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It’s About Time - Aging Prisoners, Increasing Costs, and Geriatric Release, VERA, 2010 It’s About Time Aging Prisoners, Increasing Costs, and Geriatric Release CENTER on Sentencing and Corrections APRIL 2010 istockphoto.com/mrrabbit2502 Tina Chiu Executive Summary As harsher policies have led to longer prison sentences, often with a limited possibility of …
Publication • June 28, 2016
Recidivism of Offenders Placed on Federal Community Supervision in 2005 - Patterns from 2005 to 2010, DOJ BJS, 2016 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics JUNE 2016 Special Report NCJ 249743 Recidivism of Offenders Placed on Federal Community Supervision in 2005: Patterns from 2005 …
Ending local detention quotas, secret perks for corporations in federal contracts and profiting off jailing immigrant families by By Ghita Schwarz and Silky Shah, The Hill In May, the nation’s two largest private prison contractors announced dramatic increases in their first-quarter earnings for the year. The GEO Group, Inc. (GEO) reported a 17 …
Article • June 27, 2016
Are Shows Like "Serial" and "Making a Murderer" Clouding the Wider Struggle for Justice? by By James Kilgore, Truthout How many US prisoners are wrongfully convicted? And how many are technically "guilty" but still should not be locked up? This original story saw the light of day thanks to support from …
Saudi executions: beyond the numbers by By Halim Shebaya, openDemocracy This article was originally published by openDemocracy on January 8, 2016. Copyright, openDemocracy. Reprinted with permission. https://www.opendemocracy.net/arab-awakening/halim-shebaya/saudi-executions-beyond-numbers  The inability to recognise an affront to the rule of law, regardless of the identity of the perpetrator, reveals the region’s dire state of affairs, politically, morally, …
U.S. Prisons Filled with America’s Mentally Ill by Derek Gilna In April 2014, the National Sheriffs’ Association and Treatment Advocacy Center released a comprehensive joint report titled “The Treatment of Persons with Mental Illness in Prisons and Jails: A State Survey.” Authored by both experts in mental illness and law …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
California: City Council Hears Proposal to Repurpose Empty Prison as Pot Farm by The Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga houses around 2,300 prisoners and employs about 1,000 area residents, but the local economy was hit hard by the 2011 closure of the smaller, city-owned Claremont Custody Center. In a …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Crime, Incarceration Rates Decline in New York City by Mark Wilson Over the past five years the crime rate has steadily declined in New York City. Meanwhile, the city’s incarceration rate has decreased, too. “New York’s crime rate has gone down more quickly and more steeply than the rest of …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Study of Incarceration from 1999 to 2014 Shows Modest Decline in Prison Populations by Derek Gilna A study by the non-partisan Washington, D.C.-based Sentencing Project, titled “U.S. Prison Population Trends 1999-2014: Broad Variation Among States in Recent Years,” found there has been an average 2.9% decline in the number of …
California’s Broken Death Penalty System by Christopher Zoukis While California taxpayers have spent over $4 billion on capital punishment since it was reinstated in 1978, more than 900 prisoners have been sentenced to death but only 13 have been executed – an average cost of around $308 million per execution. …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
“Scared Straight” Programs are Counterproductive by Derek Gilna The Pew Charitable Trusts, a non-profit, non-governmental organization, recently reported on the mixed results of “Scared Straight” programs, which are intended to deter juveniles with a history of bad behavior from entering the criminal justice system by having them visit prisons or …
Publication • 2016
Filed under: Statistics/Trends, Bail
Distortion of Justice How the Inability to Pay Bail Affects Case Outcomes, Stevenson, 2016 Distortion of Justice: How the Inability to Pay Bail Affects Case Outcomes Megan Stevenson∗† May 2, 2016 Abstract Instrumenting for detention status with the bail-setting propensities of rotating magistrates I find that pretrial detention leads to …
Publication • 2016
EOP - Economic Perspectives on Incarceration and the Criminal Justice System, 2016 ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES ON INCARCERATION AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM April 2016 Contents Executive Summary....................................................................................................................................... 3 Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 7 I. Defining the Landscape: Current Criminal Justice Policies and Historical Context.................................. 10 Incarceration Growth and the Criminal Justice System .......................................................................... …
Publication • 2016
Louisiana Legislative Auditor - Evaluation of Strategies to Reduce Louisiana's Incarceration Rate and Costs for Nonviolent Offenders, LLA, 2016Louisiana Legislative Auditor - Evaluation of Strategies to Reduce Louisiana's Incarceration Rate, 2016 EVALUATION OF STRATEGIES TO REDUCE LOUISIANA’S INCARCERATION RATE AND COSTS FOR NONVIOLENT OFFENDERS PERFORMANCE AUDIT SERVICES ISSUED AUGUST 31, …
Human Rights Watch - Every 25 Seconds The Human Toll of Criminalizing Drug Use in the United States, HRW ACLU, 2016 EVERY 25 SECONDS The Human Toll of Criminalizing Drug Use in the United States H U M A N R I G H T S W A T C …
Publication • 2016
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Dept of Justice, Federal Justice Statistical Tables, 2016 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics December 2020, NCJ 251772 Mark Motivans, Ph.D., BJS Statistician T his report describes criminal caseprocessing in the federal justice system in 2016, including arrest and booking through sentencing and corrections.1 …
Publication • 2016
Black Homicide Victimization in the United States: An Analysis of 2015 Homicide Data, Violence Policy Center, 2018 APRIL 2018 Black Homicide Victimization in the United States An Analysis of 2015 Homicide Data W W W.V P C . O R G BLACK HOMICIDE VICTIMIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES VIOLENCE POLICY …
Jail diversion efforts for mentally ill, Bazelon Center, 2016 …indicated you may be interested in hearing from the Bazelon Center regarding … efforts to divert people with mental illness from jail. Our general take is that many people with mental illness are incarcerated as a result of the failings of …
Publication • May 26, 2016
Recidivism Among Federal Offenders, USSC, 2016 Recidivism Among Federal Offenders: A Comprehensive Overview UNITED STATES SENTENCING COMMISSION UNITED STATES SENTENCING COMMISSION ONE COLUMBUS CIRCLE, N.E. WASHINGTON, DC 20002 WWW.USSC.GOV Patti B. Saris Chair Charles R. Breyer Vice Chair Dabney L. Friedrich Commissioner Rachel E. Barkow Commissioner William H. Pryor, Jr. …
Publication • May 26, 2016
Assessing Inmate Cause of Death - Deaths in Custody Reporting Program and National Death Index , DOJ BJS, 2016 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics TECHNICAL REPORT April 2016, NCJ 249568 Assessing Inmate Cause of Death: Deaths in Custody Reporting Program and National Death …
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