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Deep cuts to prison funding means staff are no longer able to spend enough time helping prisoners such as Sarah Reed, the mentally ill woman found dead in her cell last month, prison officers leaders have said.
Using prison funding, psychological closure for victims and a public thirst for blood vengeance as warrants for state sanctioned murder makes everyone from the doctor-turned-executioner to the tough minded voter no better than the supposedly inhuman criminals whom they are killing.
The latest prison safety figures show that assaults on staff and inmates had risen 40% in the past year to 65 a day, while there are record levels of prison suicides and self-harm – although previous ministers did not accept there was a link between prison funding and people killing themselves in jail.
Some advocates pointed to her previous efforts lobbying for 1994 crime legislation pushed by her husband, former President Bill Clinton, which authorized $9.7 billion to prison funding and included tougher sentencing provisions that partly contributed to the US's mass incarceration crisis.
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(If the salary lags behind the prison payment, prisoners receive the balance from the prison fund, the PLO says). That is at least another $10 million a year in payments to prisoners that eluded researchers such as Kuperwasser.
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After the trials, the warden secured Hezekiah Brown's pardon and release, using prison funds to pay for his campaign for clemency.
In January Deval Patrick, the Democratic governor of Massachusetts, launched a state-wide initiative designed to keep young men out of prison, funded by social-impact bonds or "pay for success" bonds, which could save $25m to $38m in prison costs over four years.
Trump also accepted private prison funds on the campaign trail: The private prison company GEO Group contributed $150,000 to the pro-Trump Super PAC Rebuild America Now.
Previously, states not in compliance with the law were subject to a 5percentt penalty on some prison funds but could avoid being docked if they promised to implement standards in the future.
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