Criminal Justice Services Blog
Proposed FY 2019 Budget Adds $739 Million for Reentry (Maybe)
For advocates of prison reform like us at NCIA, it was welcome to read that the administration's proposed FY 2019 budget "Strengthens Prisoner Reentry Programming" in the BOP by providing $739 million in funding for reentry programming: Yet, aside from this lone...
read moreNCIA Joins Campaign for Compassionate Release
NCIA is pleased and honored to be a partner with the Campaign for Compassionate Release. Yesterday, we joined with other campaign partners to send the Director of the BOP, Mark Inch, an impassioned letter pleading for the BOP to increase compassionate release of...
read moreTrump’s FY2018 BOP Budget Double Counted $444 Million in “Savings”
In May, the Trump administration issued a document called “Major Savings and Reforms BUDGET OF THE U. S. GOVERNMENT Fiscal Year 2018.” In this document, the administration claimed that it cut $888 million from the BOP’s budget by cancelling...
read moreBOP Seeks Input on Viability of “Regional” RRC Contracts
The country's largest private prison operators (who also operate many of the BOP's Residential Reentry Centers, or RRC's) must have been pleased to learn that the BOP is considering some serious consolidation of its RRC contracts. That is, if the idea didn't come...
read moreBOP Facility Staff Memo to Inmates Suggests Delays Caused by RRC (Halfway House) Closures
A memo dated October 5, 2017 sent to inmates at FCI Morgantown by staff at the BOP facility lists 11 Residential Reentry Centers that "will be closing." It refers to a separate notice dated September 24, 2017 sent to the facility detailing the closures. The memo...
read moreNYPD Inspector General Confirms “Broken Windows” Policy Success is a Myth
The NYPD Office of the Inspector General issued a report yesterday confirming what many criminal justice academics, journalists, and advocates have been saying for years: the NYPD's intrusive "Broken Windows" policy had no measurable effect on serious crime. The...
read moreNCIA files FOIA request with BOP for Compassionate Release Data
The BOP has come under strident criticism in recent years for its failure to adequately respond to inmates' requests for compassionate release (also called Reduction in Sentence "RIS"). Groups like Human Rights Watch, Families Against Mandatory Minimums, and Public...
read moreWinning Lower Sentences Over the Last 10 Years. Why? Part II
Community service works because it offers judges an alternative sentence for defendants who would better serve the community in a structured and rigorous community service placement than behind bars. Often white collar criminals are first time offenders who can offer...
read moreWinning Lower Sentences Over the Last 10 Years. Why?
Our Federal Sentencing Statistical Analysis Report is a tangible link between our clients and similarly situated defendants. The data, which analyzes guidelines, specific offense characteristics, statutes, enhancements, and departures, works because it gives judges...
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