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In 1995, a grant offered monetary rewards to US prisons that successfully increased their populations. This, and other such measures, has led to an epidemic that substantially increases the number of people incarcerated in America. We report on mass incarceration issues.
A tool developed to make room for hardened criminals in Virginia prisons has revealed low-risk offenders are being sent to prison instead of being diverted to community-based programs. Prison cells that should be reserved for violent criminals are now used for non-risky offenders, leading to prison overpopulation. The tool is a questionnaire known as Virginia’s Read More…
US district judge William Griesbach sentenced eight people to jail in the Fox Valley area of Green Bay after they pleaded guilty to drug crimes. The defendants had been conspiring to sell large amounts of methamphetamine in the area. According to an article by Post Crescent on the 3rd of April 2018, Judge Griesbach, while Read More…
Following an announcement made in February, plans are underway to shut down the New York jail complex on Rikers Island. The jail will be replaced with smaller, safer jails that will be constructed in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx. Residents in the Bronx react differently to having a jail in the local area. Issues Read More…
According to a report on USnews on March 27, 2018, Lawmakers are having a hard time addressing many problems, including overcrowding in the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services. According to Senator Laura Ebke, of Crete, the five bills were not meant to be controversial and were actually planned towards reducing the prison population in the Read More…
Since Monday 19th of March, inmates are being transferred the Cuyahoga County Corrections Center from Cleveland’s House of Correction in a deal aimed at regionalizing jails within the county. Cleveland’s city jail officials have announced that they will no longer be taking in new inmates as this move will allow the city as well as Read More…
As far as the Bureau of Prisons is concerned, no prison inmate will ever be released. Except of course they complete their prison sentence, or be carried out in a coffin. The terminally sick and very old may be released early on legally compassionate grounds, but the bureau is largely having none of that. It Read More…
Shortage of prison guards in federal prisons across the United States is giving rise to role reversals within correctional facilities. Prison employees who were not trained to function as guards are now drafted into the roles without any prior warning. It is either they accept the new security roles imposed on them or find the Read More…
Have you ever wondered how it is to spend some time behind bars? Well, these prisoners have had to spend most part of their lives in prison. They have actually served record-breaking time in Nevada prisons. Inmates who have spent Record-breaking time in Nevada prisons Raymond Wallace Shuman is one prisoner who has spent much Read More…
A new book titled Decarcerating America: From Mass Punishment to Public Health written by epidemiologist Ernest Drucker goes on sale on February 20. This book examines the problems of mass incarceration in America and proffers three tiers of solutions to curbing the phenomenon. It addresses this problem from a public health perspective. Author of A Plague of Read More…
The rates at which women are getting locked up globally are becoming very alarming. They are thrown into prisons in every country at rates higher than the population growths of each country. To make matters worse, women are incarcerated for many offenses that men would walk for ultimately. With millions of women entering the labor Read More…
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