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Article • May 20, 2014 • from PLN May, 2014
that by age 50, people are far less likely to commit crimes. Arrest rates are just over 2% at age 50 and almost nil at age 65. Prisoners age 50 or older are far less likely to recidivate than younger offenders ...
Article • May 15, 2013 • from PLN May, 2013
to arrests, criminal convictions and credit reports. The industry is mainly supported by employers, which spend at least $2 billion annually on background checks to determine if job applicants have a past ...
In-the-News Article • January 1, 2014
main finding: private prisons are packed with young people of color. The concept of racial disparities behind bars is not exactly a new one. Study after report after working group has found a version ...
In-the-News Article • March 13, 2014
of experts in the criminology field. Its main finding: Private prisons are packed with young people of color. The concept of racial disparities behind bars is not exactly a new one. Study after report after ...
that offenders are not held being held accountable. All TDCJ seems to be interested in is releasing offenders from prison, probation and parole. (11) Many people just get 'caught up' in crime due to environment ...
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
100,000 new police on the streets. The U.S. currently has about 500,000 law enforcement people. A 20 percent increase is quite significant. What no one has mentioned is that more cops will likely mean more ...
Article • November 15, 1993 • from PLN November, 1993
space and get the federal government into the prison rent a cell business. Clinton's plan does not address the fact that such a massive police increase will surely result in an increase of arrests ...
Article • July 15, 2005 • from PLN July, 2005
. In 2002, prisoners in Brazil used cell phones to organize simultaneous uprisings in 29 prisons. Fifteen people were killed and 8,000 guards and visiting relatives were held hostage. In Ontario, Canada ...
they had the chance — he was found hanging in his cell less than a day after his arrest. His mother, Linda Spies, talked to The Huffington Post as part of our ongoing series of stories&nbsp ...
In-the-News Article • January 1, 2014
, 2012. He had been found, babbling and disoriented, in his car on the side of Interstate 275. He was arrested for obstruction when he did not obey commands to get out of the vehicle. Unable to use his ...
was undertaken. On January 14, 2002, Douglas J. Carter, 40, was arrested for a misdemeanor liquor warrant and arrived at the jail just before midnight. There he faced Tolett, Mitchell and guard Don Guariello ...
Article • March 28, 2017
recent morning, about 100 people with tucked shirts lined the hardwood benches before Judge Milton Westry, a bald black man who peered through wire-rimmed glasses. His gaze was divided between ...
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
further into the prison system, they argue. In the end, staffing and recruitment always get more airtime than decriminalization, sentencing reform, decarceration and clemency. A deluge of arrests ...
want to build this and this and this’ ... I brought life to this place.” On a trip to get water from a recently discovered spigot, Ortiz says, “It pisses [probation officers] off to see people like me ...
Publication • June 15, 2017
showing that they reduce sexual abuse.”54 People leaving prison for sex offenses are considerably less likely to be re-arrested for any other offenses, and their re-arrest rate within the first three years ...
was despicable, "But now I can't go stay with my own parents, in the house where I grew up?" Opponents of the new law also point out its absurdities. Take Shadlow's case, they say. Shadlow regularly gets ...
Publication • 2021
Filed under: Private Prisons
engaged in criminal activity related to poverty, addiction, mental illness, and homelessness. Pre-arrest diversion centers help people get back on their feet and reduce the chances that they will reoffend ...
Article • March 15, 1994 • from PLN March, 1994
they are treated worse than people actually arrested on suspicion of having committed a crime. This serves to discourage visiting as well as degrade and humiliate visitors whose only "crime" is having a friend ...
Article • September 15, 2014 • from PLN September, 2014
Filed under: Informants, Sentencing
on.” And Watkins’ case is clearly not an isolated example. As noted by Professor Tim Saviello at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago, “People are willing to pay $20,000 or $30,000 to get ...
Brief • March 8, 2019
, Page 24 of 41 threatened Thomas with re-arrest if he did not get off jail property. With no place to go at that late hour, and without any counseling or housing assistance, Mr. Thomas walked over ...
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