Education in Prison: Why Educating Inmates is good for Recidivism Although recognized that educated inmates have a greater chance of succeeding upon release, the public and...
The Bureau of Justice Statistics just released a new report, “Sexual Victimization in Prisons and Jails Reported by Inmates, 2011-2012.” Sexual crimes are prevalent in most...
The United States is confronted with an increasing prison population in which adolescents are sentenced to hard time in adult prisons. What do we do with...
The following posting discussed a reading program established in prisons throughout the United Kingdom. The majority of inmates in England have literacy problems. It is obvious...
The following rules and requirements are from the New York State Department of Correction’s web site. Although visitation rules and restrictions vary from state to state...
In ancient times, guards would have been hard pressed to smuggle a phone as shown above. There have been countless reports from all over the...
If you were ever an inmate, you would not have to read a report about correctional systems lack of compassion in releasing terminally ill inmates or...
It is no surprise that effective rehabilitation equals reduced recidivism. Reduced recidivism means less crime, more stable families, reduced prison budgets, and at the end of...
It is recognized that many prisons in the United States are overcrowded and do not rehabilitate inmates. The use of mandatory minimum prison sentences for nonviolent...
Inmates are now resorting to Yelp to voice their complaints about prisons and jails. Although prisons and jails have usually an administrative process for filing complaints,...
