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Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Forty Percent of Adult Offenders Return to Prison Within Three Years of Release by In April 2011, the Public Safety Performance Project of the Pew Center on the States issued a report concerning recidivism rates for released offenders. The report, which updates a similar though far less extensive 2002 study …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
California: CDCR Releases 2011 Recidivism Report by On November 23, 2011, in the second in a series of annual reports designed to provide new insights to policy-makers and correctional stakeholders with respect to recidivism rates, the Office of Research of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) released its …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Report Says Reentry Agencies Should Hire Former Prisoners by Joe Watson When released prisoners meet throngs of otherwise upstanding, Ivy League WASPs offering transitional assistance, it’s like getting a tune-up from a mechanic with clean fingernails. It simply doesn’t inspire much confidence in the work being done. Thus, a recent …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Indiana Cuts Prison College Courses by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke After the Indiana General Assembly passed a budget for FY 2012-2013 that eliminated $9 million in financial aid for college programs for prisoners, the Indiana Department of Correction (DOC) is shifting such programs away from liberal arts studies and …
Florida Provides Lesson in How Not to Privatize State Prisons by David Reutter by David M. Reutter When Florida lawmakers used a backdoor approach to try to privatize almost 30 state detention facilities in 2011, they likely did not anticipate the outcome. By the time the political dust had settled, …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
Prisoners Contribute to Flood Control Efforts in Louisiana by In May 2011, as the rising Mississippi River threatened to flood vast stretches of riverfront territory, Louisiana prisoners from a number of parishes, including East Carroll, Madison, Tensas, Pointe Coupee and Concordia, filled sandbags in an effort to save lives, buildings …
Business is Booming for Prison Profiteers by James Kilgore Private corrections company The GEO Group celebrated the holiday season by opening a new 1,500-bed prison in Milledgeville, Georgia on December 12, 2011. The $80 million facility is expected to generate approximately $28 million in annual revenues. Though GEO (formerly Wackenhut …
The Societal Impact of the Prison Industrial Complex, or Incarceration for Fun and Profit—Mostly Profit by Alex Friedmann At the beginning of the 1980s there were no privately-operated adult correctional facilities in the United States. As of 2009, more than 129,300 state and federal prisoners were housed in for-profit lock-ups. …
Article • January 15, 2012 • from PLN January, 2012
Typewriters Alive and Well in American Prisons Despite Reports of Their Demise by A recent article in The Daily Mail reported the demise of the venerable typewriter in today’s computer age. “Godrej and Boyce – the last company left in the world that was still manufacturing typewriters – has shut …
Article • January 15, 2012 • from PLN January, 2012
Prisoner Bike Repair Program Benefits St. Louis Kids by A recent joint project of the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois and St. Louis BicycleWORKS is helping to provide bikes to St. Louis-area children. Under the program, prisoners at USP Marion are refurbishing old bicycles and donating them to children …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
Oregon Rethinking Criminal Justice Policies to Avoid Fiscal Crisis by Oregon is one of ten states in “financial peril,” according to a November 2009 report by The Pew Center on the States. Thanks in large part to the state’s criminal justice policies of the last 20 years, Oregon faces an …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
Tennessee: Felony Friendly Job Fairs an Unexpected Hit by When Tennessee state Representative Brenda Gilmore and other event organizers planned a Felony Friendly Job Fair in North Nashville on April 23, 2011, they expected a turnout of about 100 former prisoners looking for work. They grossly underestimated the interest among …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
Study Shows Ex-offenders Have Greatly Reduced Employment Rates by In November 2010 the Center for Economic and Policy Research released a study titled “Ex-offenders and the Labor Market,” which found that a felony conviction or imprisonment significantly reduces the ability of ex-offenders to find jobs, costing the U.S. economy an …
Ohio ACLU, Other Organizations Release Reports on Prison Privatization by In April 2011 the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio (ACLU) released an expansive report entitled Prisons for Profit: A Look at Prison Privatization, which draws strongly on the experiences of other states with heavily-privatized prison systems. The report concludes …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
Ohio County’s Intensive Probation Program Failing Miserably by Justin Miller A study has found that an intensive probation program in Hamilton County, Ohio is so unsuccessful that its participants are actually more likely to re-offend than those convicted of similar crimes who receive no supervision at all, according to the …
Virginia Prisoners Held in Segregation Over 10 Years for Violating DOC Grooming Policy by Justin Miller A number of prisoners in Virginia have been held in segregation for more than a decade because they refuse to cut their hair or beards on religious grounds. Since December 1999, the Virginia Department …
Publication • December 1, 2011
A System Master Plan for Massachusetts Corrections, MA Division of Capital Asset Management, 2011 STV Incorporated Carter Goble Lee FINAL REPORT A System Master Plan for Massachusetts Corrections MASSACHUSETTS DIVISION OF CAPITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT CORRECTONS MASTER PLAN The Corrections Master Plan The Final Report DOC 0801ST1 STV Incorporated in association …
Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
Does Less Punishment Mean Less Crime? by The fiscal crisis facing virtually all state governments has brought to the forefront of public debate the following question: When do longer prison sentences and harsher punishment become counter-productive? Has the clock finally run out after four decades during which politicians at all …
Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
Colorado Prison Culinary Program Caters to Local Community by Prisoners at Colorado’s Sterling Correctional Facility (SCF) are catering local events as part of a culinary training program at the prison. Their cuisine has such a fine reputation that in March 2011 students at one high school asked SCF to cater …
Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
Florida Jail Offers Video Visits to Profiteer More From Prisoner Families by A video visitation system has been installed at Florida’s Charlotte County Jail. Using money from the Inmate Welfare Fund, which is derived from profits from the canteen and other services to prisoners, the jail installed a system that …
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