by Joseph D. Allen, Esq. | Feb 13, 2018 | All CJS Blog, Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Blog, NCIA Blog, News
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...
by Joseph D. Allen, Esq. | Dec 8, 2017 | All, All CJS Blog, Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Blog, NCIA Blog
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...
by Joseph D. Allen, Esq. | Dec 4, 2017 | All CJS Blog, Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Blog, NCIA Blog, News
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 the construction of the...
by Joseph D. Allen, Esq. | Nov 3, 2017 | All CJS Blog, Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Blog, News
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...
by Joseph D. Allen, Esq. | Oct 26, 2017 | All CJS Blog, Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Blog
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. ...
