The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/corrections/prisons/)
At a time when the quality of life, safety and health of incarcerated populations are at the top of the agenda, a Yale Law School professor argues it has never been more important to use judicial power to positively impact prisoners’ daily lives.
Nearly one third of inmates at California’s historic prison have tested positive for COVID-19. Many inmates arrived untested from another prison.
COVID-19 has halted publication in the nation’s most advanced prison newsroom. One of its reporters is writing for The Appeal.
Responses to the spread of coronavirus in prisons and jails ranged from “disorganized or ineffective…to callously nonexistent,” the Prison Policy Initiative said in a report released Thursday, adding the ”systemic” failure continues to put the general public at risk.
Federal judges in Chicago have approved sentence reductions in 75 cases, including requests by some notorious criminals.
Recent calls for abolishing prisons and defunding police received a favorable hearing at a University of Pennsylvania Law School webinar Wednesday. One law professor envisioned “a world in which we don’t resort to state violence to resolve interpersonal violence.”
Some question whether the federal government can deny prisoners the $1,200 relief checks authorized by Congress to people who filed tax returns.
Louisiana prisons hold nearly 4,700 lifers, more than four other states combined. Experts blame draconian sentencing laws and ineffective lawyers.
The plight of incarcerated women—one of the most vulnerable and fastest growing demographics in U.S. prisons and jails—has largely been hidden in the narrative of tragedy associated with the pandemic, write two R Street researchers.
The five largest known clusters of the virus are in corrections facilities. The risk of more cases appears imminent, as demonstrators arrested in police brutality protests are jailed.