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Federal Crack Sentencing Reform Takes Effect
Beginning this past Tuesday, November 1st, Federal judges began reviewing the prison sentences of thousands of offenders convicted for crimes related to crack cocaine. This review process is an extension of the Fair Sentencing Act, passed in 2010, which reduced the disparity in sentencing between crack and powder cocaine offenses. Earlier this summer, the United [...]
Staying Connected and Cutting Costs
They’re more related than you think Our last few blog posts have dealt, directly and indirectly, with the operating costs of correctional facilities. This is partly because it’s topical; whether we’re talking about the Supreme Court decision regarding the California state prison system, the postcard-only policy in Muskegon County, or the overall budgetary stresses on [...]
Music to Our Ears
Can Music Help Inmates Cope? Music is central to the human experience. From the time we’re infants, music plays an integral role in calming and soothing us, teaching us (everyone remember the alphabet song?), and helping us to relate to one another. It stands to reason, then, that listening to music could also help prisoners [...]
Emailing an Inmate or Offender.
Staying in close contact with a friend or family member who is incarcerated is really important to their rehabilitation and their mental health and well being. But inmate email is not all that you might think. Yes, you can e-mail a prisoner, but the truth is in some instances they don’t get the correspondence right [...]
Inmates and the Need For Money
You probably think that an inmate’s needs would be met in prison. Most of us are under the impression that they get three square meals a day and all of their daily necessities. Some of us look at their life as rather comfy and easy, but let’s get real. Prisoners have little to no freedom, [...]
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