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[12] [circular reference] From 2001 to 2004, the United States' federal government allocated over $100 million for reentry programs. [1] Without increased resources for this target area proportional to that spent on control-oriented aspects of incarceration, the issue that remains is the expansion of access and participation for inmates.
South Carolina's Alston Wilkes Society is the largest statewide prison support organization in the United States, with a budget of $918,000 and a staff of 50. It operates two halfway houses , arbitrates prisoner grievances, maintains a youth home , helps ex-inmates find work, and provides social services to prisoners' families. [ 3 ]
Under the project, different former inmates will receive training and job experience to help reclaim and build new properties in Midland, Aliquippa and Beaver Falls. “It will change the lives of ...
Though state guidelines prohibit “unnecessarily harsh or indecent treatment,” YSI guards have frequently resorted to violence in confrontations with youth, slapping and choking inmates and sometimes fracturing bones, according to police reports. Former employees told HuffPost that YSI often fails to document such incidents.
The incarceration numbers for the states in the chart below are for sentenced and unsentenced inmates in adult facilities in local jails and state prisons. Numbers for federal prisons are in the Federal line. Asterisk (*) indicates "Incarceration in STATE" or "Crime in STATE" links. Correctional supervision numbers for Dec 31, 2018.
Former guards in Wisconsin prisons and family members of people incarcerated there urged lawmakers Tuesday to address what they said were systemic problems within the state's prison system going ...
Aletia Timmons, a former assistant district attorney in Oklahoma County, says she has filed eight or nine civil suits against the jail on behalf of former inmates alleging officer-on-inmate violence.
Tom Clements' successor, Rick Raemisch, has said "Whatever solitary confinement did to that former inmate and murderer, it was not for the better." [ 12 ] Suspicion has also fallen on members of the 211 Crew , a white supremacist gang formed in Colorado's prisons in the mid-1990s. [ 13 ]