By Associated Press The Michigan Department of Corrections is working on several efforts to teach community college courses and vocational training in-house to a small number of inmates near parole. The effort comes after years without funding for prisoners to access higher education, The Detroit News reported Monday, and Michigan is joining a pilot project
UNICOR — also known as Federal Prison Industries, Inc. — is a government-owned corporation operated within the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). It utilizes factory plant managers who oversee inmate workers to produce products and provide services. For the most part, UNICOR products and services are utilized to lower costs for state and federal agencies,
By Christopher Zoukis The Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (“PLRA”), Pub. L. No. 104-134, 110 Stat. 1321, is a group of statutory provisions — codified in scattered sections of Title 18, 28, and 42 of the United States Code — designed to impose strict conditions on court filings by incarcerated persons, especially those filling
The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) offers several vocational training and apprenticeship programs for inmates under their care. These programs are designed to teach inmates marketable skills they can use upon release to gain sustainable employment. While program offerings differ from institution to institution, the BOP does offer a surprising variety of programs. A complete
Shortly after her conviction on a capital murder charge for killing her lover, TruTV obsession Jodi Arias released a statement in which she said she’d rather die now than face a long stretch of imprisonment, probably for life. She’s 32 years old. In today’s climate of prisoner warehousing, control units and barely existent medical care,
Pharmaceutical companies, various state departments of corrections, several countries, and prisoners are under fire. The issue on the table is the death penalty and how it is carried out, specifically in which drugs are used and how they are obtained. Currently, the firestorm spans a number of continents and includes a number of multinational corporations.
Most cynics would say, “Prisoners don’t deserve good food. They committed a crime; just keep feeding them slop because we don’t want our tax dollars going to feed those criminals!” Unless one is familiar with a prison 120 miles northeast of Los Angeles, California, one would agree prisoners don’t deserve nutritional food, which is a
Inmates incarcerated within the Federal Bureau of Prisons are housed in communal living settings. These “housing units” consist of either a number of cells or a dormitory. Generally speaking, dorms are utilized at lower security institutions (e.g., federal prison camps and low-security federal prisons), while cells are utilized at higher security institutions (e.g., medium-security federal
Prison disciplinary work is a staple of my practice. There will always be someone who has recently received an incident report for violating a prison disciplinary regulation, and many will seek counsel as to how to defend against the proceedings. Truth be told, I like this sort of work. It allows me to think outside
In the May issue of Graterfriends, the publication of the Pennsylvania Prison Society, an announcement was made as to their upcoming Annual Business Meeting and Benefit Celebration. Since the Prison Law Blog unequivocally supports the Pennsylvania Prison Society and its essential work, we’d like to pass along the announcement.Here are the basics: Who: The Pennsylvania
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