Corrections Financial, Insurance & Legal Services News & Articles

• Uninvested prison canteen money to start earning interest for Pa. county

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  Prison Board voted to invest the money with the Pennsylvania Local Government Investment Trust for four months at an annual rate of 3.03%.

• How an electronic law library saves money, improves inmate access to information

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  Implementing an electronic law library can contain research costs and reduce risks of inmate litigation, while keeping your facility in compliance with specific state mandates

• Spotlight: Casemaker Legal features high-quality legal content at an incredibly low cost

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  Casemaker understands the need for corrections facilities to provide a comprehensive legal research system at an affordable price

• Alaska inmate sues over self-induced drug coma, jail beat down

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  Lawsuit says an officer failed to get him prompt medical care after he swallowed methamphetamine and heroin during a 2012 arrest

• Conn. town fights to collect $1.6M in sewer bills from DOC

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  Department of Correction has refused to negotiate with the town over the unpaid bill

• Pa. inmate sues over solitary confinement

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  Alleges that policies kept him in solitary confinement for 21 years despite no recent history of misconduct

• What is a corrections officer worth to the taxpayers? Part II

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  Part two of a two-part series looking at the value corrections officers provide to society

• What is a corrections officer worth to the taxpayers? Part I

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  Part one of a two-part series looking at the value corrections officers provide to society

• SC corrections department expects $29M budget deficit

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  State considering early inmate release program to offset deficit

• 850 Calif. prison staffers got layoff notice late, get reprieve

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  A mailing error gives prison workers an extra month of work but costs CDCR $7 million

• Corrections Corp. of Amer. might not renew Ariz. contracts

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  2 contracts could be cut because of state's budget issues

• Ga. corrections has cut over 1,500 jobs in 2 years

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  Facilities have been closed and jobs lost to save $65 million

• Supreme Court rejects challenge to Calif. prison plan

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  State still has to release more than 40,000 in 2 years

• Fla. debates: Money for prisons or money for schools?

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  Currently, state spends more money on corrections than universities

• What’s the price of saving money?

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  I am not allowed to hunt down the person who steals my car or my TV and extract personal vengeance. The law does not permit it. To help me feel safe — maybe in order to actually help me be safe — t...

• Green prisons farm, recycle to save energy, money

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  By PHUONG LEThe Associated Press Calif. state prison goes green Caption: Daniel Travatte, 36, suits up to check on the Italian honey bees he cares for at the Cedar Creek Corrections Center in rural...