In the case of prisons, this means separate directors of women's, children's, young offender's, local and training and resettlement prisons, in the way that high-security prisons have been directed since 1995.
Maybe that's usually true, but in the case of prisons, both of these elements have usually been false: private prisons have had limited scope for experimentation (the contracts have often reproduced the entire public-sector rulebook in excruciating detail) and have also had limited incentives (contract payments have rarely incorporated performance-based elements).
Even so, incarceration reform has begun to go mainstream nationwide, and this moment represents fertile ground, at least at the local level, for a total rethink of how to lock up people we suspect (or, in the case of prisons, think we know) are dangerous.
The marginal cost for dental treatment is estimated based on the case scenario of prison X in Malaysia.
There are too many cases of prisons failing to identify inmates who are a suicide risk despite the presence of clear warning signs, an official watchdog has warned after a "troubling" 64% rise in self-inflicted deaths behind bars in the past year.
FCC made a case for limiting cost of prison phone calls.
Sometimes – as in the case of the prison term for its hacker-in-chief royal correspondent – it topples right in.
Caring emotions may lead to subversive acts, such as the case of a prison guard who during wartime was directed to feed his charges only water and bread, but who occasionally sneaked in a hard-boiled egg.
Ruling in the case of a prison inmate who struggled for years to get medical treatment for a contagious disease, the New Jersey Supreme Court has ordered the State Department of Corrections to enact regulations codifying its responsibility for inmates' health.
Following dozens of suicides among suspects (39 people killed themselves in the 2001 case), most European countries now also systematically assess suspects of child abuse-related crimes for suicide risk and, in the case of a prison sentence, protect them from other inmates.
In the case of the prison company, the illegal gifts were well known and documented: free van rides to Albany for two lawmakers, $100 boxes of chocolate sent to two lawmakers on Valentine's Day, a $200 plane ticket for one Assembly member, and a $113 fruit basket for another.
