New 'healing' prison in Ireland points to long history of progressive penal reform
Ireland has formally opened the new women's wing of the Limerick prison.
Social Sciences
Oct 20, 2023
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News tagged with prison system
As pandemic prison populations fell, proportion of Black prisoners rose, finds new analysis
The U.S. prison population plummeted during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic but the percentage of incarcerated Black people rose, according to a new analysis of prison data published April 19 in the journal Nature.
Social Sciences
Apr 19, 2023
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Understanding mass incarceration in the US is the first step to reducing a swollen prison population
The incarceration rate in the United States fell in 2021 to its lowest levels since 1995—but the U.S. continues to imprison a higher percentage of its population than almost every other country.
Social Sciences
Mar 2, 2023
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Study: Black prosecutors are more punitive toward Black and Latinx defendants
Prosecutors exert considerable power in the criminal justice system, and while defendants are predominantly Black and Latinx, prosecutors are overwhelmingly White. Despite calls for addressing racial disparities in this field, ...
Social Sciences
Oct 4, 2022
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Incarcerated people with disability don't get the support they need—that makes them more likely to reoffend
People with disability are over-represented in prison and some are criminalised because of behaviours related to their disability. But they are unlikely to have their disability recognised or adjusted for, and the connection ...
Social Sciences
Jul 6, 2022
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Purging water system of brain-eating microbe to take 60 days
A Houston-area official said Monday it will take 60 days to ensure a city drinking water system is purged of a deadly, microscopic parasite that doctors believed killed a boy and that led to warnings for others not to drink ...
Environment
Sep 29, 2020
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Deadly microbe water warning lifted for all but 1 Texas city
Texas officials on Saturday lifted a warning for all but one Houston-area community to stop using tap water because it might be tainted with a deadly brain-eating microbe.
Environment
Sep 26, 2020
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Punitive sentencing led to higher incarceration rates throughout adulthood for certain birth cohorts in North Carolina
Although U.S. crime rates have dropped significantly since the mid-1990s, rates of incarceration peaked in 2008, and still remain high. The standard explanation for this pattern is that all people exposed to the criminal ...
Social Sciences
Aug 24, 2020
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Prosecutors' race, class bias may not drive criminal justice disparities
America's prison populations are disproportionately filled with people of color, but prosecutors' biases toward defendants' race and class may not be the primary cause for those disparities, new research from the University ...
Social Sciences
Jan 17, 2020
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More than eight in 10 men in prison suffered childhood adversity – new report
Male prisoners are much more likely than men in the wider population to have suffered childhood adversities such as child maltreatment or living in a home with domestic violence, according to a new report by Public Health ...
Social Sciences
Apr 29, 2019
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