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United States Attorneys FY 2014 Performance Budget Congressional Submission, DOJ, 2014 U.S. Department of Justice United States Attorneys FY 2014 Performance Budget Congressional Submission THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK Table of Contents Page No. I. Overview....................................................................................................................... 1 II. Summary of Program Changes ............................................................................... 16 III. Appropriations Language and Analysis of …
Article • December 15, 2013 • from PLN December, 2013
Ninth Circuit: Residential Reentry Center Walkaway is Not Escape by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that walking away from a residential reentry center does not constitute escape under 18 U.S.C. § 751(a). In 2008, Anthony E. Burke was convicted of federal offenses in Washington State and sentenced …
Article • December 15, 2013 • from PLN December, 2013
Possession of Cell Phone Doesn’t Violate Nevada Escape Device Statute by The Nevada Supreme Court has held that a statute prohibiting prisoners from possessing escape devices does not encompass possession of a contraband cell phone. Pursuant to NRS 212.093(1), prisoners are prohibited from having “any key, picklock, bolt cutters, wire …
Elder Abuse in Prisons: The Call for Elder Justice and Human Rights Protections Behind Bars by Tina Maschi by Tina Maschi, Ph.D., LCSW, ACSW “Prison is a hard place. Pure Hell! As long as you are in khaki, you are considered non-human. The elder suffer the most because there isn’t …
Publication • December 1, 2013
BJS Report on Prison and Probation, 2012 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics December 2013, NCJ 243826 Bul l etin Probation and Parole in the United States, 2012 Laura M. Maruschak and Thomas P. Bonczar, BJS Statisticians D uring 2012, the number of adults …
Publication • December 1, 2013
Filed under: Statistics/Trends, Census
BJS Prison Population Report, 2012 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics December 2013, NCJ 243936 Bul l etin Correctional Populations in the United States, 2012 Lauren E. Glaze and Erinn J. Herberman, Ph.D., BJS Statisticians A t yearend 2012, the combined U.S. adult correctional …
Publication • December 1, 2013
BJS Report on 2012 Corrections Trends U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics December 2013, NCJ 243920 Trends in Admissions and Releases, 1991–2012 E. Ann Carson and Daniela Golinelli, BJS Statisticians T he prisoner population in the United States in 2012 declined for the third …
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
U.S. Department of Justice Reports Statistics on State Prosecutors by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) of the U.S. Department of Justice has released the most recent in a series of statistical reports on state prosecutors. The report covers 2,330 prosecutors’ offices serving judicial districts …
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
Texas Prison Population Drops but Savings Evaporate by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke The prospects for cost savings in the operation of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), now the nation’s largest state prison system, seemed optimistic in 2011 when the state made the unprecedented decision to close a …
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
New Exonerations Registry Catalogs Over 2,400 Wrongful Convictions by According to the National Registry of Exonerations, more than 1,230 criminal defendants who were wrongfully convicted have been exonerated since 1989. Another 1,170 cases involving wrongful convictions were not included in the Registry’s database because they were “collective exonerations” in police …
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
Prisoners in Texas Jail Providing Less Slave Labor by According to Taylor County, Texas Sheriff Les Bruce, prisoners at the county jail in Abilene are performing less free labor than in the past. Bruce allowed low-risk prisoners convicted of non-violent offenses to perform work for the county in exchange for …
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
Court Baffled by BOP's Steel-toe Boot Requirement for Prisoners by Derek Gilna In reviewing the appeal of federal prisoner York Wilson, convicted by a jury of “assault resulting in serious bodily injury,” the Seventh Circuit criticized the Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) policy that requires most prisoners to wear steel-toe boots. …
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
Connecticut Supreme Court Reverses FOIA Disclosure of NCIC Printout by The Connecticut Supreme Court held on September 27, 2012 that a National Crime Information Center (NCIC) printout was exempt from production under the state’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), because a federal regulation barred its disclosure. Rashad El Badrawi was …
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
Best Criminal Defense Pleading Ever! by Alex Friedmann PLN primarily reports on civil litigation involving prisons and jails rather than criminal cases. There are other resources that address criminal law; for example, Punch & Jurists (www.fedcrimlaw.com), which covers issues related to federal criminal cases. However, when we ran across a …
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
The Real Costs of Incarceration in the United States by It has long been an open secret that government officials go out of their way to hide from public view the true costs of the many, many different aspects of America’s top-heavy and constantly growing law enforcement system; and in …
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
Debtors' Prisons Returning to America by David Reutter As the United States was becoming an independent nation with its own values and form of government, it discarded an archaic English system that drove the poor into greater poverty. When the U.S. ended the practice of debtors’ prisons in 1833, it …
Federal Justice Grants Favor Prosecution, Law Enforcement Over Indigent Defense by A report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has confirmed what many criminal defendants too poor to afford an attorney have long suspected: While hundreds of millions in federal tax dollars go to support prosecutors, law enforcement and prisons …
Publication • November 8, 2013
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Elderly (50 and Over) Admissions 2012-2013 FL DOC 2014 Hom e | About Us | C ontact Us Florida Department of Corrections Michael D. C rews, Secretary Home Institutions C ommunity C orrections R ick Scott, Gove rnor Re-Entry Explore DC Offender Search Performance Dashboard 2012-2013 Agency Statistics Strategic Plan …
Article • October 15, 2013 • from PLN October, 2013
Massachusetts: Overcrowding Forces Changes in Correctional Facilities by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Prisons and jails in Massachusetts have a problem: Almost every correctional facility in the state is operating above its capacity. Budget cuts have compounded the overcrowding problem because there is no money for new construction or …
Article • October 15, 2013 • from PLN October, 2013
Declining Prison Populations Leave Towns with Empty Jails, Debt by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Several Texas towns are bemoaning their bad business decision to enter into the for-profit incarceration industry as the bottom began dropping out of that market 5 or 6 years ago. Over a two-decade boom …
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