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litigation, community mobilization, media, and policy advocacy to reduce juvenile imprisonment and increase use [of] community-based alternatives to incarceration.” To support their motion for a protective ...
Iowa Reconsidering Costs, Benefits of Sex Offender Supervision Law by Joe Watson Over the past decade more than 20 states have created “special sentences” that require community supervision ...
such as “community service or alcohol education.” The Board of County Commissioners approved the program, but required that it be self-funded. Fees and costs paid by offenders participating ...
Article • October 23, 2015
the Federal Communications Commission took a historic step by capping the cost of prison and jail phone calls. For decades, prisoners and their families have been ruthlessly exploited by telecom companies ...
Article • October 16, 2015
a message that we don't want a high concentration of sex offenders in this community," said Joe Buscanino, the city council member representing Harbor Gateway. The pocket park strategy is being used ...
Article • May 15, 2013 • from PLN May, 2013
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
community. The placement decision was challenged by the city and county to which Herzog had been paroled on the grounds that his presence was not in the best interests of the public. Herzog, 46 ...
Article • October 5, 2014
-policing" has negative impacts on communities, including high costs to taxpayers. The militarization of police, the JPI contends, damages lives without improving public safety.   "Any social benefit ...
Article • March 7, 2016
Board, the Department of Finance and the Board of State and Community Corrections—have been involved in deciding who is awarded the funding. "The red tape is unbelievable. It's not an easy process ...
Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011
anticipate changes which will save time, money, and resources in addition to decreasing the likelihood of the released individual to create nuisance in the local community.” The only concrete changes, though ...
Article • August 15, 2011
, many communities have turned to prisons as a means to generate economic activity. Considering the success of other small, rural areas in this endeavor, it comes as no surprise that the citizens ...
Collect Call Rates by Derek Gilna and Brandon Sample On March 31, 2011, AT&T Communications of the Pacific Northwest was found guilty by the Washington State Utilities and Transportation Commission ...
Article • July 15, 2012 • from PLN July, 2012
are a primary means of communication. Rather, the reason for allowing additional phone minutes is strictly financial. The legislature needs to plug a large budget deficit and money from the Texas Department ...
Article • May 13, 2016
community supervision,” the Sentencing Project noted. Of course, the most significant state policy shift driving a decline in the prison population has been California’s U.S. Supreme Court ...
Article • April 15, 2013
phone – including not only uncensored communications with family and friends, but also, depending on the price one is willing to pay, access to the internet – may well be worth the risk of possible ...
Article • August 31, 2015 • from PLN September, 2015
Filed under: Telephone Rates
the national Campaign for Prison Phone Justice, co-founded by the Human Rights Defense Center, PLN’s parent organization – the Federal Communications Commission imposed a cap on interstate prison ...
Article • August 28, 2015 • from PLN September, 2015
judgment, the court held the MDOC policy was supported by a legitimate penological interest. It also found that prisoners have a First Amendment right to communicate with people outside of prison. &ldquo ...
Article • January 13, 2016
on behalf of a prisoner.”  On the other hand, mail from an attorney is legal mail as a matter of law because “unimpaired confidential communication with an attorney is an integral component ...
served their sentences. “You’ve sacrificed your right of privacy once you’ve committed an offense in this community,” argued Illinois State Senator Dave Syverson. Sex offender registries are ubiquitous ...
Article • March 5, 2019 • from PLN March, 2019
rejected an appeal filed by officials at the Northeast Arkansas Community Corrections Center (NEACCC) in a lawsuit alleging they had failed to protect a prisoner from being physically and sexually harassed ...
Article • October 4, 2019 • from PLN October, 2019
Filed under: Medical, Hepatitis
was not met for a preliminary injunction. The district court gave little weight to Dr. Muir’s testimony as to those issues because he had no experience treating prisoners and was applying a community ...
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