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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska's court system agreed to release a nonprofit group's analysis of state criminal justice data after the governor's office refused to release the information. The state's judicial branch released almost 100 pages of reports the nonprofit Crime and Justice Institute has presented to a group of officials who are trying to decide how to address Nebraska's prison overcrowding.

Updated: 12:06 PM CDT Jun 2, 2021 WVTM 13 Digital Alabama Governor Kay Ivey said Wednesday she is committed to addressing the states troubled correctional system after the unraveling of her $3 billion plan to build and lease new private prisons. This comes after a June 1 deadline for investors to opt into the prison lease plan came and went without any takers. Ivey has said new prisons are a crucial step to overhauling the states troubled and aging prison system. The gove...

© Getty Images America’s jails are at a moment of opportunity. They are emptier now than at any time in the last 20 years, providing a moment to rethink a system badly in need of repair. Jails — which typically house people awaiting trial and those facing sentences of less than a year — experienced some of the nation’s worst COVID-19 outbreaks. Starting last spring, the virus ran rampant through overcrowded and poorly ventilated jails like Riker’s Island in New York City.   In resp...

Imprisonment practices need a relook so that the police do not effect unnecessary arrests

It was 1981 and then-Gov. Jerry Brown had a problem. California’s 12 prisons were bulging at the seams with more than 28,000 inmates, thanks largely to tougher sentencing laws he signed, and he was told to expect another 20,000 more inmates within a few years. The state hadn’t built a new prison in two decades, stretching back to when Brown’s father, Pat Brown, was governor. The Department of Corrections, as the prison system was then called, wanted Brown to launch a major prison...

ABC News Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn UN urges Yemen’s rebels to allow access to injured migrants The U.N. migration agency has urged Yemen’s Houthi rebels to allow access to dozens of migrants injured in a fire at an overcrowded detention center in the capital By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press March 8, 2021, 11:28 PM • 2 min read Email this article CAIRO -- The U.N. migration agency on Monday urged Yemen’s Houthi rebels to allow acc...

At Least 62 Killed in Prison Riots in Ecuador News of the violence comes as Ecuador struggles to deal with prison overcrowding and frequent violence between gangs. Representative image: Riot police officers remove a fence used by demonstrators during protests after Ecuadors President Lenin Morenos government ended four-decade-old fuel subsidies, in Quito, Ecuador October 3, 2019. Photo: Reuters/Daniel Tapia World24/Feb/2021 Ecuadorian police on Tuesday said at least 62 people had been killed in...

Nearly 400 Woodford Correctional Centre inmates are sharing cells and 90 are sleeping on mattresses on the floor, which the union says leads to more violence.

Nearly 400 Woodford Correctional Centre inmates are sharing cells and 90 are sleeping on mattresses on the floor, which the union says leads to more violence.

Saturday, 13 Feb 2021 09:21 AM MYT BY ASHMAN ADAM In an interview, lawyer Sangeet Kaur Deo said prisons are already ‘running over 200 per cent over capacity’ and that 60 per cent of inmates were incarcerated for minor drug offences. — Picture by Saw Siow Feng Subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates on news you need to know. KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 13 ― The All Party Parliamentary Group Malaysia for the Reform of All Places of Detention (APPGM) has called for the country to re...