Corrections Corporation of America began for-profit private prisons 30 years ago. Almost all states do business with them, but these ties could end soon.
The Department of Education announced a grant program, called “Promoting Reentry Success Through Continuity of Educational Opportunities,” or PRESCEO, amounting to nearly $1 million for workforce reentry education and training.
Criminologists are confounded as to why crime keeps declining in the United States.
Florida holds the dubious honor of wrongfully convicting the largest number of innocent people put on death row. Can it afford not to keep its Innocence Commission?
The Innocence Project uses modern DNA testing to free those who have been wrongfully imprisoned. It has helped release over 250 inmates.
Last week, California gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown (D) came under fire when a voicemail inadvertently recorded a private conversation in which a Brown aide suggests that Republican candidate Meg Whitman is a whore for cutting a deal with police over law enforcement pensions, and Jerry Brown approves.
