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Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Filed under: Crime, Statistics/Trends
Crime Down But Incarceration Up In Tennessee by Despite a significant drop in reported violent crimes in Tennessee, the number of people incarcerated by the state Department of Corrections (DOC) has risen, according to data released by the United States Department of Justice on October 15, 2024. That showed that …
1994 Crime Bill Turns 30: A Legacy of Controversy by Thirty years later, 1994’s Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act (VCCLEA) is still criticized by progressive politicians for stoking mass incarceration in the United States. Others, like former Pres. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D)—who co-sponsored the bill as a …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Federal Prisoners Released Under First Step Act Show 37% Reduction in Recidivism by Matthew Clarke
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
N.H.’s First Black Sheriff Charged With Embezzling $19,000 by On September 28, 2023, Sheriff Mark A. Brave of New Hampshire’s Strafford County was arraigned on charges he stole $19,000 in phony reimbursements for attending conferences he missed or which never occurred. He is also accused of perjury for lying about …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
George Floyd’s Killer Stabbed 22 Times in Federal Prison in Arizona by On November 24, 2023, Derek Chauvin, 47, the former Minneapolis cop convicted of murdering George Floyd—touching off nationwide protests against police brutality in summer 2020—was stabbed 22 times at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Tucson, Arizona, where …
Publication • 2022
U.S. Dept of Justice-Prisoners in 2021-Statistical Tables, Dec. 2022 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics December 2022, NCJ 305125 E. Ann Carson, PhD, BJS Statistician F rom yearend 2020 to yearend 2021, the number of persons under the jurisdiction of state or federal correctional …
Article • December 7, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Missouri Sheriff Who Vowed to Clean Up Crime Faces Criminal Charges, Lawsuits by R. Bailey by R. Bailey In March 2018, a federal grand jury returned an 11-count indictment against Mississippi County, Missouri Sheriff Cory Hutcheson. Hutcheson, 34, already faced robbery charges as well as a wrongful death suit filed …
Article • December 7, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Filed under: Crime, Statistics/Trends
Brookings Institute Study Finds Direct Connection between Poverty and Crime Rates by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The Brookings Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based research group, has published a study that demonstrates, through empirical data, what many have long suspected: That extreme poverty leads to increased crime rates. The same study, …
Publication • October 16, 2018
Letter in support of Fare Evasion Decriminalization Amendment Act in DC - Oct 2018
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Crime
Florida: Federal Prison Guard Sentenced for Accepting Bribe by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin Former FCC Coleman guard Albert Larry Harris, Jr., 27, was sentenced to 24 months in prison on February 15, 2018 after Senior U.S. District Court Judge James D. Whittemore accepted his guilty plea for taking a …
Article • October 12, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Lawsuit Over Prisoner Assault at Tennessee Jail Results in Settlement, Dismissal by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss A civil rights complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee on behalf of a pretrial detainee who was severely beaten by his cellmate at the Rutherford County …
Article • July 2, 2018 • from PLN July, 2018
Oregon: Former Clackamas Deputy, Probation Officer Sentenced for Child Rape by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin On March 23, 2018, Clackamas County Circuit Court Judge Michael Wetzel sentenced a former county deputy and probation officer to 35 years and one month in prison for repeatedly sexually abusing two young girls, …
Article • May 9, 2018 • from PLN May, 2018
Filed under: Crime, Bail Bonds
North Carolina Woman Attempts Bail Bond Scheme from Inside Jail by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin On December 1, 2017, police in Gastonia, North Carolina filed charges against Crystal Dawn Massey, who was already incarcerated at the Gaston County jail, for her role in a fake bail bond scam she …
Article • May 7, 2018 • from PLN May, 2018
Mother-Son Team Sentenced for Tax Fraud, Obstruction of Justice by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Debra Skipper, a 61-year-old Ohio woman, was sentenced on October 31, 2017 in federal district court in Clarksburg, West Virginia to a split sentence of six months in jail and six months of home detention …
Article • November 7, 2017 • from PLN November, 2017
Filed under: Crime, War on Drugs, Telephones
Georgia Prison Contraband Investigation Nets 130 Arrests, Guilty Pleas by David Reutter by David M. Reutter About 130 people have been arrested following a joint two-year investigation by the FBI and the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDOC). Indictments for 75 of the arrestees were announced in September 2015; another 46 …
Article • November 7, 2017 • from PLN November, 2017
Obama Publishes Commentary on Criminal Justice Reform in Harvard Law Review by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Barack Obama made history by becoming the first president to contribute to legal scholarship by having an article published in a law journal while in office. The article, titled “The President’s Role in …
Article • June 9, 2017 • from PLN June, 2017
Filed under: Crime
Virginia: Three Face Federal Charges for Fake Legal Services Scheme by Prisoners held in jails in Newport News and Norfolk, Virginia were duped by a fictitious legal services company called “FamUnited,” also known as “Famm United” or “FamilyTranzitions.” The scammers behind the scheme, Teresa Gallop, 49, Jessie Davis, 20, and …
Article • March 31, 2017
Filed under: Crime, Statistics/Trends, Police
The Dangerous Notion of a Nationwide Crime Wave by Joseph Margulies by Joseph Margulies, Verdict In a recent Wall Street Journal Op-Ed, Heather MacDonald, a conservative analyst with the Manhattan Institute, blamed the so-called “Ferguson effect” for the increase in violent crime experienced in several U.S. cities last year. As MacDonald …
Publication • February 9, 2017
Filed under: Crime, Police, Criminal Justice
Fighting Crime and Strengthening Criminal Justice: An Agenda for the New Administration, Law Enforcement Leaders, 2017 FIGHTING CRIME AND STRENGTHENING CRIMINAL JUSTICE: An Agenda for the New Administration FOREWORD BY Ronal Serpas and David Brown www.lawenforcementleaders.org ABOUT LAW ENFORCEMENT LEADERS Law Enforcement Leaders to Reduce Crime and Incarceration unites nearly …
Better by Half - The New York City Story of Winning Large-Scale Decarceration while Increasing Public Safety, Greene & Schiraldi, 2016 Better by Half: The New York City Story of Winning Large-Scale Decarceration while Increasing Public Safety JUDITH A. GREENE* Director, Justice Strategies VINCENT SCHIRALDI Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy …
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