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Article • May 19, 2014 • from PLN May, 2014
A Home of Their Own by Lisa Riordan Seville A Home of Their Own   by Lisa Riordan Seville and Graham Kates   Recovery is work that Terrance Streeter knows. At 56, he is clean. No more drinking, no more drugs. After graduating from an alcohol recovery program two years …
Publication • May 1, 2014
CDOC - Female Realignment Recidivism Report, 2014 7 California Department of Corrections And Rehabilitation Female Realignment Report An Examination of Female Offenders Released from State Prison in the First Year of Public Safety Realignment Office of Research May 2014 You can obtain reports by contacting the Department of Corrections and …
Risk Assessment Cannot Solve Systemic Injustice of Prisons by Glenn E. Martin by Glenn E.Martin, Truthout After 40 years of waging a failed war on crime in poor communities, conservative and progressive policy makers finally are being compelled to release the pressure valve and find ways to reform our troubled criminal …
Lowering Recidivism through Family Communication by Alex Friedmann There are currently 2.2 million people held in prisons and jails in the United States,1 and an estimated 95% of prisoners currently in custody will one day be released. Based on 2012 data, around 637,400 people are released annually from state and …
Publication • April 1, 2014
BJS Recidivism Study, 2014 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics April 2014 Special Report ncj 244205 Recidivism of Prisoners Released in 30 States in 2005: Patterns from 2005 to 2010 Matthew R. Durose, Alexia D. Cooper, Ph.D., and Howard N. Snyder, Ph.D., BJS Statisticians …
Article • March 15, 2014 • from PLN March, 2014
New Hampshire Prisoners Suspected of Breaching Prison Computer System by New Hampshire officials are investigating a suspected “breach” of the Department of Corrections (DOC) computer system at the State Prison for Men in Concord. The investigation began when a staff member noticed a cable linking a computer used by prisoners …
Does v. Snyder, MI, Amici Curiae Brief, Management of Sex Offenders, 2014 2:12-cv-11194-RHC-DRG Doc # 82 Filed 03/07/14 Pg 1 of 34 Pg ID 3502 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION __________________________________________________________________ JOHN DOES #1-5 and MARY DOE, File No. 2:12-cv-11194 Plaintiffs, v. Hon. Robert H. …
The Effects of Private Prison Confinement in Minnesota on Offender Recidivism by The Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) recently completed an evaluation of the effects of private prison confinement on offender recidivism. The evaluation assessed the impact of confinement at the Prairie Correctional Facility (PCF) in Appleton, Minnesota on recidivism …
Sweden’s Shrinking Prison Population by Christopher Zoukis Sweden’s prison population has seen such a sharp drop in recent years that the nation’s prison service announced in November 2013 that it had closed four correctional facilities and a remand center. Prisons in Aby, Haja, Batshagen and Kristianstad were closed in 2013; …
Eighth Circuit Denies Civilly Confined Minnesota Patients 1983 Action by Derek Gilna Civilly-committed patients in the Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP) filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) and Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) officials, alleging that various conditions of their confinement were …
Article • August 15, 2013
Washington Work Release Reduces Recidivism by A report of the Washington State Institute for Public Policy (WSIPP) found that Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC) work release reduces total recidivism by 2.8 percent and felony recidivism by 1.8 percent, but had no effect on violent felony recidivism. The report concludes that …
Article • July 15, 2013 • from PLN July, 2013
Fourth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Case Challenging Virginia DOC Grooming Policy by Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor joined a panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, by designation, in finding that a district court had erred in upholding a Virginia prison grooming policy that prohibited prisoners from …
Prison Visitation: A Fifty State Survey by Chesa Boudin by Chesa Boudin, Trevor Stutz and Aaron Littman This article presents a summary of the study’s findings. The full study and data set will be published in a forthcoming volume of the Yale Law and Policy Review: Chesa Boudin, Trevor Stutz …
Article • May 15, 2013 • from PLN May, 2013
My Life with Lifers, by Dr. Elaine J. Leeder. (E-Books Unbound, 2012). 140 pages, $4.99 (e-book) or $14.95 (paperback) by John Dannenberg Book review by John E. Dannenberg Dr. Elaine Leeder, Dean of the of the School of Social Sciences at Sonoma State University, offers a concise, compassionate view of …
Ex-Felons are About to Get Health Coverage by Michael Ollove Newly freed prisoners traditionally walk away from the penitentiary with a bus ticket and a few dollars in their pockets. Starting in January 2014, many of the 650,000 prisoners released from prison each year will be eligible for something else: …
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
Report: Total State Prison Costs at Least $5.4 Billion Over Budget Nationwide by For decades, tough-on-crime rhetoric has convinced taxpayers to finance ballooning prison budgets with no questions asked. But the price tag of mass incarceration has so grossly surpassed state corrections budgets that legislators across the country have become …
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
Time for Sentencing Reform by George Gascón From the Capitol to the courtrooms, prosecutors can chart a new path on public safety by championing at both local and state levels one of the biggest ways we can transform our justice system in this generation – sentencing reform. Right now, the …
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
Pennsylvania Officials Link Halfway House Payments to Recidivism Rates by Derek Gilna Community corrections centers, also known as halfway houses, receive a great deal of money to help prepare prisoners to reenter society. Unfortunately, according to a recent study in Pennsylvania, the state’s 38 halfway houses with 4,313 beds have …
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
Forcible Cutting of Illinois Prisoner’s Dreadlocks Found Unconstitutional by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that an Illinois prison guard violated the First Amendment rights of a prisoner by ordering his dreadlocks to be forcibly shorn. The appellate court further held the guard was not entitled to qualified …
Article • April 15, 2013 • from PLN April, 2013
Utah: Prisoners’ Education Should be Cheaper, More Efficient, Report Says by Secondary education for Utah prisoners are wasting tax dollars and, more importantly, wasting educational resources, according to an August 2012 report by the state’s Legislative Auditor General. Utah lawmakers wanted to know how efficient and effective are high school …
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