Jails, Prisons Are Failing; How about Flogging?
The American criminal justice system holds almost 2.3 million people in 1,833 state prisons,110 federal prisons, 1,772 juvenile correctional facilities, 3,134 local jails, 218 immigration detention facilities, and 80 Indian Country jails as well as in military prisons, civil commitment centers, sta...
Many theologians considered Peale as “God’s salesman”, critiquing him as a dangerous con man and fraud since he convinced people to believe that all basic problems werepersonal, unrelated to social, political, or economic contexts. Personal failures, Pe...
According to the FBI, more than 70 million people in the United States have a crim- inal record of some kind, meaning they have at least been arrested. 9 Millions of people cycle through Ameri- can jails annually. And tens of millio...
The COVID-19 infection numbers being released by prisons and jails are likely an undercount, experts say. It's unclear how many jails and prisons are thoroughly testing their populations, if they're testing at all. "If you’re not finding cases, you're an ostrich in the sand," sa...
So the hospitals were closed, and the patients who overwhelmingly suffered all varieties of psychological disorders were sent to the streets where they have been thereafter routinely swept up by local law enforcement agencies and whisked off to the county jails and state prisons, none of which...
But, hey, I guess that’s what prisons and jails are for. Russ November 21, 2010 at 2:05 pm I suppose the department may say something different from the admissions office or the marketing office, or the office of the president. Do they still call students “clients” and “consumers...
inequity in the legal system and mass incarceration more broadly, considerEJI. The non-profit was founded by author and public interest lawyer Bryan Stevenson, and provides legal representation to people who have been illegally convicted, unfairly sentenced or abused in state jails and prisons. ...
By 1953 Bandera’s former ally Mykola Lebed (with whom he had plotted the Pieracki assassination in 1934 and served five years in Polish jails) had become a rival. Where Bandera was MI6’s man, Lebed was the CIA’s man. In the...
Prisons and jails are often owned and operated by local or state governments. However, there has been a trend to privatize these facilities as governments seek to lower costs, raisecapital, and create jobs in their communities. Proponents argue that specialist companies are better equipped and skil...