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Former U.S. Attorney General’s Legacy: Too Little, Too Late by Derek Gilna The U.S. Sentencing Commission’s unanimous vote in April 2014 to reduce sentencing guidelines two levels for certain defendants convicted of nonviolent drug crimes was a major step in cutting the federal prison terms of both the newly-convicted and …
Article • May 5, 2016 • from PLN May, 2016
Report Documents U.S. Recidivism Rates for Federal Prisoners by Christopher Zoukis The U.S. Sentencing Commission (USSC), an independent agency within the judicial branch which writes federal sentencing guidelines and studies federal crime and sentencing policies, released a major new study in March 2016 titled “Recidivism Among Federal Offenders: A Comprehensive Overview.” …
California Jail’s Psychotropic Medication Policy Leads to Lawsuit, Settlement by David Reutter Cost cutting is a staple of most prison and jail systems. However, a mid-2007 decision by California’s Fresno County Jail (FCJ) to restrict psychotropic drugs for prisoners turned out to be a short-sighted exercise that resulted in human …
Idaho Prison Population Drops, Out-of-State Prisoners Re-turned by Christopher Zoukis In a positive sign of declining prison populations, on February 10, 2016, Idaho Department of Correction Director Kevin H. Kempf announced that all 173 state prisoners remaining at the Kit Carson Correctional Center, a Colorado facility operated by Corrections Corporation …
Hawaii Prisons Experience Security Failures, Other Troubling Incidents by David Reutter Operations and management at two Hawaii prisons are under scrutiny following a series of incidents over the past several years that have ranged from prisoner deaths and escapes to sexual harassment by staff members and the beating of a …
Publication • May 1, 2016
United States Marshals Service Could Better Estimate Cost Savings and Monitor Efforts to Increase Efficienceies, US Gov Accountability, 2016 United States Government Accountability Office Report to Congressional Committees May 2016 PRISONER OPERATIONS United States Marshals Service Could Better Estimate Cost Savings and Monitor Efforts to Increase Efficiencies GAO-16-472 May 2016 …
Justice in Review-New Trends in States Sentencing, VERA, 2016 Justice in Review: New Trends in State Sentencing and Corrections 2014-2015 .": CENTER ON SENTENCING AND CORRECTIONS 3FCFDDB4JMCFSt3BN4VCSBNBOJBOt.BJB4QPUUT FROM THE DIRECTOR This analysis of state-level changes in sentencing and corrections laws enacted in 2014 and 2015 reaches readers in the thick …
Doe et al v. Piehota et al, VA, Class Action Complaint, terrorist federal watch list, 2016 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA ALEXANDRIA DIVISION BABY DOE, by his next friend, Father Doe; YASEEN KADURA; ANAS ELHADY; OSAMA HUSSEIN AHMED; GULET MOHAMED; AHMAD IBRAHIM AL HALABI; MICHAEL EDMUND COLEMAN; …
Article • April 1, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Irish High Court Bars Extradition of Terror Suspect to U.S., Citing Inhumanity of Solitary Confinement by Derek Gilna The High Court of Ireland has declined to extradite a terrorism suspect to the United States to face justice, quashing an extradition request filed by American officials. Ali Charaf Damache, born in …
Second Circuit Allows Muslim Prisoners’ Bivens Claims to Proceed by Derek Gilna Although Muslim prisoners held at the harsh U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have received more publicity, conditions of confinement for prisoners of Middle-Eastern descent in domestic prisons have also been abusive. So abusive, in fact, that …
Article • April 1, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Colson Task Force Report Highlights BOP Issues, Makes Recommendations by Derek Gilna According to the Charles Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections, named after the former top advisor to President Richard Nixon who served a stint in federal prison before dedicating his life to prisoner rehabilitation and spiritual growth, “the …
Lawsuit Claiming CMUs Lack Due Process on Appeal to D.C. Circuit by Derek Gilna The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) first instituted Communication Management Units (CMUs) in 2006 at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, then added another unit to the supermax in Marion, Illinois in 2008. CMUs were designed …
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Texas Parole Records Mistake Could Cost Taxpayers Millions by Gary Hunter Prisoners in Texas and their families are still feeling the impact of a botched Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) policy change in 2012 that led to the destruction of documents for some 86,000 parole-eligible prisoners, whose files were …
Article • March 31, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
California Lifers Paroled in Record Numbers by Christopher Zoukis Prisoners serving life sentences in California have been paroled at a record rate since Governor Jerry Brown took office in January 2011 – a positive trend in the view of many advocacy groups, but one that causes worry among victims’ rights …
Publication • March 31, 2016
DRC Confiscated Major Contraband Brief, CIIC, 2016 DRC Confiscated Major Contraband Correctional Institution Inspection Committee March 24, 2016 Contraband Definition Administrative Rule (AR) 5120-9-55 distinguishes between two types of contraband, “minor” and “major”:  Minor Contraband: refers to items possessed by an inmate without permission and: (a) The location in …
Following Settlement, Use of Seclusion Plummets in Ohio Juvenile Prisons by Matthew Clarke On May 21, 2014, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and private plaintiffs announced a settlement agreement with Ohio requiring the Ohio Department of Youth Services (DYS) to dramatically reduce and eventually eliminate the use of …
Article • March 30, 2016
New Thurston County, Washington Jail Finally Opens After Sitting Empty by It didn’t matter that in 2004, the citizens of Thurston County, Washington voted against building a new county jail. In 2010, County Commissioners took it upon themselves to borrow $44 million from county coffers to build the new facility …
Creighton v. The City of New York, NY, Order, False Arrest, 2016 Case 1:12-cv-07454-PGG-DCF Document 107 Filed 03/17/16 Page 1 of 5 -I I UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK CSDNY : 'lJMENT s: CTRONICALLY FILED , >C #: ----i--r--- rE FILED: ---, 3/17 / f w …
Publication • March 14, 2016
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Use of Ion Scanners in Correctional Facilities, CSC SCC Canada, 2011 July 2011  Number 11-1 Research Review Use of Ion Scanners in Correctional Facilities: An International Review KEY WORDS: drug detection, ion scanner, ion mobility spectrometer, prison Under current Correctional Service Canada (CSC) policy, Ion Mobility Spectrometry (IMS) devices …
Probation Department - Budget, Juvenile Halls and Camps Operating Costs, and Contracting Procedures, Los Angels Co DAC, 2015 COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF AU DITOR.CONTROLLER KENNETH HAHN HALL OF ADMINISTRATION 5OO WEST TEMPLE STREET, ROOM 525 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 9OO1 2.3873 PHONE: (213) 974-8301 FAX: (213) 626-5427 JOHN NAIMO …
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