There’s been a long-running controversy about the quality of health care inmates receive at Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women in Virginia.
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Damning Report Finds Serious Issues With Youth In Prison
From understaffing to high suicide rates, youth are underserved in juvenile justice system.
Read More »At-Risk Youth and ‘Returning Citizens’ Supported by MADE
M.A.D.E. aims to tackle two of the most pressing issues in the U.S. with a sweeping mandate: a cleaner and greener world, and better chance at life for disenfranchised people, either before or after prison.
Read More »Food-Related Outbreaks Sicken Prisoners Six Times More Often
The biggest contributing factor involved in foodborne illness in prisons is food left at room temperature too long.
Read More »Lack of Data Leaves BOP At Risk for Healthcare Fraud
BOP cannot verify all claims were for necessary, non-duplicative services.
Read More »Private Prisons Line Pockets, but at What Cost?
In America, you can make a lot of money. You can put a businessman in charge of the country to ensure that you keep making that money. You can go from penniless to a multi-millionaire. Turns out some just aren't too choosy about how they get there.
Read More »Immigration Report: More Than 1 in 5 DOJ Prisoners Foreign-Born, Vast Majority Here Illegally
Setting the stage for a likely fight in Congress next year, Attorney General Jeff Sessions pointed to the report’s figures as showing U.S. citizens were “being victimized by illegal aliens who commit crimes,” especially drug-related offenses.
Read More »Weighing Prison Time for Juvenile Offenders
Each crime has individual circumstances and each perpetrator a different background, but one thing we do know is that teen brains are not yet fully developed.
Read More »Athletic Leaders Use Sports in Prison to Coach Success
Sports in prison are more than just a way for inmates to blow off steam.
Read More »Latest Funding Problem for Louisiana’s Public Defenders: No Lawyers for Death Penalty Defendants
In its 1963 decision in Gideon v. Wainwright, the U.S. Supreme Court held that, under the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution, indigent defendants facing serious criminal charges have a fundamental right to counsel, even if they are unable to pay. But the decision didn’t speak to where the funds for …
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