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Incorrect Cause of Tennessee Prisoner’s Death Reported by CoreCivic Employees by According to the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC), state prisoner Edward Ray Gilley, Jr., 54, died on November 5, 2016 at the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center, a facility owned and operated by CoreCivic – previously known as Corrections Corporation …
Article • June 5, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
As More Prisons Shutter, Governments Wonder What to Do With Them by Daniel C. Vock Distilleries? Homeless shelters? Museums? There are lots of creative ideas for repurposing old lockups. But finding one that’s good for the economy – and wins approval – isn’t easy. by Daniel C. Vock, Governing.com From the …
Publication • 2018
Dept of Justice, Mortality in Local Jails Statistical Tables, 2000 - 2018 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics April 2021, NCJ 256002 E. Ann Carson, Ph.D., BJS Statistician I n 2018, a total of 1,120 inmates died in local jails, an increase of nearly …
Publication • 2018
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Dept of Justice, Mortality in State and Federal Prisons Statistical Prisons, 2001 - 2018 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics April 2021, NCJ 255970 E. Ann Carson, Ph.D., BJS Statistician I n 2018, a total of 4,135 state prisoners died in publicly or privately …
Publication • June 1, 2018
Financial Processes at the Department of Criminal Justice, State of Texas, 2018 An Audit Report on Financial Processes at the Department of Criminal Justice June 2018 Report No. 18-035 State Auditor’s Office reports are available on the Internet at http://www.sao.texas.gov/. An Audit Report on Financial Processes at the Department of …
The Impact of Proposition 47 on Crime and Recidivism, Public Policy Institute of California, 2018 The Impact of Proposition 47 on Crime and Recidivism JUNE 2018 Mia Bird, Magnus Lofstrom, Brandon Martin, Steven Raphael, and Viet Nguyen with research support from Justin Goss PPIC.ORG © 2018 Public Policy Institute of …
Vera Institute of Justice--The New Dynamics of Mass Incarceration Report, 2018 The New Dynamics of Mass Incarceration Jacob Kang-Brown, Oliver Hinds, Jasmine Heiss, and Olive Lu June 2018 From The Director The turn of the century marked a new direction for the nation’s prisons and jails: after three decades of …
Vera Institute of Justice--The New Dynamics of Mass Incarceration Fact Sheet, 2018 The New Dynamics of Mass Incarceration After decades of continuous and unified growth across all states from the 1970s to the early 2000s, the landscape of U.S. incarceration fragmented into distinct trends. The last decade has been characterized …
Publication • 2018
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Dept of Justice, Correctional Populations in the US, 2017-2018 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics August 2020, NCJ 252157 Laura M. Maruschak and Todd D. Minton, BJS Statisticians A n estimated 6,410,000 persons were held in prisons or jails or were on probation or …
Publication • 2018
Dept of Justice, Statistical Brief - Race and Ethnicity of Violent Crime Offenders and Arrestees, 2018 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics January 2021 Statistical Brief NCJ 255969 Race and Ethnicity of Violent Crime Ofenders and Arrestees, 2018 Allen J. Beck, Ph.D., BJS Statistician …
Major Wage Ratio Gap Between Executives, Employees at Private Prisons by Steve Horn by Steve Horn Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings reviewed by Prison Legal News show a major gap between the pay of private prison employees and the executives of those companies. And, according to a new report …
Article • May 9, 2018 • from PLN May, 2018
Newspaper Investigation Reveals Significant Problem with Life Sentences in Arizona by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis An investigation by the Arizona Republic has exposed a serious problem with life sentences imposed by state courts throughout Arizona since 1994. In the 22 years between January 1994 and January 2016, 248 out …
Article • May 9, 2018 • from PLN May, 2018
Justice Department Failing to Assess Prison Population Reduction, Clemency and Reentry Programs by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis In a statement made to members of Congress on December 13, 2017, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported on the failure of the Department of Justice (DOJ) to properly implement recommendations …
Article • May 8, 2018 • from PLN May, 2018
Female Prisoners More Likely to be HIV Positive than Non-prisoners by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), released in an August 2017 report, found that female prisoners are nine times more …
Article • May 7, 2018 • from PLN May, 2018
Filed under: Statistics/Trends, Census
As Prison Populations Drop, Several States Close Facilities by Dale Chappell, Matthew Clarke by Dale Chappell and Matt Clarke Connecticut has closed another prison as the state Department of Correction’s population continues to fall. Officials confirmed that Enfield Correctional Institution, a 700-bed medium-security facility, closed in January 2018. State officials …
Article • May 7, 2018 • from PLN May, 2018
“Witness to Human Torture”: On Both Sides of the Prison Walls, Social Workers Confront Solitary Confinement by Valerie Kiebala by Valerie Kiebala, Solitary Watch Esther Lim, a social worker employed by the ACLU to monitor Los Angeles County jails, was meeting with an incarcerated man in an attorney meeting room …
Mass Incarceration is a Women’s Issue, Too by Jessicah Pierre by Jessicah Pierre, OtherWords Over the last few years, our broken criminal justice system has become a national issue as horrific stories of victims of mass incarceration have made their way into the mainstream media. The dominant narrative around this …
Article • April 3, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
U.S. Sentencing Commission Report: Racial Disparities Persist by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna In a November 2017 report, the U.S. Sentencing Commission (USSC) found that despite the avowed purpose of the federal sentencing guidelines to promote sentencing uniformity across geographic and socio-economic lines, black defendants continue to receive longer sentences …
Rash of North Carolina Jail Deaths Due to Lack of Supervision and Medical Care by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Todd L. Caveness, 40, had a long history of bipolar disorder, anxiety attacks and paranoia when he was booked into North Carolina’s Wilson County Jail on attempted murder charges …
What’s Hidden Behind the Walls of America’s Prisons by Heather Ann Thompson by Heather Ann Thompson Few Americans fully appreciate just how many of their fellow citizens are ensnared in the criminal justice system. Some may have heard that there are about 2.3 million people behind bars, but that figure tells …
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