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Former Department of Juvenile Justice officials say that because Florida has turned over its youth prison system to contractors like YSI, the state is effectively complicit in allowing problems to fester at private facilities. With a fully outsourced system, there is little incentive to crack down on contractors, former staffers say.
However, prison reform advocates say building newer prisons without addressing the underlying causes of the problems that plagued the old facilities will only put a temporary Band-Aid on an issue ...
The combination of those two factors could lead to the prison system slowing down, and prisoners' progress would also begin to move slowly. If the prisoners' progress is slowed, then their exit is slowed as well. This will heavily increase overcrowding and results in a facility reaching maximum capacity at a faster rate.
The Prison Policy Initiative broke down those numbers, finding that, relative to their share of the U.S. population, "black and American Indian youth are over represented in juvenile facilities while white youth are under represented.", [60] Black youth comprise 14% of the national youth population, but "43% of boys and 34% of girls in juvenile ...
On March 10, 2022, Downstate Correctional Facility was permanently closed, due to a declining prison population in New York state. The state estimated that the closure would result in a savings of $142 million. [3] [4] The staff and inmates were transferred to other facilities within the system.
Once you get out, it's hard to believe you're free, Pippin said. "It's the small things that you can tell you're institutionalized," he said. "I had grown up in prison," Royal said.
Exclusive: Ministers playing ‘game of brinksmanship’ with prison places, governors association warns
Diane Downs was born on August 7, 1955, in Phoenix, Arizona, to Danish- and English-American parents Wesley Linden Frederickson (October 12, 1930 – September 30, 2017) and Willadene Frederickson (née Engle) who were married on April 11, 1954. [3]