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Mexican Prisons in Crisis: Cartels Murder Prisoners and Guards by by Matthew T. Clarke One of the achievements of which Mexican President Vicente Fox is most proud is the record-breaking number of drug lords who have been arrested and thrown into federal prison during his tenure. He has a right …
Florida Awards Contracts Putting Sex Offenders on GPS Supervision; Other States to Follow by The Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) has awarded three contracts for Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite monitoring of sex offenders. The contracts come on the heels on legislation that allocated $3.9 million over a three-year period …
Parole for Women in California: Promise or Pathos by Corey Weinstein by Corey Weinstein, MD, CCHP Women are not men, but the California Department of Corrections (CDoC) has treated them as such until very recently. They are housed in mega prisons, denied contact with their children and denied important gender …
Beyond the God Pod by Silja da Talvi By Silja Ja Talvi Published: March 9, 2005 "Don't forget that Jesus himself was a prisoner." --New Mexico Department of Corrections Secretary Joe Williams, at the American Correctional Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, January 2005. "Strongly guarded & is the separation between religion …
Article • September 15, 2005 • from PLN September, 2005
Rehabilitated California Ex-Cons Have No Privacy Protection From Media Productions Based Upon Public by Rehabilitated California Ex-Cons Have No Privacy Protection From Media Productions Based Upon Public Court Records by John E. Dannenberg The California State Supreme Court, reversing its 33 year old precedent, held that privacy rights of a …
Article • September 15, 2005 • from PLN September, 2005
Parole Violators Flood Pennsylvania Prisons by Michael Rigby In the latest performance of justice by the numbers, a behind the scenes power struggle is playing out between the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) and the state Board of Probation and Parole (BPP). As usual, prisoners are caught in the middle. …
Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
California's Parole-Violator Cell-Study Education Program Portends Increase In Recidivism by California's Parole-Violator Cell-Study Education Program Portends Increase In Recidivism by Marvin Mentor A well-intentioned but struggling new rehabilitative in-cell, tutored, self study program for California parole violators (Bridging Program), participation in which cuts five days per month off eligible violators' …
California Corrections System Officially Declared Dysfunctional" - Redemption Doubtful by California Corrections System Officially Declared Dysfunctional" - Redemption Doubtful by Marvin Mentor Culminating a multi-year crescendo of criticism leveled at California's Corrections system from frustrated legislative, judicial and executive leaders, the Corrections Independent Review Panel (CIRP) recently tasked by Governor …
A Death in Custody: Massachusetts DOC Wracked by Scandal by Peter Costanza On August 23, 2003, the 26 men in Unit J-1 at SBCC, a "supermax" prison in Shirley, Massachusetts, were finishing lunch. It was just before noon. There was one guard in the unit, a prison guard named David …
BJS Finds Low Recidivism among Released Sex Offenders by Contradicting popular perceptions, a November 2003 report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), a division of the U.S. Department of Justice, found that violent sex offenders released from prison are less likely than non-sex offenders to be rearrested on any …
Article • May 15, 2004 • from PLN May, 2004
No Ex Post Facto Violation in Forcing Washington Prisoner to Take Stress and Anger Classes by No Ex Post Facto Violation in Forcing Washington Prisoner to Take Stress and Anger Classes The Washington state supreme court unanimously held that a prisoner determined by the Washington state Department of Corrections (DOC) …
Jails for Jesus by Samantha M. Shapiro Pastor Don Raymond isn't trained in corrections and is not employed by the government, but he runs a new 140-person wing of the Ellsworth, Kansas, medium-security prison that draws prisoners from throughout the state system. In the phylum of prison staff, Raymond defies …
California DOC Under Fire For Ex-Con Job Placements by Lonnie Burton In March 2003, California lawmakers launched an investigation seeking information as to why the state Department of Corrections (DOC) assisted in placing former prisoners in jobs that were termed questionable and inappropriate. DOC officials were called to testify and …
Washington Sex Offenders' Release Plans Must Be Processed by The Washington State Court of Appeals for Division 1 has held that the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) must process sex offenders' release plans, even if they are being referred for civil commitment as sexually violent predators. William Dutcher was a …
Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment by Silja JA Talvi Edited by Marc Mauer and Meda Chesney-Lind, The New Press, 2002, 368 pgs. Review by Silja J.A. Talvi Mass imprisonment, according to criminal justice experts Marc Mauer and Meda Chesney-Lind, is the direct outgrowth of social and legal …
Federal Judge Strikes Down Iowa Prison's Faith-Based Rehabilitation Program by Michael Rigby A federal judge in Iowa has ruled that the state's partial funding of a Christian rehabilitation program is unconstitutional. In a 140-page opinion issued on June 2, 2006, U.S. District Judge Robert W. Pratt ordered the Iowa Department …
Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003
Hawaii: High Recidivism for Mainland Prisoners by Hawaii prisoners housed out of state are virtually guaranteed to return to prison after release, according to a Jan. 21, 2003, story by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Currently, 90 percent of prisoners housed on the mainland return to prison, while those housed in state …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN March, 2003
BJS Releases New Recidivism Study by The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), a division of the Department of Justice, has published a recidivism study of prisoners released in 1994, the first since its 1989 report on 1983 releasees. The report studied the recidivism rate of 272,111 prisoners released from 15 …
Article • January 15, 2003 • from PLN January, 2003
Book Review: From Prison to Home by Roger Hummel by Jeremy Travis, Amy Solomon and Michelle Waul Justice Policy Center, the Urban Institute, Washington DC, 2001, 56 pages, paper Review by Roger Hummel In a remarkable new book from the Urban Institute's Justice Policy Center, the dimensions of prisoner reentry …
Boot Camp or Boot Hill? Troubled Teens Suffer From Too Much Tough Love by Roger Hummel Boot Camp Or Boot Hill? Troubled Teens Suffer From Too Much Tough Love by Roger Hummel On February 15, 2002, Charles Long II was arrested on murder and child abuse charges growing from the …
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