Posted Saturday September 14th, 2019 - 11:11 pm
Next Arena for Criminal Justice Reform: A Roof Over Their Heads
Criminal justice changes have focused on getting people out of prisons, but once people are released, they have struggled to find a place to live.Posted Saturday September 14th, 2019 - 9:56 am
Too often, the road to prison is paved with good intentions - R Street
Too often, the road to prison is paved with good intentions Proudly standing aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln in 2003, then-President George W. Bush announced that Operation Iraqi Freedom was a success — or “Mission Accomplished” as the banner read. It didn’t take long for the world to learn o...Posted Saturday September 14th, 2019 - 2:37 am
A new state prison originally expected to be completed by the end of 2020 will be smaller, more expensive and open later.
Utah prison facing higher costs, delayed opening in 2022
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A new state prison originally expected to be completed by the end of 2020 will be smaller, more expensive and open later.They've built this prison on a swamp there will be nothing but problems, Its probably going to end up costing closer to 900 million and open even later then 2022.
Not surprised, built on a swamp.
Posted Friday September 13th, 2019 - 3:00 pm
Photos of the new prison being erected as they start piecing together the pre-fabricated cell blocks. DFCM invited journalists of a tour earlier this week.
Here’s how Utah’s new $780 million prison will help the inland port
It’s a big spread of gravel, mud and concrete. Put another way: It’s a construction site.Until it all sinks.
Posted Friday September 13th, 2019 - 12:12 am
“I want them to believe that they can do it because they feel that they are valuable, they feel that they're powerful in they own right, and they can do positive things by themselves.”
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/he-was-prison-27-years-now-he-runs-magazine-give-n1051111
He was in prison 27 years. Now he runs a magazine to give people behind bars ‘hope.’
“I know what they care about,” Lawrence Bartley said of people at facilities across the U.S. and in Canada that receive the Marshall Project magazine, “News Inside.”Posted Wednesday September 11th, 2019 - 11:21 pm
Utah man’s sexual assault conviction overturned after spending 15 years in prison
Utah man’s sexual assault conviction overturned after spending 15 years in prison
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (ABC4 News) – A man convicted of aggravated sexual assault in 1997 is now an innocent man after spending approximately 15 years behind bars. Christopher Wickham was wrong…I hope he sues the shit out of the state.
The state should pay him hugely for every year he was locked up. That's the least that can be done for taking the years of his life as an innocent man.
Posted Wednesday September 11th, 2019 - 9:24 pm
The biggest priorities for prison and jail phone justice in 40 states. High prison rates, high jail rates, high first minute charges, and more.
The biggest priorities for prison and jail phone justice in 40 states
High prison rates, high jail rates, high first minute charges, and moreThose with family in a county jail, use an out of state phone number. The FCC capped the rate for calls from correctional facilities at 21 cents per minute for interstate calls.
Not breaking laws would help.
Sadly, it's the family's struggling to pay for outrageous costly phone calls to keep in contact with loved ones. The prisoners have no funds, It's ripping off the family!
Posted Wednesday September 11th, 2019 - 8:23 pm
‘Compassionate’ medical release ordered for inmate at Davis County Jail
‘Compassionate’ medical release ordered for inmate at Davis County Jail
DAVIS COUNTY, Utah (ABC4 News) – An inmate at the Davis County Jail was issued a ‘compassionate’ release based on a medical evaluation done at a local hospital. According to Liz S…
Posted Wednesday September 11th, 2019 - 8:19 pm
The release of jail standards coming soon thanks to ACLU Utah and others for making this happen. Hopefully this will result in better practices and safer conditions for incarcerated people in Utah jails and reduce the number of preventable in-custody deaths.Before we go to court, we try to get results through mediation and public records.
But when that fails, we go to court... and we often win.
ACLU rocks!!! ❤
Posted Wednesday September 11th, 2019 - 7:43 pm
Arapahoe County has approved a $2.45 settlement for the 2014 death of Jeffrey Lillis, who “died in a pool of blood and vomit in his cell” after repeatedly asking for help over a series of days. His cause of death was later discovered to be sepsis caused by bacterial pneumonia, which his family claims is entirely treatable.
Too bad this man, SOMEONE'S SON, BROTHER, UNCLE, COUSIN... MAYBE SOMEONE'S HUSBAND OR DAD HAD TO DIE FOR NOTHING! MONEY CAN NEVER REPLACE THIS HUMAN BEING. BUT THEIR INDIFFERENCE TO INMATES NEEDS WHILE INCARCERATED IS DISGUSTING. THESE PEOPLE ARE JUST THAT...THEY ARE HUMAN BEINGS! MOST PEOPLE WOULDN'T TREAT A STRAY DOG THE WAY INCARCERATED PEOPLE ARE TREATED! THEY ARE HUMAN BEINGS! THEIR PUNISHMENT IS THEIR INCARCERATION, AND THE JAIL STAFF, GUARDS, NURSES AND DOCTORS ARE NOT AND SHOULD NOT DELVE OUT THEIR OWN PERSONAL SHITTY PUNISHMENTS BY IGNORING THE INMATES WELL BEING AND SAFETY! IF YOU DON'T LIKE YOUR JOB, OR THE PEOPLE OR CLIENTELE YOU WORK WITH, OR YOU REFUSE TO OPERATE WITHIN THE POLICY AND PROCEDURES SET FORTH TO INSURE THE SAFETY OF EVERYONE ENVOLVED....YOU DESERVE TO BE SUED AND FIRED...GOOD FOR HIS FAMILY! NO MATTER THE DOLLAR AMOUNT, YOU CAN'T PUT A DOLLAR AMOUNT ON A LIFE! THEY ARE IRREPLACEABLE!
My Dad may be next I'm running out of options on how to help him. My Dad has been a prisoner at Gunnison prison. He is a type 2 med that means he is sapose to stay close to a infirmary. Well they been transferring prisoners to the Tooele jail where the med staff there is not aloud to treat the prisoners. During transition my Dad believes he had a stroke he can not see out of his right eye and it has almost been a month sense he has even been given his medication. I am afraid for his life and I have no clue how to help him. I have called dozens of people just to get ran around more and more while my dad is suffering. This is beyond inhumane and wrong on so many levels.
Nurses and doctors are as bad if not worse than the guards. No compassion. They need to go to prison for murder.
Posted Wednesday September 11th, 2019 - 6:44 pm
U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison threatened to “lock up [Texas] prison officials in the same stifling temperatures [as the prisoners]” after they ignored his order to place almost 900 prisoners in air-conditioned units. Ellison had previously ruled that subjecting the prisoners to the high temperatures they had been experiencing constituted cruel and unusual punishment, a stark violation of their constitutional rights.
Stop talking about it and DO it!!!!
Posted Tuesday September 10th, 2019 - 7:53 pm
Coloring books, Klingon dictionaries and other books banned by state prisons
Coloring books, Klingon dictionaries and other books banned by state prisons
The criteria for banning books varies widely, sometimes institution by institution.
