(04/17/2013)
Consultants have advised a federal receiver of the California prison health care system to create a new position focused solely on the health care of inmates.
(04/17/2013)
ISC West, one of the security industry’s largest gatherings, wrapped up in Las Vegas this year with over 1,000 exhibitors.
(04/17/2013)
Although the death penalty is set to end in Maryland prisons, the death toll in the state’s correctional facility’s continue to rise with alleged inmate-on-inmate homicides.
(04/17/2013)
Legislators of West Virginia are poised to sign into law a prison reform bill that hopes to ease overcrowding and also expand substance abuse programs for inmates.
(04/10/2013)
New Hampshire has dropped its bid to build private prisons for state inmates after an evaluation of the four proposed companies posed concerns of security and failure to meet state compliance, the state announced last week.
(04/10/2013)
Michigan lawmakers have proposed a bill to create a sales tax exemption on construction materials used for the building of new county jails.
(03/27/2013)
With Gov. Jerry Brown’s AB 109 that sends low-level offenders to county jails rather than state correctional facilities, California county jails have witnessed an influx of lawsuits for alleged unsuitable facilities.
(03/27/2013)
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory recently put forth his proposed state budget for the 2013-2014 fiscal year, which includes closing five state prisons.
(03/20/2013)
Texas is making efforts to increase mental health care services in order to address the rising number of nonviolent inmates with mental illnesses and reduce recidivism of those inmates.
(03/20/2013)
llinois has been in the center of prison closures and has recently added more facilities to its list.