A national research report released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (1351.0.55.031) showed a dramatic increase in the national prison population between 1994 and 2007 of 3.7% per year, and an increase in prisoners with prior imprisonment increasing at a rate of 3.2% per year. These figures indicate a national increase of around 50% in the rate of imprisonment over 10 years. A Vice Chancellors fellow at the University of Melbournes Melbourne Law School with more than 30 years experience in the Australian criminal justice system, Peter Norden says the time has come for a change in thinking.. What further evidence could be required of a prison system that is failing and a criminal justice system that is in urgent need of review and evaluation, Mr Norden says.. Meanwhile throughout Australia, states and territories like Victoria resort to bidding wars on longer sentences and an increased use of imprisonment, particularly in the period leading up to a State election.. If these ...

Yes . . . I dont think Luckyoldsen really groks quite how awful many of Americas domestic prisons are. Excessive beatings, electroshock torture, sexual abuse (incl. rape) of female prisoners by guards, staging fights between prisoners, prisoner-prisoner rape. The usual Abu Ghraib-type stuff. These are widely reported in many large state prison systems, both (to address a point raised earlier in a different thread) in the state prison systems and the county jail systems. California and Florida come up often as having particularly ghoulish state prison systems. Gitmo is a model of civilisation by comparison ...

Most prisons in Delaware will not accept books from small and local bookstores nor will they accept them from friends and family of the prisoner. You have to ship direct from a major national bookstore like Amazon.. We highly recommend that you only shop for books on Amazon and most importantly that you only view books for sale by Amazon themselves (other third party merchants can also sell on Amazon.com) to ensure your books correctly. Other online bookstores and even many third party sellers on Amazon.com are known to cancel orders to prisons or to not pack them according to prison requirements.. Do not have the books shipped to yourself and the forward the parcel onto the Prison. Books must be shipped direct from Amazon to the Prison.. ...

On 22 November, the National Prisons Service of South Sudan (NPSSS) will graduate the first batch of 226 inmates and prison staff trained in eight trades at the Vocational Training Centre in Juba Central Prison. The UNDP Access to Justice and Rule of Law Project, with funding from the Kingdom of the Netherlands, supports the National Prisons Service of South Sudan to promote prisoners rehabilitation through the establishment of a pilot Vocational Training Centre at Juba Central Prison. The centre aims to reduce recidivism by imparting technical skills to inmates that enable them to earn a living and facilitate their rehabilitation as contributors to society when released. The project renovated existing buildings for use as classrooms, and supplied them with the equipment and materials required for instruction in eight trades: carpentry, masonry, electrician, welding, vehicle mechanics, agriculture, hair dressing and tailoring. Locally-recruited trainers worked with NPSSS staff to develop the training

TY - JOUR. T1 - HIV seroprevalence and associated risk factors among male inmates at the Belize Central Prison. AU - Gough, Ethan. AU - Edwards, Paul. PY - 2009/1/1. Y1 - 2009/1/1. N2 - To determine the seroprevalence of HIV and identify associated risk factors among inmates at the Belize Central Prison, managed by the Kolbe Foundation, Belize. Methods. A voluntary sample of 623 participants was obtained from the male inmate population incarcerated during the period from 15 January to 5 March 2005. HIV serostatus was determined on location using the Abbott Determine Assay for HIV-1/2 for screening, and the MedMira MiraWell Rapid HIV-1/2 Test for confirmatory testing. Remaining serum was tested by ELISA at the Central Medical Laboratory, Belize. Demographic and risk behavior data were collected using an interviewer administered pre-tested questionnaire. A multivariate logistic regression was used to adjust for potential confounders and to identify independent associations with HIV seropositivity. ...

Deputy Warden Reilly began his correctional career at the Salem County Correctional Facility in 1991. He was the recipient of the coveted Officer of the year award in 1996. He was recognized for his leadership and promoted in to the rank of Sergeant in 2000. His ability to mentor correctional officers became apparent and he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant as the training officer. He was involved with various assignments such as overseeing the annual state inspection, teaching recruits at the academy, developing policy and procedures within the facility, and development and implementation of the Prison Rape Elimination Act in our correctional facility. In 2011, he was recognized for his operational experience and promoted to the rank of Captain. In 2018, Salem County Sheriff Charles Miller promoted him to Deputy Warden. Deputy Warden Reilly works closely with his Command Staff to provide a safe and secure environment for all resident inmates, correctional officers, and civilian staff. ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Officials say the men who were housed at an Alaska womens prison to participate in a program intended to reduce recidivism have been moved to an Anchorage jail.. The Chugiak-Eagle River Star reports the 37 male inmates at the Hiland Mountain Correctional Center were transferred last week to the Anchorage Correctional Complex.. State Department of Corrections Commissioner Nancy Dahlstrom says the move is part of a plan to reinstate programs lost when the men were sent to the Hiland facility.. The male inmates participating in the Transformational Living Community were moved to Hiland in 2017.. Alaska Correctional Ministries operates the program. Its executive director, Sam Humphreys, says the womens program at Hiland was not disrupted by the men.. The male inmates were separated from the female inmates.. ...

Background. Prisoners constitute a group with increased health and social care needs. Although implementing policies that aim at improving outcomes within this population should be a priority area, studies that attempt to assess health outcomes and health related quality of life (HRQoL) in this population are limited. Aim. To assess HRQoL in a prison population in Greece and to explore the relationship between HRQoL and a set of individual sociodemographic and health related characteristics and characteristics of detention. Methods. A cross-sectional study involving 100 male prisoners was conducted in the prison of Corinth in Greece. HRQoL was assessed through the use of the SF-36 and the EQ-5D. Results. The mean physical and mental summary scores of the SF-36 were 55.33 and 46.82, respectively. The EQ-VAS mean score was 76.41%, while the EQ-5D index was 0.72. Multivariate analysis identified a statistical relationship between HRQoL and the conditions of detention, controlling for the effect of ...

Concerns for the prison population have been raised by the Scottish Human Rights Commission. Writing to the Justice Secretary, Humza Yousaf, the SHRC sought assurances that measures will be taken to deal with the rising prison population. It is also argued that the incidence of the virus among inmates is six times higher than in the general population. Judith Robertson, chair of the commission, ...

Focusing on state programs designed to reduce recidivism rates, such as the Michigan Prisoner ReEntry Initiative and the Justice Reinvestment Initiative, is one way to deter crime and ensure public safety, the research says.. High rates of offenders returning to prison and long prison stays both contribute to Michigans incarceration rate, according to a new research brief on prison population and corrections expenditures by the Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy, which is located in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.. The center analyzed prison data from the 1960s to 2008. Michigan made substantial gains in crime reduction beginning in the mid-1980s, going from an index crime rate above that of neighboring states and higher than national index crime rate to a rate that is lower than most neighboring states and is lower than the national rate.. Recently, the ratio of inmates to the state population has stabilized, and even declined in some years, fluctuating around 500 prisoners ...

The Alabama Department of Public Health recommends that correctional and detention facilities follow the guidance of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for assistance in managing the introduction, spread, and mitigation of COVID-19 in their facilities.. CDC has provided comprehensive Interim Guidance on Management of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Correctional and Detention Facilities (updated May 7, 2020). The guidance includes recommended best practices for all such facilities, regardless of size. CDC has also posted Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for Correctional Facilities and Detention Facilities, applicable to administrators, staff, incarcerated persons, and family members (updated June 17, 2020).. ...

Most prisons in Texas will not accept books from small and local bookstores nor will they accept them from friends and family of the prisoner. You have to ship direct from a major national bookstore like Amazon.. We highly recommend that you only shop for books on Amazon and most importantly that you only view books for sale by Amazon themselves (other third party merchants can also sell on Amazon.com) to ensure your books correctly. Other online bookstores and even many third party sellers on Amazon.com are known to cancel orders to prisons or to not pack them according to prison requirements.. Do not have the books shipped to yourself and the forward the parcel onto the Prison. Books must be shipped direct from Amazon to the Prison.. ...

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Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the leading infectious killers of adults globally. Incarcerated individuals represent a vulnerable population when it comes to TB exposure, development of disease, and poor treatment outcomes. The TB pandemic in prisons is a serious human rights issue, and multiple global organizations have called for human rights-based strategies to address it. There are, however, few countries implementing such programs on the ground. Georgia, a former Soviet republic located in the Caucasus Mountains, has high rates of TB and a large prison population. This paper describes a needs assessment carried out in one prison in Georgia and the human rights-based strategy being implemented by the Georgian National TB Program to address TB control in the prison setting. It is hoped that the proposed program can serve as a model for other countries with high rates of TB among incarcerated individuals.. ...

Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2014 Apr 28. pii: S0210-5705(14)00081-8. doi: 10.1016/j.gastrohep.2014.03.004. [Epub ahead of print]. Saiz de la Hoya P1, Portilla J2, Marco A3, García-Guerrero J4, Faraco I5, Antón J6, de Juan J7, Pozo E8.. Abstract. BACKGROUND: The diagnosis and treatment of chronic hepatitis C are major concerns in prisons.. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this randomized clinical trial was to determine the extent to which directly observed therapy (DOT) improved the efficacy of the standard treatment for chronic hepatitis C in the prison setting.. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A randomized clinical trial was carried out to evaluate the efficacy of a DOT compared with a self-administered therapy in prison inmates who underwent standard treatment for chronic hepatitis C (based on pegylated interferon alpha-2a and ribavirin).. RESULTS: A total of 252 inmates were randomized, of which 244 were analyzed: 109 in the DOT group and 135 in the non-DOT group. The mean age was 35.88 years (SD 6.54), 94.3% were ...

PBSs College Behind Bars is an inspiring, four-part documentary from Lynn Novick that airs Monday and Tuesday, taking viewers inside the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI), which offers a rare opportunity for select inmates in New Yorks state prison system to enroll in the same rigorous curriculum taught by professors at Bard College, where tuition alone runs $55,566 per year, says the Washington Post in a review. Of the states 51,000 male inmates and 2,400 female inmates, only 300 get to participate in Bards program, which is paid for by the college, largely through private donations. Of its graduates, recidivism is down to 4 percent, compared with a 50 percent rate overall.. As we see, theres a simmering resentment against these students - starting with the scorn from corrections officers, none of whom could or would participate in the film. As a prison official notes, many guards might have liked to go to college, but never got the chance. It can be galling to watch a group of inmates ...

Of course, shipping inmates over 1,000 miles away to a largely unregulated private prison system can create pretty gruesome consequences. Idahos virtual prison program and Texas private prison system more generally came under scrutiny after the tragic suicide of Scot Noble Payne, who died at GEOs Dickens County Correctional Center in 2007. Another Idaho inmate, Randall McCullough, killed himself in GEOs Bill Clayton Detention Center in Littlefield earlier this year after being held in solitary confinement as an administrative penalty for a fight. According to the Texas Commission on Jail Standards September 1st population report, the Bill Clayton center held 371 contract prisoners, presumably all Idaho prisoners, meaning a significant amount of Idaho prisoners will remain in Texas for the time being. Why Texas continues to allow the importation of out-of-state prisoners to state private prisons when we clearly have our own in-house problems baffles me. Well keep you posted on developments ...

Jails and prisons have become de facto psychiatric hospitals (institutions) which warehouse the seriously mentally ill. We know that 20 percent of inmates in jails and 15 percent of inmates in state prisons have a serious mental illness (356,000), more than 10 times the number of those that remain at state psychiatric hospitals. Seventy percent of adolescents in juvenile correctional facilities have a mental health condition, and 40 percent of individuals with serious mental illnesses have been in jail or prison at some time in their lives. In 2016, the largest mental institutions in the United States are the Cook County Jail (Chicago) and the Los Angeles County Jail. An estimate from the Vera Institute of Justice found that 80 percent of those booked in county jails dont receive any treatment after they get there. To give you some perspective, in the 1950s, there were over 500,000 psychiatric beds in state hospitals and now were at around 35,000. Inadvertently, our jails and prisons have ...

relinquish custody of temporary detainees to juvenile and medical authorities * sometimes operate community-based programs with electronic monitoring or other types of supervision. Not included in the survey or census are inmates in six States with combined jail and prison systems. At midyear 1994 these States-Alaska (except for 5 local jails), Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Rhode Island, and Vermont--held nearly 6,000 inmates who were unsentenced or had sentences of less than a year. These inmates and the facilities that house them are included in BJS prison statistics. The 1993 Census of Jails also included, for the first time, seven Federal facilities that perform the pretrial functions of local jails. Data on these Federal facilities and inmates are reported separately. (See the section on Federal jails.) Local jail inmates On June 30, 1994, the Nations jails held 490,442 inmates, an increase of 6.7% over the number held on June 30, 1993. The jail population grew by more than 30,000 inmates ...

Former movie mogul and convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein has been placed in isolation in a New York prison after testing positive for the coronavirus, the head of the state correctional officers union said Monday.Weinstein, who turned 68 on March 19, is being isolated at maximum security Wende Correctional Facility, in a town near Buffalo in upstate New York.The state prison system confirmed that two inmates at Wende have tested positive for COVID-19, but did not identify them

Former movie mogul and convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein has been placed in isolation in a New York prison after testing positive for the coronavirus, the head of the state correctional officers union said Monday.Weinstein, who turned 68 on March 19, is being isolated at maximum security Wende Correctional Facility, in a town near Buffalo in upstate New York.The state prison system confirmed that two inmates at Wende have tested positive for COVID-19, but did not identify them

Interview of Annapurna Sarada, President of SRV Associations, by Joan Elisabeth Shack, President of the Sri Sarada Society and Editor of Integral Vedanta News.. Joan Elisabeth Shack: Would you confirm the date the SRV prison ministry began?. Annapurna Sarada: Before SRV began its Oregon prison ministry, we came as friends to the visitation room in a prison in California until those inmates were released. In the mid 90s Babaji (Bob Kindler) was contacted by an East Coast Vedanta Society to work with an inmate seeking teachings and guidance. That person was later released, finished parole with flying colors, and flew over to take initiation and attend retreats last year. Babaji continues correspondence with inmates in other prisons. Our official prison ministry in Oregon as state volunteers started in either late 2001 or 2002.. Joan: Is five the total number of Oregon prisons involved?. Annapurna: We visit seven prisons now if you count the Minimum and Medium security facilities at the womens ...

As Ive written before, it is unclear if this proposed facility is actually being solicited by ICE or if Emerald is merely saying that ICE wants a detention center. Private prison corporations are notorious for building speculative prison beds, a practice that Emerald employed in its failed bid to build a family detention center in Caldwell County. In that case, Emerald was rebuffed twice before finally giving up on the county and moving on, apparently to Mineral Wells. Well keep you posted on developments from Mineral Wells. ...

September 20, 2012. Associated Press. A riot Wednesday September 19 at a California prison holding many of the states most hardened criminals left 11 inmates hospitalized, including one who was shot by correctional officers.. The disturbance inside a yard at the California State Prison, Sacramento in Folsom involved an unknown number of inmates after it broke out shortly after 11 a.m., said Terry Thornton, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.. In addition to the inmate who was shot, at least 10 were either stabbed or slashed during the riot, Thornton said. Their conditions have not been released and no other injuries have been reported.. Prison officials still dont know how many inmates were involved nor a possible motive, Thornton added.. It is at least the second known incident within a year at the 2,800-inmate maximum-security facility that opened in 1986 commonly known as New Folsom, due to its proximity to the more well-known Folsom State Prison, ...

In a number of countries, life imprisonment has been effectively abolished. Many of the countries whose governments have abolished both life imprisonment and indefinite imprisonment have been culturally influenced or colonized by Spain or Portugal and have written such prohibitions into their current constitutional laws (including Portugal itself but not Spain).[citation needed]. A number of European countries have abolished all forms of indefinite imprisonment, including Serbia, Croatia and Spain, which set the maximum sentence at 40 years (for each conviction, which in practice keeps the possibility of de facto life imprisonment), Bosnia and Herzegovina, which sets the maximum sentence at 45 years, and Portugal, which abolished all forms of life imprisonment with the prison reforms of Sampaio e Melo in 1884 and sets the maximum sentence at 25 years.[citation needed]. Norway (de jure) and Spain (de facto from 1993 until February 2018, the question being now debated of reintroducing de jure life ...

We have to stop this slave system, says Melvin Ray we already went through that institution one time before. From inside a segregation cell in St Clair Correctional Facility in Melville, Alabama, Ray is trying to organize a strike against unpaid prison labor and for better conditions. Ray and other prisoners involved in the Free Alabama Movement announced earlier this month that they would refuse to work prison jobs this week. It would have been the second time this year that Alabama prisoners organized a work stoppage; a similar strike in January began at St Clair and spread to at least two other prisons in the state. Ray says he has been held in a filthy segregation unit since January 3rd, the eve of the first strike-retaliation, he believes, for his part in the protest. Speaking to The Prison Complex on Monday, shortly after the strike was scheduled to start, Ray said the Free Alabama Movement wants to change the overall approach to what corrections is like in the United States. And ...

Ghost Adventures heads to Carson City to investigate the Nevada State Prison. Once a nightmare for inmates and guards alike, the now-closed prison raises the bar to new, frightening levels for Zak Bagans and his crew.

Prison can be characterized as an impoverished environment encouraging a sedentary lifestyle with limited autonomy and social interaction, which may negatively affect self-control and executive function. Here, we aim to study the effects of imprisonment on self-control and executive functions, and we report the change in neuropsychological outcome after three months of imprisonment.Participants were 37 male inmates in a remand prison in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, who completed six tests of a computerized neuropsychological test battery (the CANTAB) in the first week of arrival. Participants were retested after three months of imprisonment. Change in performance was tested using the Wilcoxon Signed-Rank test.After three months of imprisonment, self-control risk taking significantly increased (measured as an increase in the proportion of available points used for betting) and attention significantly deteriorated (measured as increased variability in reaction times on a sustained attention task), with

FAILURE RATE ANALYSIS HAS BEEN USED EXTENSIVELY IN THE ENGINEERING APPLICATION OF PROBABILITY AND STATISTICAL THEORY TO EQUIPMENT RELIABILITY PROBLEMS AND IN BIOMEDICAL SURVIVAL STUDIES. STUDIES INCLUDE STOLLMACK AND HARRIS (1974) ON THE POWER OF FAILURE RATE TECHNIQUES FOR EVALUATING RECIDIVISM DATA; TURNBULL (1977) ON THE USE OF NONPARAMETRIC METHODS TO ANALYZE RECIDIVISM DATA; AND THE CONNECTICUT PAROLEE DATA STUDY WHICH ILLUSTRATES THE POTENTIAL USEFULNESS OF THE FAILURE RATE REGRESSION MODEL. THE SAMPLE FOR THE STUDY CONSISTED OF 37 AND 71 MAXIMUM-SECURITY MALE OFFENDERS PAROLED FROM TWO CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN CONNECTICUT. INFORMATION WAS THEN COLLECTED FROM FILES KEPT BY EACH PAROLE OFFICER. THE DEPENDENT VARIABLE MEASURED WAS TIME FROM RELEASE UNTIL FIRST ARREST. USING THE MANTEL-HAENSZEL TEST AND THE LOG-LIKELIHOOD RATIO TEST BASED ON THE COX MODEL, A CONSIDERABLE DIFFERENCE APPEARED BETWEEN THE ARREST RATES FOR THE TWO INSTITUTIONS. HOWEVER, AFTER ADJUSTING VARIOUS COVARIATES, THE ...

Rates of HIV and Hepatitis C infection have reached epidemic proportions among prison populations in many parts of the world, epidemics primarily driven by the sharing of injecting equipment both inside and outside prison walls. Ireland also faces the challenges of preventing disease transmission among injecting drug using prisoners, implementing best practice harm reduction programmes and safeguarding the healthcare rights of prisoners. On Thursday, December 11th the Irish Penal Reform Trust and Merchants Quay Ireland will be holding a public forum entitled HIV, Hepatitis C, and Harm Reduction in Prisons: Evidence, Best Practice and Human Rights. This forum will examine the evidence of HIV, Hepatitis C and risk behaviour among Irish prisoners, as well as review examples of international best practice in HIV/Hepatitis C prevention and harm reduction in prisons.. Preventing the transmission of HIV and Hepatitis C in prisons, and caring for those infected, are important issues of public health ...

Jail-Based Substance Abuse Treatment Program Cost Analysis Study Prepared By: Iowa Consortium for Substance Abuse Research and Evaluation University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa With Funds Provided

The Militant was informed May 12 by Floridas Department of Corrections that the prison ban on issue no. 13 had been overturned. This victory is important for the rights of both the working-class paper and of prisoners.. After receiving numerous protest letters and an appeal filed by the Militants attorney, David Goldstein, the DOCs Literature Review Committee informed him that they had reversed the impoundment of the April 6 issue at their meeting May 7. As a result of that decision the issue will be allowed into Florida correctional institutions, wrote committee administrator Dean Peterson.. Im not surprised we won this, said Militant editor John Studer. Barring the paper because it showed pictures of nurses, shipyard workers and meatpacking workers raising a fist as part of their struggles was particularly egregious.. Workers behind bars have the same rights as those outside prison walls, to read about the world, consider different views and form their own opinions without ...

Many inmates left for years in filthy overcrowded cells. Amnesty International researchers, recently returned from Nigeria, have expressed shock at the prison conditions they witnessed and the protracted delays in Nigerias justice system. Aster van Kregten, Nigeria researcher for Amnesty International said: The circumstances under which the Nigerian government locks up its inmates are appalling. Many inmates are left for years awaiting trial in filthy overcrowded cells with Childrens rights and adults often held together.. Some prisoners are called forgotten inmates as they never go to court and nobody knows how much longer their detention will last, simply because their case files are lost.. The Amnesty International delegation spent two weeks in Nigeria, visiting 10 prisons in the states of Enugu, Kano and Lagos, and in the Federal Capital Territory.. In the wake of its findings, the organisation called on the Nigerian government to properly fund urgent prison improvements and ensure ...

Washington Zero Dark Thirty, a nominee for Sundays Oscar as Best Picture, reignited debate about whether the waterboarding of terrorism suspects was torture. This practice, which ended in 2003, was used on only three suspects. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of American prison inmates are kept in protracted solitary confinement that arguably constitutes torture and probably violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition of cruel and unusual punishments.. Noting that half of all prison suicides are committed by prisoners held in isolation, Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., has prompted an independent assessment of solitary confinement in federal prisons. State prisons are equally vulnerable to Eighth Amendment challenges concerning whether inmates are subjected to substantial risk of serious harm.. America, with 5 percent of the worlds population, has 25 percent of its prisoners. Mass incarceration, which means a perpetual crisis of prisoners re-entering society, has generated understanding of ...

Among the drug addict patients she meets regularly she is known as Mama Brown, and she says they often share a hug and a laugh.. Many of them become very familiar as they are what staff call frequent flyers - in and out of prison all the time. At any one time, around a third of inmates are locked up for three weeks or less and return repeatedly, their stays not long enough to address their emotional or addiction issues.. Amanda says: Many of the residents lives are so chaotic that prison is a refuge. But it is not necessarily the best place for them.. Amanda says: The state spends a huge amount on housing women in prison and that could be much better spent on rehabilitation. There are places out there that do that but there are nowhere near enough.. One of the biggest problems in prison is drugs.. Amanda says with a sigh: I hate the illegal drugs which come into prison with a passion.. Women cant be examined physically so they can hide stuff in the front passage, the back passage and ...

From the early nineteenth century to the current day reformers, policy makers, prison governors and medical officers have grappled with relentlessly high levels of mental illness in prisons. Since the creation of modern and specialised prisons and prison regimes, prison regimes and conditions - the separate system, solitary confinement and overcrowding - were criticised for their impact on the mental wellbeing of their inmates. This paper explores the management of mentally ill prisoners in the late nineteenth century, paying particular attention to Liverpool Borough Prison. Managing mentally ill prisoners - male and female - became a significant part of the prison surgeons workload and a drain on the prisons resources. Drawing on underexploited prison archives, official papers, medical literature, and asylum casebooks, this paper examines the efforts of prison officers to cope with mental illness among prison populations, and how these drew on, reflected and reinforced late ...

Examines and compares the health status and health service utilization of women and men in a provincial correctional jail in Atlantic Canada. Finds that prisoners experienced a number of physical and mental health issues and a large proportion used health services during incarceration. The quality and accessibility of health services played a significant role in how participants viewed health care in jail. Sex and gender are shown to influence the health status and use of health services among provincial prisoners. Females report more heath issues and poorer overall health, as well as more difficulties accessing health services during incarceration than male prisoners. Race also plays a role in health status and health service utilization. Aboriginal prisoners rate their overall physical and mental health poorer than non-Aboriginals. They also report a greater need for health services, but use them less than non-Aboriginal prisoners.. ...

The Prison Service is responsible for the safe custody of all persons committed by the courts, to this end Her Majestys Prison provides many roles for the community. It is a prison, young offenders institute, juvenile detention centre, remand centre and immigration removal facility rolled into one. With such a varied remit in custodial terms we have to provide an extensive range of services to those in our care. It is our responsibility to deliver in two main areas, Public Protection and Reducing Re-Offending. The Virgin Islands Prison Service serves the public by helping prisoners to lead law abiding and useful lives in custody and after release, it is our duty to treat them with both dignity and humanity.. ...

Examines and compares the health status and health service utilization of women and men in a provincial correctional jail in Atlantic Canada. Finds that prisoners experienced a number of physical and mental health issues and a large proportion used health services during incarceration. The quality and accessibility of health services played a significant role in how participants viewed health care in jail. Sex and gender are shown to influence the health status and use of health services among provincial prisoners. Females report more heath issues and poorer overall health, as well as more difficulties accessing health services during incarceration than male prisoners. Race also plays a role in health status and health service utilization. Aboriginal prisoners rate their overall physical and mental health poorer than non-Aboriginals. They also report a greater need for health services, but use them less than non-Aboriginal prisoners.. ...

Prison staff and harm reduction Additional module: Infectious diseases Training Criminal Justice Professionals in Harm Reduction Services for Vulnerable Groups funded by the European Commission Directorate General for Health and Consumers Session 1 Infectious diseases Slideshow 39623 by Samuel

Florida, with the nations third-largest prison system, has a long and sordid history of abusing, neglecting and even killing its prisoners. Because most state prisons are in insular rural areas, the general public, aside from those with incarcerated loved ones or friends, has minimal awareness of what really occurs within facilities operated by the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) or its private contractors.. The FDOC has historically strived to preserve this lack of transparency by obfuscating the actual happenings in its prisons. The departments modus operandi is to portray itself as a professional state agency that protects citizens from dangerous criminals, which requires an ever-increasing share of taxpayer dollars to keep society safe from a growing prison population.. Keeping its dirty laundry in-house is an administrative priority. Occasionally, however, particularly egregious incidents belie the FDOCs carefully crafted vision statement of changing lives to ensure a safer ...

On Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2020, the public comment period begins for the proposal to Issue Air Quality Control Renewal Permit No. 79252 to Geo Secure Services, LLC for the continued operation of Arizona State Prison - Kingman facility located in Mohave County, Arizona. The comment period ends on Jan. 30, 2020.Public Notice/Related Documents | View |Comments may be submitted as

Employees at State Board Of Control Of Wisconsin, State Prison in Waupun, may have been exposed to asbestos which can lead to mesothelioma and other asbestos related diseases.

Westmoreland County Prison Inmate Phone Calls, Purchase Phone Time, Online Signup, Email Inmate, Jail Phone System for Westmoreland County Jail, Greensburg, Pennsylvania.

Life imprisonment (also known as imprisonment for life, life in prison,[citation needed] a life sentence, a life term, lifelong incarceration, life incarceration or simply life) is any sentence of imprisonment for a crime under which convicted persons are to remain in prison either for the rest of their natural life or until paroled. Crimes for which, in some countries, a person could receive this sentence include murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, blasphemy,[1] apostasy, terrorism, severe child abuse, rape, child rape, espionage, treason, high treason, drug dealing, drug trafficking, drug possession, human trafficking, severe cases of fraud, severe cases of financial crimes, aggravated criminal damage in English law, and aggravated cases of arson, kidnapping, burglary, or robbery which result in death or grievous bodily harm, piracy, aircraft hijacking, and in certain cases genocide, ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity, certain war crimes or any three felonies in case ...

For years prisoners throughout the California and United States prison system have been subject to similar unjust and atrocious confinement conditions. These injustices will no longer be tolerated. Right now thousands of prisoners hunger striking in Pelican Bay State Prison and in prisons across California and the country are demanding to be treated humanely with dignity and respect. We demand the same. We stand with the prison hunger strike and require that the prisoners five simple and reasonable core demands be met. 1. The end of Group punishment (e.g. all black inmates having visitation cut off regardless of actual affiliation with problem prisoner); 2. Abolishing of the de-briefing process (forcing prisoners to identify other gang members even with lack of sufficient evidence to prove original gang affiliation, which by the way gets whomever is named thrown into the Security Housing Units); 3. End long term solitary confinement (a practice which is known to cause long term, ...

Authorities are investigating after a female inmate at the Hennepin County Jail died of an apparent seizure Wednesday night. The Hennepin County Sheriffs Office said the inmate suffered the seizure at about 4:55 p.m. Wednesday.

With more than 25,000 inmates behind bars, and one of the highest per-capita incarceration rates in the nation, Oklahoma spends a lot on prisons and has for the past 40 years. Inmates arent always in the best health. With its tough 85-percent rule requiring certain offenders to serve most of their sentence before being eligible for release, inmates are staying in prison longer and therefore growing old there. The geriatric-age prison population is growing rapidly and with aging, coupled with a poor health history, come health problems ...

C5700.3 P8311984 c. 2 OKLAHOMA STATE BOARD OF CORRECTIONS Recommendations for Controlling Prison Population Growth: A Response to HB 1483 November 29, 1984 OKLAHOMA PUBLICATIONS Cl£~~QQU~\ OKLAHOMA OEPARTMENT OFLIBRf\RlU 200 N. E. 18th ST. OKLAHOMA erN, OK 13-105 .. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS 3~OO N. EASTERN - ? O. BOX i 1H3 1\ v, ~ U(\,\A ~ r-ITV t\V! \ ~.~ \4 .,. 7!! 1 Oklahoma State Board of Corrections Recommendations for Controlling Oklahomas Prison Population Introduction In House Bill 1483, the Oklahoma Board of Corrections was directed by the State Legislature to present recommendations for reducing prison population, accomodating projected needs for prison population and cost-saving measures •••• The purpose of this report is to present those recommendations in the context of past and present prison population control efforts in Oklahoma and the rest of the nation. The pressures of prison population growth nationwide have forced states to investigate numerous ...

WARREN, Maine - A Maine State Prison inmate with a lengthy violent past is expected to be charged early next week with the stabbing death of another prisoner. Maine State Police spokesman Stephen McCausland said that state police detectives believe Richard Stahursky, 35, is responsible for…. Maine news, sports, politics, election results, and obituaries from the Bangor Daily News.

The San Luis Obispo County Sheriffs Office is investigating the death of a male inmate at County Jail on Monday, November 27, 2017.

Tammi Walker. Context 315. Background 315. The Prison Population and Suicide 316. Suicide in Remand Prisoners 316. Suicide in Sentenced Prisoners 317. Suicide in Young Prisoners 318. Suicide in Released Prisoners 318. Suicide in Women Prisoners 319. Limitations of Suicide Research in Prison Settings 319. Psychosocial and Situational Risk Factors for Suicide Common to Prisons 320. Self-Injury in Prisoners 320. Risk Factors for Self-Injury in the Prison Population 321. Current Interventions and Treatments in Custody 322. Prison Staff Responses to Prisoners at Risk of Harm to Self 323. Conclusion 324. Further Reading 325. References 325. 21 Working with Children and Adolescents with Harmful Sexual Behaviour 329 ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) - A Texas death-row inmate has sued state prison officials to allow his pastor to lay hands on him as he dies from a lethal injection.. John Henry Ramirez, 37, is scheduled to be put to death in the Texas death chamber on Sept. 8, but his attorneys said in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday in Corpus Christi that state prison officials had denied his request to have his pastor lay hands on him as he dies.. The lawsuit asked a federal judge to allow Dana Moore, pastor of the Second Baptist Church, a Corpus Christi congregation of about 200 worshippers, to be present in the death chamber at his execution and lay hands on him as Ramirez dies. The lawsuit states that Moore has ministered to Ramirez for five years.. Officials of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, which operates the Texas state prison system, had no comment, said a department spokesman.. The lawsuit cites a 2019 U.S. Supreme Court order that stayed Patrick Murphys execution unless the inmates Buddhist ...

When Bill Clinton became governor of Arkansas, that states prison board awarded a fat contract to a Little Rock company called Health Management Associates, or HMA. The company was paid $3 million a year to run medical services for the states prison system. The company paid prisoners $7 per pint of their blood. HMA then sold the blood on the international plasma market for $50 a pint, splitting the proceeds 50/50 with the Arkansas Department of Corrections. HMAs contract with the Arkansas Department of Corrections and its entry into the blood market coincided with the rise of AIDS in the United States. But HMA did not screen the prisoners blood, even after the FDA issued special alerts about the higher incidents of AIDS and hepatitis in prison populations. When American drug companies and blood fractionizers stopped buying blood taken from prisoners in the early 1980s, HMA turned to the international blood market, selling to companies in Italy, France, Spain, and Japan. But the prime buyer ...

criminal penalties on young people if we dont understand what they know about the law? How do we know if the judicial system is doing a fair and effective job of holding serious young offenders accountable if we dont question how this population experiences the judicial process? How can we understand the impact our correctional system has on this population if we dont ask young prisoners to reflect on their experience of incarceration?. In this report, the John Howard Association (JHA), Illinois only independent prison watchdog and justice reform advocate, seeks to answer some of these questions as well as provide more general insight into how serious young offenders perceive the criminal justice systems legitimacy.. ...

Background: To get accustomed with cutaneous manifestations related to AIDS is effective in early diagnosis of this disease. Objective: To evaluate the cutaneous manifestations in HIV seropositive patients. Patients and Methods: A prospective, descriptive and cross-sectional study was performed on HIV-positive male prisoners in Kermanshah central prison and in addiction camp, referred to skin disease center of Kermanshah University, during eleven months; and their cutaneous manifestations were analyzed. Results: 43 out of 79 patients (54.4%) had mucocutaneous manifestations. 26 patients (32.9%) had herpes zoster infection. Two patients (4.6%) developed recurrent herpes zoster and five patients (11.6%) showed wide scar in low back area and shoulder because of previous herpes zoster. Other manifestations included acne (23.3%), generalized pruritus (11.6%) and oral herpes simplex infection, scabies and tinea versicolor in few cases. The majority of patients (32.6%) were in the age group of 30-34 years.

In 1971, President Nixon infamously declared a War on Drugs. This catalyzed an aggressive spike in incarceration rates, which increased the U.S. prison population by over 500% in just a few decades. The United States now has a staggering prison population that is six times larger than most other Western countries, making it the nation the highest rate of incarceration in the industrialized world. Not all American communities experience the effects of mass incarceration equally, however, and the unique way women experience mass-incarceration is particularly under-discussed.. Many studies of post-Nixon era mass incarceration have particularly focused on the ways men of color are effected by mass incarceration. In fact, an entire book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander, examines this troubling reality and argues that the current, disproportionate imprisonment of this population is an extension of racist policies perpetuated in the Jim Crow ...

0613. Tushar Patel. Chief, Quality Management Branch. Office of Quality Management - CPE Coordinator. 320 First Street, N.W. Room 422. Washington, DC 20534. Tel: 202-514-2136. Fax: (202) 307-0156. E-Mail: [email protected]. Web Site: www.bop.gov. In support of improving patient care, the Department of Justice - Federal Bureau of Prisons Health Services Division is jointly accredited by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.. ...

Regarding HIV testing policies, there was an increase from 31 percent to 33 percent in State/Federal prison systems with mandatory HIV testing from the 1996-97 survey to the 2005 survey. Between the two surveys, there was a decline in the percentage of State/Federal systems in which management staff or line officers were notified of inmates HIV test results (37 percent to 17 percent and 12 percent to 2 percent, respectively). There was a slight increase in the percentage of city/county systems that disclosed results to correctional officers (from 7 percent to 9 percent). The percentage of State/Federal systems with mandatory or routine syphilis testing for incoming inmates increased from 28 percent to 76 percent; however, it declined from 41 percent to 25 percent in city/county systems. Few systems reported results of STD testing. Regarding HIV/STD education and prevention, most systems continued to provide instructor-led education (82 percent of State/Federal systems and 75 percent of ...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 TRACY L. WILKISON Acting United States Attorney DAVID M. HARRIS Assistant United States Attorney Chief, Civil Division CEDINA M. KIM Assistant United States Attorney Senior Trial Attorney, Civil Division PAUL SACHELARI, CSBN 230082 Special Assistant United States Attorney Social Security Administration 160 Spear St., Suite 800 San Francisco, CA 94105 Telephone: (415) 977-8933 Facsimile: (415) 744-0134 Email: [email protected] Attorneys for Defendant 13 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA WESTERN DIVISION 14 15 16 17 ANDREW D. CARTER, Plaintiff, 18 19 20 21 v. ANDREW SAUL, Commissioner of Social Security, ) No. 2:20-cv-05255-JC ) ) ) ) JUDGMENT OF REMAND ) ) ) ) ) ) ) 22 Defendant. 23 The Court having approved the parties Stipulation to Voluntary Remand 24 Pursuant to Sentence 4 of 42 U.S.C. § 405(g) and to Entry of Judgment (Stipulation 25 of Remand) lodged concurrent with the lodging of the within Judgment of Remand. 26 // 27 // 28 // ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Charles Fermin, 29, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Providence, R.I., to 41 months in federal prison, having been convicted by a federal court jury in Rhode Island in September 2012 of trafficking cocaine and marijuana, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Colonel Steven G. ODonnellSuperintendent of the Rhode Island State Police.. U.S. District Court Judge William E. Smith also ordered Fermin to serve 3 years of supervised release upon completion of his prison term. Fermin was arrested by members of the Rhode Island State Police High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Task Force on January 6, 2012. At trial, the government presented evidence to a jury that at the time of his arrest by members of the HIDTA Task Force, Fermin was in possession of a suitcase containing a loaded .357 Magnum revolver, 33 pounds of marijuana, more than an ounce of cocaine, and drug trafficking paraphernalia. The jury heard evidence that during ...

Prisons are one of the most militarized of zones, yet they are also the most grossly confined by routine. I include prison resistance here for two reasons. Many Palestinian and Lebanese women who took part in militant (and non-militant) struggle against Israeli occupation after its 1978 invasion of Lebanon were imprisoned in Israeli-controlled, Lebanese-run, prisons in then-occupied South Lebanon. Secondly, women in prisons are often forgotten in feminist discourse. Thus incorporating them into feminist consciousness is part of the methodology of remembering marginalized resistance that I foreground in this study. Prisons, after all, are sites of resistance to violence and gender hierarchies.. In this section, through a reading of Suha Becharas prison memoir, Resistance: My Life for Lebanon, and her co-edited collection of prison stories, أحلم بزنزانة من كرز, (I Dream of a Prison Cell [Made] of Cherries), I integrate experiences of women in prison into a queer antiracist ...

More prisoners are being housed in Nevada County jails and being monitored by the Nevada County Probation Department under a new law that shifts state prisoners to county jurisdiction. To comply with a court ruling to relieve prison overcrowding, state officials began to impliment AB 109 in October of last year. Michael Ortola, Nevada Countys acting probation Director, says he is monitoring three times the number of cases they were told to expect ...

CJA 234 Complete Course Updated. Check this A+ tutorial guideline at http://www.homeworkrank.com/cja-234-uop/cja-234-complete-course-material-updated. For more classes visit. http://www.homeworkrank.com. CJA 234 Complete Course Material Updated. CJA 234 Week 1 Individual Assignment: Prison Comparison Contrast Paper. CJA 234 Week 2 Individual Assignment: Federal Prison Comparison. CJA 234 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment: Correctional History Q&A Response. CJA 234 Week 3 Learning Team Assignment: Correctional Systems Q&A Response. CJA 234 Week 3 Individual Assignment: Prison System Comparison Paper. CJA 234 Week 4 Learning Team Assignment: Correctional Management Q&A Response. CJA 234 Week 4 Individual Assignment: Sentencing Paper. CJA 234 Week 5 Individual Assignment: Rehabilitation Paper. CJA 234 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment: Prisoner Q&A Response. CJA 234 Week 1 DQs. CJA 234 Week 2 DQs. CJA 234 Week 3 DQs. CJA 234 Week 4 DQs. ...

Study Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine multiple treatment process measures and post-release outcomes for inmates who participated in Therapeutic Community (TC) drug treatment programs or comparison groups provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections at five state prisons. The project attempted to examine more closely the relationships among inmate characteristics, treatment process, and treatment outcomes than previous studies had done in order to explore critical issues in prison-based drug treatment programming and policies. The study aimed to address gaps in the current knowledge about prison treatment programs. There were several questions that the researchers focused on: (1) How was quality of program implementation related to treatment outcomes? (2) How were drug and alcohol needs assessments conducted, and how did needs assessments influence treatment process and outcomes? (3) Were inmates with different levels and types of need matched with appropriate ...

The report concludes that changes are needed if the juvenile justice system is to meet its aims of holding adolescents accountable, preventing reoffending, and treating them fairly. In addition to their past actions, minors are viewed through a different lens, in terms of their ability to be rehabilitated in the future. Models for Change is an ambitious multi-state juvenile justice system reform initiative, launched in 2004 by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation with the goal of accelerating the nations progress toward more rational, fair, effective, and developmentally appropriate responses to young people in conflict with the law. The report, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, finds that our current juvenile justice system, which relies heavily on confinement (much like the criminal justice system), routinely deprives youth of three conditions that are critically important to healthy adolescent development: active ...

Between 1955 and 1994, state-run psychiatric hospitals across the country discharged most of their patients in a social experiment called deinstitutionalization. It coincided with three factors: greater availability of effective psychiatric medications, the creation of Medicaid and Medicare, and a societal movement toward treating people in their communities instead of institutions.. Despite positive intentions, deinstitutionalization helped fuel a new crisis: mass incarceration. Jhilam Biswas, MD, a forensic psychiatrist who directs the Brighams Psychiatry, Law, and Society Program, says nearly 50% of the nations prison population suffers from mental illnesses.2 In fact, jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago are now the three largest psychiatric institutions in the country.. Our goal is to address the serious need for high-quality psychiatric treatment in the correctional setting and educate social systems outside of medicine and healthcare on psychiatric issues, she says. We ...

Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart says there is an outbreak of lice and scabies at the county jail and the hospital serving jail detainees.

We would like to draw the attention to the problem of the spread of COVID-19 in penitentiary institutions, propose particular actions which could contribute to prevention of uncontrolled spread of the disease and develop the proposals which could be useful during their implementation in the practical activities of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine. -

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Gaspar Leal, 49, of Albuquerque, New Mexico was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Albuquerque to 30 years (360 months) in prison after juries found him guilty of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine at two separate trials.. On July 12, 2016, a grand jury returned an indictment charging Leal and two others with conspiracy to distribute and distribution of 50 grams or more of methamphetamine on June 8, 2016. On Dec. 6, 2017, a jury returned a verdict finding Leal guilty of conspiracy and not guilty of distribution. Two co-defendants pleaded guilty in this case. Candace Tapia, 24, of Albuquerque received a sentence of 18 months in prison for distribution of methamphetamine and Bernadette Aurora Tapia, 51, of Albuquerque received a sentence of 21 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.. On Dec. 20, 2017, a grand jury returned a separate indictment charging Leal with conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine between July 21, ...

Do you want to know what life in the Dallas County Jail is really like? The media does a terrible job of depicting real jail life in TV and movies. While Dallas can be a rough jail, it is nothing like prison.

The states prisons system plans to give the pillow to death row inmate Alva Campbell on Wednesday (15 November) for breathing issues he may experience while lying flat, Fox8 Cleveland reported.. Dr. James McWeeney noted there were no objective findings such as increased pulse rate or breathing to corroborate Campbells anxiety.. Alva Campbell, 69, will lie on the pillow as a three-drug cocktail will be administered to execute Campbell after he was convicted for the kidnapping and killing of an 18-year-old Columbus man. Campbell was on parole at the time after being charged with aggravated murder from a 1972 killing.. Campbell has also requested to be executed by firing squad, citing that a prison nurse was unable to find a suitable vein for an IV. However, he recommended allowing Campbell to lie in a semi-recumbent position during the execution.. The 69-year-old inmate has severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder due to his heavy smoking habit.. The prisoners attorneys say he uses a ...

Las Vegas, NV - Today, Nevada Attorney General Adam Paul Laxalt announced that Derland Blake, 32, of North Las Vegas was revoked from his probation. Blake, a former Nevada Department of Corrections Officer pleaded guilty and was sentenced in January 2015 for his involvement in a smuggling plot in High Desert State Prison. Blake entered a guilty plea to bribery charges for accepting bribes to smuggle cell phones and other contraband into the prison to assist with the escape of inmate Ammar Harris, the notorious Strip Shooter who was ordered to serve three life sentences for murder. Blake was previously sentenced to 24-60 months in the Nevada Department of Corrections for his role in the smuggling scheme. However, the judge suspended the sentence and placed Blake on probation for a fixed period of five years.. Today, Blake was in court facing revocation of his probation after having been bound over to District Court on new charges, this time for three counts of lewdness with a child under the ...

Conditions are so poor that non-governmental groups estimate at least 100 prisoners are gravely ill and close to death.. Only 6% of the prisoners are actually serving sentences - the rest are stuck in DR Congos legal system where cases can drag on for years.. DR Congos deputy minister of justice told local media that Makala had now received some funding to help improve conditions.. Its true, there was a delay in paying suppliers and this explains the break in supplies, Celestin Tunda Ya Kasende told AFP, adding, the situation was put to rights on Monday.. He promised that more money would follow, but the BBCs Gaïus Kowene in Kinshasa says human rights organisations remain sceptical.. The 17 deaths in Makala Prison were reported by the Bill Clinton Foundation for Peace, which has no affiliation to the similarly named Clinton Foundation set up by the former US president.. Last year, it was reported that 40 inmates had died in similar circumstances over an 18-month period in another prison ...

New Haven - A Connecticut prisoner forced to sleep on a mattress that smelled of mildew and missing much of its stuffing was awarded $12,000 Friday

Held every spring at the decommissioned West Virginia Penitentiary in Moundsville, WV, the Mock Prison Riot features hands-on training and technology exposure to corrections, law enforcement, military, and public safety practitioners from around the world.

There are about 714 000 incarcerated women globally, and these numbers may be higher due to the lack of record or under-reporting of data present in some countries. This number corresponds to 6.9% of the prison population worldwide, and the countries with the highest number of incarcerated women are the USA (200 000), followed by China (107 131), Russia (48 478), Brazil (approximately 44 700) and Thailand (41 119). Furthermore, in the year 2000, this population increased by about 53%, the world population by 21%, and the male prison population by 20%.1. Due to their structure, prisons are places with high vulnerability and high risk for the development of sexually transmitted infections (STIs).2 Such infections can be caused by more than 30 different aetiological agents, and their main route of transmission is sexual contact. Some of these infections have high prevalence rates and are more severe in women because when not detected in time, they can cause, for example, congenital syphilis, pelvic ...

A letter from Kevin Rashid Johnson, minister of defense of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party (Prison Chapter), who is also being held at the Clements Unit in Amarillo, lays out the tragic sequence of events. Remember, when reading this, that Woolverton had been unresponsive, lying on the ground seemingly unable to move, for days at this point. Rashid recounts how. Gratz, a notoriously abusive guard, told Woolverton to get up and come to the door and submit to handcuffs or hed be OC-gassed and forcibly removed by an extraction team of riot armored guards. Woolverton was not responsive. The nurse told him they were going to gas him and to remember how they gassed you the last time and you couldnt breathe? She implored him to get up and come to the door, which he failed to do - in obvious medical distress.. The nurse and others left and the warden and several other people in street clothes came in, looked in at Woolverton, laughed and left.. Moments later, Gratz, Seymour and the nurse ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact ELIZABETH MORSE www.justice.gov/usao/md at (410) 209-4885. Greenbelt, Maryland - On September 12, 2017, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis sentenced Reginald Cecil Duckett, age 49, of Washington, D.C., to seven years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute phencyclidine (PCP).. The sentence was announced by Acting United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Stephen M. Schenning; Assistant Director in Charge Andrew W. Vale of Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington Field Office; Special Agent in Charge Gordon Johnson of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Baltimore Field Office; Chief Henry P. Stawinski III of the Prince Georges County Police Department; Prince Georges County Sheriff Melvin C. High; and Chief Peter Newsham of the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department.. According to his plea agreement, Duckett purchased PCP from co-conspirators and then redistributed the PCP to others. ...

There were 30,775 prisoners in Australia at the end of June 2013 - an increase of five per cent on the 2012 census conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Almost six out of ten (58 per cent) prisoners had previously served a sentence as an adult. The cost of housing a prisoner in 2012-13 was $297 per day. In comparison, annual expenditure on mental health-related services in 2011‑12 was $322 per person - less than a dollar a day. State and territories provided 61 per cent of this funding.. The prison population has higher rates of mental illness than the wider population. While treatment in prison can improve a persons mental health, it appears that, for some, mental health deteriorates after release. Mental health support is, therefore, an important service for people returning to the community.. If people are re-offending and returning to the prison system in part due to a failure to provide adequate mental health services following release, improvements make sense. The ...

Because more and more drug companies refuse to provide death rows with murderous chemicals, three state prison systems - in Alabama, Mississippi and Oklahoma - are making plans to put inmates to death by pumping nitrogen into their gas chambers, progressively depriving inmates of oxygen.. The Alabama Department of Corrections declined to describe even in general terms what it has built, reported The Associated Press Aug. 10, including whether it is a room or an apparatus in the existing death chamber - and an estimated timeframe for completing the protocol.. Because of the difficulty today of getting deadly chemicals, and because of growing revulsion at clear instances of pain and suffering by inmates executed by lethal injection, more states are seeking alternatives, including poison gas, electric chairs and firing squads. The Justice Department has changed its protocols to allow the federal death row in Terre Haute, Indiana, to use all these execution methods.. Arizona prison officials ...

The following was written by Troy Hendrix, who is currently serving a life sentence at Elmira Correctional Facility, a maximum security facility located in south central New York State. For the last seven years, Hendrix, 29, has been held in administrative segregation, meaning that hes in solitary confinement indefinitely. In this powerful piece, Hendrix asks readers to imagine the agonizing conditions to which he is subjected day after day in extreme isolation. This is your imagination, he writes, but this is my reality.. Hendrixs entry comes from his blog on Between the Bars, a prison blogging platform that aims to provide a positive outlet for creativity, a tool to assist in the maintenance of social safety nets, an opportunity to forge connections between people inside and outside of prison, and a means to promote non-criminal identities and personal expression. Contact him through his blog or by writing: Troy Hendrix #06A2056, Elmira Correctional Facility, P.O. box 500, Elmira, New ...

2007 Annual Report This annual report was proudly printed and assembled by working inmates at the DOC Correction Enterprises Print Plant at Nash Correctional Institution. A total of 1,000 copies were printed at a cost of $ 2,023.28, or $ 2.02 per copy. Index Welcome Secretarys Letter.................................................................................. 3 Organization Chart............................................................................... 4 Mission Statement................................................................................. 4 Vision Statement................................................................................... 5 Code of Ethics...................................................................................... 5 The Department Division of Alcoholism & Chemical Dependency Programs...................... 11 Central Engineering............................................................................. 19 Division of Community ...

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The numbers suggest otherwise.. Compared to last years figures, shootings in New York this week are up by a jaw-dropping 277 per cent.. Even before the recent riots, major crime in New York City had soared by 22 per cent thanks to bail reforms that allowed suspects to avoid jail and re-offend.. Last month, it was reported that there had been 38 murders over the last 28 days up until June 14, twice as many as the previous year.. On Monday alone, 18 people were shot in 14 separate incidents. Six NYPD officers were also injured during clashes with protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge on Wednesday.. Recent victims of the crime wave include a 1-year-old shot and killed in Brooklyn on Sunday. Since black lives only matter when they die in confrontations with white police officers, de Blasio must have seen fit to indulge in gallows humor, writes Dave Blount.. While de Blasio presides over empty prisons and soaring crime having vowed to slash next years police budget by $1 billion dollars, he has also ...

Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez today announced that a 31-year-old Brooklyn man was sentenced to 25 years in prison for fatally stabbing his landlord with a samurai sword during a dispute inside a basement he was leasing from the victim.. Acting District Attorney Gonzalez said, This defendant caused a tragic and completely senseless death, taking the life of a beloved businessman and a father of three. He will now serve a very long prison sentence for his brutal and violent conduct.. The Acting District Attorney identified the defendant as Rasel Siddiquee, 31 of Kensington, Brooklyn. He was sentenced today by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Neil Firetog to 25 years in prison and five years post-release supervision following his guilty plea earlier this month to first-degree manslaughter.. The Acting District Attorney said that, according to the evidence, on January 6, 2014 the defendant was inside a basement apartment at 546 McDonald Avenue in Kensington, which he was renting ...

Older adults comprise an increasing proportion of the prison and homeless populations. While older age is associated with adverse post-release health events and incarceration is a risk factor for homelessness, the health status and homelessness risk of older pre-release prisoners are unknown. Moreover, most post-release services are geared towards veterans; it is unknown whether the needs of non-veterans differ from those of veterans. To assess health status and risk of homelessness of older pre-release prisoners, and to compare veterans with non-veterans. Cross-sectional study of 360 prisoners (≥55 years of age) within 2 years of release from prison using data from the 2004 Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities. Veteran status, health status (based on self-report), and risk of homelessness (homelessness before arrest). Mean age was 61 years; 93.8% were men and 56.5% were white. Nearly 40% were veterans, of whom 77.2% reported likely VA service eligibility. Veterans ...

240. An assault is an unlawful attempt, coupled with a present ability, to commit a violent injury on the person of another. 241. (a) An assault is punishable by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by both the fine and imprisonment. (b) When an assault is committed against the person of a parking control officer engaged in the performance of his or her duties, and the person committing the offense knows or reasonably should know that the victim is a parking control officer, the assault is punishable by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars ($2,000), or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by both the fine and imprisonment. (c) When an assault is committed against the person of a peace officer, firefighter, emergency medical technician, mobile intensive care paramedic, lifeguard, process server, traffic officer, code enforcement officer, or animal control officer engaged in the ...

R. Kelly walked out of Cook County Jail in Chicago shortly before noon Saturday - released after paying more than $160,000 in overdue child support.

Here is Sheriff Smoot Schmids Dallas County Jail Chili from the 1930s. It was also the chili Benny Binion served in his Horseshoe Casino. Binion and Schmid were good friends. ½ pound beef suet, ground 2 pounds coarsely ground beef 3 garlic cloves, minced 1½ tablespoons paprika 3 tablespoons chili

Rapper Meek Mill has checked into prison to begin serving his two-to-four year sentence over a probation violation.. Pennsylvania judge Genece Brinkley sentenced Mill, real name Robert Rihmeek Williams, to serve time behind bars for breaking the terms of probation he was handed following his last prison stint in 2009.. The hip-hop star violated the deal after he was arrested for fighting at St. Louis International Airport in Missouri. He was also taken into custody in August (17) for recklessly driving his motorcycle in New York City. He agreed to plea deals in both cases.. On Wednesday (08Nov17), the rapper checked into an undisclosed prison to begin serving his sentence. Pennsylvanias Department of Corrections officials have refused to release the name of the facility until Williams is completely processed, due to security concerns.. He has received a lot of support from his peers in the rap community since he was sentenced and now Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf is trying to help the rapper ...