Did Federal Prison Use Chains, Solitary to Punish Inmate for Not Accepting Violent Cellmate?

Dec 15, 2016 No Comments

Alleged mistreatment of a Pennsylvania inmate who refused to accept his new cellmate has given rise to a class-action suit over conditions at the prison. Sebastian Richardson is under 5 feet tall but is having an oversized impact on the federal prison system, particularly the U.S. Penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, home to the largest Special

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

Lame-Duck Justice Department Maps Bureau of Prisons Reforms

Dec 8, 2016 No Comments

Helping inmates prepare for post-prison life a “moral imperative,” according to Attorney General Loretta Lynch. With less than two months before the end of the Obama administration, on Nov. 30 the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced “sweeping” reforms being made at the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to facilitate federal prisoners’ re-entry into society while

Georgia’s Criminal Justice Overhaul Demonstrates Widespread Positive Effects

Dec 1, 2016 No Comments

In the last five years, Georgia has been successful in making badly needed, sweeping changes to its criminal justice system under the direction of Republican Governor Nathan Deal. The state has come a long way from where stood in 2009 when a Pew Research Center study indicated that one in 13 citizens were involved in

Despite DOJ Ban, Private Prison Contracts in Georgia Are Renewed

Dec 1, 2016 No Comments

This past August was a very rough month for privately-owned and operated prisons at the hands of the Department of Justice. First, on Aug. 11, the DOJ inspector general’s office issued an 86-page report unfavorably comparing the performance of private prisons – looking over a four-year span at eight problem factors, including the incidence of

BOP Draws Fire for Not Testing All Inmates from Zika-Infected Areas

Nov 24, 2016 No Comments

Federal inmates arriving at Bureau of Prisons facilities from areas affected by the Zika virus are not routinely tested for the transmissible disease before joining the general prison population, notes a recent USA Today article that examined Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) documents including interviews with agency staff. The paper noted hundreds of federal prisoners

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New Guidelines Target Ending “Zero-tolerance” Policies, Aim To Stem School-to-Prison Pipeline

Nov 24, 2016 No Comments

The Obama administration has taken more steps to improve an atmosphere of fairness and equity and to support a climate of achievement for public school students. New materials to be used as tools by educators were released in September as part of a continuing effort to urge schools to abandon controversial, harsh “zero-tolerance” punishment policies

What Will Trump Team Do On DOJ Private Prison Ban?

Nov 17, 2016 No Comments

In what the American Civil Liberties Union hailed as a groundbreaking step, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced with great fanfare in August that it planned to stop using private prisons. The announcement followed the release a week earlier of a report by DOJ’s inspector general finding private prisons generally have higher assault and use

Community Involvement in Programs Boosts Chances For Successful Lives After Prison

Nov 17, 2016 No Comments

Community members can provide valuable links to the outside world, a support system during and after incarceration, and assist in delivering much-needed resources like education to help with successful re-entry. Twenty-five percent of the world’s prison population is located in the United States, and most — 95 percent — of those incarcerated will eventually be

Cuomo, New York Fail to “Raise the Age” As to Juveniles Tried As Adults

Nov 15, 2016 No Comments

Sixteen and seventeen-year-olds charged with crimes in New York courts will continue to be tried as adults, as Governor Andrew Cuomo and the legislature ended the 2015 lawmaking session without a law to “Raise the Age” for adult prosecutions, as many justice activists had hoped. New York remains one of two states, along with North

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Did Federal Prison Use Chains, Solitary to Punish Inmate for Not Accepting Violent Cellmate?

Corrections Officials Stealing Prisoners’ Identities a Growing Problem

Lame-Duck Justice Department Maps Bureau of Prisons Reforms

Georgia’s Criminal Justice Overhaul Demonstrates Widespread Positive Effects

Despite DOJ Ban, Private Prison Contracts in Georgia Are Renewed

BOP Draws Fire for Not Testing All Inmates from Zika-Infected Areas

New Guidelines Target Ending “Zero-tolerance” Policies, Aim To Stem School-to-Prison Pipeline

What Will Trump Team Do On DOJ Private Prison Ban?

Community Involvement in Programs Boosts Chances For Successful Lives After Prison

Cuomo, New York Fail to “Raise the Age” As to Juveniles Tried As Adults

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