Prison News
ACLU Sues LA County Sheriff
The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit against Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, according to a Wall Street Journal article printed yesterday. The LA Sheriff’s Department, which operates five LA County correctional facilities including the Men’s Central Jail – the largest jail in the world in terms of population - is accused in the [...]
Barbour’s Pardons
Governor Haley Barbour of Mississippi created a stir this month by issuing hundreds of pardons during his last two weeks in office. The majority of these pardons – 90%, the governor claims – were given to individuals no longer in custody, to restore their civil rights. Some of the clemencies, however, were granted to men [...]
Best Corrections-related Articles of 2011
For those of you that read this blog (and if you’re reading this, that means you), you’ll likely have noticed our informal format: take a chunk of corrections-related news, digest it, and offer up our bite-sized version to you. This is not uncommon; many blogs take this approach to content because it presents timely information [...]
Barefoot Bandit Pleads Guilty, Gets 7 Years
Oh man, do you remember this guy? Colton Harris-Moore captured the nation’s attention in 2010 by embarking on a wild (and wildly implausible) crime-and-flight spree that stretched from the sleepy woods of the Pacific Northwest to the Bahamian island of Eleuthera. The then-teenage bandit gained notoriety with both his daring methods of eluding capture – [...]
Putting a Moratorium on the Death Penalty
In late November, the Governor of Oregon announced that his state will not conduct any executions for the remainder of his term in office. Gov. John Kitzhaber implemented this moratorium while granting temporary reprieve to an inmate originally scheduled to receive the ultimate punishment on December 6th. Governor Kitzhaber made his announcement against the backdrop [...]
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