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Crime and Justice News
Jul 30, 20231 min read
NYC 'Preppy Killer' Freed From Prison After Serving Drug Term
Robert Chambers, known as New York City's “Preppy Killer,” was released after spending 15 years in prison for drug and assault charges....
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 28, 20232 min read
Connecticut Cuts Incarceration in Half, Decreases Crime
In 1999, Connecticut's prison population was so high that the state had to pay to send 500 prisoners to be incarcerated in Virginia....
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 24, 20232 min read
'Prison Bust' Hits Rural and Urban U.S. Unevenly, New Study Shows
In the "prison bust" of the first two decades of this century, as America's prison complex began to shrink after an unprecedented boom...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 24, 20232 min read
IL Prison Conditions Report Poses Tough Questions of Costs, Closings
Stories of dire conditions in Illinois prisons have been trickling out for years, but a new report from a consulting company hired by the...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 21, 20232 min read
Trans People Punished With Solitary Confinement in Federal Prisons
A recent Federal Bureau of Prisons report on trans people in federal prisons from 2017 to 2022 shows that incarcerated trans people are...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 20, 20232 min read
Louisiana Put Kids in Angola. Now They're Sweltering
Children in Louisiana’s juvenile justice system who are housed in a former death row building at the state’s adult prison are enduring...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 20, 20232 min read
High Temps Threaten More Deaths and Other Crises in Prisons
Record high temperatures across the South and Southwest, with little relief even at night, are likely to increase prison deaths and are...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 20, 20232 min read
Report Decries 'Americanization of British Prisons'
While the U.S. in recent years has begun to reduce its incarceration rate and adopt other reforms to make American criminal justice more...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 13, 20232 min read
Black Incarceration Rate Far Lower Than DOJ Projected In 2003
A 2003 Justice Department-sponsored study reported that if imprisonment rates remained the same as they were in 2001, 1 out of every 3...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 12, 20231 min read
Ex-Theranos CEO Holmes To Win Prison Release Two Years Early
Convicted ex-Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes is now scheduled for early release. Last November, the California former biotechnology...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 10, 20231 min read
VA High Court Ruling Could Allow Early Releases For More Inmates
Virginia’s Supreme Court ordered the release of one of hundreds of inmates who had been set to get out of prison early under a 2020 law...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 6, 20232 min read
New Report On Abuse at IL Federal Prison Backs Investigating Officers
After officials closed a violent federal prison unit in Illinois, a new report provides more accounts of the culture of abuse inside and...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 29, 20232 min read
'Man Down!' Texas Inmates Suffer From 110-Degree Temperatures
The weekslong June heat wave scorching Texas has been particularly brutal and dangerous inside the state’s sprawling prison system, where...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 28, 20232 min read
Expanded Pell Grants To Help 30,000 Inmates Get College Degrees
The graduates lined up, brushing off their gowns and adjusting classmates’ tassels and stoles. As the graduation march played, the 85 men...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 27, 20231 min read
Prison 'Negligence, Misconduct' Blamed For Epstein Suicide
The Justice Department’s watchdog said Tuesday that a “combination of negligence and misconduct” enabled financier Jeffrey Epstein to...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 23, 20232 min read
Decarceration Trend Stalls With Large Rise In Jail Populations
In the first years of the coronavirus pandemic, federal, state, and local governments reduced the number of people in U.S. prisons and...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 22, 20233 min read
NY Prison Journalism Restrictions Were No Anomaly
How often do prison systems place restrictions on the journalism produced by inmates? The Prison Policy Institute decided to compile a...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 20, 20232 min read
Conn. Inmates Enrolled in College Degree Programs Receive Diplomas
After completing college degree programs, seven inmates in Connecticut received their diplomas this month as part of a joint project...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 12, 20231 min read
Texas Legislature Fails To Address Overheated State Prisons
The Texas legislature let bills that would have addressed extreme heat in Texas prisons die in the last legislative session even though...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 12, 20232 min read
Michigan Women Inmates Struggle With Drug Addiction
Illegal drugs are so rampant at Michigan's only prison for women that it is harder to stay clean while in custody than on the streets,...
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