Pennsylvania stands alone as DOC recipient of federal grant

Nov 12, 2015 No Comments

This week the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections was awarded one of nine “Improved Reentry Education (IRE)” awards of $1 million each from the US Department of Education, Office of Career, Technical and Adult Education. The program itself is mandated to support “demonstration projects in prisoner re-entry education that develop evidence of reentry education’s effectiveness” and

China’s Forced Prison Labor and Re-Education Camps Await Prostitutes After Roundups

Nov 11, 2015 No Comments

Notwithstanding China’s great economic boom that has created a new class of millionaires and well-to-do urban citizens, the specter of Mao-era re-education camps still looms over China’s poorest citizens, especially the estimated six million women working in its growing sex industry. These women are routinely arrested by police in vice sweeps that some say are

No Resources for Programs to Help Prisoners Make Parole in West Virginia

Nov 10, 2015 No Comments

West Virginia’s prison and jail population has continued to grow despite the passage of a sweeping prison reform bill, so much so that the state has been taking bids from private prison operators to house hundreds of prisoners in out-of-state facilities. Sadly, as the overcrowding program grows, the West Virginia Parole Board denies release to

Los Angeles County Jail Home Detention Program a Failure

Nov 10, 2015 No Comments

The Los Angeles County Jail’s early release program began in the late 1980s as a result of an adverse finding by a federal judge that the jail’s overcrowding amounted to an 8th Amendment violation for cruel and unusual punishment. Since that time, several early-release programs have been attempted, but many have failed. The latest early

FCC inserts itself into prison-industrial complex debate with new ruling

Nov 5, 2015 No Comments

On October 22nd, the FCC finally stepped into a debate that could have wide-reaching effects on this nation’s criminal justice system. After many years of reticence, they finally issued a ruling clamping down on the exploitive practices of private companies providing telecommunications services to America’s prisons. The new FCC rules seek to cap fees for

“Each time somebody fails out of school, a new jail cell gets built.”

Nov 5, 2015 No Comments

Those are the words of young Brooklynite, Vidal Chastanet, describing on Humans of New York (HONY) how his teacher, Nadia Lopez, explains the importance of education for individual and social well-being. While we generally focus on prison education initiatives on this blog, we would be remiss not to mention the continuation of a story that

Study Finds Victims of Bullying More Likely to Enter Criminal Justice System

Nov 2, 2015 No Comments

A new study suggests a direct link between childhood bullying and later imprisonment for bullying victims. The study, presented at the American Psychological Association’s 121st Annual Conference, finds that childhood and teenage victims of bullying, almost 30 percent of American youth, are more likely to have conduct disorders and enter the American criminal justice system

Judicial Discretion: The Good and Bad News

Oct 29, 2015 No Comments

It’s heartening to know that the American public has gotten to the point where it almost universally recognizes the failure of mandatory minimum sentencing policies to make our communities stronger. But as greater emphasis is being placed on the importance of judicial discretion in sentencing, a new comprehensive study from the Bureau of Justice examining

When GEDs mean failure for prisoners

Oct 29, 2015 No Comments

Last year when changes to the GED programs were first announced, analysts predicted it would have a serious impact on the ability of prisoners to acquire their certificates. A year later, those predictions have proven accurate. Prison GED success rates have dropped dramatically, in some places up to 82% since the system switched over. To begin, the content

Oklahoma Early Release Program Leads to Only Isolated Cases of Recidivism

Oct 27, 2015 No Comments

Only two of the nearly 1,500 prisoners granted early release by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections (DOC) from March to October 2014 have returned to prison, notwithstanding news reports indicating that lawmakers and “several” corrections officials have not been supportive of the releases. The approximately 1,500 prisoners were granted early release due to the DOC’s

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Pennsylvania stands alone as DOC recipient of federal grant

China’s Forced Prison Labor and Re-Education Camps Await Prostitutes After Roundups

No Resources for Programs to Help Prisoners Make Parole in West Virginia

Los Angeles County Jail Home Detention Program a Failure

FCC inserts itself into prison-industrial complex debate with new ruling

“Each time somebody fails out of school, a new jail cell gets built.”

Study Finds Victims of Bullying More Likely to Enter Criminal Justice System

Judicial Discretion: The Good and Bad News

When GEDs mean failure for prisoners

Oklahoma Early Release Program Leads to Only Isolated Cases of Recidivism

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