The federal agency will vote later this month on a plan that would cap the rate for most calls at federal and state prisons at 11 cents a minute, and limit the local jail rate to between 14 and 22 cents a minute.
Collins said the legislation would compound recidivism rates for Aboriginal people in WA jails, rates which he said were already "astronomically high".
Travel metric analysis is not original in the era of Big Data, with the likes of: the Robinson Crusoe Index identifying the best beaches, the Big Mac Index that costs out burgers globally, and the Bribe Payers Index, for negotiating the going get-out-of-jail rates.
(Every year there are more solo travelers because, dah, there are more solo travelers!) And old travel metric analysis, with the likes of: the Robinson Crusoe Index identifying the best beaches, the Big Mac Index that costs out burgers globally, and the Bribe Payers Index, for negotiating the going get-out-of-jail rates--leave me wanting.
Generalized estimating equation regression (GEE) was used to estimate the association of gender with each outcome (jail day rate, psychiatric day rate, emergency department visit, medical hospitalization day rate).
The aims of this study were to compare the burden of geriatric conditions among older adults in jail to rates found in an age-matched nationally representative sample of community dwelling older adults.
"The families of indigent people borrow money to buy their loved ones out of jail at rates arbitrarily set by jail officials, only for them later to owe more money to the City… from increased fees and surcharges," the complaints add.
Even within jails, suicide rates vary drastically by size, with smaller jails (e.g., those with less than 100 beds), reporting a suicide rate roughly five times higher than the larger jails (Tartaro and Ruddell 2006).
On Rikers Island, the suicide rate in 2004 was less than half of the national jail suicide rate of 54 per 100,000 inmates.
"Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail" is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned).
