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Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
U.S. Department of Justice Reports Statistics on State Prosecutors by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) of the U.S. Department of Justice has released the most recent in a series of statistical reports on state prosecutors. The report covers 2,330 prosecutors’ offices serving judicial districts …
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
Texas Prison Population Drops but Savings Evaporate by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The prospects for cost savings in the operation of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), now the nation’s largest state prison system, seemed optimistic in 2011 when the state made the unprecedented decision to close a …
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
New Exonerations Registry Catalogs Over 2,400 Wrongful Convictions by According to the National Registry of Exonerations, more than 1,230 criminal defendants who were wrongfully convicted have been exonerated since 1989. Another 1,170 cases involving wrongful convictions were not included in the Registry’s database because they were “collective exonerations” in police …
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
The Real Costs of Incarceration in the United States by It has long been an open secret that government officials go out of their way to hide from public view the true costs of the many, many different aspects of America’s top-heavy and constantly growing law enforcement system; and in …
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
Debtors' Prisons Returning to America by David Reutter As the United States was becoming an independent nation with its own values and form of government, it discarded an archaic English system that drove the poor into greater poverty. When the U.S. ended the practice of debtors’ prisons in 1833, it …
Federal Justice Grants Favor Prosecution, Law Enforcement Over Indigent Defense by A report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has confirmed what many criminal defendants too poor to afford an attorney have long suspected: While hundreds of millions in federal tax dollars go to support prosecutors, law enforcement and prisons …
Publication • November 8, 2013
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Elderly (50 and Over) Admissions 2012-2013 FL DOC 2014 Hom e | About Us | C ontact Us Florida Department of Corrections Michael D. C rews, Secretary Home Institutions C ommunity C orrections R ick Scott, Gove rnor Re-Entry Explore DC Offender Search Performance Dashboard 2012-2013 Agency Statistics Strategic Plan …
Article • October 15, 2013 • from PLN October, 2013
Massachusetts: Overcrowding Forces Changes in Correctional Facilities by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Prisons and jails in Massachusetts have a problem: Almost every correctional facility in the state is operating above its capacity. Budget cuts have compounded the overcrowding problem because there is no money for new construction or …
Article • October 15, 2013 • from PLN October, 2013
Declining Prison Populations Leave Towns with Empty Jails, Debt by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Several Texas towns are bemoaning their bad business decision to enter into the for-profit incarceration industry as the bottom began dropping out of that market 5 or 6 years ago. Over a two-decade boom …
Article • August 15, 2013
Justice Department Releases Report on Justice Expenditures and Employment by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In December 2011, the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice released a report on employment and expenditures by federal, state and local governments for police, jails, prisons, courts and lawyers. The …
Article • August 15, 2013
The Justice Project Calls for Jailhouse Snitch Reforms by Snitch-dependent prosecutions are the leading cause of wrongful convictions in capital cases, according to a 2005 report of the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law. As of May 11, 2007, over 120 people have been exonerated from …
Article • August 15, 2013
Affordable Housing Reduces Crime by The Justice Policy Institute (JPI), a Washington, D.C.-based think tank dedicated to ending society’s reliance on incarceration, issued a research brief examining the correlation between housing and public safety. America has the highest incarceration rate in the world, with 1.4 million people in prison and …
Article • August 15, 2013 • from PLN August, 2013
Report: BOP Fails to Monitor Effects, Conditions of Segregated Housing by Derek Gilna In May, 2013, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report critical of the federal Bureau of Prisons' (BOP) use of segregated housing. The report found that the percentage of prisoners held in segregated housing, including …
Article • July 13, 2013
Newest Texas Criminal Justice Lobbyist is Powerful Texas Business Group by Matthew Clarke By Matt Clarke The most powerful business group in Texas, the Texas Association of Businesses (TAB) has announced its intention to influence the future course of criminal justice reform in Texas. TAB president Bill Hammond said TAB …
Publication • July 1, 2013
Filed under: Statistics/Trends, Census
Prisoners in 2012 - Advance County BJS 2013 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics July 2013, NCJ 242467 E. Ann Carson and Daniela Golinelli, BJS Statisticians T he U.S. prison population declined for the third consecutive year, falling to an estimated 1,571,013 prisoners at …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Slowly Closing the Gates: A State-by-State Assessment of Recent Prison Closures by Christopher Petrella by Christopher Petrella and Alex Friedmann After nearly 40 years of unprecedented growth, our nation's expanding prison population has finally begun to sputter. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2010 marked the first year since …
How the Prison - Industrial Complex Destroys Lives by Mark Karlin by Mark Karlin, Truthout Marc Mauer is the Executive Director of The Sentencing Project and the author of Race to Incarcerate, which has just been released in graphic format, illustrated by Sabrina Jones, as Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Charting a New Justice Reinvestment by Nicole D. Porter by Nicole D. Porter, The Sentencing Project For more than forty years, the correctional system has been dominated by growth. In 1969, the crime rate was 3,680 per 100,000 population and the incarceration rate was 97 state and federal prisoners per …
Research Study Finding Benefits from Prison Privatization Funded by Private Prison Companies by In April 2013, two professors at Temple University in Philadelphia released a study, titled "Cost Analysis of Public and Contractor Operated Prisons," that alleged financial savings through prison privatization and equal or better performance by private prison …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Survey Finds Disturbing Trends in Childhood Violence, Racial Dynamics for Juvenile Lifers by An overwhelming majority of prisoners serving life sentences without parole for crimes committed as juveniles were exposed to domestic violence and lived in poverty, while significant numbers failed in school, were influenced by friends in trouble with …
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