A Rare Opportunity on Criminal Justice
A Rare Opportunity on Criminal Justice
Federal prisons now hold more than 215,000 inmates, almost half of whom are in for drug crimes. Many come out more likely to reoffend than they were when they went in, because of the lack of any meaningful rehabilitation programs inside prison and the …
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State board awards million to Stanislaus County for jail facility designed …
MODESTO — A state board upheld an appeals panel decision Thursday giving $ 40 million to Stanislaus County to build a 288-bed jail facility designed to provide rehabilitation programs for inmates. The Board of State and Community Corrections voted 9-3 …
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Frank Baine On the Tough Life of a Ugandan Prisoner
Appearing on Capital radio's Desert Island Discs programme, hosted by Simon Kasyate, Baine explains what life is like inside Uganda's jails. There is a common myth that a day in prison is 12 hours. Describe the check-in to prison. When you reach prison …
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After 20 Hours in Solitary, Colorado's Prisons Chief Wins Praise
But when Mr. Raemisch arrived in July, the Corrections Department, which runs 20 prisons for about 20,000 inmates, was itself in lockdown, the executive staff was in disarray and many of the programs initiated by Mr. Clements had been halted. Gov. John …
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‘Gitmo 2’: US mulls inmate rehabitation center in Yemen — More than half of Guantanamo’s prisoners are Yemeni nationals and for them, release from the prison may not mean the end of their misfortunes. The US and Yem…
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