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Prison reform has been in the news (and on the legislative agenda) in Arizona and elsewhere for years. For some, the impetus for incarceration is simply to get criminals off the street for as long as possible. This assume, of course, that the potential penalties have...
Carlos Hernandez is currently incarcerated in an Arizona (private) prison. He pleaded guilty earlier this year to one count of possession of dangerous drugs and was sentenced to a term of 2.5 years. According to a complaint filed this week in Maricopa County Superior...
A book was released in September of 2018 entitled Chokehold: Policing Black Men. The essence of the book is that through various means, black men suffer lethal effects of societal racism at the hands of law enforcement. The use of the term “chokehold” is a reference...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has issued a call for radical changes in the criminal justice system in the State of Arizona. The report, issued this month, focuses first on the fact that over the past 50 years, the United States has increased dramatically...
The policy of the Arizona Department of Corrections is to check to make sure that “contraband” is not being sent out into the world by prison inmates. The problem is that the policy and practice of the DOC included a page-by-page review of the content of outgoing...
No more pink underwear for prisoners Back in 1993, when former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was first elected, his campaign stressed a “tough on crime” attitude. Somehow, that campaign stance morphed into Maricopa County’s “Tent City.” This is a county jail...
We have talked in the past about the undisputed fact that the United States is the incarceration capital of the world. We have the highest rate of incarceration of any nation on earth. With under 5% of the world’s population, we have 22% of the world’s prisoners. So...
A federal judge told the courtroom earlier this month that she would consider whether to accept an agreement between the attorneys for an Arizona prison inmate and the State of Arizona to end racial segregation in Arizona’s prisons. While the state denies that it has...
[column width="1/1" last="true" title="" title_type="single" animation="none" implicit="true"] The prison population in the United States is not simply enormous, it’s part of a huge business enterprise. There are well over two million people in the country who are...