Tag archive for ‘Courts’
SCRAM: Drink and Go to Jail; Resist and Start a New Life
An alcohol detection anklet that’s been around for only a few years has this year been finally adopted by courts in 48 of our 50 states as a tool for remotely monitoring released offenders who are not a community threat when sober. As little as five years ago, only 19 states had approved [...]
Government Takes Aim at Prison Rape
photo by ecpark
From an NPREC press release dated June 23, 2009.
Calling sexual abuse of people in government custody “totally incompatible with American values,” the bipartisan federal National Prison Rape Elimination Commission issued a landmark report dated 6/23/09 on sexual abuse in U.S. correctional and detention facilities, and proposed the first comprehensive blueprint to prevent [...]
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