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Oklahoma’s Mabel Bassett Correctional Center has Highest Prison Rape Rate by Oklahoma state prison officials refused to testify at a federal hearing held on January 8, 2014. Among the items on the agenda at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) hearing was an inquiry as to why Oklahoma’s Mabel Basset …
Article • March 7, 2016
New Report Details California Counties’ “AB 109” Correctional Priorities by Derek Gilna A new report issued by Stanford University explores how California Assembly Bill 109 (AB 109), also known as the “realignment bill,” has shifted control of local correction activities to county agencies from the state.  Funded by state block …
Article • March 7, 2016
Federal Lawsuit, Criminal Charges Follow Beating of Prisoners In Florida Jail by Christopher Zoukis The repeated beating of a prisoner at the DeSoto County Jail in Florida has resulted in some serious consequences: a $3.5 million federal lawsuit, criminal charges against the jail guards, and the firings and a resignation …
Article • March 7, 2016
Time to Hire a Doctor at WA Jail Where Eight Have Died Since 2010 by Joe Watson It took the deaths of eight people since 2010 incarcerated at the Snohomish County Jail in Everett, Washington—or, as a result, at least two pending claims against the county—to convince jail officials in …
Review of Solitary Confinement in Texas Lacks Funding to Proceed by Joe Watson A legislatively-mandated, detailed review of the use of solitary confinement in Texas prisons—where the average stay in administrative segregation, or "ad seg," is more than three years—had not been initiated four months after Gov. Rick Perry signed …
Online Series Exposes Effects of Solitary Confinement on Women by Joe Watson An online series on women in solitary confinement illustrates that the practice of extreme isolation is as sadistic and corrosive to female prisoners—if not more so—as it is to men. The two-part series at solitarywatch.com, written by prisoner …
Article • March 7, 2016
Fewer Executions, Fewer Death Sentences, Fewer Death Penalty States in 2013 by Joe Watson The number of death row executions in the U.S. declined slightly in 2013, while the death row population and the number of states to sanction the death penalty—thanks to Maryland's repeal of capital punishment—also fell, according …
Maine Prisons "Safer" Despite Recent Killings and Assaults, Commissioner Says by Christopher Zoukis At a press conference addressing the violent attempted escape of three juvenile prisoners, Maine State Department of Corrections Commissioner Joseph Ponte says Maine prisons are safer than they were three to four years ago.  His comments came …
Article • March 7, 2016
Birdman of Alcatraz's Book on Federal Prison Makes It to Press After 51-Year Delay by Christopher Zoukis Robert Stroud, the Birdman of Alcatraz immortalized in an eponymous film starring Burt Lancaster, wrote a 2,000 page history of the Federal Bureau of Prisons before his death in 1963.  That book is …
'Smart Justice' Leads to Lower Recidivism Rates in Michigan, 6 Other States by Joe Watson Several states appear to be advancing effective policies to foster successful reentry and reduce recidivism, according to a report from the New York-based Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center. Based on data tracking prisoners …
Article • March 7, 2016
California Counties Say Jail Space is Lacking Because Of Red Tape, Recession by Joe Watson Bureaucratic hurdles and the Great Recession are being blamed for a purportedly dire lack of jail space in California, where the state's "realignment" law has forced overcrowded prisons to transfer low-level offenders to the custody …
Texas State Jails: Private Drug Counselors Ordered to Downplay Mental Illness by Matthew Clarke Former employees of Houston-based Turning Point, Inc., a private, for-profit company which contracted with Texas to provide substance abuse treatment in its state jail system, are revealing how supervisors pressured them to falsify Addiction Severity Index …
University of Cincinnati Pays $4.85 Million to Family of Campus Police Shooting Victim by Derek Gilna The University of Cincinnati, Ohio, has agreed to pay the family of decedent Samuel DuBose $4.85 million after one of their police officers, Ray Tensing, shot him in the head during a traffic stop …
Article • March 4, 2016
Solidarity in Blue by By Henrick Karoliszyn | Inside Criminal Justice Can law enforcement investigate their own in a fair and impartial way? As police departments around the country weather calls for reform, and are challenged by Department of Justice consent decrees as a result of  high-profile cases involving alleged …
Rethinking Criminal Intent: Why 'Mens Rea' Matters by By William Kelly | Viewpoints In order for the government to legally prosecute, convict and punish someone, in most cases it  must prove that the person committed the criminal act (known as actus reus) and that he or she  committed that act …
Systemic Abuse of Prisoners in U.S. by By John Kiriakou Two federal prison guards in Florida recently agreed to plead guilty for beating a prisoner and then covering it up. One officer faces up to three years in a federal prison, while the other is looking at a year. The United States Department of Justice (DoJ) issued …
Article • March 4, 2016
Making friends with a ‘murderer’ – and proving he’s innocent by By Colby Itkowitz Alfred Dewayne Brown spent 10 years on death row for a crime he did not commit. During that time, he formed an unlikely friendship with a man who would eventually fight to set him free.  Theirs was …
Article • March 3, 2016
Electronic Monitoring Has Become the New Debtors Prison by Eric Markowitz It all started with a traffic violation. Antonio Green didn’t have a license and admits he shouldn’t have been driving. But when his mother’s 1994 Chrysler Sebring broke down at a Taco Bell near their home in October last …
Article • March 3, 2016
Exploring the wrongful conviction statute by By Harry Williams IV In 2013, Washington became the 28th state to pass a “wrongful conviction” statute. The Wrongful Conviction Compensation Act, codified at RCW 4.100, streamlines the procedures for seeking compensation for those wrongfully convicted and helps your client avoid some of the …
Article • March 1, 2016
Decision on prison won’t be revealed until late summer by Letcher County residents may have to wait until the end of the summer to find out whether or not a federal prison will be constructed in Letcher County. Tom Webber, Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) chief of Capacity Planning and Construction …
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