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Crime and Justice News
Dec 8, 20231 min read
'Game Changer' CA Inmate Re-Entry Plan Will Pay Ex-Prisoners $2,400
Hundreds of Californians released from prisons could receive direct cash payments of $2,400 along with counseling, job search assistance...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 6, 20231 min read
Legislation To Ban Solitary Confinement In Federal Institutions Introduced In Senate
A bill that would largely ban the use of solitary confinement in federal institutions was introduced in the United States senate on...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 5, 20231 min read
New York AG Joins Calls for Federal Takeover After Rikers Inmate Death
New York Attorney General Letitia James is calling for the federal takeover of Rikers Island following a recent death, Gothamist reports....
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 4, 20232 min read
White House Opposes Senate Bid To Return 3,000 Inmates To Prison
The White House has threatened to veto a Republican Senate resolution that would result in 3,000 federal offenders who were released to...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 4, 20232 min read
Study Finds Prison Deaths Soared 77% In Pandemic's First Year
A study of U.S. prison deaths at the height of the COVID-19 crisis in 2020 has found that mortality rates soared by 77% relative to 2019,...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 4, 20231 min read
Tennessee Prison Population Climbs Eight Percent As Crime Drops
After years of steady declines, Tennessee’s prison population climbed by nearly eight percent last year, a bump in the rate of...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 4, 20231 min read
Inmate Who Stabbed Chauvin 22 Times Planned Attack For A Month
An inmate stabbed Derek Chauvin 22 times at a federal prison in Tucson, Ariz., the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Arizona said in announcing...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 1, 20231 min read
One-Third Of Federal Inmates Committed 'Prohibited Acts'
About one-third of federal prisoners committed "prohibited acts" last year, reports the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics in a summary of...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 1, 20232 min read
NY Prison Faulty Drug Tests Wrongfully Disciplined Inmates
State corrections officials relied on faulty drug test results to discipline more than 2,000 incarcerated people wrongly in New York,...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 30, 20231 min read
In Reversal Of Trend, Prison Populations Grew 2% Last Year
At the end of last year, there were 1,230,100 persons in state or federal prisons, an increase of 2% or 25,100 from 2021, reports the...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 27, 20231 min read
California To Hike Wages For Inmate Work; Advocates Say It Isn't Enough
For the first time in 30 years, the California prison system plans nearly to double most hourly wages for incarcerated workers, a...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 26, 20232 min read
Derek Chauvin Stabbed In Prison For High-Profile, Vulnerable Inmates
The stabbing of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd in 2020, at a special unit...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 22, 20231 min read
In Face of Extreme Heat, Legislators Try to Require A/C at Florida Prisons
Florida Democratic state legislators and prison reform advocates are working to provide short-term solutions to bring cool air to the...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 21, 20232 min read
Minn. Prisons Allow Some Inmates To Live Outside With New Babies
Minnesota lawmakers passed the Healthy Start Act in 2021, which allows some mothers to live outside of prison with their new babies,...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 16, 20231 min read
More States Looking to End 'Prison Gerrymandering,' Report Finds
A  new report from the Coalition Hub for Advancing Redistricting & Grassroots Engagement, a coalition of good-government groups working...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 15, 20231 min read
Recorded Prison Calls Lead to Arrest of Grandmother in Killing-for-Hire Case
Recorded jail-phone calls led to the arrests of Donna Sue Adelson, 73, at the Miami International Airport. Adelson, 73, a woman...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 15, 20231 min read
Two Oldest Wisconsin Prisons To Ease Lockdown Restrictions
After staff shortfalls and overcrowding that left prisoners spending months on lockdown, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers and Department of...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 13, 20232 min read
Colorado Still Forcing Inmates To Work Despite State Ban
After a few months working in his prison's hot and crowded kitchen, Richard Lilgerose was having trouble sleeping. "I was always anxious...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 10, 20231 min read
Judge Orders Federal Oversight of ‘Abhorrent’ Healthcare At Louisiana’s Angola Prison
A federal judge has ordered federal oversight of inmate healthcare at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, the Advocate reports. In a...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 10, 20232 min read
Contaminated Food, Infrastructure Problems Reported In Florida Federal Prison
A new report released Wednesday by the Justice Department inspector general’s office on the Federal Correctional Institution Tallahassee...
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