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Remembering Attica Forty Years Later by Dennis Cunningham by Dennis Cunningham, Michael Deutsch & Elizabeth Fink This year, September 9 will mark the 40th anniversary of the rebellion at Attica State Prison in upstate New York. As one of the prisoner leaders, L.D. Barkley, announced to the world, the rebellion …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
800,000 Ex-Offenders Regain Voting Rights – 5.3 Million More to Go by Since 1997, an estimated 800,000 former offenders have regained their voting rights as 23 states eased or eliminated felony disenfranchisement statutes and policies, according to a recent report by The Sentencing Project. Still, only seven states – Texas, …
Article • August 15, 2011 • from PLN August, 2011
Treasury Department Finds Prisoners’ Fraudulent Tax Returns Taxing by Derek Gilna Despite passage of the Inmate Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 2008, the Internal Revenue Service has been unable to curb alleged income tax fraud by prisoners, according to a report released by the Inspector General of the U.S. Department …
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 …
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