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Rikers Island Guards Treat Mental Illness with Violence by Matthew Clarke With around 4,000 of its 11,000 prisoners classified as mentally ill, Rikers Island jail holds more psychiatric patients than all 24 of the psychiatric hospitals in New York State combined. In 2006, prisoners with mental illness comprised about 20% …
OSHA Cites Corizon for Inadequate Workplace Safety on Rikers Island by Matthew Clarke Listing numerous instances of its medical, mental health and dentistry employees being assaulted by Rikers Island prisoners, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited Corizon Health, Inc. for willful violation of Section 5(a)(1) of the …
Article • August 4, 2016
Jail Crowding at Texas County That Recently Sold Expansion Jail by Matthew Clarke In 2008, Montgomery County, Texas built the 1,293-bed Joe Corley Detention Center (JCDC) for $45 million. The voters who approved the bond issue believed the JCDC would be used to expand the capacity of the 1,251-bed Montgomery …
Article • August 4, 2016
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Crime Statistics for Texas Prison System Unchanged by Matthew Clarke The crime rate in Texas prisons has remained about the same despite a decrease in prisoner population of about 9,000 over the past ten years. Since 2009, 3,001 Texas prisoners and 584 Texas prison guards have been charged with crimes …
California Parole Agents Often Have Dangerously High Caseloads by When Jaycee Dugard escaped from captivity in Oakland, California sex offender Phillip Garrido's backyard, it became apparent that both state and federal parole officers had missed multiple opportunities to discover and rescue her during the 18 years she was held captive. …
Article • August 4, 2016
Alaskan Prisoner Deaths under Scrutiny by Matthew Clarke The Alaskan state legislature held a hearing in July 2014 after five Alaskan prisoners died between April and June of that year. According to Joe Schmidt, director of the Alaska Department of Corrections, the 2010 national prisoner death rate was .217% and …
Report Finds Fiscal Crisis of Increasing Low-Risk, High-Cost Older Prisoners by Matthew Clarke A report released by the Osborne Association found American prisons facing a crisis of aging in which an increasing percentage of older prisoners who are at low risk for recidivism are driving up the cost of running …
Article • August 4, 2016
Filed under: Guard Misconduct
Illinois: Assistant Warden Fired for Helping Ex-Prisoner by Lonnie Burton On July 9, 2014, an assistant warden at the Dixon Correctional Center in Illinois was dismissed from his position and escorted off the prison grounds after it was discovered that he tried to give a former prisoner some money. Charles …
Suit Charges Florida Detainee Died of Neglect by David Reutter The estate of a pretrial detainee who was “neglected to death” sued Florida’s Broward County Jail (BCJ) and its medical contractor, Armor Correctional Health Services (Armor). In other BCJ news, a guard was acquitted of assaulting a pretrial detainee. Upon …
Article • August 4, 2016
States Still Using Unconstitutional Debtors Prisons to Jail the Poor by Joe Watson The landmark 1983 U.S. Supreme Court decision Bearden v. Georgia reaffirmed the outlaw of so-called "debtors prisons"—the practice of incarcerating indigent people for being unable to pay off their debts—and requires that judges consider whether defendants are …
Article • August 4, 2016
Plaquemines Parish Jail Grand-Opening Faces Shuttered Wasteful Cells by David Reutter Hurricane Katrina destroyed the 800 plus bed Plaquemines Parish Detention Center (PPDC). Plans to house out-of-jurisdiction prisoners and corruption by the former sheriff resulted in building a state-of-the-art facility. As of October 2014, the construction of this facility--much larger …
New York Holds Sex Offenders Past Their Release Dates Because of 2005 Law by Joe Watson New York's Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) is reinterpreting statutes governing where sex offenders can live post incarceration to keep scores of them behind bars past their release dates. Since February 2014, …
Article • August 4, 2016
Law Forbidding the Shackling of Pregnant Women Fails to End Practice by David Reutter Four years after Pennsylvania passed legislation prohibiting the shackling of pregnant prisoners after their second trimester, the law is frequently disobeyed. As a result, many prisoners are enduring “barbaric” shackling while in labor.                 PLN previously …
History as Substance Abuser Influences Nation’s Drug Czar by David Reutter America’s drug czar is an alcoholic who is approaching his job differently than his predecessors. In leading the White House Office of National Drug Control, Michael Botticelli is following the Obama administration’s policy of shifting away from the “war …
The Debt Penalty: Financial Barriers to Offender Reintegration, John Jay College, 2014 The Debt Penalty Exposing the Financial Barriers to Offender Reintegration Douglas N. Evans Research & Evaluation Center John Jay College of Criminal Justice August 2014 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | Preparation of this report was supported by a grant from Justice …
Publication • August 4, 2016
Federal Prosecution for the 21st Century, Brennan Center for Justice, 2014 brennan center for justice FE D ERA L P ROSECUTION FOR T H E 2 1 s t CENTUR Y Lauren-Brooke Eisen, Nicole Fortier, and Inimai Chettiar Foreword by the Honorable Janet Reno Introductory Letter by G. Douglas Jones …
Treatment and Reentry Practices for Sex Offenders - An overview of States, Vera Institute, 2008 TREATMENT AND REENTRY PRACTICES FOR SEX OFFENDERS An Overview of States Reagan Daly Vera Institute of Justice September 2008 Suggested citation: Reagan Daly. Treatment and Reentry Practices for Sex Offenders: An Overview of States. New …
Publication • August 4, 2016
Aging Behind Bars, Urban Institute, 2014 Aging Behind Bars Trends and Implications of Graying Prisoners in the Federal Prison System KiDeuk Kim Bryce Peterson August 2014 Acknowledgments This report was prepared with intramural support from the Urban Institute. The authors would also like to acknowledge the insightful advice and support …
Publication • August 4, 2016
Irregular Passion Unconstitutionality and Inefficacy of Sex Offender Residency Laws, Agudo, 2008 Copyright 2008 by Northwestern University School of Law Northwestern University Law Review Printed in U.S.A. Vol. 102, No. 1 Comments IRREGULAR PASSION: THE UNCONSTITUTIONALITY AND INEFFICACY OF SEX OFFENDER RESIDENCY LAWS† Sarah E. Agudo∗ “[C]ertain duties must be …
Publication • August 4, 2016
Denying Parole at First Eligibility – How Much Public Safety Does It Actually Buy, CAPPS, 2009 Denying parole at first eligibility: How much public safety does it actually buy? A study of prisoner release and recidivism in Michigan August 2009 Denying parole at first eligibility: How much public safety does …
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