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The police then rescued one hostage from an adjoining cell-block, and as the police took control, inmates released the remaining hostages. All inmates surrendered by 9 AM. Some inmates were held in the four cellblocks not destroyed in the riots, and the rest were held outdoors in two recreational fields, surrounded by police in riot gear.
Chester, Pennsylvania: Opened 1998 first facility to treat inmates with substance use and be tobacco free: State Correctional Institution – Dallas: Dallas, Pennsylvania: Was originally designed for "defective delinquents" State Correctional Institution – Houtzdale: Houtzdale, Pennsylvania: State Correctional Institution – Mahanoy ...
Biden commuted the sentences of roughly 1,500 federal offenders who had been serving the remainder of their sentences on home confinement after being released from prison during COVID-19.
On December 12, 2024, Biden commuted the sentences of 1,499 people and pardoned another 39 convicted of non-violent offenses [102] who had been released from prison to home incarceration during the COVID-19 pandemic, in the "largest single-day grant of clemency in modern history". [103]
George "Cowboy" Martorano (born 1950) was the longest-serving, first-time, non-violent offender in the Federal Bureau of Prisons at the time of his release. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole in 1984 on drug charges. [1] Martorano was released in October 2015 after serving over 32 years.
Justice Department Will Begin Release of 6,000 Non-Violent Inmates from Federal Prison. ... which said those getting early release are a small fraction of the 70,000 federal inmates released ...
Decarceration includes overlapping reformist and abolitionist strategies, from "front door" options such as sentencing reform, decriminalization, diversion and mental health treatment to "back door" approaches, exemplified by parole reform and early release into re-entry programs, [5] amnesty for inmates convicted of non-violent offenses and imposition of prison capacity limits. [6]
Over the past quarter century, Slattery’s for-profit prison enterprises have run afoul of the Justice Department and authorities in New York, Florida, Maryland, Nevada and Texas for alleged offenses ranging from condoning abuse of inmates to plying politicians with undisclosed gifts while seeking to secure state contracts.