2024年11月23日 · In Nueces County, Texas, which includes Corpus Christi, longtime progressive District Attorney Mark Gonzalez faced a trial for “gross carelessness” and “gross ignorance” of his job duties — a push backed by local conservatives. Gonzalez resigned in 2023, shortly before the trial began.. The general election earlier this month …

2025年1月4日 · A 2022 report from the Brennan Center for Justice, a liberal public policy institute, found that local governments sometimes use jail space to generate income, by building “jails that are bigger than they need with the expectation of selling the extra space.”. In some cases, immigrant detention is filling voids left by declining prison and jail populations.

2025年1月10日 · O n Friday, after months of delay and prior assurances from the judge that Donald Trump would receive no jail time, the president-elect’s sentence was unconditionally discharged, sparing him from fines and probation too. Still, when he enters the White House in a few weeks, he will be the first sitting president with a felony conviction on his criminal record.

2024年12月16日 · A s the debate on reproductive rights and prison conditions swirled, and U.S. voters prepared to choose a new president, The Marshall Project used one-of-a-kind data and in-depth reporting to illuminate vital criminal justice issues in 2024.. We brought our investigative work to new audiences through innovative storytelling and expanded partnerships, launched The Marshall Project’s second ...

The order shows the president’s desire for more executions. But it’s unclear how the administration will carry out its plans, legal experts say.

2025年1月11日 · Of course, there are ways to staff hand crews without recruiting prison labor, but few would be as cheap in a state that has faced profound budget deficits in recent years. According to CDCR’s website, incarcerated fire crew members make between $5.80 and $10.24 per day, and earn an additional $1 per hour when responding to …

2024年12月17日 · M arcos Santiago heard the clatter of metal chains outside cell 201 next door. Locked in the most isolated unit at Lee federal prison in western Virginia, he knew that sound meant officers were readying to shackle another man to a concrete slab and leave him there for hours — as they had done to him weeks prior.

2025年1月24日 · A ttorneys for the federal prison system agreed last week to pay $95,000 to a transgender woman who had alleged in dozens of lawsuits that she had been abused and mistreated in its custody by both fellow prisoners and staff. The agreement to settle the suits was signed just days before the inauguration of President Donald Trump, who had campaigned on a promise to end federal accommodations and ...

2024年4月26日 · Lawmakers supporting these bills refer to transgender people’s lives as a “woke social experiment” or “left-wing gender insanity.” Partly because of this rhetoric, trans and gender-expansive people are disproportionately targeted by violence, both inside and outside the criminal justice system. Transgender people are more than four …

2024年1月6日 · Federal Prisons Are Over Capacity — Yet Efforts to Ease Overcrowding Are Ending The Bureau of Prisons’ system is in trouble and needs serious upgrades on several fronts.