Long before the Simpsons did it, my brother started quoting ideas from the Economistjust to sound smart. I’ll be damned if quoting from them doesn’tmake him sound smarter! If you don’t read the Economist, you should. It’s notan economics journal. Just get over the name. It’s a world newspaper. But a magazine. And British. Like…
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Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weiss is in contempt of court for not releasing the names of officers who have a least five citizen complaints filed against them since 2000. The story in the Sun Times. And 7 Chicago officer broke rules by letting a 14-year-old to get a radio and go on patrol with a…
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Be a prison guard at the Eden Detention Center in Texas and work for the private (publicly traded) for-profit Correction Corporation of America. Get paid $14.99/hour (about $30K/year). Must be willing to work all shifts. GED and valid driver’s license required. According to their website: CCA houses approximately 75,000 offenders and detainees in more than…
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Texas spends almost $99,000 per year for each incarcerated juvenile.
Reentry is the fancy word for getting out of jail or prison and back into the real world. It’s a big problem. Would you hire a felon? Here’s a good story in the Times.
Or I’ll call 911.
No longer allowed in Nassau County, Long Island, NY. Judge Leonard D. Wexler found that the Fourth Amendment prohibits jail officials from performing such searches on every person sent to the jail, particularly those arrested on a misdemeanor or minor charge like a traffic violation, and those who cannot be reasonably suspected of carrying a…
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Peter Hermann has a nice article giving Academy Awards for drug busts. So, if we’re handing out Academy Awards for cocaine seizures, Bealefeld’s Oscar might read “Best director for a drug bust,” while Clark’s might read “Best supporting director for a drug bust.” … It is a sad reminder that the drugs keep pouring in…
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One in twenty-seven Maryland adults are current in the correction system. Twenty-seven percent of those are behind bars. This is, sad to say, about par for the national average. In Maryland, it costs $86 per day to lock a person up.
Here’s an article in the New York Timesabout the (weak) link between security cameras and crime prevention.