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Article • August 10, 2016
Destined to Fail: the Negative Effect of Collateral Consequence Laws by Gary Hunter Incarceration is intended as a deterrent to crime. But at least one report indicates that the opposite may be true. Dr. Tracy WP Sohoni of the University of Maryland received a federal grant to study the formal …
Article • August 10, 2016
Federal Prisoners in Canada Have Limited Access to Libraries Due To Funding Cuts by Christopher Zoukis A number of federal prisons in Canada are cutting library hours and library staff, limiting access to books, making it harder to improve literary skills to prepare for reintegration to society. Correctional Investigator Howard …
Article • August 10, 2016
Report: Decreases in U.S. Jail Population Slowed By California's Realignment by Joe Watson Exponential increases in the U.S. jail population over the past 20 years appear to have leveled off and even reversed slightly, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). The DOJ's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reported …
Article • August 10, 2016
Missouri Uses Execution Drug despite DOC Director's Denials Of Plans to Use by Christopher Zoukis Missouri's nine most recent executions have been carried out by killing prisoners with Midazolam, a drug that the state's Director of the Department of Corrections has stated in a sworn deposition that it had no …
Article • August 10, 2016
Texas Guards and Prisoners Rarely Prosecuted for Contraband Cellphones by Matthew Clarke According to an investigation conducted by the Texas Tribune, guards and prisoners are rarely prosecuted for the contraband cell phones found within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). The investigation discovered that only 5% of the cellphone …
Article • August 10, 2016
Legislators Support TV over Education in New York State Prisons by Christopher Zoukis While combating idleness and restlessness in America's prisons is certainly necessary to avoid disruptions and violence, how this is accomplished is up for debate. Lawmakers in New York State said no to a proposal this month, during …
Iran's Mass Executions and Abuses Continue by Christopher Zoukis Iran's dismal record on human rights has been reinforced once again, via the latest wave of mass executions, prisoner abuses, and clampdowns on those who stand against its theocratic regime. On August 4, 2014, 40 prisoners were killed at Shahr-e Kord …
Article • August 10, 2016
Former New Mexico Jail Captain Sentenced for Sexually Assaulting Prisoners by Matthew Clarke On April 9, 2014, a New Mexico federal grand jury indicted former Gallup-McKinley Adult Detention Center captain John Greene, 70, on charges related to the sexual assault of three female prisoners at the jail. Greene was charged …
Article • August 10, 2016
Arkansas Jail Finally Begins Serving Hot Meals by Christopher Zoukis Arkansas' Benton County Jail has, for years, served its prisoners three cold meals a day.  It has been doing so despite several lawsuits, and renewed requests that it serve hot meals, from the community.  The jail had no plans to …
Article • August 10, 2016
Wisconsin Parole Hampered by Prison Bureaucrats by David Reutter An “irrational” and unaccountable system is preventing Wisconsin’s parole eligible prisoners from satisfying requirements to merit release on parole. About 15% of Wisconsin’s more than 32,000 prisoners have sentences that allow them to be paroled. They are the remnant that lingers …
Article • August 10, 2016
Filed under: Sentencing
Skinhead Couple Gets Life for Killing Registered Sex Offender in South Carolina by Joe Watson After being sentenced to life in prison by a Union County, South Carolina judge for killing a registered sex offender and his wife, a pair of white supremacists lashed out at the victims' family with …
Article • August 10, 2016
Oregon Parole Board Psychologist Busted “Embellishing His Life” – Again by Mark Wilson “I have a big ego,” admitted longtime Oregon parole board psychologist Frank P. Colistro, Ed.D. “I embellish my life.” Asked if this hurts his credibility, Colistro hesitated for a long, painful silence before answering “No.” His employers …
Article • August 10, 2016
Oregon Expands Visiting Opportunities to Reduce Recidivism by Mark Wilson Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) officials are working to expand prisoner visiting opportunities, in response to a 2011 study that found a positive correlation between prison visits and recidivism rates. In November 2011, the Minnesota Department of Corrections released a …
Mentally Ill Held in Canadian Prison's 'Unsuitable' Former Segregation Unit by Joe Watson Despite recommendations from the United Nations, the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) and from within its own federal corrections system, Ontario, Canada's Millhaven Institution continues to lock up prisoners with acute mental illnesses inside cells that are …
Article • August 10, 2016
Guard’s Suspension for Dragging Injured Maine Pretrial Detainee Upheld by David Reutter Louisiana officials are resorting to unconventional tactics to combat the “international” problem of cellphones within its jails and prisons. Prisoner use of the contraband phones has become so widespread that rarely a day goes by that guards fail …
Article • August 10, 2016
Filed under: Judicial Misconduct
Florida Judges’ Outlandish Behavior Tarnishes Bench by David Reutter A prerequisite for holding a judgeship is maintaining an impeccable reputation of upstanding and ethical conduct in all affairs. Along the eastern shores of Florida known as the Space and Gold Coasts, the spotlight has shone upon the wayward conduct of …
Article • August 10, 2016
California, Other States Weigh Banning Late-Night Releases from Custody by Joe Watson Late-night releases from prisons and jails place former prisoners across the country at not only an immediate disadvantage—possibly unable to access transportation and shelter or a support system of friends and family— but also in the dangerous position …
Article • August 10, 2016
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
FCC Quashes Company's Blockage of Discounted Prisoner Call Plans by Derek Gilna Securus Technologies, Inc.'s petition to block discounted prisoner calling plans, such as the widely-used "Cons Call Home" program, was denied by the Wireline Competition Bureau in a hearing before the Federal Communications Commission. Securus was attempting to utilize correctional …
Article • August 10, 2016
Guam Correctional Issues Plague Prisoner Medical Care by Derek Gilna For twenty-three years a federal receiver has overseen Guam's troubled correctional system, but unfortunately for prisoners, medical care still appears to be substandard. According to a status report issued in the past two weeks, of 144 prisoners seeking some form …
Article • August 10, 2016
High-Profile Escapes from New Haitian Prison Highlight Country's Problems by Derek Gilna The recent daring escape of prisoner Clifford Brandt from Haiti's prison in Crois-des-Bouquet was yet another embarrassment for the country's criminal justice system.  Beset by rampant corruption, nepotism, financial problems, and incompetence, the prison suffered the biggest jailbreak …
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