Securus Technologies, Inc.'s petition to block discounted prisoner calling plans, such as the widely-used "Cons Call Home" program, was denied by the Wireline Competition Bureau in a hearing before the Federal Communications Commission. Securus was attempting to utilize correctional rules devised to prevent incarcerated individuals from calling unauthorized numbers to prevent ...
For twenty-three years a federal receiver has overseen Guam's troubled correctional system, but unfortunately for prisoners, medical care still appears to be substandard. According to a status report issued in the past two weeks, of 144 prisoners seeking some form of treatment from correctional medical staff, 97 were never seen. ...
The recent daring escape of prisoner Clifford Brandt from Haiti's prison in Crois-des-Bouquet was yet another embarrassment for the country's criminal justice system. Beset by rampant corruption, nepotism, financial problems, and incompetence, the prison suffered the biggest jailbreak in a well-planned attack aimed at freeing Brandt, son a wealthy businessman. ...
One of the main objections raised to granting retroactive sentence relief under the 2007 Crack Cocaine Amendment was the fear that those prisoners receiving sentence reductions would recidivate at a high rate. A new study by the U.S. Sentencing Commission shows that those released early recidivate at a lower rate ...
A 2006 Justice Department concluded that 45% of prisoners in the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) have mental health problems, which was characterized as a recent manifestation of mental illness or symptoms of a disorder. According to the BOP, 10% of its prisoner population is receiving medication designed to treat depression, ...
As American troops continue their planned withdrawal from Afghanistan and wind down their combat role in favor of their Afghan allies, at least one facility continues to operate without interruption. The Detention Facility in Parwan. close to Bagram Airport in northern Afghanistan, still holds the 40 most dangerous non-Afghan prisoners still ...
The State of California’s criminal justice system, which in recent years has received increasing scrutiny from the federal courts for what it termed numerous constitutional violations, received yet another setback in a recent federal judge’s ruling that invalidated its “arbitrary” death penalty statute. U.S. District Court Judge Cormac J. Carney’s ...
A report prepared by the California State Auditor has revealed yet another serious problem in prisoner medical care in the state. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation carried out dozens of illegal sterilizations of its women prisoners from 2005 to 2006, and from 2012 to 2013 without proper consent ...
Contraband is a constant problem in Bureau of Prisons (BOP) facilities, and although some of it is just a nuisance -- tobacco, alcohol, and creatine, for instance -- it constitutes a potentially serious threat in higher-security institutions when guns, knives and drugs are introduced. Unfortunately, a $4 million investment in ...
Anyone who has been paying attention the past several months is aware that the public’s perception of the federal government’s ability to manage its affairs in an orderly fashion has been plummeting. Therefore, no one should be the slightest bit surprised that a recent government study of the Bureau of ...
