Tag: prisons
Posted on Wed May 07, 2014 at 08:04:00 AM EST
Tags: prisons, war on drugs (all tags)
Human Rights Watch has a new report, A Nation Behind Bars, with facts on the current state of our prison nation and recommendations to reduce our over-reliance on incarceration.
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Posted on Thu Nov 15, 2007 at 06:48:00 AM EST
Tags: prisons, inmates (all tags)
It's a jail day for me -- all day -- I'll be back for the debate tonight.
This particular jail is built underground and there's no working wireless connection. It has the feel of being in star trek, between the identical uniforms of the jail guards and the high tech stations. There are underground tunnels with colored arrows on the concrete floors directing you to the next set of gated doors.The jail staff is very polite. The place is so efficient that processing takes about 3 minutes, then we're on our way into the bowels of the building. By the time we follow the yellow brick road to the right area, our clients are already seated, happy to see us.(Anything to get out of those cells for a few hours.).
For the rest of you, there's lots to talk about, from tonight's debate to Bernie and Rudy and Judy, from drivers' licenses to FISA and whatever else might be on your mind.
Enjoy. I'll look forward to reading the thread when I get home.
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Posted on Thu Dec 07, 2006 at 08:22:56 PM EST
Tags: prisons, health care (all tags)
A federal judge in Michigan has found the state's the DOC in contempt of court. He ordered DOC to provide more prison doctors and nurses within four months. He's threatened the DOC with a $2 million fine.
He said a prisoner deserves to serve his sentence, not face delays in treatment.
"What he does not deserve is a de facto and unauthorized death penalty at the hands of a callous and dysfunctional health care system that regularly fails to treat life-threatening illness," Enslen wrote.
This isn't the Judge's first ruling taking the DOC to task.
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