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U.S. DOJ Calls Houston Jail Unconstitutional, Prisoner Death Rate Alarming by Gary Hunter As a follow-up to PLN’s October 2009 cover story, this article examines in greater detail findings by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) related to conditions at the Harris County jail in Houston, Texas. From 2001 through …
Article • January 15, 2010 • from PLN January, 2010
Don’t Build it Here Revisited (or “There is no Economic Salvation Through Incarceration”) - Prisons Do Not Create Jobs by Clayton Mosher by Clayton Mosher and Gregory Hooks Despite widespread popular beliefs that prison construction offers substantial economic benefits to local areas, empirical research has suggested otherwise. In an article …
Article • January 15, 2010 • from PLN January, 2010
California Communities Made Less Safe as Sex Offender Housing Restrictions More Strictly Enforced by Michael Brodheim A December 2008 report by the California Sex Offender Management Board (CASOMB) has found that increased enforcement of laws adopted to protect communities from registered sex offenders has had the unintended effect of making …
Education for Persons in Detention—A Human Right by Jimmy Franks The positive correlation between increased education and lowered recidivism rates is a long-established fact. Even so, governments worldwide are not always willing or even able to insure that the men, women and children housed in various detention facilities are given …
The Crisis of Juvenile Prison Rape: A New Report by by David Kaiser and Lovisa Stannow When Troy Erik Isaac was first imprisoned in California, his cellmate made the introductions for both of them. “He said to me, ‘Your name is gonna be Baby Romeo, and I’m Big Romeo.’ He …
Article • December 15, 2009
Nursing homes with razor wire: Are elderly prisoners really a threat to public safety? by By David Fathi Sometime in the 1970s, the United States began a love affair with incarceration that continues to this day. After holding nearly steady for decades, our prison population began to climb as criminal …
Private Prisons Don’t Make Better Prisoners by Andrew L. Spivak by Prof. Andrew L. Spivak The incarceration rate, which from the 1920s to the early 1970s hovered between about 100 to 120 state and federal prisoners per 100,000 Americans, has risen nearly fourfold. While the rate of increase has slowed …
Article • December 15, 2009 • from PLN December, 2009
New Jersey DOC Report: Megan’s Law Costly and Ineffective by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In December 2008, the New Jersey Department of Corrections (DOC) submitted a research report on the practical and monetary effects of Megan’s Law to the U.S. Department of Justice. The report concluded that Megan’s Law, …
Article • December 15, 2009 • from PLN December, 2009
Violence Against Blacks Decreases In The U.S. by Gary Hunter Violence against blacks in the U.S. has dropped dramatically over the last decade. The Bureau of Statistics for the U.S. Justice Department showed that, between 1993 and 2001, violent victimization of blacks decreased by nearly 57% and remained stable through …
Article • December 15, 2009 • from PLN December, 2009
Nearly 15,000 California Prisoners Held in Long-term Isolation by Michael Brodheim The American Friends service committee (AFSC) has taken the position that “long-term solitary confinement is ineffective and inappropriate in all circumstances.” In May 2008, it launched a national STOPMAX campaign calling for an end to the use of solitary …
Article • December 15, 2009 • from PLN December, 2009
Mental Illness Prevalent Among County Jail Prisoners, Especially Women by Gary Hunter A random sampling of 2,000 prisoners in five county jails found that, on average, nearly 15 percent of male prisoners and 31 percent of female prisoners suffer from serious mental illness. The study was headed by Dr. Henry …
Article • December 15, 2009 • from PLN December, 2009
AMA Study Finds Link Between Confinement and Hypertension by An American Medical Association (AMA) study found that incarceration is associated with future hypertension and left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) among young adults. Untreated, this can lead to increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality. Researchers conducted “a longitudinal investigation of CVD risk factors …
Article • November 15, 2009 • from PLN November, 2009
Justice Reinvestment Initiative Eliminates Texas Prison Overcrowding by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Despite a massive prison-building program in the 1990s, in 2007 the Texas legislature had to deal with an overcrowded prison system. Some lawmakers proposed including $523 million in the biennial budget for prison construction. Surprisingly, the legislature …
Article • November 15, 2009 • from PLN November, 2009
Black Drug Incarceration Drops 21.6%, White Rate Up 42.6%; Shift Driven by Decreasing Crack Cocaine Use, Increasing Meth Use by Mark Wilson The number of people incarcerated in state prisons for drug offenses has increased an astronomical 1,150 percent since 1980, increasing from 40,000 to 500,000 prisoners, according to Bureau …
Article • November 15, 2009 • from PLN November, 2009
Human Rights Study Shows That Decades Later Blacks Still Incarcerated More by Gary Hunter In March 2009 a report by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) organization indicated that blacks continue to be arrested at disproportionately high rates in this country’s war on drugs. The study spanned almost three decades and …
Article • November 15, 2009 • from PLN November, 2009
1 in Every 31 Adults Under Some Form of Correctional Restraint by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A 2008 report by the Pew Center on the States reported that for the first time that 1 in every 100 adults in the United States was confined behind bars. In a …
Revised List of ICE Detainee Deaths Still Incomplete, Updated Again by Mark Wilson At least 92 detainees died in immigration detention facilities between October 2003 and February 2009, according to an updated list compiled by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The list, which was obtained by the New York Times …
Article • August 15, 2009 • from PLN August, 2009
Report Concludes Hispanics Receiving a Greater Share of Federal Sentences by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Hispanics are comprising a higher percentage of federal sentences, concludes a February 2009 report issued by the Pew Hispanic Center. The rise is attributed to a heightened focus on immigration enforcement. The findings …
Preserving the Rule of Law in America’s Jails and Prisons: The Case for Amending the Prison Litigation Reform Act by Margo Schlanger by Margo Schlanger and Giovanna Shay** Prisons and jails pose a significant challenge to the rule of law within American boundaries. As a nation, we are committed to …
Article • July 15, 2009 • from PLN July, 2009
The Illusion of Immigrant Criminality: Getting the Numbers Wrong by David L. Wilson Immigrants aren’t a crime problem. “The foreign-born commit considerably fewer crimes than the native-born,” as President Herbert Hoover’s National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement concluded in 1931 (National Lawyers Guild Quarterly, 10/39; Immigration Policy Center, Spring/07). …
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