“There were more than 61,250 technical parole violators in 42 state prison systems as of early 2017,”reports The Marshall Project. Seven states, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, New York and Pennsylvania, have more technical violators than the remaining 35 states combined. ttp:/www.themarshallproject.org/2017/04/23

 Los Angeles Police Department doled out almost $81 million dollars in the last fiscal year to settle high-profile lawsuits, the Los Angeles Times reported.

http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-in-lapd-litigation-costs-20170509-story-html

Intimate partner violence accounts for 15 percent of all violent crime. One in three women and one in four men in the United States has experienced some form of physical violence by an intimate partner. Husbands are five times more likely to kill wives than vice versa. A third of female homicide victims are killed by an intimate male partner or ex-partner, according to FBI reports. http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/ndv0312.pdf

“It’s so much more comfortable to fear the unknown, the stranger, but that doesn’t fit the facts. Depending on the age of the child, between 90 and 99 percent of those who sexually molest children are the friend, the acquaintance, the family member,” says Sandy Rozek, spokeswoman for the National Association for Rational Sexual Offense Laws in “We all scream for the ice cream man’s head” by Lenore Skenazy in Reason magazine June 2017.

“Police departments in 13 of the 25 largest U.S. cities did not post their (operating and use-of-force) procedures online.”

“The Opaque Blue Line” by C.J. Ciaramella in Reason magazine May 2017

“It’s not a coincidence that Louisiana also has the highest incarceration level in the country and the second-highest wrongful conviction rate, according to the National Registry of Exonerations,” concluded Reason. According to Reason, 85 percent of criminal defendants in Louisiana qualified for a public defender in 2016. Due to a lack of resources, 33 of the state’s 42 public defender offices began turning away cases.

“The Disappearing Sixth Amendment” by C.J. Ciaramella in Reason magazine June 2017

“Securus (phone and video conferencing for prisons) will oversee 2.4 million video calls this year (2017), two-thirds of them remote, i.e., paid. Rates vary by jail (most are county jails), from $5 to $12.99 for a 20-minute call and, in at least one jail, $40 for 40 minutes,” said Securus Chief Executive Officer Richard Smith to Bloomberg. 

BUSINESSWEEK.com Oct. 9, 2017 

Securus now controls about a third of the video market.

“Half of the state’s foster-care population is made up of children with opioid-addicted parents,” reports Bloomberg according to Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, a Republican. 

BUSINESSWEEK.com Oct. 9, 2017