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Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
GEO Group Gets Another Extension to Biden’s Deadline for USMS at California Prison by Jenifer Lockwood by Jenifer Lockwood A privately run jail in downtown San Diego is still holding federal detainees after receiving an “unprecedented” third exception to an executive order issued by Pres. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D). …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Mississippi Attempts to Offload Prisoner Healthcare Costs Onto Medicaid by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso On April 21, 2022, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) signed H.B. 936, a new law creating “special care facilities” to house and provide healthcare for about 600 “medically frail” state prisoners eligible for parole …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Rifles, Tasers and Jails: How Cities and States Spent Billions of COVID-19 Relief by Anastasia Valeeva, Weihua Li, Susie Cagle by Anastasia Valeeva, Weihua Li, and Susie Cagle President Biden’s signature American Rescue Plan Act gave local governments $350 billion to recover from COVID-19. They spent much of it on …
Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
Nebraska Prison Staffing Crisis Sees Supervisors Take Demotions to Get Hourly Overtime Pay by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss Despite a watchdog report finding state prisons so short-staffed that some guard supervisors sought demotions to take advantage of ballooning hourly overtime pay, the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (DCS) …
Article • August 5, 2022
Despite $200 Million Bond Sale Shortfall, Alabama Moves Forward with New Prison Construction by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott  On June 30, 2022, Alabama officials announced they were proceeding with plans to build two “mega” prisons for $1.2 billion despite being falling $200 million short in a bond …
Article • June 27, 2022
Private Prison Space in Louisiana Contracted But Unused by ICE Costing Taxpayers $8 Million a Month by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott In 2021, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) revealed just how expensive the federal immigration detention system is for the American taxpayer, reporting that the year …
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
U.S. Prison and Jail Populations Flat or Rising Again After 2020 Decline Spurred by Pandemic by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke After they were slashed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, U.S. prison populations have leveled off and jail populations appear to be rising again, according to research …
Publication • 2022
Filed under: Cost of Prison Systems
Decarceration's Inside Partners-2022 DECARCERATION’S INSIDE PARTNERS Seema Tahir Saifee* This Article examines a hidden phenomenon in criminal punishment. People in prison, during their incarceration, have made important—and sometimes extraordinary—strides toward reducing prison populations. In fact, stakeholders in many corners, from policy makers to researchers to abolitionists, have harnessed legal and …
Article • May 16, 2022
South Carolina DOC Coughs Up $920,000 for Prison’s Water and Sewer Bill by Ashleigh Dye By Ashleigh Dye In October 2021, the South Carolina Department of Corrections (DOC) paid $920,000 to settle a four-year-old lawsuit filed against the small town of Ridgeland after it threatened to cut off water and …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Alabama Plan to Relieve Prison Overcrowding: Tap COVID-19 Funds to Build “Mega-Prisons” by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott When Alabama Governor Kay Ivey (R) signed legislation in October 2021 to take $400 million of the state’s pandemic relief funds from the American Rescue Plan to build a trio …
Private Prison Firm Revenues Soar on “Tailwind” of Immigrant Detainees by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In a filing with the federal Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on January 5, 2022, Florida-based GEO Group—the nation’s largest private prison operator—laid bare its strategy to keep federal dollars flowing into the company’s …
Article • February 24, 2022
Colorado Bailing Out Private Prison Company on Taxpayers’ Dime by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott  On January 21, 2022, Colorado lawmakers advanced plans to funnel $5.41 million in additional funds over the next two years to address staffing crises at the state’s only two private prisons, both operated …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Should Sentencing Juries Consider Imprisonment Costs? by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Professor Michael Conklin recently released a law review article arguing the merits of allowing juries to consider imprisonment costs when they are deliberating sentences lengths, with the objective of lessoning mass incarceration. Conklin’s report is founded on and …
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
Iowa County Wants to Use COVID-19 Relief Money to Build New Jail by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On June 8, officials in Woodbury County, Iowa, voted unanimously to approve the use of money from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) to help fund the construction of a new $65 …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
Filed under: Cost of Prison Systems
Planned Massive Shortfall in Funding to Maintain Minnesota Prisons by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso Despite an urgent and growing need for maintenance in Minnesota’s prisons, the governor and legislature are proposing a token amount be spent while deferring the vast majority of the growing problem. Traditionally, the state …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
NYC Department of Corrections Continued Noncompliance to Consent Decree and Spending Nearly Half A Million Dollars Per Prisoner in 2020 by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Agency Watch List published by the New York City Office of the Comptroller listed the NYC Department of Corrections …
GAO Reports ICE Wastes Hundreds of Millions Each Year by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The non-partisan Government Accounting Office (GAO) issued a report in February 2021 entitled, Immigration Detention: Actions Needed to Improve Planning, Documentation, and Oversight of Detention Facility Contracts. Key findings in the report included a failure …
Article • June 1, 2021 • from PLN June, 2021
Inspector General Calls California Prison Reform Efforts a $10 Million Failure by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In February 2021, the California Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued its finding that a $10 million effort by the state prison system—to address deficiencies that OIG previously uncovered in reporting staff …
Article • June 1, 2021 • from PLN June, 2021
Pew Study Shows Crime Falls but Spending on Jails Soar by David Reutter by David M. Reutter "Nationwide, crime and jail admissions decreased between 2007 and 2017, yet spending on jails increased 13%, to $25 billion, over that span,” concludes a study issued by the Pew Charitable Trusts on February …
Article • June 1, 2021 • from PLN June, 2021
State Auditor Report Critical of Texas Prison Agribusiness by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The State Auditor of Texas issued a report in March 2021 about the sale and production of food and fiber by the Agribusiness, Land and Minerals Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). The …
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