When you put any human being in a box and put others in charge, you create an environment ripe for abuse without strict oversight. Unfortunately, because prisons are supposed to punish lawbreakers (and those confined therein have left victims in their wake), there is often minimal sympathy for inmates, meaning that millions of inmates are
By Dianne Frazee-Walker Prisons or prisoners are portrayed by the media and the entertainment industry as doing “hard time.” Gary Settle, sentenced to 177 years for his first offense, asks the question, What is hard time? What does it mean to do hard time? Settle did not think about it. He just did the time
When Summit County, Colorado jail inmate Ray Wolfe reported a hair in his beef stroganoff he wasn’t prepared for what occurred next. He now faces a possible 24-year sentence for 3 felonies and a misdemeanor. Complaining about a hair in his food could get an inmate over 2 decades in prison. Wolfe claims when he
It was a typical summer evening in the small Rocky Mountain town of Salida, Colorado. I was taking my routine walk down F Street with my dogs, Kia Ya and Mickey. Final destination — the Arkansas River for some stick throwing and a dip in the river to cool off the pooches. Kia Ya is
On the fateful day, October 24, 1999, Carol Kent was awakened by a phone call that changed her life forever. Her only child, Jason P. Kent, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. Jason was a model citizen, an Annapolis Naval Academy graduate with no prior record. He was convicted and sentenced to life in
Lawmakers in Texas on Tuesday defended the lack of air-conditioning in state prisons after a report linked 19 inmate deaths to extreme heat. A study released by the University of Texas Law School’s Human Rights Clinic warned that the state was violating the constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment and the human rights of
A new report says state jails in Texas are ineffective, expensive, and actually result in higher recidivism rates than Texas prisons. The report from the Texas Public Policy Foundation suggests taxpayers are getting a bad deal on their tax dollars and public safety. The report’s author, Jeanette Moll, says through the research, they have found
According to the study reported in this video, California’s Realignment Initiative is resulting in more auto thefts throughout the state. The study does not suggest building more prisons to house California’s criminals. Instead, the study’s authors propose finding alternative methods to reduce crime.
By Christopher Petrella and Alex Friedmann David Harvey, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the City University of New York, writes, “Capitalism never resolves its problems; it simply rearranges them geographically.” The same can be said of California’s almost three-year-old Public Safety Realignment initiative – legislation designed to reduce the Golden State’s prison population,
This video provides a unique overview of California’s prison problem. California’s philosophy is to lock them up and throw away the key. The bulk of California’s prisoners are imprisoned for non-violent drug offenses. The Three Strikes Law and so-called ‘mandatory sentencing’ guidelines are briefly examined. Simply throwing money at the problem — hiring more prison
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