and Family by An epidemic is slowly taking root throughout the United States prison system. As of 2010, State and federal prisons house more than 26,000 inmates 65+ years old and nearly five times that number 55 and up.1 …
Article • August 24, 2016
California: Trendsetter... as Always by Item: California's 33 state prisons are operating at 190 percent of capacity. On January 10, 2002, Governor Gray Davis responded to this crisis by proposing to close five prisons with 1,400 beds. Item: California is facing a $20 billion budget shortfall. It costs $70 per …
Article • August 23, 2016
Report: BOP Acts as Jailer and Judge in 'Compassionate Release' Requests by In refusing to petition courts on behalf of prisoners who should be considered for what's known as "compassionate release," the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is usurping the decision-making power of judges, argues a recent report released by …
Ohio's Prisons Grow More Violent, Especially Toward Guards, Report Says by Prisoners in Ohio are reportedly sending each other to the infirmary less often, but according to the state's Department of Rehabilitation & Correction (DRC), they are increasingly assaulting prison guards to the point of serious injury. In a newly-released …
The Dead Zone: How Privatization, Isolation and Cruelty Are Killing Prisoners in Arizona by By the time Jan Brewer replaced Janet Napolitano as Arizona's governor in 2009, it had been 22 years since the Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) built the first prison in the United States designed exclusively for …
Unusually High Rate of Prisoners Suicides at San Antonio, Texas Jail by Matthew Clarke In 2009, all five of the Bexar County Adult Detention Center's (the jail) prisoner deaths were suicides by hanging and a sixth Bexar County prisoner being held in the Crystal City jail due to overcrowding at …
Article • August 23, 2016
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Caseloads Vary Widely Among U.S. District Judges by Matthew Clarke The Transactional Records Clearinghouse (TAC) performed an analysis of available data on U.S. district judges' criminal caseloads from October 2006 through July 2012, excluding judges who resigned, retired or were appointed during the analysis period, TRAC found disparities in criminal …
Article • August 23, 2016
Department of Justice Publishes Report on Federal Pretrial Release by Matthew Clarke In November 2012, the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice statistics published a report on pretrial release of criminal defendants in federal district courts between 2008 and 2010. The report analyzed how many defendants were released, the …
Article • August 23, 2016
Department of Justice Publishes Report on Non-Federal Law Enforcement Hiring by Matthew Clarke In October 2012, the bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice published a report on the hiring and retention of state and local law enforcement officers in 2008. The report showed a strong growth …
Article • August 22, 2016
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Justice Department and SEC Privatize Investigation of Corporate Misdeeds by You are not alone if you have wondered why no one has been prosecuted for the corporate misdeeds that brought down the economy in 2008 and nearly thrust the United States into another Great Depression. The reason no corporate executive …
The Ultimate Humiliation: Guards Sexually Assault Prisoners Throughout the U.S. by Matthew Clarke Despite federal legislation aimed at preventing the rape of prisoners and the adoption of "zero-tolerance" policies toward sexual assault of prisoners by many jurisdictions, the sexual assault of prisoners by jail and prison employees continues to be …
Article • August 22, 2016
Arrests of prison guards soars 90% over last decade by Derek Gilna According to the Federal Justice Department's inspector general, arrests of Bureau of Prisons (BOP) guards has increased almost 90% in the past ten years, while the prisoner population has grown 25%. The report did not state how many …
Publication • August 22, 2016
Foreign Nationals in Michigan Prisons - An Examination of the Costs, CAPPS, 2006 Foreign Nationals in Michigan Prisons: an examination of the costs Prepared by Citizens Alliance on Prisons and Public Spending April 2006 Foreign nationals in Michigan prisons: examining the costs Foreign nationals in Michigan prisons – an overview …
Publication • August 22, 2016
The Health Status of Soon-To-Be-Released Inmates Vol 1, NCCHC, 2002 A Report to Congress Volume 1 The Health Status of Soon-To-Be-Released Inmates Volume 1 March 2002 This project was supported by cooperative agreement 97–IJ–CX–K018 awarded by the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. It …
Article • August 19, 2016
Oregon Blacks Imprisoned Seven Times Rate of Whites by African Americans are six times more likely than whites to be in the Multnomah County, Oregon jail, according to a recently released study. They are also 4.1 times more likely to be prosecuted, 4.4 times more likely to be convicted, and …
Article • August 19, 2016
Oregon African American Incarceration Far Exceeds National Average by Oregon ranks seventh in the nation in the disproportionate number of incarcerated African Americans, far outpacing the national average according to a recently released report of The Sentencing Project, in Washington, D.C. Less than 2 percent of Oregonians are African American, …
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