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Article • June 15, 2012
shown that nearly two-thirds of former prisoners are rearrested for a felony or serious misdemeanor within three years of release. With nearly 650,000 prisoners released to communities each year ...
Public Affairs Consultants, which lobbies for CCA. Further, Brewer’s former deputy chief of staff for communications, Paul Senseman, lobbied for CCA through Policy Development Group, Inc. both before ...
Article • June 15, 2012 • from PLN June, 2012
and leaves open ample alternative channels of communication.” The Tenth Circuit said attempts to argue that Doe’s challenge must meet the test set forth in United States v. Salerno, 481 U.S. 739 (1987 ...
, used pepper spray excessively, and continued to confine youths who had been granted parole because appropriate community placement had not been secured and approved. The lawsuit blamed many ...
-numbing, family-shattering, and community-destroying federal prison sentences. The sentencing guidelines have arguably cost the United States billions of dollars for building new prisons, hiring new jail ...
Article • January 13, 2015
Orleans Parish Prison Gone Wild! Video Shocks Court and Community by Orleans Parish Prison Gone Wild! Video Shocks Court and Community Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman has been under ...
Article • September 22, 2015
prisoners for community re-integration; currently 83 percent of prisoners released from maximum security prisons and 40 percent of the general prison populations are released without any re-integration ...
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
justice system with dignity and returns them to the communities from which they came in a way that serves their communities’ interests.” In addition to the DOE’s pilot program, federal ...
abuse before defendants are sent to prison. Kansas, as did South Dakota and Oregon, created reforms to get probationers and parolees off community supervision earlier, thereby reducing the numbers ...
Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
. 2010), rehearing denied.The lesson from this case is clear – prisoners should communicate in writing when dealing with prison officials, if possible, and should keep copies of all such communications ...
Article • October 15, 2013 • from PLN October, 2013
of the detention facility and whether the county would lose its third-largest employer. “It’s a vital part of this community,” said Hazel McCranie, president of the Ocilla-Irwin Chamber of Commerce. “I need those ...
to misdemeanor charges in May 2013. Scoggins received a year in jail, suspended to probation, and had to serve 60 days and perform 60 hours of community service; Stewart was also sentenced to one year in jail ...
Article • August 31, 2015 • from PLN September, 2015
Filed under: Editorials
, as well as the federal prison system – eliminated or restricted discretionary parole, which had the immediate net effect of lengthening sentences. Prisoners were then subjected to “community ...
Article • January 12, 2016
, there is a mission at the core of what we do," said Dr. Robert Trestman, executive director of UConn's Correctional Managed Health Care Division. "And we are also embedded in the community, which gives us a better ...
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
noted. Rhiannon Williams, executive director of Public Advocates in Community re-Entry, applauded the DOC’s shift in priorities for higher education for prisoners. “You have to have something to sell ...
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
entered a preliminary injunction prohibiting the defendants from enforcing their postcard-only policy. He ruled that the policy "drastically restricts an inmate's ability to communicate with the outside ...
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Filed under: Money/Property, Restitution
in collecting restitution," acknowledged Bill Penny, district manager for Multnomah County's Department of Community Justice. Following years of budget cuts, parole and probation officers have made ...
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
on communities of color, especially African American communities." The report found that black youths are six times more likely than white youths to have had an incarcerated parent. The Sentencing Project also ...
Article • December 3, 2014 • from PLN December, 2014
Filed under: Telephone Rates
for the first minute and $.10 for each additional minute, but Global Tel later lost the contract to Public Communications Services (PCS), which cut the rates to $1.25 for the first minute plus $.15 per additional ...
Article • December 3, 2014 • from PLN December, 2014
and Community Supervision (DOCCS) were paid $789,000 in 2011. And that’s in spite of DOCCS’ relative success in recent efforts to curb overtime spending. For fiscal year 2012-2013 – the most ...
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