Before we can discuss what jail is like, you need to understand the differences between a state prison and a jail. Most people on the outside...
Many prisons and jails do not prepare ex-inmates to return to the outside world. In order for a returning citizen not to become another statistic in...
From the creator of PrisonPath.com: As part of my sentence, I was incarcerated for fifteen months in the Maryland state prison system. My prison path initially...
The United States has an illness. Our prisons and jails are filled with the mentally ill. Every month, there is another investigation revealing that a substantial...
The Rikers Island facilities has ten jails which holds offenders waiting trial. The defendants are there because they cannot afford bail or were not given bail...
In Auburn, Alabama a panel was convened to discuss the many problems of Alabama’s prisons. The forum was composed of the local sheriff, a county commissioner,...
In 2006, two guards were attacked by inmates at California’s High Desert State Prison. The warden ordered a full lockdown which restricted all African Americans in...
Webster’s dictionary defines recidivism as “a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior; especially to relapse into criminal behavior.” The...
According to their web site, “The GEO Group, Inc. (GEO) is the world’s second largest provider of correctional, detention, and community reentry services with 98 facilities,...
Almost all defendants, unlike Teresa and Joe Juidice, do not have the luxury of a delayed self-surrender to prison or jail. Teresa Juidice reports to federal...