The U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs convened a hearing on proposed national prison reform legislation....
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Georgia ranks highest in the nation for the ratio of adult persons in the criminal justice system under some form of correctional control to that of...
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After unanimous passage in the Florida Senate Criminal Justice Committee on March 18, 2009, the Second Chance for Children in Prison Act of 2009 was...
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The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention "Juvenile Justice Bulletin" of February 2000 acknowledged that the threat of...
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The rehabilitation results for people addicted to alcohol and drugs seem discouraging with successful recovery rates being persistently low. Studies...
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With a recently renewed intention at the federal level to resolve the entrenched issues of increasing rates of incarceration and recidivism over the...
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Fulfilling promises in 2008 to propose legislation for major prison reform in the spring of 2009, Virginia Senator Jim Webb introduced the National...
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Continuing to break records for the number of persons incarcerated in prisons and jails in the United States, increases since 1982 through 2007 topped...
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