As many Prison Education News readers are aware, Prison Law Blog is our sister website which focuses on prisoners’ rights and prison law. It is another property of Middle Street Publishing. Recently the Prison Law Blog launched a new project called the FCI Petersburg Pigeon Project. This project consists of taking care of the wild
If a Texas state prisoner dies or is executed, relatives or friends can pick up the body. If they don’t, he or she is buried in the largest prison graveyard in the United States – the Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery in Huntsville, Texas. Such burials occur around 100 times each year. Named after an assistant
Today, at 11:00 AM, I approached my unit team area — F-North in FCI Petersburg — seeking to submit a form that authorizes the Federal Bureau of Prisons to send money to a friend of mine from my commissary account (BP-199). Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM is the designated “Open House”
By Todd Peterson Give prisoners jobs! Real, honest-to-goodness jobs. Jobs other than the menial tasks we associate with prison life: serving food in the mess hall, doing laundry, scrubbing pigeon waste off the sidewalk. Jobs in career fields that can lead to viable employment after release. At a time when the economy is in a
By Chase Squires College In Colorado has developed an online program to guide felons back into work, and life. College In Colorado – a Colorado Department of Higher Education initiative that helps students and families explore careers and plan, apply, and pay for college – launches a free online program on July 2 – aimed
On May 31, 2013, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit granted a request by the United States for en banc review in United States v. Blewett, No. 12-5226/5582, 2013 WL 2121945 (May 17, 2013). In Blewett, a three-judge panel ruled that the recent amendments to provisions governing sentencing in crack cocaine
Until the economic downturn that started in 2008, few people outside of policy and media circles paid attention to the true costs of criminal justice. Overall, the country seemed to place more emphasis on lowering crime rates and fighting the “War on Drugs” rather than paying attention to the inflating costs of incarceration. To some
With fiscal uncertainty rampant and budget cuts looming, state lawmakers are finally seeing the light when it comes to correction’s budgets. This light comes in the numbers of 7% and $50 billion. According to the National Association of State Budget Officers, states spend 7% of their discretionary budgets, $50 billion a year, on corrections. This
Prison disciplinary proceedings are a way of life for those incarcerated in America’s prisons. This is because the various departments of corrections have a smorgasbord of applicable infractions that, unfortunately, are often applied inconsistently. Thus, the majority of inmates will eventually find themselves the subject of a prison discipline proceeding. When this occurs, they need to know what to do and how to defend themselves. Locating witnesses and obtaining effective written witness statements are vital components of an effective defensive strategy.
Today has been a very long day. It started with someone in my prison’s housing unit — the F-North housing unit at FCI Petersburg — yelling about pedophiles hogging the TRULINCS computers (the people to which this comment was made were most certainly not hogging anything), continued with scoffs at a transgender prisoner in the
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