Two calls a week from her incarcerated son costs Marjorie Arniotis over $150 per month. Lorraine Green pays around $200 a month to talk to her imprisoned son and was paying more until one of her sons was acquitted in January 2006.
New Jersy jails and prisons have long been ...
Some citizens of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania feel that county work-release prisoners are forfeiting too much of their salary to a greedy judicial system.
Businessman Lewis Knepp employs work-release prisoners. He tells how one of his employees, who earns $10 an hour and takes home $317 a week has $257 garnished ...
From January to May 2006, 480 Texas prisoners tested HIV-positive upon their release from prison. Testing for the virus has now become mandatory in Texas before a prisoner can be released.
The bill for mandatory testing, passed in May 2005, was sponsored by Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston.
?We need to ...
Colorado State Penitentiary II (CSP-IT) is slated for construction in early 2007. It will hold the state?s most dangerous prisoners locked down for 23 hours per day. Ironically, the 948 pre-fab cells will be built by prisoners in the Freemont prison facility located about a mile down the road.
Andy ...
Imagine six million candles of light and the noise level of a jet plane taking off inside an average 6'x10' jail cell. That's what Courtney Countee, Jessie Kerwin, Daniel Lucas, Jason Morrison, Cladius Jefferson and Michael Toro endured at the hands of the Sacramento County jail's Custody Emergency Response Team ...
On June 29, 2006, Louisiana prison administrator James H. Leslie, 55, was formally indicted on federal charges of tampering with a witness. The indictment was returned on February 16, 2006 but remained sealed so as not to impede an ongoing investigation.
“[T]here is no longer any need for this matter ...
Pharmaceutical drug distributors have found a future and a fortune in our nation?s prison system. Record rates of incarceration equal record profits for drug companies.
One enterprising pharmacist has made herself a major player in the drug distribution industry. With an idea that literally was created at her kitchen table ...
Willie Forrest, 37, was fatally shot by a Northampton sheriff?s deputy, after he grabbed another deputy?s gun and fired two shots.
Forrest, who had a history of courtroom violence, was standing trial, on Wednesday July 12, 2006, for three felony charges. He became enraged when the judge would not allow ...
New Jersey Prison Commissioner's Complete Ban On Media Lifted
by Gary Hunter
Immediately upon taking office, in January 2005, New Jersey Department of Corrections (DOC) Commissioner George Hayman imposed a total ban on media interviews with prisoners. DOC spokesman Matthew Shuman said the policy was put in place because of ...
Under a law passed by Michigan legislators prisoners can now be required to pay up to $60 per day for the cost of their incarceration in city jails.
Proposed by State Sen. Laura M. Toy, R-Livonia the law was signed into effect by Gov. Jennifer Granholm on April 5, 2006. ...
