Even after the racketeering cases sent several current and former union officials to prison, concerns about mob influence and corruption led to a recent court-approved consent decree requiring that the union's activities be overseen by a corruption monitor, not yet selected.
In 1934, however, federal prison officials concerned about growing unrest in prisons lobbied to create a work program.
"For prison staff concerned about the risks of radicalization in custody, it would be wise to focus on the ordinary things that enable people to return to their communities and lead responsible lives on release.
If prison authorities are concerned with the prison population HRQoL, effort should be made to educate and promote policies which reduce narcotic use in this population.
(3) A very prominent claim within the research on prison chaplaincy concerns the imprint left by the national specificities of regulating religious claims.
Much of the current political clamor for reducing the prison population concerns "nonviolent drug offenders," whom some reformers see as the people best suited for a return to civilian life, and the least likely to pose a threat to others.
This limited set of findings pointed to a range of possible barriers faced by prisoners with cancer, including a tension between the prisons' concern with security versus the need for timely access to medical care.
She has been identified by Laurence Tribe as the foremost voice on the court calling for reforming criminal justice adjudication – in particular as it relates misconduct by police and prosecutors, abuses in prisons, concerns about how the death penalty is used, and the potential for loss of privacy – and Tribe has compared her will to reform in general to that of past Chief Justice Earl Warren.
Loya's memoir, begun in prison, is less concerned with his crimes than with their background — his family history, the details of barrio life, and the peculiar cultural currents that led him to identify with Reagan Republicanism and then to seek its perceived entitlements by any means.
