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Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020
Filed under: Voting, Statistics/Trends
States Rush to End Prison Gerrymandering Before Districts Are Set For Another 10 years by Aleks Kajstura by Aleks Kajstura, Legal Director, Prison Policy Initiative In January, New Jersey became the 7th state to end prison gerrymandering – the practice of using incarcerated people to inflate the population of rural …
Article • February 4, 2020 • from PLN February, 2020
Filed under: Statistics/Trends, Parole
To Decrease Prison Population, Texas Must Increase Parole Rate by Gritsforbreakfast, a Texas criminal justice blog known for its fearless reporting, recently analyzed Texas parole and prison population statistics between 2006 and 2018. It noted that the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles (Board) has adjusted parole rates to keep …
Article • November 19, 2019
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
BJS Releases Annual Data Collection on Capital Punishment for 2017 by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Bureau of Justice Statistics (“BJS”) released its data collection on capital punishment for 2017. The BJS obtained data relating to every person under sentence of death in the federal government (excluding military prisoners) …
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Department of Justice Report Shows Small Decrease in U.S. Prison Population by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer A report by Jennifer Bronson, Ph.D. and E. Ann Carson, Ph.D., released by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) in April 2019, found that at the end of 2017, …
Vera Institute of Justice - Broken Ground: Why America Keeps Building More Jails and What It Can Do Instead, 2019 Broken Ground: Why America Keeps Building More Jails and What It Can Do Instead Chris Mai, Mikelina Belaineh, Ram Subramanian, and Jacob Kang-Brown November 2019 Foreword Perennial headlines about the …
Article • October 7, 2019 • from PLN October, 2019
Mississippi Prison Deaths Spike for Second Year; Disturbing Photos Revealed by Matthew Clarke, David M. Reutter by Matt Clarke & David M. Reutter In July 2019, seven prisoners died in facilities operated by the Mississippi Department of Corrections (DOC). The deaths followed a similar spate in August 2018, when 16 …
Article • October 7, 2019 • from PLN October, 2019
The Sentencing Project Issues Report on Reducing Excessive Punishment for Violent Crimes by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Cutting the U.S. prisoner population by half is the goal of the #cut50 and End Mass Incarceration movements, and of the criminal justice reform group JustLeadershipUSA, but that will not be possible …
Article • October 4, 2019 • from PLN October, 2019
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Survey: Jail Population Down but Incarceration Rates Higher for Whites, Women by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins In April 2019 the U.S. Department of Justice released an analysis of its Annual Survey of Jails, which has tracked jail capacities, populations and demographics since 1982. The most recent year for which …
Association of Restrictive Housing With Mortality, JAMA, 2019 Original Investigation | Public Health Association of Restrictive Housing During Incarceration With Mortality After Release Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, PhD; Josie Sivaraman, MSPH; David L. Rosen, PhD, MD; David H. Cloud, JD, MPH; Gary Junker, PhD; Scott Proescholdbell, MPH; Meghan E. Shanahan, PhD; Shabbar …
Article • September 5, 2019 • from PLN September, 2019
Jails in Oregon and Washington State Have High Prisoner Death Rates by Matthew Clarke, Mark Wilson by Matt Clarke and Mark Wilson The Spokane County jail in Washington State recently marked its ninth prisoner death since June 2017. But it was hardly unique. A study released in May 2019 by …
Article • August 7, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Death Rate of Prisoners in Michigan Much Higher than Reported by Kevin W. Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss An investigation by the Detroit Free Press into the Michigan Department of Corrections’ (MDOC) reporting of prisoner deaths revealed major discrepancies.  Since 2013, the total number of deaths reported by the MDOC …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Correlation Between Dyslexia and Criminal Behavior; First Step Act to Require Screening, Treatment by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney “When you can’t read, you see no other way out,” said actor Ameer Baraka. “As a kid, I used to ask God to make me a drug dealer, because I knew …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Report Shows How Private Equity Firms Profit from Mass Incarceration by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell A report released by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) in February 2019 spotlighted several major private equity firms that invest in and profit from the private prison industry, which the organization says continues …
Article • July 2, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
Study Finds More Private Prisons Result in Judges Imposing Slightly Longer Sentences by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke  In a report published on March 24, 2019, researchers from Columbia University and UCLA found that “the opening of a private prison increases the length of sentences relative to what the crime’s …
Article • July 2, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
New Study Finds Mass Incarceration Impacts Over Half of U.S. Families by Steve Horn by Steve Horn A new survey-based report published by a multi-university team of researchers, predominantly from Cornell University and FWD.us, a group of advocates for criminal justice and immigration reform, has revealed that over half of all …
Publication • June 13, 2019
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: Collateral Consequences - The Crossroads of Punishment, Redemption and The Effect on Communities, 2019 U . S . C O M M I S S I O N O N C I V I L R I G H T S COLLATERAL CONSEQUENCES: The Crossroads …
Article • June 5, 2019 • from PLN June, 2019
Consumer Watchdog Group Releases Report on Bail and Corrections Industry by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer The National Consumer Law Center (NCLC), a Boston-based nonprofit, released a report in March 2019 titled, “Commercialized (In)justice: Consumer Abuses in the Bail and Corrections Industry.” The 62-page report “discusses the growing problem of …
Article • June 5, 2019 • from PLN June, 2019
L.A. Sheriff Claims Jail Reforms Resulted in More Violence; Court Appointed Monitors Disagree by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke  Newly elected Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva held a press conference in late January 2019, claiming that court-ordered reforms in the county’s jail system had caused an increase in violence …
Article • June 4, 2019 • from PLN June, 2019
People with Traumatic Brain Injuries More Likely to Commit Crimes by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon After Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher murdered his girlfriend and then killed himself in 2012, an autopsy revealed he suffered from Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), a disease caused by blunt head trauma during …
Publication • June 1, 2019
The Sentencing Project, Campaign to End Life Imprisonment - Women and Girls Serving Life Sentences, 2019 CAMPAIGN TO END LIFE IMPRISONMENT WOMEN AND GIRLS SERVING LIFE SENTENCES Nationwide one of every 15 women in prison — nearly 7,000 women — is serving a life or virtual life sentence.1 One-third of …
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