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Publication • September 9, 2016
Old Behind Bars Report on Elderly in Prison, Human Rights Watch, 2012 H U M A N R I G H T S W A T C H OLD BEHIND BARS The Aging Prison Population in the United States Old Behind Bars The Aging Prison Population in the United States …
Second Circuit Permits Office of Personnel Management to Assert FOIA Exemption 6 by Derek Gilna The Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. Section 552(b)(6), also known as "FOIA," was enacted "to promote honest and open government," Grand Cent. P'ship, Inc. v. Cuomo, 166 F.3d 473, 478 (2d Cir. 1999), and …
Article • September 8, 2016
"Specter" Funds for Prisoner Education Cut Endangering Prison College Programs by Matthew Clarke Some prison systems have been providing a college education to prisoners financed, at least in part, by federal funding named after correctional education advocate Arlen Specter, a former U.S. senator. But Congress didn't renew the "Specter" funds …
Article • September 8, 2016
Some Small Town Private Prison Bonds in Default by Matthew Clarke The Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) in Ocilla, Georgia is an example of everything that is wrong with small-town private-prison development. It's a story of local government officials seeking to make their community profit off the misery of others, …
Article • September 8, 2016
R.I. Prisoner Gets a New Liver that Nobody Wants to Pay For by Rhode Island bureaucrats are tossing around a state prisoner's liver transplant like a hot potato. Too chicken to advocate for the humane treatment of prisoners or to explain how the lifesaving operation will be paid for. Jose …
Article • September 8, 2016
Offenders Help Build Massive Genealogical Index, Fill Gaps in Their Own Family Histories by Joe Watson Prison reform advocates have long since stressed the importance of strong connections between incarcerated offenders and their families in order to lower recidivism rates. But now, it's the prisoners who are working to strengthen …
Article • September 7, 2016
Obama's Pardons: Too Few, Too Late, and 'Almost Irrelevant' by Joe Watson Blame Gerald Ford, Bill Clinton or any former president who has abused his pardon power and made it politically inconvenient for future presidents to give clemency to those who deserve it. Blame the career prosecutors in the U.S. …
Arizona Prison Town Gets Money for Nothing from CCA Deal with Feds by Joe Watson In return for, well... nothing, the sun-kissed small town of Eloy, Arizona, is getting paid by the federal government. Already home to an immigrant detention facility about an hour southeast of Phoenix, Eloy recently became …
China Pledges to Stop Taking Organs from Executed Prisoners by Prison officials in China—where prevailing religious beliefs dictate that humans he buried whole after their death—plan to stop taking organs from thousands of prisoners executed every year. But many doubt the practice will entirely cease because the need for organs …
Brief • September 7, 2016
Filed under: Conspiracy, Money/Property
USA v. Warrick, TX, Indictment, Fraud Conspiracy, 2016 Case 1:16-cr-00074-MAC-ZJH Document 2 Filed 09/07/16 Page 1 of 13 PageID #: 2 Fl LED U.S. DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS BEAUMONT DIVISION SEP 07 2016 BY DEPUTY ______________ …
China Vows to Finance Mass Incarceration with Public Funds, Not Prison Profits by Despite its atrocious human rights record, China appears to be trying to ensure prisoner safety while at the same time properly financing its prisons. Wu Aiying, China's Minister of Justice, announced in April 2012 while addressing a …
Article • September 6, 2016
South Carolina TV Crew Tails Warden Driving Across State for Free by South Carolina's prison towns might be great places to work, but apparently, the wardens wouldn't want to live there. A TV news crew discovered that, six months after South Carolina's Department of Corrections was caught by a state …
New Study Debunks Common Beliefs of Children of Incarcerated Parents by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis A study released by the Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy, and in conjunction with the National Resource Center on Children and Families of the Incarcerated, debunks commonly cited statistics concerning children with incarcerated …
ACLU-Montana Report Paints Ugly Picture of County Jail Conditions by Understaffed. Underfunded. Unsafe. That's the assessment of Montana's jails by the state's chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), as published in a February 2015 report based on a statewide investigation of dozens of county lockups. "With over 1,000 …
Parolees Violated Without New Charges Bloat Wisconsin Prison Population by Matthew Clarke Due to policies and practices which are costly to society and former parolees, well over half the 7,727 people sent to prison in Wisconsin in 2013 were imprisoned for parole rule violations without any new criminal charges. Those …
Article • September 6, 2016
New York Dentist Sentenced to Jail for Upcoding Billing of Prisoner Care by An oral surgeon who had a contract to provide care to prisoners at 26 upstate New York prisons was sentenced to jail for stealing $14,000 from the state. Dr. Timothy O’Keefe was charged in May 2014 in …
Article • September 6, 2016
Federal Clemency Initiative Granting Relief At Slow Pace by Christopher Zoukis The Obama administration's "Clemency Initiative 2014," a highly-touted program designed to grant clemency to non-violent offenders and other federal prisoners, has yet to make a substantial impact on the exploding federal prison population. While some 16 percent of the …
Should Spend Less Violating Parolees, Probationers by A recent report argues that California's parolees and probationers are proportionally far less of the population arrested for new crimes and, thus, law-enforcement resources should target the overwhelming majority of offenders who aren't under community supervision. The study, released in 2013 by the …
Article • September 6, 2016
Bureau of Justice Statistics Study on Reentry Released by Derek Gilna In 2012, the last year for which statistics are available, "there were ...over two million people incarcerated in prisons and jails across the country," according to the Bureau of Justice (BJS) statistics on offender reentry published in 2015. The …
UN Committee Against Torture Issues Report on United States by Matthew Clarke The United Nations Committee Against Torture issued a combined report encompassing its third to fifth periodic reports on the United States at its 1276th and 1277th meetings held on November 20, 2014. The report lauded some improvements under …
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