“In the three prisons where I was warden, it was pretty much reactive: a very small percentage [of inmate calls] was monitored and it was done after the fact, when there was a crime or an alleged crime, that you’d get on to your phone monitoring equipment and try and hunt down w...
Background Since the novel coronavirus SARS-COV-2 was first identified to be circulating in the US on January 20, 2020, some of the worst outbreaks have occurred within state and federal prisons. The vulnerability of inmate populations, and the additional threats posed to the health of prison ...
Alabama is asking federal officials whether COVID-19 recovery funds can be used to improve state prisons with “better, enhanced, and/or extended infrastructure."
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The chief of the Philadelphia Department of Prisons is leaving the job after a series of inmate deaths and escapes. Blanche Carney, who has overseen the city's four prisons and jails since 2016,told staffersin a letter on Monday...
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A state-level analysis of sentencing policies and inmate crowding in state prisons. Crime and Delinquency - Wooldredge - 1996 () Citation Context ...example, presumptive sentencing guidelines, mandatory sentencing) and levels of incarceration, since such policies often dictate which types of offense ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Former guards in Wisconsin prisons and family members of people incarcerated there urged lawmakers Tuesday to address what they said were systemic problems within the state's prison system going back years. They detailed allegations of sexual ...