U.S. Should Significantly Reduce Rate of Incarceration;
Unprecedented Rise in Prison Population ‘Not Serving the Country Well,’ Says New Report
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Why one inmate costs taxpayers more than $400,00 a year
Every week, Jamie Hein receives two drug infusions to combat spontaneous swelling in her hands, face, feet, genitals, abdomen or throat. And every week, Nevada taxpayers pick up the roughly $4,000 cost of each infusion for the Nevada Department of Corrections inmate.
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Juvenile facility called better for suspects
Five years ago Alex Hribal almost certainly would have gone straight to an adult jail following his arrest on charges that he stabbed more than 20 people inside Franklin Regional Senior High School.
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U.S. Sentencing Commission takes steps to depopulate federal prisons
In a bid to reduce the federal prison population, the U.S. Sentencing Commission set in motion a change of formula to determine the sentencing of low-level, nonviolent federal drug law offenders.
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California's Medical Prison beset by Waste and Mismanagement
California's $840-million medical prison -- the largest in the nation -- was built to provide care to more than 1,800 inmates. When fully operational, it was supposed to help the state's prison system emerge from a decade of federal oversight brought on by the persistent neglect and poor medical treatment of inmates.
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Enforcing Prison Rape Elimination Standards Proves Tricky
"Sexual victimization while somebody is in confinement is totally unacceptable," says Mary Lou Leary, a principal deputy assistant attorney general at the Justice Department. "It is in and of itself a crime, and it has to stop."
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Corrections to pay $740,000 in inmate's death
The state Department of Corrections has agreed to pay $740,000 to the family of an inmate who died in custody after suffering from a painful and treatable illness.
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California Prison overcrowding undermined by counties
California counties are confounding the state's court-ordered efforts to sharply reduce its inmate population by sending state prisons far more convicts than anticipated, including a record number of people with second felony convictions
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Creative Corrections Education Foundation
CCEF’s mission is to provide scholarships to children of incarcerated or paroled individuals who are interested in pursuing a vocational or university education. Education versus Incarceration.
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