The Crime Report

AUGUST 20, 2021

Neff has ordered Larry Nassar to turn over money in his prison account to his victims, rejecting his argument that he should be allowed to keep it because he has followed Bureau of Prisons’ policy in paying less than 1 percent of the restitution he owes, reports the Washington Post. as of late last month. as of late last month.

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The Crime Report

MAY 21, 2021

Nearly one-third of federal correctional officer jobs in the United States are vacant, forcing prisons to use cooks, teachers, nurses and other workers to guard inmates, reports the Associated Press. The Bureau of Prisons insists that many of its facilities still have a full complement of officers who focus solely on maintaining order.

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The Crime Report

JULY 19, 2022

Bureau of Prisons, has been subpoenaed to testify before a Senate committee examining abuse and corruption in the beleaguered federal agency, reports NBC News. Penitentiary in Atlanta — Ossoff’s home state — and more broadly in the federal prison system. Michael Carvajal, via WIKIPEDIA.

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JULY 28, 2022

According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), 2020 saw the highest level of deaths in custody since 2016. In addition, federal law enforcement agencies reported more arrest-related deaths and deaths in custody in 2020 than the average from 2016 to 2019, the latest years for which statistics were available.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 9, 2021

Prisons in the United States could get more high-tech help keeping tabs on what inmates are saying, after a key House of Representatives panel pressed for a report to study the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze prisoners’ phone calls, reports Reuters.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

41 states and the federal Bureau of Prisons have an actual definition for indigence, with the remaining nine states having no easily accessible definitions. 41 states and the federal Bureau of Prisons have an actual definition for indigence, with the remaining nine states having no easily accessible definitions.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Over the past two years, dozens of facilities across the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), which oversees approximately 156,000 people and 122 facilities, have adopted policies of photocopying mail and withholding the originals from their recipients, reports The Intercept.

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DECEMBER 17, 2021

Over 40 states have not provided COVID booster shots to incarcerees, says the Prison Policy Initiative (PPI). Early in the pandemic, prison systems across the country were developing and updating “COVID data dashboards.” In over 40 states, there’s “no evidence that prisons are providing boosters at all,” researchers said.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

But, who decides what is “reasonably adequate,” particularly when the healthcare system for patients in prison lacks uniform standards? The researchers contend that with multiple agencies at federal, state, and local levels possessing authority over correctional health care, standards of health care vary starkly across the U.S.

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The Crime Report

JULY 25, 2022

Peters to serve as Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Many eyes will now be on the troubled agency and what is happening behind bars under new leadership. Yet, many prosecutors have never stepped foot in the jails and prisons these individuals are sent to, or in any correctional facility at all.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Prison sentences should be reviewed and considered for resentencing within 10 years, according to the Sentencing Project. The paper analyzed year-end prison population data from the National Corrections Reporting Program, prison data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics and public data from agencies across the country. “If

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The Crime Report

JULY 30, 2021

The percentage of females held in tribal jails increased from 23 percent of all inmates at midyear 2010 to a peak of 27 percent at midyear 2016, before declining to 25 percent at midyear 2018, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). district courts sentenced 1,469, and federal prisons admitted 1,822 and released 1,895.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 11, 2021

Over the past 18 months, 29 prisoners have escaped from federal lockups. All of the escapes occurred at minimum-security federal prison camps. All of the escapes occurred at minimum-security federal prison camps. Nearly have not been caught, says the Los Angeles Times.

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The Crime Report

JULY 9, 2021

Despite a record rise in reported hate crimes, and an increase in convictions, the number of hate crime investigations fell 8 percent over the 15-year period between 2005 and 2019, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). The decline occurred against a background of rising hate crimes. During the 15-year time frame, U.S.

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The Crime Report

JULY 30, 2021

While the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has developed COVID-19 guidance with input from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, some BOP staff are reported to have confusion in how to implement the BOP’s guidance, reports the Government Accountability Office (GAO). prisoners who responses to a survey from the D.C.

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The Crime Report

MAY 5, 2022

The Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, a women-only facility called the “rape club” by many who know it, has finally gained the attention of a task force of senior agency officials and outside scrutiny, but that seemingly positive direction may already be stalling, reports the Associated Press.

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The Crime Report

JULY 19, 2021

In the United Kingdom, it’s estimated that half the people entering the prison system could have some form of neurodivergent condition, like autism, a brain injury or learning difficulties — all which impact their ability to engage with others and behave in a traditionally accepted way.

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APRIL 26, 2022

The Labor and Justice Departments have also announced a collaborative plan to provide $145 million over the next year on job skills training as well as individualized employment and reentry plans for people serving time in the Bureau of Prisons. Biden approved clemency for Abraham Bolden Sr.,

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MAY 20, 2021

Although the Federal Communications Commission is poised to reduce out-of-state phone call rates in major prisons and jails by more than 30 percent, its latest attempt to bring down high calling costs–said to hit Black inmates particularly hard–the agency is still curtailed in how much it can regulate prison call rates due to a 2017 U.S.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Aziz and Khalil Islam, two of the men found guilty of the assassination of Malcolm X, are expected to have their convictions thrown out after spending more than 20 years in prison, a remarkable acknowledgment of grave errors made in the infamous murder case, reports the New York Times. Muhammad A. Manhattan district attorney Cyrus R.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 2, 2023

Bush authorized the Federal Bureau of Investigation to maintain a list of people who posed too significant a risk to national security to board a commercial flight through United States airspace. A federal district court in Oregon granted the government’s request. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 4, 2021

A prison sentence should not be a death sentence,” he said. But, for far too many people, that was in fact the case because of the manner in which we were unprepared to deal with a pandemic generally and in the context of prisons where people are held closely together.”. Attorney General Loretta Lynch. “My public life.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Predatory financial practices are embedded in the criminal justice system, according to a report released by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFRB). The agency’s mandate includes oversight and enforcement of consumer protection laws and investigation of “abusive financial practices.”. The Real Cost of Incarceration.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

According to newly released government audits and documents reported by the Inspector General (IG) at the Justice Department, federal government informants committed 22,800 crimes between 2011 and 2014, according to TRT World. . The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) also funneled $17.2 6 Capitol riot. .

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Customs & International Trade Law

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) The FMC held a hearing on February 7 & 8 on the impact of current conditions in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Regions. Here is a recap of the latest customs and international trade law news: Customs and Border Protection (CBP) CBP & HSI repatriate precious cultural artifact to Mexico.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether Puerto Rican news agencies have a First Amendment right to audio of proceedings in a case of domestic violence that sparked protests and whether a New Jersey levy violates the commerce clause. The case is Ferrellgas Partners, LP v.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 9, 2021

Deploying what amounted to a classic “sting” operation, law enforcement agencies in Europe, the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand allowed sophisticated criminals to believe they were using an encrypted messaging app on unique black cell phones equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor to securely organize their illegal activity.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

” Arrested and charged in the 1969 bombings of eight government and office buildings, he was killed in the Attica prison uprising in 1971. ” Arrested and charged in the 1969 bombings of eight government and office buildings, he was killed in the Attica prison uprising in 1971. The attack on the Capitol on Jan.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Last week on November 12, the Islamabad High Court issued a stay order that put a halt to the in-prison trial of the 71-year-old former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, in a cipher case. Abu Bakar Khan is a law student at the University Law College, University of the Punjab. He files this from Lahore.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 18, 2022

When I started covering prison education last year, I sent out a lot of messages asking people what kinds of educational programs were offered at their prisons. In most states, it turns out, the majority of prisons do not have higher education programs, especially ones that lead to college degrees. a while to get back to me. “I

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The so-called “Second Chance” programs were identified by the federal government’s Alternatives and Reentry Committee established by President Joe Biden to coordinate the work of agencies focusing on reentry. Moore, director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), at an event announcing the grants in Brooklyn, N.Y. “We

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 9, 2021

According to the Government Accountability Office, the failure of police and federal agencies to send their data to the FBI’s National Use-of-Force Data Collection program has put it in jeopardy of being shut down next year without ever releasing a single statistic, reports the Washington Post. As of Sept. As of Sept.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Bureau of Prisons (BOP), identified the most vulnerable inmates of the virus and released them back into community under home confinement. The evidence is clear: home confinement is much safer, and more effective, than prison incarceration. . The nation is approaching the third anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic. ” .

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Multiple reports , including the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Climate Change and Social Vulnerability in the United States , have highlighted the risk that extreme heat poses to worker health and labor productivity. 100% of federal prisoners are required to do some work. By Jacob Elkin.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

Faria was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. He’d spent three and a half years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit. He had a business to promote: a miracle method to determine when 911 callers are actually guilty of the crimes they are reporting. “I Prosecutors know it’s junk science too. Faria was acquitted.

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Customs & International Trade Law

JANUARY 14, 2022

On December 6, 2021, a garment importer based in downtown Los Angeles was sentenced to 12 months and one day in federal prison for scheming to undervalue imported garments and avoid paying duties to the United States, and failing to report income on tax returns and large cash transactions to the federal government.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The Justice Department is reviewing its policies on housing transgender inmates in the federal prison system after protections for transgender prisoners were rolled back in the Donald Trump administration, reports the Associated Press.

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