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U.S. Sentencing Commission Report Breaks Down Federal Contraband Sentences by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On February 4, 2026, a federal indictment was unsealed against California state prison guard Matthew L. Madsen, 39, alleging that he accepted over $100,000 in bribes to smuggle contraband cellphones and tobacco into the Salinas …
U.S. Jails Hold 52,000 Detainees for Nothing More than “Failure to Appear” by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman According to a report by the nonprofit Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) published on January 8, 2026, arrests on “failure to appear” warrants account for over 13.6% of some 7.6 million annual jail …
Article • March 1, 2026 • from PLN March, 2026
Alaska’s DOC Was $24 Million Over-Budget Last Year, Spent Most on Overtime by The state Department of Corrections (DOC) spent $24 million more than the Alaskan legislature approved last year, a historic high. According to Alaska Public Media, $20 million of the additional budget request was earmarked to pay overtime …
Article • March 1, 2026 • from PLN March, 2026
Minnesota Study Shows Disproportionate Rate of Health and Mental Problems for Recently Incarcerated by Michael Thompson by Michael Thompson The Journal of General Internal Medicine recently published an open access study that looked at health conditions for people in Minnesota who had recently experienced homelessness or incarceration and compared them …
Idaho Prisons Are Full. Costs for Incarcerating Inmates in Jails and Out of State Are Skyrocketing by Laura Guido by Laura Guido This article was originally published in the Idaho Capital Sun.   Idaho’s rising rates of incarcerating state prisoners in county jails and out of state have led to skyrocketing costs. …
Article • January 1, 2026 • from PLN January, 2026
Wisconsin DOC Is Not Tracking Work Release Data by Most jobs within Wisconsin prisons are paid in cents as minimum wage laws don’t apply in lockups. But the state also has work release programs that allow certain prisoners to earn a rate that’s the same as non-­incarcerated employees. Unfortunately, as …
Study Finds Parole Hearings and Grants Continue to Fall by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman In the “tough-­on-­crime” years that closed out the last century, parole was eliminated in many states, as well as the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). But as the U.S. Supreme Court noted most recently in …
New York State Closes Yet Another Prison by In November 2025, the state of New York announced that it will close the Bare Hill Correctional Facility (BHCF), a prison near the Canadian border, by March of next year. The closure of the facility, which has a staff of 293 and …
Prisoners and Detainees in the Gulf Coast Are Particularly at Risk from Natural Disasters by The Gulf Coast of the United States stretches across five states in the Southeast. Within that region, more than 270,000 people are incarcerated in jails, prisons, and other detention facilities. For the prisoners and detainees …
FCC Issues Proposed Rule Permitting Cellphone Jammers in Prisons and Jails by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted on September 30, 2025, to issue a Third Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to relax the current ban on using cellphone “jamming” technology in prisons and jails. …
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 …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Among World Nations, Individual U.S. States Near Top of List for Per Capita Incarceration by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In June 2024, the nonprofit Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) ranked world incarceration rates as if each state in the United States was a separate country. The shocking but sadly unsurprising …
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 • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
One of Eight Prisoners Now Released is a Woman by David Reutter by David Reutter As resources are stretched by millions of people released annually from U.S. prisons and jails, advocates struggle to obtain accurate information about the scope of the need. The nonprofit Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) responded with …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Decoding Recidivism: Unraveling Its Complex Metrics and Real Impact by When the Iowa Department of Corrections (DOC) reported a drop in the recidivism rate for its state prisoners on December 15, 2023, it joined prison systems in Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia that have also celebrated lower recidivism rates. …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Executions Rise in 2023, Number on Death Row Falls by The number of American prisoners awaiting execution continued a decrease that began at the turn of the century, dropping to 2,331 in 2023, a 4.3% decline from 2022. Yet even though just five states executed prisoners during the year— Texas, …
U.N. Panel Finds Rampant Racism in U.S. Criminal Justice System by In what will surprise few prisoners, a report by an appointed panel of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (HRC) released on September 26, 2023, found “shocking” human rights violations and “staggering” racial disparities in U.S. criminal justice …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Dixie Prison Growth Drives Number of Incarcerated Americans Above 2 Million Once Again by After two years of decline driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of Americans held in federal and state prisons at the end of 2022 jumped 2% to a total of 1,230,143, according to a November …
Deadly Failures: Preventable Deaths in U.S. Immigration Detention (2024 ACLU, American Oversight, and Physicians for Human Rights) ACLU, AMERICAN OVERSIGHT, AND PHR RESEARCH REPORT Deadly Failures Preventable Deaths in U.S. Immigration Detention AMERICAN OVERSIGHT PHR Physicians for Human Rights Executive Summary 1 ACLU, AMERICAN OVERSIGHT, AND PHR REPORT Deadly Failures …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Filed under: HIV/AIDS, Statistics/Trends
HIV and Incarcerated People: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In June 2023, Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) reviewed data from the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics on HIV and people in America’s prisons, finding that infection rates for the virus—which has no cure—remain …
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