"The city gutted the social services department, and whittled it down to one person per jail".
Melissa Hall filed a federal lawsuit in March claiming that she was forced to give birth while shackled, per jail policy.
To calculate a lower bound, we assumed that the average number of incarcerations per jail inmate was 1.5 (the highest return rate found in sources of data for Table 1).
Even after serving time, Dana is still paying off thousands of dollars in debt she incurred in probation fines and per-diem jailing fees.
The desire to strike a blow for criminal justice reform is especially strong in Philadelphia, which had the fourth-highest per capita jail population among the 50 cities and counties with the highest rates as of 2008, according to the Pew Charitable Trusts Philadelphia Research Initiative.
The index on which the report is based has five primary indicators: (1) number of homicides per 100,000 people, (2) number of violent crimes per 100,000 people, (3) number of people in jail per 100,000 people, (4) number of police officers per 100,000 people and (5) general availability of small arms.
Since the orders arrived on October 20th, Ubercab has remained in service under threat of penalties including up to $5,000 fee per instance of Ubercab's operation, and potentially 90 days in jail per each day the company remains in operation past the orders.
UPDATE: Since the orders arrived on October 20th, Ubercab has remained in service under threat of penalties including up to $5,000 fee per instance of Ubercab's operation, and potentially 90 days in jail per each day the company remains in operation past the orders.
On a per capita basis, it jails over twice as many journalists as Iran does, and 28 times as many as get locked away in China, leading one observer to dub the forthcoming 2015 European Games in Baku the "Gulag Games'.
People with outstanding fines in WA can "cut out" the amount owed at a rate of $250 per day of jail time.
Jarecki, in a scathing portrayal of the American prison system in both his film and at Thursday's event, cited some statistics: "We have ravaged our poor communities," he said, some of which, African-American, counted "4,000 per 100,000 in jail, as compared with an average dose of around 300".
