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Crime and Justice News
Dec 6, 20242 min read
California No Longer Deducting 'Gate Money' From Inmates Leaving
California prisons no longer withhold money they are supposed to give people at the time of their release. The policy change is meant to...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 6, 20241 min read
U.S. Closing 'Rape Club' Women's Prison, 6 Minimum Security Camps
The federal Bureau of Prisons is closing its "rape club" women's prison in California and will idle six facilities in a sweeping...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 3, 20242 min read
Long State Prison Lockdowns Harm Rehab, Contribute To Violence
State prison systems are grappling with chronic understaffing and overcrowding, dual crises that are keeping incarcerated people confined...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 2, 20242 min read
In 'Culture Shift,' New TX Prison Give Inmates Help On Jobs Outside
After spending decades as a Texas inmate, Arnulfo Ayala flinched when a captain at the reopened Bartlett Unit extended an arm to shake...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 2, 20242 min read
NJ Prison Oversight Boards Suffer From Longstanding Vacancies
An advocacy group that found New Jersey prisons routinely flour restrictions on solitary confinement recommended a reform — more...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 26, 20242 min read
Plan For New Prison In Small Arkansas Town Stirs Controversy
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders’ decision to build a 3,000-bed prison in tiny Franklin County is a metaphor for her administration: Top-down...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 20, 20242 min read
When Someone Dies In Federal Prison, Families Struggle To Get Information From BOP
Interviews with the families of people who die in federal prison show a remarkably consistent cruelty by BOP officials toward them during...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 12, 20242 min read
CA Voters Reject Ballot Measure To End Forced Labor In Prisons
Voters in California have rejected a ballot measure that would have ended forced labor in prisons and jails, CalMatters reports....
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 7, 20243 min read
BJS Reports Deaths in Federal Custody – Other Jurisdictions Slow to Comply With 2013 Act
In response to a 2013 law requiring law enforcement agencies to report deaths in custody, the Bureau of Justice Statistics just released...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 31, 20242 min read
Inmate Counts Rise In Jails, Prisons Since Pandemic-Era Slowdown
P andemic-era decarceration has stalled, the Vera Institute of Justice says in a new report. About 1.3 million people are being held in...
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By Alexandra Gryczanowski
Oct 29, 20242 min read
Nebraska Sets 'Transformational Change' In Prisoner Reentry Plans
Nebraska is laying out plans to improve re-entry of inmates into society and reduce recidivism under the national Reentry 2030 ...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 29, 20242 min read
WA Will Spend $1.3M From Prisoner Welfare Fund After Delays
Washington state’s Department of Corrections has outlined plans to spend $1.3 million collected from prisoners for phone calls and other...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 27, 20242 min read
AL Prison Work Rules Challenged as 'Involuntary Servitude'
As of May, 20 Alabama inmates worked at a car-part manufacturing plant neat Montgomery. They were contracted to the company by the...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 23, 20242 min read
Washington Denies Basic Needs To Prisoners In Solitary Confinement, Report Finds
Washington prisoners held in solitary confinement are not receiving basic quality-of-life care, such as frequent showers, health care,...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 22, 20242 min read
Victims Demanding Reparations For Holmesburg Prison Experiments
The late University of Pennsylvania dermatologist Albert Kligman — founder of the lucrative anti-aging ingredient Retin-A and...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 19, 20241 min read
Psychologist Zimbardo Dies, Ran Controversial Stanford Prison Study
Philip Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the controversial “Stanford Prison Experiment” intended to examine the psychological experiences...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 17, 20242 min read
Most Prisoners, Especially White Men, Back Trump In Survey
November’s election — the first to feature a prominent candidate with felony convictions — comes at a important point in the voting...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 16, 20242 min read
Initiative Shines Light On Jailhouse Lawyers
Their names may not appear on court briefs or judicial decisions, but behind the scenes incarcerated people have played a big role in the...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 16, 20242 min read
Former Warden Over Abusive Federal Prisons Now Runs BOP Training Academy
Andrew Ciolli, a warden who oversaw a culture of abuse at two different federal prisons has a new job — running a national training...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 14, 20242 min read
San Quentin Film Festival Shows Historic Prison's Transformation
The first-ever San Quentin Film Festival in California’s oldest prison was not glamorous. The inmates who screened their films in front...
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