Departing House Chair Wants Probe Into “Egregious” Misconduct at Federal Prison

May 25, 2017 No Comments

The soon-to-depart chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee says the panel will investigate how the Federal Bureau of Prisons has handled what he terms “egregious” misconduct at the U.S. Penitentiary in Coleman, Florida, the largest government-run detention facility. In Mid-May, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) sent letters to both the BOP and the

Bonds Used to Finance Private Prisons, Jails Turn into Junk

May 13, 2017 No Comments

The promise of safe, humane, and less costly prisons has been used for decades by the private prison industry to sell its products. As prison populations skyrocketed, local, state and federal governments became convinced that financing and building more and more correctional facilities was the way to go. So did investors, who picked up municipal

Justice Department Maps New Course on Forensic Science Review

Apr 20, 2017 No Comments

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on April 10 that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will not renew an Obama-created advisory panel that has been studying ways to improve forensic science for four years. Instead, DOJ says it plans a series of different steps to bring responsibility for policymaking inside the Department of Justice. The National

Mentally Ill, Disabled CDCR Prisoner Dies Following Use of Force Incident

Apr 12, 2017 No Comments

On September 7, 2013, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) prisoner Joseph Duran, 35, a mentally ill inmate who breathed through the use of a tube in his throat, died following a use of force incident. He had been pepper-sprayed in the face for refusing to remove his hands from a food slot in

Grassley Prods Silent BOP on Remedies for Wrong Release Dates

Mar 9, 2017 No Comments

Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Charles Grassley (R-IA) is demanding answers from the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) on why it hasn’t acted on recommendations made last May by the Department of Justice (DOJ) inspector general to reduce incorrect incarceration release dates. First, a little history: Jermaine Hickman, convicted in 2007 of bank robbery, was supposed to

State Prison Suicides Climbed 30% in One Year

Feb 16, 2017 No Comments

The number of inmate suicides in state prisons climbed by more than 30 percent during a one-year period, according to a recent report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) in the Department of Justice. The statistical study, Mortality in State Prisons, 2001-2014, released on Dec. 15, noted that in 2013, 192 state prison

Corrections Officials Stealing Prisoners’ Identities a Growing Problem

Dec 8, 2016 No Comments

Corrections officials tend to have a single-track mindset: guards oversee prisoners to maintain security and order. But what if the looking glass needs to be reversed, and the jailers must be overseen instead? With identity theft perpetrated by prison and jail employees on the rise, that option must be seriously considered. But who would want

Utah’s Sex Offender Population Filling Up Prisons

Nov 15, 2016 No Comments

The State of Utah is starting to feel the strain from harsh sentencing laws targeting sex offenders that it passed in recent years. While most states are enjoying a decline in prison populations in the last decade, Utah’s counts are rising, as sex crime offenders fill up 42 percent more beds than they did 10

Prisoner Deaths Continue To Rise

Nov 15, 2016 No Comments

By Chris Zoukis For the third year in row, the number of prisoners who died in America’s prisons and jails rose. Some 4,446 prisoners died in 2013, a two percent increase over 2012, continuing an upward trend, according to the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics. Suicide remains the

American Jail Population Remains Steady

Nov 14, 2016 No Comments

By Chris Zoukis The population of America’s jails at mid-year 2014 remained steady at approximately three-quarters or a million prisoners, at 744,600 men, women, and children. This number represents a 1.8 percent increase from 2013 levels, but is still lower than the 2008 high of 785,500 persons, according to a June 2015 report from the

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Departing House Chair Wants Probe Into “Egregious” Misconduct at Federal Prison

Bonds Used to Finance Private Prisons, Jails Turn into Junk

Justice Department Maps New Course on Forensic Science Review

Mentally Ill, Disabled CDCR Prisoner Dies Following Use of Force Incident

Grassley Prods Silent BOP on Remedies for Wrong Release Dates

State Prison Suicides Climbed 30% in One Year

Corrections Officials Stealing Prisoners’ Identities a Growing Problem

Utah’s Sex Offender Population Filling Up Prisons

Prisoner Deaths Continue To Rise

American Jail Population Remains Steady

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