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Crime and Justice News

3 days ago
2 min

Health Issues More Pronounced In Prisons, States Not Prepared

State prisons are continuing to ignore the health care needs of people in their care, says the Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) in a new...

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Crime and Justice News

5 days ago
1 min

Offenders Serving Over Five Years in Prison Less Likely To Recidivate

In a follow-up study on the relationship between length of incarceration and recidivism, the U.S. Sentencing Commission found results...

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Crime and Justice News

Jun 17
1 min

Oregon's Peters Now Seen As Likely Federal Prisons Chief

Colette Peters, the director of Oregon prisons, has emerged as the leading contender to run the federal prison system, the Associated...

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Crime and Justice News

Jun 16
2 min

Prison Workers Paid Pennies An Hour To Produce $11 Billion: ACLU

Incarcerated workers in the U.S. produce $11 billion in goods and services annually but receive pennies an hour for prison jobs, says a...

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Crime and Justice News

Jun 7
2 min

How Prison Consultants Help The Convicted Prepare For Life Inside

In a continuing and profound shift in the judicial system: almost everyone charged with a crime ends up pleading guilty, the New York...

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Crime and Justice News

Jun 3
2 min

Justice Department IG to Probe IL Prison Violence, Abuse Reports

Three members of Congress called for an immediate federal investigation into violence and abuse at the U.S. penitentiary in Thomson, Il....

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Why Prison Reformers Should Focus On 'Back-End' Release Decisions

Crime and Justice News

Jun 2
2 min

Why Prison Reformers Should Focus On 'Back-End' Release Decisions

“Indeterminacy” is the product of uncertainty about how much time in custody a criminal defendant serves. The uncertainty extends over...

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Crime and Justice News

Jun 2
1 min

Google Gives $8M To Help Ex-Inmates Work In Tech, Clear Records

Google is contributing more than $8 million to expand its justice reform work, including the expansion of digital skills programming for...

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Crime and Justice News

Jun 2
2 min

Michigan Bans Some Spanish and Swahili Books in Prisons

Officials in prison systems across the U.S. have banned certain books to prevent the flow of material that they say might incite violence...

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Crime and Justice News

May 31
2 min

Newest Federal Prison In Illinois Is One of The Deadliest

Officials said that opening the Thomson prison in Illinois would make federal prisons safer by relieving dangerous overcrowding. An...

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Crime and Justice News

May 21
2 min

Ohio's Mohr A Top Candidate to Lead Federal Bureau of Prisons

Gary Mohr, former director of the Ohio state prison system has emerged as a leading contender to run the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of...

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Crime and Justice News

May 20
2 min

Will 'Fear-Mongering' About Crime Lead to Prison, Jail Population Rise?

.While the COVID pandemic has led to drops in many states' incarceration rates, without policy changes, the reductions will almost...

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Crime and Justice News

May 13
1 min

Black Women's Imprisonment Rate Falling, White Women's Rate Up

Between 1980 and 2020, the number of incarcerated women increased by more than 475 percent, rising from 26,326 in 1980 to 152,854 in...

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Crime and Justice News

May 2
2 min

Three Years Later, Republicans Stop Touting First Step Act

When President Trump signed the First Step Act in 2018, he had visions of using the legislation to make major inroads with Black and...

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Crime and Justice News

May 2
1 min

Four Florida Prison Officers Charged With Beating Inmate to Death

A fourth Florida corrections officer charged with murder in the fatal beating of a prison inmate was arrested on Friday, NBC News...

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Crime and Justice News

Apr 27
2 min

Republicans Say IL Governor's Inmate Board Releases Too Many

When a group of Democratic Illinois state senators joined Republicans in rejecting two of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s nominees to the Illinois...

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Crime and Justice News

Apr 26
2 min

CA Prison Staff Vaccination Order Voided By Appeals Court

A federal appeals panel overturned a judge’s order requiring all prison staff in California to be vaccinated against COVID-19, a mandate...

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Crime and Justice News

Apr 25
2 min

Lawsuit Challenges Racial Kidney Data Used to Decide Prison Releases

Last month, a federal judge in New Jersey rejected the plea of a man who claimed his kidney problems made COVID-19 especially dangerous...

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Crime and Justice News

Apr 21
1 min

DOJ Says Mississippi Penitentiary Violates Inmates' Rights

A federal investigation into prison conditions after January 2020 riots at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman determined...

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Crime and Justice News

Apr 20
2 min

San Quentin Prison Hosts First Junior College for Inmates

Behind a fortress wall and razor wire a few feet away from California’s death row, students at a unique college discuss the 9/11 attacks...

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