Texas spends almost $99,000 per year for each incarcerated juvenile.
Tag: incarceration
Strip Searches
No longer allowed in Nassau County, Long Island, NY. Judge Leonard D. Wexler found that the Fourth Amendment prohibits jail officials from performing such searches on every person sent to the jail, particularly those arrested on a misdemeanor or minor charge like a traffic violation, and those who cannot be reasonably suspected of carrying a concealed weapon or drugs. I…
One man. No vote.
Prison-based gerrymandering.
Prisoners no longer will work at farm
This is a shame. And stupid. One guy escaped. So what? From the Newark Start Ledger.
More people behind bars
The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports: * At year end 2007, federal and state prisons and local jails held just under 2.3 million inmates (2,293,157). The number of inmates incarcerated in prison or jail increased by 1.5% during the year. * About 1 in 198 U.S. residents was imprisoned with a sentence of more than 1 year in a federal…
Can you order pizza?
Maybe you don’t stay up at night thinking about cell phones in prison. And maybe you shouldn’t. But think about it for a moment… we can’t keep cell phones out of the hands of prisoners. Somehow I think that’s significant. The story by Dan Kane in the News & Observer.
60% oppose mandatory minimum sentences
But that means that 40% support mandatory prison terms for non-violent drug offenses. Still I guess it’s less than half. Read the story in the Christian Science Monitor.
Overcrowded California Prisons
Something has got to give. We’ll see what.
2.3 million behind bars
America’s incarceration population and rate continue to increase. At a cost of about $60 billion per year, we hold 2.3 million people behind bars. Details in the recently released Bureau of Justice Statistics Bulletins Prison Inmates at Midyear 2007 and Jail Inmates at Midyear 2007. ABC news reports: The report provides a breakdown, noting “of the 2.3 million inmates in…