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...Michele Deitch Abstract The Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) severely hampered the courts' ability to exercise long-term oversight of conditions in prisons and jails. This article examines the potential for alternative types of correctional oversight in a post-PLRA world. The article begins...

... prison health care corrections oversight Looking Back: The Commission on Safety and Abuse in America s Prisons Alex Busansky President, National Council on Crime and Delinquency Former Director, Vera Institute of Justice, Washington, D.C. Michela Bowman Codirector, National Resource Center...

... correctional facilities are surrounded by more than physical walls; they are walled off from external monitoring and public scrutiny to a degree inconsistent with the responsibility of public institutions. All public institutions, from hospitals to schools, need and benefit from strong oversight. Citizens...

...Nancy G. La Vigne The article describes the oversight needed to ensure that First Step Act measures are implemented faithfully and that conditions of confinement in BOP facilities are identified and addressed. Humane conditions of confinement are a necessary precondition for a rehabilitative...

... De es Tools to Erase It, N.Y. Times, August 8, 2015, at A1. 4 Corrections Oversight, Recidivism Reduction, and Eliminating Costs for Taxpayers in our National System Act, S. 467, 114th Congress (2015); Sensenbrenner-Scott SAFE Justice Reinvestment Act of 2015, H.R. 2944, 114th Congress (2015...

... of the eight states that have passed PIF legislation, the programs are administered by the state corrections departments or criminal justice commissions that oversee prisons or community corrections. In California, where there is no existing state-level oversight body for local probation departments...

..., Koch Industries, Inc. Nancy LaVigne Vice President of Justice Policy, Urban Institute; Former Executive Director, congressionally-created Charles Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections (2016) creating independent oversight of the federal prison system to improve conditions for incarcerated people...

... of their behavior. The prison system is, at the same time, left with an inmate population that the employees are neither trained nor equipped to take care of. One result of this interaction, the use of isolation in Norwegian prisons, has been repeatedly criticized by the correctional oversight authorities...

...Julie Samuels; Nancy La Vigne; Chelsea Thomson © The Ohio State University Next Steps in Federal Corrections Reform: Implementing and Building on the First Step Act JULIE SAMUELS, NANCY LA VIGNE, and CHELSEA THOMSON Urban Institute May 2019 The topic of federal corrections reform is hardly new...

... www.nytimes.com/2015/10/31/us/heroin-war-on-drugsparents.html?_r¼0. 26 Title II of SRACA is called the Corrections Oversight, Recidivism Reduction, and Eliminating Costs for Taxpayers in Our National System Act of 2015 (emphasis added). 27 See httpwww.leahy.senate.gov/issues/criminal-justice (Senator Leahy s...

...Charles Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections © The Ohio State University Transforming Prisons, Restoring Lives: Final Recommendations of the Charles Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections (excerpted) CHARLES COLSON TASK FORCE ON FEDERAL CORRECTIONS January 2016 Note: The full report...

...Samantha Harvell; Jeremy Welsh-Loveman; Hanna Love; Julia Durnan; Josh Eisenstat; Laura Golian; Eddie Mohr; Elizabeth Pelletier; Julie Samuels; Chelsea Thomson; Margaret Ulle; Nancy La Vigne © The Ohio State University Reforming Sentencing and Corrections Policy: The Experience of Justice...

...Julie Samuels; Nancy La Vigne © The Ohio State University Next Steps in Federal Corrections Reform: Implementation Update JULIE SAMUELS and NANCY LA VIGNE Urban Institute When we published our brief on the First Step Act in the spring of 2019, we identi ed many implementation questions, among...

.... This omission will make it dif cult for lawmakers in the future to measure the effects of the reform. Although the Realignment legislation did establish a new state oversight board, the Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC), the Board does not have adequate personnel or funds to oversee...

... thing, the substantive constitutional standards are so low that courts cannot even begin to address many serious deficiencies in the correctional system. For another, the lawyer- and expert-intensive judicial oversight model is too expensive, especially at a time when corrections budgets are already...

..., and the House Judiciary Committee in particular, has been under sustained criticism for its constitutionallymandated legislative and oversight actions concerning the federal judiciary. The stridency of these remarks has sometimes taken on a harshness that is not only uncommon, but inconsistent with the historic...

.... In Part IV, we argue that U.S. Probation s supervision function, particularly regarding its oversight and the funding of its law enforcement function, is perhaps not best suited to reside within the judiciary. In Part V, however, we provide an example of how one federal probation of ce, on its own accord...

... © The Ohio State University Senate Judiciary Committee, Criminal Justice Oversight Subcommittee Hearing on ª Oversight of the United States Sentencing Commission: Are the Guidelines Being Followed?º October 13, 2000 EditorÕs Note: In Fall 2000, the Senate Judic iary Committee convened a he...

... Franklin White to Richard Harris, Direc- tor of the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services, and Robert Landon, Director of the Virginia Department of Corrections, November 19, 1984. 3 Judicial Sentencing Guidelines Oversight Committee, Voluntary Sentencing Guidelines Pilot Program Evaluation 5...

... are subject to a host of legal controls and conditions of correctional supervision compared to people convicted of other crimes, which come with differential financial sanctions and requisite conditions of compliance. Further, individuals convicted of sexual offenses are mandated to register...