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Article • August 23, 2016
Department of Justice Publishes Report on Non-Federal Law Enforcement Hiring by Matthew Clarke In October 2012, the bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice published a report on the hiring and retention of state and local law enforcement officers in 2008. The report showed a strong growth …
Article • August 23, 2016
Filed under: Prison/Jail Murders
Maryland Prison Sees Three Prisoners Murdered in Five Months by Officials at Maryland's highest-security prison, in Cumberland, Maryland have seen an inexplicable spike in prisoner homicides in recent months. Three prisoners at the North Branch Correctional Institution (NBCI), have been murdered by fellow prisoners in just five months. In April, …
Article • August 23, 2016
Report: 17 States Reduce Recidivism, Save Billions By Reinvesting Wisely by A blueprint for better public safety, long-endorsed by reform advocates and scoffed at by tough-on-crimers, has emerged in 17 states that have managed to reduce recidivism since 2007: Stop building new prisons and reinvest the savings in cost-effective programs …
Article • August 23, 2016
High Costs, Not Human Rights, Forces Georgia to Release Its Sickest Prisoners by For now, fiscal crises in Georgia will have to suffice for human decency with the state's Board of Pardons and Paroles releasing dozens of sick and elderly prisoners annually to save millions in medical spending. But even …
Article • August 22, 2016
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Justice Department and SEC Privatize Investigation of Corporate Misdeeds by You are not alone if you have wondered why no one has been prosecuted for the corporate misdeeds that brought down the economy in 2008 and nearly thrust the United States into another Great Depression. The reason no corporate executive …
Article • August 22, 2016
Sale of Texas Private Prison Falls Through by The City of Littlefield, Texas sold the Bill Clayton Detention Center (BCDC) at an auction, but the deal fell through. The BCDC is a 363-bed prison private prison developers talked city officials into building in this 6,500 person community. Mesmerized by the …
Study Shows Private Prison Companies Use Influence to Increase Incarceration by Matthew Clarke A June 2011 report by the Justice Policy Institute entitled "Gaming the System: How the Political Strategies of Private Prison Companies Promote Ineffective Incarceration Policies reveals how private prison companies (PPCs) use political campaign donations, political lobbyists …
The Ultimate Humiliation: Guards Sexually Assault Prisoners Throughout the U.S. by Matthew Clarke Despite federal legislation aimed at preventing the rape of prisoners and the adoption of "zero-tolerance" policies toward sexual assault of prisoners by many jurisdictions, the sexual assault of prisoners by jail and prison employees continues to be …
Article • August 22, 2016
Arrests of prison guards soars 90% over last decade by Derek Gilna According to the Federal Justice Department's inspector general, arrests of Bureau of Prisons (BOP) guards has increased almost 90% in the past ten years, while the prisoner population has grown 25%. The report did not state how many …
Article • August 22, 2016
$4.9 Million Settlement for Family of Woman Killed in Drug Raid by The City of Atlanta has agreed to pay $4.9 million to the family of a woman who was killed during a botched drug raid. On November 21, 2006, Atlanta narcotics officers executed a “no-knock” warrant at the home …
Publication • August 22, 2016
Foreign Nationals in Michigan Prisons - An Examination of the Costs, CAPPS, 2006 Foreign Nationals in Michigan Prisons: an examination of the costs Prepared by Citizens Alliance on Prisons and Public Spending April 2006 Foreign nationals in Michigan prisons: examining the costs Foreign nationals in Michigan prisons – an overview …
Publication • August 22, 2016
The Health Status of Soon-To-Be-Released Inmates Vol 1, NCCHC, 2002 A Report to Congress Volume 1 The Health Status of Soon-To-Be-Released Inmates Volume 1 March 2002 This project was supported by cooperative agreement 97–IJ–CX–K018 awarded by the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. It …
Article • August 19, 2016
Oregon Blacks Imprisoned Seven Times Rate of Whites by African Americans are six times more likely than whites to be in the Multnomah County, Oregon jail, according to a recently released study. They are also 4.1 times more likely to be prosecuted, 4.4 times more likely to be convicted, and …
Article • August 19, 2016
Oregon African American Incarceration Far Exceeds National Average by Oregon ranks seventh in the nation in the disproportionate number of incarcerated African Americans, far outpacing the national average according to a recently released report of The Sentencing Project, in Washington, D.C. Less than 2 percent of Oregonians are African American, …
Publication • August 19, 2016
Profiting from Probation - America’s “Offender-Funded” Probation Industry, Human Rights Watch, 2014 H U M A N R I G H T S W A T C H PROFITING FROM PROBATION America’s “Offender-Funded” Probation Industry Profiting from Probation America’s “Offender-Funded” Probation Industry Copyright © 2014 Human Rights Watch All rights …
Publication • August 19, 2016
Uneven Justice: State Rates of Incarceration By Race and Ethnicity, Sentencing Project, 2007 Uneven Justice: State Rates of Incarceration By Race and Ethnicity Marc Mauer and Ryan S. King July 2007 For further information: The Sentencing Project 514 10th St. NW Suite 1000 Washington, D.C. 20004 (202) 628-0871 www.sentencingproject.org This …
Publication • August 18, 2016
Reducing our Use of Private Prisons, DOJ Yates memo, August 18, 2016 U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Deputy Attorney General Washington, D.C. 20530 The Deputy Attorney General August 18, 2016 MEMORANDUM FOR THE ACTING DIRECTOR FEDERAL BU~~y OF PRISONS FROM: SallyQ. Yates~ Deputy Attorney General SUBJECT: Reducing our …
Article • August 12, 2016
Arkansas Supreme Court Upholds Conviction of Prisoner Who Strangled Cellmate by On September 17, 2015, the Supreme Court of Arkansas upheld the conviction of Arkansas state prisoner Robert T. Holland who was convicted of capital murder for strangling his cellmate and sentenced to death. Holland's appeal alleged the trial court …
Publication • August 12, 2016
World Prison Population List (4th Ed.), Home Office, 2003 188 Findings The Research, Development and Statistics Directorate exists to improve policy making, decision taking and practice in support of the Home Office purpose and aims, to provide the public and Parliament with information necessary for informed debate and to publish …
Publication • August 12, 2016
World Female Imprisonment List, ICPS King’s College, 2006 World Female Imprisonment List International Centre for Prison Studies (Women and girls in penal institutions, including pre-trial detainees/ remand prisoners) Roy Walmsley Key points The World Female Imprisonment List shows the number of women and girls held in penal institutions, as pre-trial …
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