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Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008
Sexual Abuse and Violence in Texas Prisons Eclipses National Average by Gary Hunter Citing figures issued by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) a preliminary report by the Stop Prisoner Rape (SPR) initiative shows that Texas has five of the nation’s ten worst prisons for reported sexual violence. [SPR has …
Article • November 15, 2008 • from PLN November, 2008
HIV Cases in U.S. Prisons Decline by by Matt Clarke In September 2007, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics released a bulletin showing known cases of prisoners infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and those with confirmed AIDS declined for the sixth straight year in 2005. …
Article • August 15, 2008
Delaware Newspaper Entitled to Police Info, Fees by The Supreme Court of Delaware has held that a Superior Court abused it’s discretion by deciding issues in a Delaware Freedom of Information (FOIA) case and applied an incorrect legal standard. The News Journal sought information from the Delaware Criminal Justice Information …
Article • August 15, 2008
Prison Tuberculosis Cases Far Exceed Non-Prison Cases by The number of Tuberculosis (TB) cases in prison far outpaced the general population between 1993 and 2003, according to a study published in the American Journal of Public Health. While TB rates in the general population remained fewer than 10 cases per …
Article • August 15, 2008
U.S. Prison Population Tops 2.1 Million by by: Michael Rigby Even if you're not in prison today, you could be tomorrow. With more than 2.1 million people in prison or jail at midyear 2004--a 2.3% increase over the previous year--the odds of imprisonment were frighteningly good, a recent Bureau of …
Unlocking America, Why and How to Reduce America’s Prison Population, The JFA Institute, November 2007, 32 pp. by John Dannenberg Reviewed by John E. Dannenberg Unlocking America is a study on how to approach the task of reducing America’s prison population (“decarceration”) without compromising public safety. Key factors recommended to …
Not the Usual Suspects: The Politics of the Prison Boom by Marie Gottschalk Throughout American history, politicians and public officials have exploited public anxieties about crime and disorder for political gain. The difference today is that these political strategies and public anxieties have come together in the perfect storm. They …
Article • July 15, 2008 • from PLN July, 2008
PEW Public Safety Report: Prisoncrats Abuse Their Probation/Parole Violation Powers So As To Stymie Offenders’ Re-entry Into Society by Marvin Mentor A November 2007 national study by the PEW Public Safety Performance Project concluded that the policy of returning parolees and probationers to custody for other than new offenses has …
Washington Study Finds Higher Recidivist Rate Amongst Sex Offenders Recommended, But Not Committed, For Civil Commitment by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A report by the Washington State Institute for Public Policy concludes that sex offenders “who were referred for possible civil commitment have a much higher pattern of …
As Connecticut's Prison Population Increases, So Does the Number of Imprisoned Mentally Ill by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Like other prison systems throughout the nation, Connecticut's is reaching peak capacity. In the midst of dealing with overcrowding and parole issues, the Connecticut Department of Correction (CDOC) must also …
Article • April 15, 2008 • from PLN April, 2008
BOP Prisoner Population Exceeds 200,000 by In September 2007, the federal bureau of Prisons (BOP) reaffirmed its hold on the title of being the nation?s largest prison system. A weekly population report showed BOP holding 200,052 prisoners for the first time. Since the start of the ?war on drugs,? the …
Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007
BJS Releases Statistics on Vets in Prison in 2004 by Veterans were about half as likely as non-veterans to be imprisoned in 2004, but more than twice as likely to be serving time for a sex offense, the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics said in a report released on May …
Article • December 15, 2007
THE RISE OF AMERICA'S PRISON-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX by David Ladipo David Ladipo JAN-FEB 7 2001 Bill Clinton memorably entered the White House over the body of poor, lobotomized Ricky Ray Rector, whose execution he hurried back from the inaugural ceremonies to attend in Arkansas. As he departs, the American prison population …
Article • December 15, 2007
States' Incarceration Costs Continue to Rise by Robert Woodman by Robert H. Woodman In June 2004, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reported that from fiscal year (FY) 1986 to FY 2001, States' corrections costs rose from $65 per U.S. resident to $134 per U.S. resident. The BJS reported that …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
Habeas Hints: Habeas Year in Review: 2007 by Kent A. Russell This column is intended to provide "Habeas Hints" to prisoners who are considering or handling habeas corpus petitions as their own attorneys ("in pro per"). The focus of the column is on habeas corpus practice under AEDPA, the 1996 …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
Five-Year Forecast: Prison Population Will Swell 13%—Triple America’s Growth Rate by Five-Year Forecast: Prison Population Will Swell 13%?Triple America's Growth Rate The charitably funded Washington D.C.-based Public Safety Performance Project (PSPP), statistically analyzing prison population trends in all 50 states and the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), projected that between …
Prisoners Died By the Thousands Between 2001 and 2004 by Michael Rigby by Michael Rigby Elderly prisoners are more than twice as likely to die behind bars as those who are not in prison, a report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) on prison mortality rates reveals. White and …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
U.S. Prison and Jail Population Continues Meteoric Rise by Michael Rigby It?s beginning to sound a bit repetitive, but the nation?s prison population continues to grow exponentially. At midyear 2006, U.S. prisons and jails held 2,245,189 persons?a 2.8% increase over the previous year, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics …
Article • August 15, 2007 • from PLN August, 2007
BJS Report: The Price of Justice in 2003 by Michael Rigby by Michael Rigby In 2003 the U.S. spent a staggering $185 billion to fund its burgeoning ?justice? system, according to a report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics released in March 2006. That figure includes funds spent on prisons …
Prison A Major Factor In Spreading AIDS by Gary Hunter A recent study entitled African Americans, Health Disparities and HIV/AIDS has directly linked incarceration to the spread of AIDS in minority communities. Robert Fullilove ED.D., of Columbia University authored the study which was released on December 1, 2006 to coincide …
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