By Matthew Mangino / Macon Chronicle-Herald In February, New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced a new statewide initiative to give prison inmates the opportunity to earn a college degree through funding college classes in prisons across the state. In a press release, the governor’s office revealed that New York currently spends $60,000 per year
Prison Overcrowding: A Cause Which Has Terrible Effects Overcrowded prisons represent a serious social and penological problem in the United States. They’re a safety issue — putting a strain on prison employees, making it more difficult to monitor inmate behavior and control the wanton violence inside our nation’s prisons. They’re a sanitary issue — potentially
Today, a new project crossed my desk concerning the guys at Prisology — an up-and-coming prison reform organization created by noted prison law expert Brandon Sample and respected federal attorney Jeremy Gordon. This project concerns the U.S. Sentencing Commission’s approaching determination on reforms to federal drug sentencing and the potential retroactivity of any determinations. In
Are you looking for a worthy cause to support? Our good friends at Prisology have launched a creative campaign to ensure that the U.S. Sentencing Commission makes any revisions to the federal sentencing guidelines retroactive, thus helping not only current and future criminal defendants, but current federal prisoners, too. This project concerns T-shirts and selfies.
Abraham Bolish has written an interesting article about prison education and the university system of education. While https://www.federalcriminaldefenseattorney.com does not entirely agree with Mr. Bolish’s opinions, we found the article cogent and food for thought. “Against the romanticizing of education, Leftists should recognize alternative regimes of study, as practiced in prison organizing and indigenous peoples’
On Wednesday, February 19, 2014, federal prisoner James Booker, 37, escaped from Satellite Prison Camp Lompoc in Lompoc, California.*1 SPC Lompoc is a minimum-security federal prison that, as of February 27, 2014, housed 466 male federal prisoners. Booker, sentenced to 104 months in federal prison for possession of crack cocaine with intent to distribute, “walked
Gov. Chris Christie announces an expansion of the NJ-STEP program after a roundtable discussion with program staff, graduates, and participants, at 10:30 a.m. at Mercer County Community College in West Windsor. The program — full name: New Jersey Scholarship and Transformative Education in Prisons Consortium — allows state prison inmates to take classes for college
On April 23, 2014, Attorney General of the United States, Eric H. Holder Jr., announced a new initiative intended to encourage appropriate candidates to petition for executive clemency from the President of the United States. The initiative comes amid public statements by Holder and other top federal officials suggesting President Barrack H. Obama may eventually
By Prison Legal News The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the transfer of a former federal prisoner’s negligence action from Illinois to Kansas. Daniel Hudson relocated to Illinois following his release from a federal prison in Kansas. He filed a Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) suit in U.S. District Court in Illinois, alleging
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No bell marks the start of our day. Instead, a slow drip-feed of men in grey tracksuits amble their way into classes. Sometimes 10 sit in front of me, aged 21 up to 60 or 70. They are the disaffected and the despicable. They are the proud, the defensive and the downright disagreeable; funnelled into education during their first days inside, where they complete assessments in literacy and numeracy. Their scores determine their placement into a classroom, and their subsequent opportunities for work.
I didn’t know you could teach in prison until I volunteered at a rehab centre and someone there had learned to read in jail. It was a revelation to me after I’d always sworn that I would never teach, prompted in part by my primary teacher mother: never me, never a teacher. But something clicked and I knew that this was where I would end up. This was my niche; my place to make a difference.
The most challenging part of working with offenders is the disparity between students in the classroom – the range of ages, their level of literacy and their attitude to learning. Often their only common ground is their criminality. Some learners arrive spoiling for a fight, desperate to avoid the torture of school all over again, determined to prove themselves. Behaviour is an issue, with many refusing to work. Challenging inappropriate language is a constant battle when, for some, the f-word is used in every sentence.
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