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Article • September 14, 2019
Florida Pays $4.7 Million in Overcharges of Juvenile Detention by Florida’s Polk County received a $4.7 million settlement from the state in a lawsuit alleging the Florida Department of Justice (DJJ) overcharged counties between 2009 and 2012 for housing juvenile offenders. Polk County joined nine other counties in 2014 in …
Article • July 2, 2019 • from PLN July, 2019
Florida Prisons and Jails Retaliate Against Prisoners Who File Lawsuits by Countersuing for Costs of Incarceration by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell When 48-year-old Michelle Tierney died of an infected wound on her leg while in the custody of the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) in October 2014, her family …
Article • February 6, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
Illinois Calculates the High Costs of Recidivism by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon  The state of Illinois seems to be getting serious about downsizing its prison population and reducing the number of offenders who return to prison after being paroled. Governor Bruce Rauner created a task force in 2015, the …
Publication • November 13, 2018
Filed under: Cost of Prison Systems
Report to the Governor and General Assembly of Virginia, Spending on Inmate Health Care, 2018 Commonwealth of Virginia November 13, 2018 Report to the Governor and the General Assembly of Virginia Spending on Inmate Health Care 2018 JLARC JOINT LEGISLATIVE AUDIT AND REVIEW COMMISSION Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission …
Article • November 6, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018
Surprise Shutdown of Maine Prison Leads to Controversy, Court Order by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis In a sudden move that local residents called a “Gestapo tactic,” Maine Governor Paul LePage ordered the closure of a small prison in rural Washington County. The Downeast Correctional Facility (DCF), with a capacity …
Justice Policy Institute: The Ungers, 5 Years and Counting - A Case Study in Safely Reducing Long Prison Terms and Saving Taxpayer Dollars, 2018 NOVEMBER, 2018 1 Acknowledgments THIS REPORT IS THE RESULT OF THE COLLABORATIVE AND CUMULATIVE EFFORTS OF SEVERAL ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS OVER SEVERAL YEARS. THE “UNGER STORY” …
Publication • May 1, 2018
Illinois Sentencing Policy Advisory Council - The High Cost of Recidivism, 2018 Summer 2018 Council Members Hon. Warren Wolfson (Ret.), Vice-Chair First District Appellate Court Sen. Kwame Raoul, Vice-Chair Illinois State Senate Stephen Baker Office of the Cook County Public Defender Sen. Jason Barickman Illinois State Senate Kathryn Bocanegra Institute …
Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018
Total Cost of Pretrial Detention Estimated at up to $140 Billion Annually by According to a report by the Pretrial Justice Institute (PJI) released in January 2017, U.S. taxpayers “spend approximately $38 million per day to jail people who are awaiting trial (63% of the total jail population, or more …
Brief • January 17, 2018
Christianson v. Markquart, MN, Order, 2018 CASE 0:16-cv-01034-JRT-KMM Document 43 Filed 01/17/18 Page 1 of 12 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA Civil No. 16-1034 (JRT/KMM) ERIK DANIEL CHRISTIANSON, Plaintiff, v. ORDER JEFFREY MARKQUART, in his official capacity as Martin County Sheriff, Defendant. Bradford W. Colbert, LEGAL ASSISTANCE TO …
Article • December 5, 2017 • from PLN December, 2017
Filed under: Cost of Prison Systems
New Study Indicates Annual Cost of Incarceration Exceeds $1 Trillion by Audry Spade by Audry Spade A new research study has estimated the total cost of incarceration in the United States has surged to a staggering $1 trillion per year – 11 times the $80 billion spent annually on corrections …
Article • December 5, 2017 • from PLN December, 2017
Study: Prison Spending Grew at Three Times the Rate of Education Spending over Last Three Decades by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton A July 2016 report by the U.S. Department of Education found that spending on prisons and jails nationwide outpaced what public officials spent on education at a rate …
Article • November 7, 2017 • from PLN November, 2017
Obama Publishes Commentary on Criminal Justice Reform in Harvard Law Review by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Barack Obama made history by becoming the first president to contribute to legal scholarship by having an article published in a law journal while in office. The article, titled “The President’s Role in …
Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
Eleventh Circuit: Florida Prisoners Must be Provided Kosher Meals by David Reutter by David Reutter The Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) must provide prisoners with the option of receiving kosher meals, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals held in affirming a district court’s grant of summary judgment and a permanent …
Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
Louisiana Corrections Secretary: More Private Prisons Won’t Save Money by Privatizing more prisons will not save Louisiana money now or in the long run, according to the state’s Public Safety and Corrections Secretary, Jimmy LeBlanc. LeBlanc is opposed to House Concurrent Resolution 30, proposed by state Rep. Jack McFarland, which …
Article • October 9, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
Compensation for Wrongful Convictions in Massachusetts Not Easily Obtained by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Kevin O'Loughlin was wrongfully convicted of raping an 11-year-old girl in 1983. He spent almost four years in prison, where he endured multiple assaults – all for a crime he did not commit. Then a …
Correctional Health Report Suppressed by Bush Administration Finally Released by A "prophetic" U.S. Surgeon General's report that warned of a coming crisis with mentally ill prisoners and prison health care in general, suppressed by the Bush administration, was only released in mid-2016. The 2006 document, titled “The Surgeon General: Call …
Electronic Monitoring Becomes More Widespread, but Problems Persist by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna, Christopher Zoukis The use of wearable electronic tracking devices for defendants and people on community supervision has risen sharply over the past decade. Cash-strapped municipalities like the reduced cost, which is much lower than a prison …
Mississippi Closes Troubled Former Youth Prison by Citing budgetary cuts, the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) finally closed the troubled, privately-operated Walnut Grove Correctional Facility (WGCF) on September 15, 2016. As previously reported in PLN, Walnut Grove had been under a federal consent decree since 2012 over allegations of guards …
Publication • August 2, 2017
Vera Institute of Justice - The Prison Paradox, 2017 Vera Evidence Brief For the Record The Prison Paradox: More Incarceration Will Not Make Us Safer Don Stemen, Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Loyola University Chicago; Member, Vera Research Advisory Board July 2017 Summary* to property crime. Research consistently shows …
Banks Profit from Loans to Private Prison Industry by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), now known as CoreCivic, and GEO Group (GEO), the two largest private prison companies, are major profit-generators for six U.S. banks – Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, BNP Paribas, SunTrust, U.S. …
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