The Hamilton Project, a non-partisan organization based in California that studies the relationship of incarceration to crime rates and its broad impacts on society, has published a new study that puts forward several new theories on how to continue to still reduce crime while reducing the incarceration rate. It draws ...
An announcement by Attorney General Eric Holder called for 200 halfway houses that contract with the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to provide services to releasing prisoners in their own local communities prior to completing their sentences, to increase the level of their services and offer more home confinement alternatives. ...
In a development not likely to happen any time soon in the United States, the Dutch government has announced that there are currently more guards in their prison system than prisoners. The drop in prisoners coincides with a drop in crime rates.
There are approximately 17 million inhabitants in the ...
A Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) study of state prisoner recidivism from 2005 to 2010 showed that “67.8% of the 404,638 state prisoners released in 2005 in 30 states were arrested within 3 years of release, and 76.6% were arrested within 5 years of release.” Twenty-three states submitted data for ...
A recent report issued by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) has called for a “broad national initiative” to reverse what they termed “America’s infatuation with collateral consequences has produced unprecedented and unnecessary collateral damage to society and the justice system.” NACDL’s initiative would “construct a ... clear ...
A new report by the non-partisan Pew Charitable Trusts found that everyone benefited and public safety did not suffer when prisoners’ sentences were shortened to permit them to receive post-release supervisory services. According to Adam Gelb, director of Pew’s public safety performance project, said, “There’s a broad consensus that public ...
Unlike Bureau of Prison (BOP) prisoner employment programs such as Prison Industries, widely criticized as exploitive because of the low wages paid and the lack of transferable job skills taught in its facilities, a new program instituted in the Bahamas jail system promises to promote a partnership for all participants. ...
For over ten years defense attorneys and their clients in Chicago have complained about the quality of medical treatment for prisoners at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC), Chicago, located in a decaying 28-story high rise building on the outskirts of the central business district. In a 160-page opinion issued after ...
Plaintiff Wilfred Rosado brought a 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 lawsuit against the City of New York for excessive force used against her at the Manhattan Detention Complex (MDC) in 2010. After several failed settlement attempts, the City finally agreed to pay her $2,000 for her injuries in March 2012.
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The Congressional Research Service, or CRS, a non-partisan research arm of the United States Congress, has released an extensive report highly critical of the “unprecedented increase in the federal prison population” since the early 1980’s. The report notes that the number of prisoners in the Bureau of Prisoners (BOP) has ...
