Republican attorneys general are suing the FCC to keep predatory prison call charges that harm families/communities: “Under the final rules, the cost of a 15-minute phone call would drop to 90 cents from as much as $11.35 in large jails, while in small jails, it would cost $1.35 instead of $12.10.”
Republican attorneys general from 14 U.S. states, led by Arkansas and Indiana, have filed suit to challenge the Federal Communications Commission's decision to impose a cap on the amount prisons and jails can charge inmates for telephone use.
950 lbs for 6 reps on leg press!!!!! Taking a week rest for the legs next week and then continuing the climb to 1,000 lbs
Infuriating piece. 1. Jail can’t stop inflow of K2. 2. To try, takes all legal mail, scans, hands over copies, destroys originals. 3. COPIES still get doused in K2. 4. So now seize COPIES of LEGAL mail, send to PROSECUTORS for drug testing. 5. Sometimes non-replaceable LEGAL notes never come back.
One anonymous legal expert had this to say: "I don’t know what the 🤬 this 💩 is, but it’d be less insulting to the Constitution to walk into the National Archives, open up the glass case, and take a 💩 directly on the Bill of Rights." www.pennlive.com/news/2024/06...
He said guards confiscated his legal paperwork, something advocates say is "a flagrant violation" of incarcerated people's constitutional rights.
One anonymous legal expert had this to say: "I don’t know what the 🤬 this 💩 is, but it’d be less insulting to the Constitution to walk into the National Archives, open up the glass case, and take a 💩 directly on the Bill of Rights." www.pennlive.com/news/2024/06...
He said guards confiscated his legal paperwork, something advocates say is "a flagrant violation" of incarcerated people's constitutional rights.
Another ex: in Ghettoside, Leovy points out that the homicide clearance rate in LA was ~67%, unless the victim was a Black man, where it dropped to 33%. LAPD said it was bc of a lack of cooperation. Leovy’s main source, a grumpy Republican homicide detective, said it was bc cops didn’t try.
After too-long a hiatus, I have a new blog-post up, on how we not only didn't release a lot of elderly prisoners during 2020--despite facing the most risk from Covid--but in many states actually *increased* the number of old people behind bars.
With the availability of granular prison data for 2020, it has become clear that the population *most* at risk to suffer bad reactions to Covid--the elderly--was the one to *least* experience early re...
Worth noting—about half of all those over 65 in prison were admitted after age 50. So there’s a big we’re-still-doing-it-now admit side. Also, those who have been in for, like, 40 years? Almost all for murder To be clear, I’m strongly pro-release. But … need to be honest abt politics of it.
By one measure, about a third of all prisoners will be considered geriatric by 2030. Prison systems are grappling with how to care for their elderly prisoners — and how to pay for it.
By one measure, about a third of all prisoners will be considered geriatric by 2030. Prison systems are grappling with how to care for their elderly prisoners — and how to pay for it.