Few people would be comfortable being judged by decisions they made as teenagers.
Yet mistakes in judgment made during those years, such as
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But for a teenage girl whose baby has been dead for no more than a day and a couple of hours, who pleads and cries through much of the interview, her attorney, Ed Ryan, has another description of what the …
April 23, 2012 Tags: MA, news
Category: Exonerated, Policy, Reform No Comments 
Recently, the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled that a policy banning registered sex offenders from entering Albuquerque’s public libraries is unconstitutional. Over the past decade the availability of online sex offender registries has enabled widespread awareness of sexual offenders living in the community, increasing concerns for the safety of children and …
February 6, 2012 Tags: news, sex offenders
Category: Policy, Reform No Comments
Following recent studies in Florida (Bales and Mears, 2008) and Canada (Derkzen, Gobeil, and Gileno, 2009), this study examines the effects of prison visitation on recidivism among 16,420 offenders released from Minnesota prisons between 2003 and 2007. Using multiple measures of visitation (any visit, total number of visits, visits per month, timing of visits, and …
January 23, 2012 Tags: research, resources
Category: Ex-offenders, Policy No Comments
The Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) receives nearly $75 million of taxpayer money every year to run large immigration detention centers across the United States. These and other private prisons across the country generate collective profits in the billions annually by engaging in price gouging behaviors and forcing inmates and their families to pay predatorily …
January 22, 2012 Tags: news
Category: Policy, Reform No Comments
It took awhile to transform an idea into a reality that now aids local law enforcement and juvenile authorities in answering three basic questions needed to fight juvenile delinquency in Cleveland and Bradley County.
The three primary questions Youth Services Officer Nancy Stanfield wanted to answer were: Where are juvenile offenders? What are they doing?
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January 20, 2012 Tags: news
Category: Policy, Youth No Comments
The 2012 legislative session is scheduled to begin today. Missouri lawmakers soon will begin debating a series of bipartisan reforms endorsed by a working group of lawmakers and legal experts — including prosecutors, public defenders, judges and county sheriffs — that will seek to spend the state’s resources more effectively.
The reforms are quite obvious and
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January 5, 2012 Tags: MO, news
Category: Policy, Reform No Comments
Kentucky released 939 inmates about six months early on Tuesday as part of a new program aimed at easing their transition back into the community, reducing recidivism and helping trim its corrections budget by about $40 million this year.
Lisa Lamb, a spokeswoman for the Department of Corrections, said it had heard of no problems by …
January 4, 2012 Tags: KY, news
Category: Parole, Policy, Projects, Uncategorized No Comments
Prisoners are unpopular. We are all aware of this fact- politicians most of all. Therefore it was probably a smart campaigning decision for Florida Gov. Rick Scott to take a hard-line stance on prisons. In fact, he has recently even instituted a policy that forces prisoners to wait five-to-seven years for their civil rights — …
December 31, 2011 Tags: FL, news
Category: Policy, Projects No Comments
Oregon could spare itself a continuing run-up in its billion-dollar prison system with changes to sentences, parolee programs and juvenile justice, a state commission concluded today.
The seven-member Commission on Public Safety suggested broad reforms in a report heading Friday to Gov. John Kitzhaber, who appointed the group.
The report was to be the commission’s final act, …
December 30, 2011 Tags: news, OR
Category: Parole, Policy No Comments