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. The bill would allow courts to sentence truancy offenders to community service instead of incarceration, though short jail sentences still remained an option. “Prisons were meant for hardcore criminals ...
; Besides providing security services, it also operates private prisons and immigration detention centers, provides electronic tagging (monitoring) for offenders on community supervision and has a prisoner ...
Article • March 31, 2017
created to do. If only the normal, decent relations between the police and the community could be re-established, this problem could be resolved. Poor people in general are more likely ...
Article • March 28, 2017
: If you were talking to people in a community that was considering prison development as an economic strategy, what do you think would be good things for them to consider in their public conversations about ...
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
the likelihood of people who are already fairly likely to fail in the community.” Despite the limited scope of many of the studies that have examined this issue, one thing is clear, Sullivan said. None ...
lower-custody yards. Additionally, the report calls for better communication between guards and prisoners, less "clustering" of younger prisoners, and "additional legal mechanisms to increase time ...
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Filed under: Guard Misconduct
rifle with the serial number removed. Following the February 2016 GDC indictments, Atlanta NBC affiliate 11Alive reported that some officials in the Georgia law enforcement community thought GDC employees ...
-seizure medications.” McCain had been held at the Durham County jail since August 2015 on charges of assault on a female, assault with a deadly weapon, battery of an unborn child, communicating ...
Article • August 30, 2017 • from PLN September, 2017
on three Federal Communications Commission dockets on August 9, 2017, accusing FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, who formerly represented prison telecom giant Securus Technologies, Inc., of having a conflict ...
of the community who will one day be released. Norwegians also have a different philosophy when it comes to punishment. According to Specter, they don’t support punitive or harsh conditions of confinement ...
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
in compliance with Title 15 by providing free sanitary pads; she said tampons were not required. The California Board of State and Community Corrections, which is responsible for enforcing Title 15, said ...
to acknowledge that fact not only makes the prison environment more dangerous but also makes communities “less safe once offenders subjected to these conditions are released.” The riot at Vaughn began ...
Article • April 17, 2018
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
also called on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to block signals from the cell phone tower located near the prison, saying that was something the Department of Corrections would be discussing ...
that," Parks said. "It should include an official apology and some social services to help the person get reacclimated to society, find a job, and reestablish oneself as a productive member of the community ...
Article • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017
New Orleans office and a coauthor of the report. There is also a growing body of evidence that money spent to detain people before trial is not actually making local communities any safer. The most ...
Article • April 5, 2017
the federal court sentence Metz to five years’ probation, 200 hours of community service, a $2,000 fine, and $651.39 in restitution to Kipp. Predator guards also lurk in jails. From 2002 to 2011 ...
Article • October 10, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
Filed under: Voting
ruling held likewise, finding JCI’s prisoners live in a “state run enclave” that requires them to “go on with their lives mostly separated from the communities in which ...
;          In response to a public records request filed by Prison Legal News, on February 13, 2018 the TDOC’s director of communication, Neysa Taylor ...
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
-Lawson asserted. Just this year, for example, her group convinced the Colorado Department of Corrections to reduce its phone rates for prisoners. “I just think the lines of communication for all of our ...
Article • August 8, 2014 • from PLN August, 2014
Filed under: Parole, Mental Health
to his criminal behavior.” Ultimately, Dr. Stuckey concluded that Dam had “a present severe emotional disturbance such as to constitute a danger to the health and safety of the community.&rdquo ...
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