A Wabash Valley County is calling a special project to fight meth a success.
Daviess County used a $450,000 federal grant for equipment …
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Federal prison farms closed earlier this year didn’t cost taxpayers as much as the government stated — but neither did they do as good of a job of lowering recidivism rates as proponents claimed.
Convicts who worked on the farms had a recidivism rate about one percentage point lower than those felons who didn’t take part …
December 8, 2011 Tags: canada, news
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.Authorities in the USA must ban the imposition of life without parole sentences against children and review the cases of more than 2,500 prisoners currently serving such sentences to bring them into line with international law, Amnesty International said today in a new report….
December 7, 2011 Tags: resources
Category: Policy, Reform, Youth No Comments
Florida’s youth-corrections system is so poorly administered that children are assaulted by officers, denied necessary medical care and punished harshly for minor infractions, a federal report released Friday concludes.
Conditions are so severe, the U.S. Department of Justice said, that they violate the Constitution.
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division released a scathing 28-page report Friday on …
… And that’s why many nonprofit community organizations around California have been lobbying hard to be included in the pot of money counties are receiving under the state’s criminal justice realignment plan, which includes keeping more felons at county lockups instead of shipping them to state prisons.
But how that funding is spent varies by county. …
State officials, doctors and pharmacists are teaming up to combat what they fear could be a drastic spike in drug overdoses now that one of the state’s largest suppliers of a popular anti-addiction drug closed his dozens of treatment centers amid accusations of fraud.
The arrest of Dr. Punyamurtula Kishore on Medicaid fraud charges in September, …
December 6, 2011 Tags: MA, news
Category: Addiction, Policy No Comments
Ali Garland doesn’t consider herself an alcoholic.
Rather, the 38-year-old Menasha woman believes she made a “bad decision” in February when she decided to drink and then drive; a decision that resulted in her getting in an accident and receiving her third drunken driving conviction.
“I know I was wrong,” she said. “I know it was a …
Principles of Recidivism Reduction
In recent years, criminal justice and social science researchers have identified specific principles that are proven effective in reducing recidivism. When implemented correctly and consistently, the principles of Risk, Need, and Responsivity will help to decrease the likelihood that an individual will reoffend.1 These principles, based on decades of study, help policymakers …
December 3, 2011 Tags: resources
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On Jan. 3, the Kentucky Department of Corrections (DOC) will parole more than 1,100 inmates and as many as 300 more each month, after sweeping penal code reform earlier this year.
That’s a statewide figure, and Rowan and surrounding counties probably won’t see many of that number here, initially.
House Bill 463 was enacted on June 8 …
A year to look at sentencing-Oregonian Editorial (OR)
A Public Safety Commission that has spent months quietly gathering data and other information about Oregon’s criminal justice system and best corrections practices elsewhere soon will present a report on its findings to lawmakers and the governor.
The report ought to be the beginning, not the end, of the Public Safety Commission’s work. When lawmakers gather …
December 4, 2011 Tags: commentary, news, OR
Category: Policy, Reform No Comments