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Prosecutors Who Commit Misconduct Are Rarely Disciplined by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Prosecutors have a great deal of power and discretion. They choose whether to prosecute a case, what charges to file against a defendant and what plea bargain to offer. They can influence the court when imposing sentence …
Article • August 15, 2011
Investors in Montana Prison Left Holding the Bag as New Prison Sits Empty by David Reutter By David M. Reutter With the expansion of the prison industrialization complex in recent decades, many communities have turned to prisons as a means to generate economic activity. Considering the success of other small, …
Article • August 15, 2011 • from PLN August, 2011
Report Finds Prior Incarceration Hinders Upward Economic Mobility by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Pew Charitable Trusts’ Economic Mobility Project and Public Safety Performance Project issued a collaborative report in September 2010 on the impact of incarceration on economic mobility. The report found a strong negative effect of incarceration …
Article • August 15, 2011 • from PLN August, 2011
U.S. Department of Justice Seeks $28.2 Billion Budget by Despite initial reports that the Justice Department’s 2012 budget would decrease, the latest numbers indicate the Department will seek a 2% increase, including a 10% hike for prison operations. During a February 14, 2011 public news briefing, Deputy Attorney General James …
Article • August 15, 2011
States Start Meth Offender Registries: by Gary Hunter By Gary Hunter Several states have started websites listing the names of convicted methamphetamine manufacturers. Tennessee started the first online registry in 2005 with a list of about 400 names. Georgia, Oklahoma, Washington and West Virginia followed shortly after. Oregon has gone …
Paroled Killers Rarely Re-Offend by Michael Brodheim by Mike Brodheim Judging by the statistics, Reginald Powell, 54, may be the proverbial exception to the rule – the rule, in this case, being that convicted murderers who are granted parole only rarely re-offend. In 1984, Powell was convicted of the shooting …
Publication • July 1, 2011
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Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, 2008, BJS, 2011 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics July 2011, NCJ 233982 Brian A. Reaves, Ph.D., BJS Statistician I n September 2008, state and local law enforcement agencies employed more than 1.1 million persons on …
Department of Justice Reports on Sexual Victimization in U.S. Prisons and Jails by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In August 2010, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) released a report on the most recent national survey of prisoners on the topic of sexual victimization in prisons …
Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011
U.S. Deportations Set Record in 2010 by Derek Gilna According to U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano in an October 2010 statement, the United States set a record for deporting immigrants in the fiscal year that ended last September, reaching 392,862 deportations. More than half of those …
Publication • 2011
Homicide in the U.S. Known to Law Enforcement BJS 2011 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics DECEMBER 2013, NCJ 243035 P at terns & T rends Homicide in the U.S. Known to Law Enforcement, 2011 Erica L. Smith and Alexia Cooper, Ph.D., BJS Statisticians …
Massachusetts Prisoner Suicides More Than Four Times National Average by Mark Wilson Massachusetts has a relatively low state prison population, with approximately 11,000 prisoners. Yet its annual prisoner suicide rate has topped an alarming 71 suicides per 100,000 prisoners – more than four times the national average of 16 per …
Article • May 15, 2011 • from PLN May, 2011
Jailing for Debt on the Rise by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The use of arrest warrants to jail people who have defaulted on debts is increasing. In Minnesota alone, there were 845 civil arrest warrants issued against debtors in 2009, an increase of 60% compared with 2004. Over a …
Article • May 15, 2011 • from PLN May, 2011
CA Inspector General Finds 15 of 17 Prisons Demonstrate Low Adherence to Established Medical Policies and Procedures by Michael Brodheim by Mike Brodheim In August 2010, California’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued a report summarizing and analyzing the results of medical inspections at 17 of 33 adult prisons …
Nationwide PLN Survey Examines Prison Phone Contracts, Kickbacks by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg An exhaustive analysis of prison phone contracts nationwide has revealed that with only limited exceptions, telephone service providers offer lucrative kickbacks (politely termed “commissions”) to state contracting agencies – amounting on average to 42% of …
Article • January 15, 2011 • from PLN January, 2011
U.S. Department of Justice Releases Report on Deaths in Jails by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In July 2010, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics released a report on mortality in U.S. jails from 2000 through 2007. During the 8-year period covered by the report, 8,110 prisoners …
The Graying of America’s Prisons by James Ridgeway Frank Soffen, now 70 years old, has lived more than half his life in prison, and will likely die there. Sentenced to life for second-degree murder, Soffen has suffered four heart attacks and is confined to a wheelchair. He has lately been …
Audits of Tennessee DOC Reveal Deficiencies by Mark Wilson The Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) and several of its contractors violated state law, according to two audit reports issued by the Comptroller of the Treasury’s Division of State Audit. According to an April 2009 financial and compliance audit, the TDOC …
Article • December 15, 2010 • from PLN December, 2010
U.S. Prison Population Declines in Second Half of 2009 by In June 2010, the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice released year-end prisoner counts for state and federal prisons in 2009. The counts reported 1,613,656 prisoners in state and federal prisons, up 0.2% from year-end 2008. …
Article • November 15, 2010 • from PLN November, 2010
Privacy Concerns Raised Over New Law Enforcement Data Mining Technology by David Reutter by David M. Reutter New technology that helps law enforcement officials track sexual predators, terrorists and other criminals has been an effective tool that has led to thousands of arrests, but privacy experts are concerned about the …
Publication • November 15, 2010
"Fatal Flaws" in the Colorado Solitary Confinement Study, Solitary Watch, 2010 "Fatal Flaws" in the Colorado Solitary Confinement Study SOLITARY WATCH GUEST AUTHOR | November 15, 2010 at 1:11 pm | Tags: administrative segregation, American Psychiatric Association, Colorado State Penitentiary, Colorado study, Stuart Grassian | Categories: Colorado, Eighth Amendment, guest …
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