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Publication • September 1, 2014
PEW Infographic on Imprisonment and Crime Rates, 2014 An infographic from Prison and Crime: A Complex Link Crime drop since 1994 has been bigger in states that cut imprisonment rates Two decades after Congress passed the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994—with lawmakers focused on locking up …
Publication • September 1, 2014
Filed under: Statistics/Trends, Census
Prisoners in 2013 BJS 2014 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics September 2014, NCJ 247282 E. Ann Carson, Ph.D., BJS Statistician O n December 31, 2013, the United States held an estimated 1,574,700 persons in state and federal prisons, an increase of approximately 4,300 …
Unfair Punishment by Sam Levin Unfair Punishment by Sam Levin Part One: Victim Discrimination A state program that’s supposed to help crime victims denies people who have had run-ins with the law or are afraid of being victimized again. The front door was wide open when police arrived at the …
Article • August 12, 2014 • from PLN August, 2014
Washington Prison Guard’s Murder Costs State $2.5 Million and Counting by Mark Wilson Washington Prison Guard’s Murder Costs State $2.5 Million and Counting by Mark Wilson A Washington prisoner’s conviction and death sentence for murdering a female prison guard has cost taxpayers $1.6 million, while the guard’s family settled a …
Publication • August 12, 2014
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Jail Inmates at Midyear 2013 Statistical Tables BJS 2014 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics Revised August 12, 2014 May 2014, NCJ 245350 Todd D. Minton and Daniela Golinelli, Ph.D., BJS Statisticians A fter a peak in the number of inmates confined in county …
Article • August 7, 2014 • from PLN August, 2014
Temple University Acts on Complaint Against Authors of Private Prison Study by Temple University Acts on Complaint Against Authors of Private Prison Study In response to an ethics complaint filed against Temple University professors Simon Hakim and Erwin A. Blackstone, a Temple official wrote in July 2014 that she had …
Article • August 7, 2014 • from PLN August, 2014
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
BJS Report: Jail Population Increases in Indian Country by BJS Report: Jail Population Increases in Indian Country Jails on Indian reservations across the U.S. are housing more offenders despite a decline in violent crimes, according to a report released last year. The most recent annual Survey of Jails in Indian …
Publication • August 1, 2014
Consequences of Criminal Proceedings in NY Legal Guide Bronx Defenders 2014 THE CONSEQUENCES OF CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS IN NEW YORK STATE A GUIDE FOR CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEYS, CIVIL LEGAL SERVICES ATTORNEYS, AND OTHER REENTRY ADVOCATES (August 2014 Edition) General Practice Tips  The U.S. Supreme Court held in Padilla v. Kentucky …
Publication • August 1, 2014
Policing and Wrongful Convictions NIJ 2014 New Perspectives in Policing augus t 2014 VE RI TAS HARVARD Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management National Institute of Justice Policing and Wrongful Convictions Anthony W. Batts, Maddy deLone and Darrel W. Stephens Introduction Executive Session on Policing and Public …
Publication • August 1, 2014
Incarceration and Divorce, NIH Criminology, 2014 NIH Public Access Author Manuscript Criminology. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2015 August 01. NIH-PA Author Manuscript Published in final edited form as: Criminology. 2014 August ; 52(3): 371–398. doi:10.1111/1745-9125.12040. EXPLAINING THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN INCARCERATION AND DIVORCE* Sonja E. Siennick1, Eric A. Stewart1, and …
Brief • July 19, 2014
J.W. v. City of Ferguson, MO, Complaint, jail guard rape escape, 2014 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI EASTERN DIVISION J.W., Plaintiff, v. CITY OF FERGUSON, JARIS HAYDEN, Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) No.: PLAINTIFF DEMANDS JURY TRIAL COMPLAINT - CIVIL …
SEC Rejects CCA, GEO Group Shareholder Resolutions to Reduce Prison Phone Rates by SEC Rejects CCA, GEO Group Shareholder Resolutions to Reduce Prison Phone Rates On February 18, 2014, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) granted a request filed by for-profit prison company GEO Group to exclude a shareholder resolution …
Prison Closures Cause Economic Turmoil by Shrinking state budgets across the country are leading to prison closures that in turn have a negative impact on communities that depend on the facilities as a source of jobs and revenue. [See: PLN, June 2013, p.1; April 2009, p.1]. Small towns in Kentucky, …
Do Faith-Based Prisons Work? by Alexander Volokh Do Faith-Based Prisons Work? by Alexander Volokh There are a lot of faith-based prison programs out there. As of 2005, 19 states and the federal government had some sort of residential faith-based program, aimed at rehabilitating participating prisoners by teaching them subjects like …
Article • July 9, 2014 • from PLN July, 2014
Oregon Victim’s Right to Restitution Survives Prosecutor’s Statutory Violation by Mark Wilson Oregon Victim’s Right to Restitution Survives Prosecutor’s Statutory Violation by Mark Wilson The Oregon Court of Appeals held that a prosecutor’s failure to comply with state restitution laws did not deprive a trial court of authority to impose …
Two Murders in Seven Months at CCA-run Prison in Tennessee by Two Murders in Seven Months at CCA-run Prison in Tennessee On May 23, 2014, the Medical Examiner’s Office in Nashville completed an autopsy report on Tennessee state prisoner Jeffery Sills, 43, who was murdered at the South Central Correctional …
Article • July 9, 2014 • from PLN July, 2014
Decline in Arrests of Los Angeles County Probation Officers by Decline in Arrests of Los Angeles County Probation Officers The Los Angeles County Probation Office has cited tougher self-policing and stricter hiring standards for a dramatic decrease in the number of employees arrested for driving under the influence and various …
Publication • July 2, 2014
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Bureau of Prisons Northeast Region Litigation Report Jan 1998
Publication • July 1, 2014
Assessment of the 1996 DOJ Review of the FBI Laboratory An Assessment of the 1996 Department of Justice Task Force Review of the FBI Laboratory U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General July 2014 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY1 This is the third review by the Office of the Inspector General …
Publication • July 1, 2014
Osborn Association, The Crisis of America's Aging Prison Population, 2014 The High Costs of Low Risk: The Crisis of America’s Aging Prison Population Prepared by the Osborne Association for: The Florence V. Burden Foundation July 2014 Executive Summary For the past four decades, we have witnessed the most sustained and …
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