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...Texas, with 153,000 inmates in the penal system, it is impossible to screen every piece of mail, says Michelle Lyons, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, and mail to and from attorneys and the media is privileged. Random screening does catch some illegal activity, which can be punished with the loss of privileges and more prison time. When prison authorities found out the so-called "Railway Killer" Angel Maturino Resendiz was selling his fingernail clippings from prison, prior to his execution in June 2006, his mail was flagged, but not before the items made...
...screen applicants to protect the populations which they serve from potentially dangerous criminals. Although CORIs may seem logical (why wouldn’t we want to protect middle school students from criminal offenders?), the composition, abuse, and widespread access to CORI by private employers have created serious racial and penal injustices. When CORI was created in the 1970s as a database for criminal records, it was intended to improve both the efficiency of the criminal justice system and “to safeguard the privacy of the CORI subjects, so that this obviously embarrassing and damaging information about them would...
...seasoned veteran of this most august of institutions, I have one little pearl of wisdom for the Class of 2010. As you sport your hilarious, phallic house t-shirts for the first and probably last time this morning, just remember that a House is more than a neo-penal slab of ugly concrete all the way down the southeast side of the river (Well, let’s at least hope...
...outdated police code established in 1861, which promotes the enforcement of law and order over investigative work. "It is not a crime to go missing," says Prakash Singh, the former chief of police of Uttar Pradesh, the state in which Noida is located. "But kidnapping is against the penal code." Holding a CEO's son for ransom is a criminal act that the police must pursue. There is no motivation to investigate a case of missing children. This is just one of the issues Singh hopes will change when a sweeping police-reform proposal he pushed through India's Supreme...
...acre Federal Correctional Complex, which was completed in 1994 on the outskirts of town, is a virtual theme park of penal experiences, ranging from a minimum-security camp for inside-traders and small-time pot dealers to the concrete fortress that was built to be the most secure prison in the country: the Administrative Maximum U.S. Penitentiary, or ADX for short. The inmates in ADX Florence include drug kingpins, gang leaders, hit men, snipers and, lately, more and more, international terrorists, including al-Qaeda shoe bomber Richard Reid; mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing Ramzi Yousef...