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D.C. Women in Prison - Continuing Problems and Recommendations for Change , WLC, 2016 D.C. Women in Prison: Continuing Problems and Recommendations for Change March 25, 2016 A report of the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights & Urban Affairs 11 Dupont Circle NW, Suite 400 Washington, DC 20036 www.washlaw.org …
Publication • May 26, 2016
Detainee Deaths 2004 - November 2007, ICE, 2008 Detainee Deaths 2004 - November 2007 ALIEN NAME DOB DOD LOCATION OF LAST DETENTION 1 2 LOCATION OF DEATH Cause of Death San Joaquin General Hospital, French Camp, CA Cirrhosis Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, TX AIDS GUTIERREZ, Ramiro 19660228 20040118 Sacremento County …
Publication • May 26, 2016
Economic Perspectives on Incarceration and the Criminal Justice System, Executive of Office of the President, 2016 ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES ON INCARCERTATION 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 …
Publication • May 26, 2016
Food Service Privatization in Michigan’s Prisons - Observations of Corrections Officers, Zullo, 2016 Food Service Privatization in Michigan’s Prisons: Observations of Corrections Officers March, 2016 Roland Zullo, Ph.D. Associate Research Scientist Institute for Research on Labor, Employment and the Economy University of Michigan 734-998-0156 rzullo@umich.edu This research was funded by …
Incident Rates at CCA-run Prisons Higher than at Public Prisons in Tennessee, Private Corrections Institute, 2011 PRESS RELEASE Incident Rates at CCA-run Prisons Higher than at Public Prisons in Tennessee Private Corrections Institute October 18, 2011 For Immediate Release Nashville, TN – According to an analysis of incidents involving assaults …
Publication • May 26, 2016
Is Proposition 47 to Blame for California's 2015 Increase in Urban Crime, CJCJ, 2016 IS PROPOSITION 47 TO BLAME FOR CALIFORNIA’S 2015 INCREASE IN URBAN CRIME? Mike Males, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice March 2016 Research Report Introduction In November 2014, nearly 60 percent of …
Publication • May 26, 2016
Filed under: Statistics/Trends, Parole
Parole Review Decisions 2015, California State Governor, 2015 EXECUTIVE REPORT ON PAROLE REVIEW DECISIONS DECISIONS FOR THE PERIOD January 1, 2015 through December 31, 2015 BY GOVERNOR EDMUND G. BROWN JR.
Publication • May 16, 2016
Report to Congress Prison Rape Elimination Act, DOJ NIC, 2007 U.S. Department of Justice National Institute of Corrections Report to the Congress of the United States on the Activities of the Department of Justice in Relation to the Prison Rape Elimination Act (Public Law 108-79) September 2007 U.S. Department of …
Solitary Confinement Increases Risks of Self-Harm in NYC Jails, Study Says by Joe Watson A study of self-harm cases in New York City jails published in the March 2014 issue of the American Journal of Public Health found that prisoners placed in solitary confinement are almost seven times more likely …
Article • May 13, 2016
Report: Six States Shuttered Prisons, Reduced Bed Space in 2013 by Joe Watson A new report from the Sentencing Project highlights prison closures and correctional bed reductions in a half-dozen states in 2013 and outlines the dynamics for more closures in 2014 and beyond. North Carolina led what the Sentencing …
Article • May 13, 2016
Report Finds Most California Counties Out of Compliance with New Pregnant Prisoner Anti-Shackling Law by Matthew Clarke A report released in February 2014 by Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (LSPC) found most California county jails were out-of-compliance with a 2012 law limiting the use of restraints on pregnant prisoners. …
"Major Use of Force" Incidents on the Increase in Texas Prisons by Matthew Clarke According to statistics released by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), the number of "major use of force" incidents climb sharply from 6,071 in 2005 to 7,151 in 2013, an increase of 17%. TDCJ officials …
2013 A Busy Year for Sentencing Reforms in 31 States by Joe Watson Closing a few prisons won’t be enough for significantly reduce the U.S. prison population of more than 1.5 million men and women, according to a report from the Sentencing Project. Real reductions argues the Washington, D.C. advocacy …
Article • May 12, 2016
Ohio Prison Industry Profits Increasing by Matthew Clarke According to a report released by the Correctional Institution Inspection Committee, the profits for Ohio Penal Industries (OPI) increased to $7.8 million in fiscal year (FY) 2013, the fourth straight year of increasing profitability. OPI operates 21 programs at 14 prisons throughout …
DOJ Increases Budget Even as Americans Tire of Costs of Drug War by Derek Gilna Sometimes the federal government just can’t help itself.  At a time when the majority of Americans still feel that their country is headed in the wrong direction, and have expressed their weariness of the “war …
Article • May 12, 2016
Texas Remains Leader in Exonerations of Wrongfully Convicted by Derek Gilna A new report by a national prisoner-rights organization says that once again the state of Texas led the nation in 2013 in exonerations, with 13 cases, and Illinois and New York were not far behind with 9 and 8, …
Article • May 5, 2016 • from PLN May, 2016
Low Pay, Long Hours Fuel Increasing State Prison Staffing Problems by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The slow decline in state prison populations cannot come soon enough for many Departments of Corrections, which are struggling to cover shifts in the face of rising staff turnover rates. States experiencing shortages of …
ACLU Report: Women Uniquely Harmed by Solitary Confinement by Matthew Clarke In April 2014, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) released a report on the use of solitary confinement for women prisoners in the United States. The report concluded that while solitary was an extreme punishment that should not be …
Article • May 5, 2016 • from PLN May, 2016
Report Documents U.S. Recidivism Rates for Federal Prisoners by Christopher Zoukis The U.S. Sentencing Commission (USSC), an independent agency within the judicial branch which writes federal sentencing guidelines and studies federal crime and sentencing policies, released a major new study in March 2016 titled “Recidivism Among Federal Offenders: A Comprehensive Overview.” …
Justice in Review-New Trends in States Sentencing, VERA, 2016 Justice in Review: New Trends in State Sentencing and Corrections 2014-2015 .": CENTER ON SENTENCING AND CORRECTIONS 3FCFDDB4JMCFSt3BN4VCSBNBOJBOt.BJB4QPUUT FROM THE DIRECTOR This analysis of state-level changes in sentencing and corrections laws enacted in 2014 and 2015 reaches readers in the thick …
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