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Bureau of Justice Statistics issues 2016 prison report

May 8, 2018 by Juan Haines

Folsom State Prison

The federal government has been tracking prison populations across the nation since 1926. This year marked the 91st time the Bureau of Justice … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Bureau of Justice Statistics, national incarceration rate, Prison Bed Capacity, privately operated facilities, tracking prison populations

Black incarceration on the decline

May 8, 2018 by John Lam

Jail Cell

The percentages of Blacks and Whites being incarcerated are converging. Nationally, Black incarceration rates are dropping, while Whites are on the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Adam Gelb, Black and White incarceration, Federal Bureau of Justice Statistics, Fordham University, John Pfaff, Marshall Project, Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow, The Pew Charitable Trusts, the Sentencing Project, The Washington Post

Advocates raise issues regarding incarcerated women

May 8, 2018 by John Lam

A woman sitting in one of the United States’ many jail cells around the country

Issues regarding incarcerated females have been raised by five female criminal justice advocates at the 2018 American Conservative Union’s … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: American Conservative Union’s Conservative Political Action Conference, christian post, CPAC, Jessica Jackson Sloan, Kate Trammel, Kathleen Dennehy, Prison Fellowship, U.S. Justice Action Network

States seeking lethal injection cocktails from black market

May 8, 2018 by John Lam

California Death Penality

Some states have turned to the black market to obtain scarce lethal injection drugs that have caused botched executions, according to www.Reason.com. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: C.J. Ciaramella, Ciaramella, cisatracurium besylate, executions, FDA, fentanyl, Harris Pharma, Midazolam, Reason Magazine

Los Outsiders comienzan la temporada de soccer con el pie derecho

May 7, 2018 by Rahsaan Thomas

José Meléndez elevándose en un intento desesperado para anotar un gol

Los Outsiders, equipo visitante de fútbol soccer, vencieron al equipo de San Quentin por 5-3 en el primer juego de la temporada. “Extrañe durante el … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Aiden Leonard, Alex Lentz, Brown University, Jesús “Morelia” López, Mario Abramskiehn, U-Mass Anherst.

Saturn Run by John Sandford and Ctein

May 7, 2018 by Juan Haines

Last month’s review, The Left Hand of Darkness, dealt with earthlings’ effort to increase the human galactic footprint. Ursula K. Le Guin took readers … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: alien, china, first alien contact, Joe Kraus, John Sandford, Saturn Run, The Autograph Collector’s Magazine, The Famous & Successful: Their Advice for All of Us, United Stated

New system to combat illegal prison cellphones

May 7, 2018 by Kevin D. Sawyer

The use of contraband cellphones by inmates in prison shows an increase in crime and violence across the country, according to a press release in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Andrew Beard, contraband cellphones, Securus, Securus Technologies, Vanu, WCS, Wireless Containment Solution

Nature videos improve solitary behavior

May 7, 2018 by Harry C. Goodall Jr.

The behavior and well-being of inmates in solitary confinement can be improved by showing them nature videos, according to a study published in 2017 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Chad Naugle, Craig Haney, Nalini Nadkarni, Natalie Delgadillo, Oregon, Roger Ulrich, Snake River Correctional Institution, Stuart Grassian, Tierney Thys, UCSC, University of California Santa Cruz.

Detailed report about prison healthcare

May 7, 2018 by Juan Haines

On any single day, more than a million people are held in state prisons across the nation where substance abuse, mental illness, and contagious … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: healthcare, Pew, Prison Health Care, The Pew Charitable Trusts, Vera, Vera Institute of Justice

Colorado brings business courses to prisons

May 7, 2018 by Dejon Joy

There is a renewed emphasis on rehabilitation in the Colorado Department of Corrections prison system as Governor John Hickenlooper partners up with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Defy Ventures

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