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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 state's 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 state's troubled and aging prison system. The governor said she plans to meet with legislators in the coming days to discuss "options that remain on...
© 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 response, jails expedited the release of people with low-level offenses. Further, police decreased their...
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. Californiaâs 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 hadnât built a new prison in two decades, stretching back to when Brownâs father, Pat Brown, was governor. The Department of Corrections, as the prison system was then called, wanted Brown to launch a major prison construction program to handle its rapidly growing inmate load. The young governor, nearing the end...