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Category: Corrections

Study Finds Justice Reform Bills Would Bring 14% Prison Growth. Is That a Success?

by Ben Botkin April 17, 2018October 28, 2019

Reworked criminal justice reform bills fall short of what a blue-ribbon panel recommended was needed to curb incarceration rates and provide alternatives to prison. But advocates and district attorneys favor the legislation, some of which passed the Senate and some of which passed the House Tuesday.

With Nitrogen Executions, State Enters Uncharted Territory

by Ben Botkin March 14, 2018October 28, 2019

Only a Handful of Prison Inmates Get Treatment for Deadly Disease

by Ben Botkin February 11, 2018October 28, 2019

Weighing the Odds of a Federal Takeover of State Prisons

by Ben Botkin December 17, 2017October 28, 2019

Federal Court Sides With Oklahoma, Blocks Caps on Inmate Phone Costs

by Trevor Brown June 14, 2017October 28, 2019

After Year and a Half, Charges Filed in Deadly Cushing Prison Fight

by Jeff Raymond April 17, 2017October 28, 2019

A Call to Give Early Release to Older, Medically Frail Prisoners

by Brad Gibson March 6, 2017October 28, 2019

Purchase Would Increase Dominance of Private Prison Company

by Clifton Adcock February 27, 2017October 28, 2019

End of Hope: One Offender’s Path to the Penitentiary

by Clifton Adcock February 18, 2017October 28, 2019

Bleak House: Suicides in the Penitentiary

by Clifton Adcock February 13, 2017October 28, 2019

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