Bill Bennett: Sen. Jeff Sessions Has Flipped the Crime-Sentencing Debate
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is pushing back against the planned bipartisan rollback of jail sentencing that will put violent drug offenders back out on the streets.
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Obama’s Proposed Budget Halts Reimbursement for Illegal Aliens in State and County Jails
President Obama’s proposed budget for 2017 halts reimbursement to state and county jails for housing, feeding, and providing the medical and mental health needs of criminal illegal aliens.
Texas Prisons: Taxpayers Paying for Inmates’ Gender Identity Hormone Treatments
Texas taxpayers are now paying for hormone treatment for inmates who are transgender, have Gender Dysphoria Disorder, or have an Intersex condition.
Pentagon Mulls Moving Guantánamo Bay Detainees to Colorado, South Carolina
The Pentagon is scheduled to release its list of alternative facilities for holding former Guantánamo Bay prisoners after President Obama closes the facility, over the objections of Congress and a hefty majority of the American people.
Transgender Man Fighting To Be Housed In Female Prison Loses Appeal
A transgendered person with a male passport and genitalia, but “identifying” as a woman, has lost an appeal to be housed in a female prison. As expected, the ruling revealed he had a long, violent criminal history, which could make
Drug Drone Drop Derailed
On Monday a civilian drone was seized after it crash landed inside Oklahoma State Penitentiary due to operator error. The drone’s operator hit the razorwire and lost control of the vehicle, which crashed in the McAlester Texas prison where it was confiscated by prison staff.
Obama Admin. Approves Plan to Make Prison Phone Calls More Affordable
In a controversial vote Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission approved a plan to “Ensuring Just, Reasonable, & Fair Rates for Inmate Calling” and would place a cap on the amount of money that communications companies charge convicts to make phone calls in jails and prisons across the country.
California to Provide Sex Change Surgery for Inmates
California will soon provide taxpayer-funded genital altering “sex change” surgery for prison inmates, with a new policy coming out this week that includes standards to approve the estimated $100,000 procedure.
Law Enforcement Organizations Denounce GOP’s Push for Sentencing Reductions
Law enforcement organizations across the country strongly oppose Republican efforts to empower Democrats to release thousands of convicts back onto the streets amid a nation-wide crime surge by passing the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015.
CA Senate Passes Bill Banning Drones Near Prisons, Jails
On September 5, the California Senate passed a bill banning residents from flying drones over prisons or jails in the state. Those caught doing so would face misdemeanor charges.
‘Isolate Jailed Muslims To Prevent Radicalisation’ Says Think Tank
Experts are advising that imprisoned Islamic extremists should have their own segregated prison wings to prevent the radicalisation of more moderate inmates among Britain’s growing Muslim prisoner population. The Quilliam Foundation, the world’s first counter-extremism think tank, has suggested a trial of the “essential”
San Quentin Hit with Legionnaires’ Disease
On Saturday, San Quentin State Prison was closed to visitors and its water supplies were limited to cooking and inmate toilets after an inmate was diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease.
One Beheaded, Eight More Dead in Brazilian Prison Riot
(AFP) Nine people died, one of them decapitated, in a prison mutiny in Brazil which ended on Monday with the release of 70 hostages, police said.
Video Reveals Hellish ‘Migrant Prisons of Libya’
Things are going so well in Barack Obama’s big foreign-policy “success,” Libya, that people are literally dying to get out. Vice News recently posted a 27-minute documentary video on the hideous conditions in Libya’s “migrant prisons”—internment camps where refugees are left to rot after their attempts to flee the country across the Mediterranean fail.
Former Governor Rick Perry Joins Right on Crime Campaign
Former Texas Governor Rick Perry has joined the list of prominent conservatives who have endorsed the Statement of Principles of the Right on Crime campaign. The announcement was made on Wednesday. Right on Crime is a project of the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) in partnership with the American Conservative Union Foundation and Justice Fellowship and seeks to promote criminal justice reforms from a conservative perspective.
Prop. 47 Blamed for Sudden Rise in Crime Over 2014
A controversial referendum that reduced prison sentences for several categories of minor criminal offense is being blamed for a sharp rise in crime in parts of California, according to Seattle-based Fox News correspondent Dan Springer.
Jihadis in jail: How Islamist gangs took over our prisons
Last week, we witnessed multiple atrocities carried out by French home-grown jihadis. The Kouachi brothers purportedly made clear in communications during their warehouse siege that they wished to be “martyred.” There was speculation among commenters here on Breitbart and elsewhere
