Prisons Under Trump: Going Forward, Backward or Standing Still?

Jul 26, 2017 No Comments

THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SEEMS DETERMINED TO UNDO PRISON REFORMS LAUNCHED BY PRESIDENT OBAMA. America has a reputation for dehumanizing rather than rehabilitating its prisoners. Jails are crowded beyond manageable levels. Privatization and for-profit measures have pushed more people into incarceration than ever before; for example, those with minor fines and misdemeanors. The prison population has a

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

DOJ Inspector General Identifies Challenges for Federal Prisons

Feb 9, 2017 No Comments

What are the biggest challenges facing the Department of Justice in 2017? Michael Horowitz, the DOJ’s inspector general, gave his views on that question late last year in a report titled Top Management and Performance Challenges Facing the Department of Justice, released on Nov. 11. Required annually by law, the report does not break new

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

DOJ’s Private Prison Phaseout Has Complex Roots

Sep 1, 2016 No Comments

Part II: How the Policy Came About and Will It Last? Read Part I: What DOJ and the Bureau of Prisons Have Planned In a blog last week, I summarized the Department of Justice’s August 18 announcement it plans to stop sending federal inmates to privately-owned prisons. Now, let’s look at the background leading up

Department of Justice Gives Formal Approval on Bureau of Prisons’ Communications Management Units

Aug 27, 2016 No Comments

Nearly a decade after the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) began operating its notorious “Communications Management Units” (or CMU’s), the Department of Justice (DOJ) has formally issued a final rule approving the BOP’s restrictive policies already in place at those facilities. In 2006, the BOP opened its first CMU at its Terre Haute, Indiana prison

Advocates Urge Obama to Speed Up DOJ Commutation Initiative

Jun 30, 2016 No Comments

Dozens of criminal justice reform activists have publicly told President Barack Obama his personal intervention is needed to keep the clemency initiative his administration announced in 2014 from falling victim to a “bureaucratic logjam” at the Department of Justice (DOJ). A joint letter went to the president on June 21 from more than 40 law

DOJ Inspector General: Sentences Miscalculated for Thousands

Jun 9, 2016 No Comments

A recent report from the Department of Justice (DOJ) federal watchdog says mistakes resulted in incorrect amounts of prison time being served by more than 4,000 federal prisoners during the six years between 2009 and 2014. The 41-page report, “Review of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Untimely Releases of Inmates,” issued on May 24, examined

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Prisons Under Trump: Going Forward, Backward or Standing Still?

Grassley Prods Silent BOP on Remedies for Wrong Release Dates

DOJ Inspector General Identifies Challenges for Federal Prisons

Despite DOJ Ban, Private Prison Contracts in Georgia Are Renewed

DOJ’s Private Prison Phaseout Has Complex Roots

Department of Justice Gives Formal Approval on Bureau of Prisons’ Communications Management Units

Advocates Urge Obama to Speed Up DOJ Commutation Initiative

DOJ Inspector General: Sentences Miscalculated for Thousands

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