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Article • August 10, 2016
Report Cites Drug War’s “Collateral Damage” by Derek Gilna A recent report issued by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) has called for a “broad national initiative” to reverse what they termed “America’s infatuation with collateral consequences has produced unprecedented and unnecessary collateral damage to society and the …
Article • August 10, 2016
Filed under: Cost of Prison Systems
Prison Chief Blames Rising Prison Budget on Pennsylvania Legislators by David Reutter When Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives forced Secretary of Corrections John Wetzel to appear before them for the annual round of grandstanding about prison costs, Wetzel turned the tables and placed the blame where it belongs: on the legislature. …
Article • August 10, 2016
Use of Death Penalty Trending Downwards by In its year-end report, the Washington, D.C., based Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) reported that there were 43 executions and 78 new death sentences in 2012, continuing a generally downward trend that began in the mid-1990s. As of April 1, 2012, there were …
Private Prison Debt May Ruin Texas County's Bond Rating by Matthew Clarke Bernard Ammerman, the District Attorney of Willacy County, Texas believes that debt for privately-operated prisons may overwhelm the county's finances. In July 2012, he publicly complained that the county may not be able to repay the debt incurred …
Publication • August 10, 2016
Surviving the Darkness: Testimony from the U.S. “Black Sites”, CHR&GJ, 2007 ©Luis Goncalves Surviving the Darkness: _______________________________________ Testimony from the U.S. “Black Sites” © 2007 CHRGJ, NYU School of Law New York, NY About the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice/International Human Rights Clinic The Center for Human Rights …
Frost v. AZ, AZ, Settlement, Wrongful Death, 2016 Page 1 of 5 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE OF ALL CLAIMS Pamela Frost and Jim Eugene Frost ("Releasors"), hereby enter into this Settlement Agreement and Release of all Claims ("Settlement Agreement") with the State of Arizona and all of its past, present, …
Publication • August 10, 2016
Report on Torture and Treatment at Guantanamo Bay Cuba, Center for Constitutional Rights, 2006 Center for Constitutional Rights 666 Broadway, 7th Floor New York, NY 10012 Phone: (212) 614-6464 Fax: (212) 614-6499 E-Mail: info@ccr-ny.org REPORT ON TORTURE AND CRUEL, INHUMAN, AND DEGRADING TREATMENT OF PRISONERS AT GUANTÁNAMO BAY, CUBA July …
Locked Up Alone - Detention Conditions and Mental Health at Guantanamo, Human Rights Watch, 2008 United States/Counterterrorism H U M A N Locked Up Alone R I G H T S Detention Conditions and Mental Health at Guantanamo W A T C H Locked Up Alone Detention Conditions and Mental …
Article • August 9, 2016
New Congressional Research Report Criticizes Federal Prisoner Increases by Derek Gilna The Congressional Research Service, or CRS, a non-partisan research arm of the United States Congress, has released an extensive report highly critical of the “unprecedented increase in the federal prison population” since the early 1980’s.  The report notes that …
Article • August 9, 2016
Significant Lack of Mental Health Treatment for United States Prisoners by Christopher Zoukis Mental health disorders are common for individuals who are incarcerated. In fact, according to a 2012 study by the National Institutes of Health, 26 percent of prisoners identified as having a mental health disorder while only 18 …
Department of Justice Gives Formal Approval on Bureau of Prisons' Communications Management Units by Christopher Zoukis Nearly a decade after the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) began operating its notorious "Communications Management Units" (or CMU's), the Department of Justice (DOJ) has formally issued a final rule approving the BOP's restrictive …
New Study Details Billions of Dollars Wasted In Immigration Enforcement by Derek Gilna The National Immigration Forum, a well-respected, non-partisan organization based in Washington, D.C., has published its most recent study of national immigration enforcement policies, entitled, “The Math of Immigration Detention: Runaway Cost for Immigration Detention Do Not Add …
Article • August 9, 2016
Daring MCC Chicago Escape Directs Unwanted Attention on BOP Operations by Derek Gilna The mission statement on the wall of every Bureau of Prisons (BOP) facility makes clear the main priority of BOP staff, and it’s not “rehabilitation.” The BOP sees its main duty to keep prisoners locked up, at …
Article • August 9, 2016
New Hepatitis C Treatment to Dramatically Increase Texas Prison Health Costs by Matthew Clarke Hepatitis C is a slow-progressing potentially-fatal viral disease that ultimately destroys the liver. Unlike HIV, the hepatitis C virus (HCV) is resilient, capable of surviving for weeks outside the human body. It is spread by blood-to-blood …
Colorado Shuts Down $208M Boondoggle; Taxpayers On Hook for Empty Prison by A new Colorado prison built exclusively for solitary confinement was itself abandoned by the state on Nov. 1, 2012, much like the people it was supposed to incarcerate. Now, unless the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) bails out …
Article • August 9, 2016
Filed under: Medical, Statistics/Trends
Bureau of Justice Study Statistics Show Depth of Prisoner Health Issues by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna A special report issued by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) in February, 2015 documents what prison rights advocates have known for years, that “half of state and federal prisons and local jail …
Article • August 9, 2016
Filed under: Cost of Prison Systems
New Contracts Pull Wisconsin Prison Industry Out of Red for 2012 by Fiscal year 2012 was a profitable year for Badger State Industries. A memorandum from the Wisconsin Department of Correction (WDOC) to the co-chairs of the Joint Committee on Finance shows WDOC’s prison industries gained $3.6 million for the …
Publication • August 9, 2016
Stemming the Tide - Strategies to Reduce the Growth and Cut the Cost of the Federal Prison System, Urban Institute, 2013 Stemming the Tide: Strategies to Reduce the Growth and Cut the Cost of the Federal Prison System Julie Samuels Nancy La Vigne Samuel Taxy November 2013 Stemming the Tide: …
Publication • August 9, 2016
Filed under: Cost of Prison Systems
Bureau of Prisons - Information on Efforts and Potential Options to Save Costs, GAO, 2014 United States Government Accountability Office Report to Congressional Requesters September 2014 BUREAU OF PRISONS Information on Efforts and Potential Options to Save Costs GAO-14-821 September 2014 BUREAU OF PRISONS Information on Efforts and Potential Options …
Publication • August 9, 2016
Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Criminal Justice System, NACDL, 2013 Criminal Justice in the 21st Century: Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Criminal Justice System Supported in part by a grant from the Ford Foundation. Additional financial support for the conference provided by the Foundation for Criminal …
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