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Article • January 7, 2016
Segregation Rate and Segregated Prisoner Suicide Rate High in Texas by Matthew Clarke By Matt Clarke At around 5.5%, the segregation rate in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is over twice the national average of 2.7%. Segregating so many prisoners raises questions about the mental health effects of …
Article • January 7, 2016
High Speed Car Chases Kill Thousands; Injure Tens of Thousands More by Since 1979 over 5,000 deaths and tens of thousands of drivers, passengers and innocent bystanders have been injured as a result of police car chases in the US. Most of these chases begin as routine minor infractions. On …
Raza v. City of NY, NY, Stip of Settlement and Order, religious discrimination, 2016 Case 1:13-cv-03448-PKC-JO Document 121-1 Filed 01/07/16 Page 1 of 9 PageID #: 2515 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ---------------------------------------------------------------------------x HAMID HASSAN RAZA, MASJID AL-ANSAR, ASAD DANDIA, MUSLIMS GIVING BACK, MASJID AT-TAQWA, and …
Article • January 6, 2016
Filed under: Crime, Statistics/Trends
Sentencing Project Highlights U.S. Incarceration Fascination by Derek Gilna According to a new Sentencing Project study, vividly set forth in a series of graphs and tables, from the 1920’s to the late 1970’s, the total number of people incarcerated in the United States never exceeded 200,000. However, in 2012 the …
GAO Recommends Changes in ICE Collection of Sex Abuse Data by Derek Gilna A new General Accounting Office (GAO) Report has called into question the Completeness of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) collection of data regarding sexual abuse and assault incidents in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention …
Article • January 1, 2016 • from PLN January, 2016
Are We There Yet? The Promise, Perils and Politics of Penal Reform by Marie Gottschalk Fifteen years ago, mass imprisonment was largely an invisible issue in the United States. Since then, criticism of the country’s extraordinary incarceration rate has become widespread across the political spectrum. The huge prison buildup of …
Article • January 1, 2016 • from PLN January, 2016
Report: Nearly One in Four Exonerations Involves Crimes that Never Occurred by Christopher Zoukis A report issued by the National Registry of Exonerations in November 2013 found that 22% of the known exonerations in the U.S. resulted from “no-crime” convictions – that is, cases in which the offender was cleared …
Article • January 1, 2016 • from PLN January, 2016
Getting the Money Out of Prison Reform by Dan Berger By Dan Berger, Truthout Much has been made about the bipartisan nature of contemporary efforts to end mass incarceration, as everyone from Newt Gingrich and the Koch Brothers to Van Jones and the American Civil Liberties Union, and now even Hillary …
Article • January 1, 2016 • from PLN January, 2016
Report Calls for End of Welfare and Food Stamp Restrictions for Felony Drug Offenders by Derek Gilna Report Calls for End of Welfare and Food Stamp Restrictions for Felony Drug Offenders by Derek Gilna Congress should repeal the ban on Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) and the Supplemental Nutritional …
Publication • January 1, 2016
Roadblock to Economic Independence - How Driver's License Suspension Policies in Indiana Impede Self-Sufficiency, Burden State Government & Tax Public Resources, HHRC, 2016 ROADBLOCK TO ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE: How Driver’s License Suspension Policies in Indiana Impede Self-Sufficiency, Burden State Government & Tax Public Resources Ryan T. Schwier Autumn James Health and …
Brief • December 22, 2015
DWN and CCR v. ICE, NY, MOL in support of Def Cross-Mot for SJ, private contractor staffing and pricing, 2015 Case 1:14-cv-00583-LGS Document 87 Filed 12/22/15 Page 1 of 35 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK DETENTION WATCH NETWORK and CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, 14 Civ. 583 …
Article • December 1, 2015 • from PLN December, 2015
California Legislation Permitting NVDP Incarceration Held Unconstitutional by Mark Wilson California Legislation Permitting NVDP Incarceration Held Unconstitutional by Mark Wilson The California Court of Appeal, Fourth District, held on January 20, 2015 that a section of California’s realignment legislation improperly amended Proposition 36, a voter initiative, in violation of the …
Article • December 1, 2015 • from PLN December, 2015
Filed under: Escapes, Statistics/Trends
Texas Prison Escapes Down Since “Texas Seven” by Matthew Clarke Texas Prison Escapes Down Since “Texas Seven” by Matt Clarke Officials with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) say the number of escapes from state prisons dropped sharply after seven prisoners staged a brazen break-out in 2001. Since 2012 …
Article • November 17, 2015
Records Pertaining to High Profile Terrorist Exempt Under Federal Freedom of Information Act by Records Pertaining to High Profile Terrorist Exempt Under Federal Freedom of Information Act The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has held that videos and other recordings of a detained high profile terrorist were …
Article • November 10, 2015
Study Details States’ Abuses of Out-Of-State Prisoner Transfers to For-Profit Prisons by Derek Gilna Study Details States’ Abuses of Out-Of-State Prisoner Transfers to For-Profit Prisons by Derek Gilna            The corrections industry maintains that one of its priorities is to help detainees maintain ties with their family and communities to assist …
Article • November 10, 2015
GAO Report Faults BOP’s Lack of Budget Transparency by Derek Gilna GAO Report Faults BOP’s Lack of Budget Transparency by Derek Gilna A December 2013 General Accounting Office (GAO) report, faulting the lack of transparency in the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) budget, shows that the agency spent $6.9 billion …
Article • November 6, 2015
Filed under: Informants
New York Police Spend Millions Buying Information by New York Police Spend Millions Buying Information In a report released by the New York Police Department (NYPD) following a public records request and a subsequent lawsuit, it was revealed that in the last six years the NYPD has paid out at …
Article • November 2, 2015
No Oregon Constitutional Right to “Full” Victim Restitution; Contributory Negligence May Limit Restitution Award by Mark Wilson No Oregon Constitutional Right to “Full” Victim Restitution; Contributory Negligence May Limit Restitution Award by Mark Wilson On October 3, 2013, the Oregon Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s refusal to grant a …
Article • November 2, 2015
Study Finds Victims of Bullying More Likely to Enter Criminal Justice System by Christopher Zoukis Study Finds Victims of Bullying More Likely to Enter Criminal Justice System by Christopher Zoukis A new study suggests a direct link between childhood bullying and later imprisonment for bullying victims. The study, presented at …
Article • November 2, 2015
Filed under: Criminal Prosecution
Oregon Prisoner’s “Macabre and Silly” Murder Contract Nets 20 Years by Oregon Prisoner’s “Macabre and Silly” Murder Contract Nets 20 Years “Dear Stranger, I have a job for you. I need your help. There are three people I need taken care of,” wrote Dustin M. Kimbrough from his Oregon jail …
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