Southern California’s Lancaster Court is preparing for an arraignment on Aren Markus Jackson. Set for March 25th 2010 the District Attorney Ed Wiley plans on pursuing an already 2 yr old parole violation for possession of stolen property,  stolen property that can now land Aren in prison for life. Oh, and by stolen property I [...]

According to the Sacramento Bee, both the Sacramento and Orange County sheriff’s unions, along with the Crime Victims United of California have all filed lawsuits to stop the law from taking effect.

The sheriffs’ unions claim the law is bad policy and puts public safety at risk by releasing prisoners early. In addition to argued confusion about [...]

Employers in Utah could be among the first in the country to face criminal charges for failing to verify their workers’ immigration status, under a bill passed Friday by a leg islative committee that now moves to the full Senate.

Several states require businesses to use the federal E-Verify program, but gen erally only under threat [...]

Scans of an inmate’s eyes appear on a computer monitor attached to the Inmate Recognition and Identification System (IRIS) scanner, Wednesday Feb. 24, 2010 at the Story County Jail in Nevada, Iowa. Dozens of prisons across the country are installing eye scanners that identify inmates to avoid mistakes like this week’s accidental release of a [...]

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It’s been a little while. How have you been? How’s the job hunt going?

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Self-employment is one of the few viable options for most prison inmates upon their release. Without adequate training, parolees can easily get caught up in the same routines that landed them in prison in the first place. It’s a vicious cycle that can and should be broken.

The H.O.P.E. Foundation exists to aide our prisoners educate [...]

In prison, people are five times more likely to kill themselves than anywhere else – but a correction facility in Northern Spain seems to have found an effective way of supporting troubled inmates

via “Guardian angels” saving inmates from suicide – RT Top Stories.

A former Folsom State Prison guard has been ordered to pay more than $400,000 to reimburse state agencies after she was convicted of insurance fraud.

June Ann Lucena was ordered to repay more than $170,000 to the State Compensation Insurance Fund, Sacramento County prosecutors said Friday. That’s on top of the $244,000 ordered in December for [...]

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That approach is one that can save lives of individuals and dollars for the state, Schoonover told the Legislative Oversight Committee on Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority in Monday’s start of December interims.

“I used coke, meth, smoked crack — the whole nine yards,” Schoonover said.

via The Register-Herald, Beckley, West Virginia – Schoonover pitches for [...]

Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s proposal to let an estimated 7,500 Michigan inmates out of prison early and save the cash-strapped state money is coming under fire from prosecutors worried about public safety.

Granholm wants to cut more than $130 million from state prison spending in the budget year starting Oct. 1.

9&10 News – Early inmate release plan [...]

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Hello Leann,
Thanks for joining MPS, I’m sure you have plenty of leads and information for parolees in your area. I see you joined lots of groups, thats great!! Please feel free to build your own as well. You can target people by building groups for your area of expertise and location for instance: “Texas Housing” [...]