We often get asked if can you earn money in prison –the answer is yes, but it’s not much. Prisoners with jobs are paid according to one of three scales, each depending on the department in question. Most prisoners are paid according to the Inmate Performance Payscale, which is as fol...
Federal Prison Costs Skyrocketing despite Shrinking Inmate PopulationFederal prisons held fewer inmates in 2014 than the year before,but the costs of keeping them...Westwood, Sarah
While several inmate email services exist, all emails to and from federal inmates are sent through Corrlinks.com. While community members use the Corrlinks.com website, inmates use the TRULINCS computers in their housing unit to email.
If a federal inmate has the will to improve their mind, the Federal Bureau of Prisons will usually provide the means. The criminal justice community has little positive to say about the federal prison system’s educational efforts. At best, many call inmate education substandard; at worst, a ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — An inmate who was transferred to one of the most secure federal prison facilities in the U.S. was stabbed to death within hours of arriving, raising fresh questions about the government’s ability to keep prisoners safe amid severe understaffing and a ...
The ruling also finds corrections officials wrongly interpreted two key provisions of a directive regarding the type of property each inmate may possess and the risk each item poses. “Under either or both provisions, (Fischer) ought to have been permitted to retain (the card) unless it ...
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A judge on Friday appointed a special master to oversee a troubled federal women’s prison in California known for rampant sexual abuse against inmates, marking the first time the Bureau of Prisons has been subject to s...
It is also the second major incident at the Tucson federal prison in a little over a year. In November 2022, an inmate at the facility's low-security prison camp pulled out a gun and attempted to shoot a visitor in the head. The weapon, which the inmate shouldn't...
Martin Shrkeli, the smirking "Pharma Bro" vilified for jacking up the price of a lifesaving drug, was sentenced March 9, 2018 to seven years in prison for defrauding investors in two failed hedge funds.
He should have done the math.Nine days of freedom may cost Travis Ware another five yearsbehind...Buser, Lawrence