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Search results for "Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation" ...
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Ohio Corrections Connections
This series found “one of the largest state agencies involved in a pattern of apparent abuse of state tax dollars and power”. This series revealed a number of things, including expensive parties at the taxpayers’ expense while employees were being laid off, friends of officials buying state-made furniture for less than state agencies were paying for it, and firing workers for a number of violations and then hiring them back within weeks or months.
Tags: corrections officials; Capital; governor; Governor Strickland; corruption; funds; state; economy; government; Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections
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"Prison Medical Series"
In this investigation, Charles Piller reveals that cost to improve medical care in California's prisons was grossly "overstated." In 2006, a court-ordered receiver took control of the prisons' health care system and "fundamentally" miscalculated the $8 million estimate. Further investigation shows "fraud and waste" within the receiver's "staffing programs."
Tags: Matthew Cate; Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation; J. Clark Kelso; John Hagar; California state prisons
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Locked Down: Gangs in the Supermax
The documentary investigates the links between criminal groups based in prisons and street gangs, showing how California's harsh prison policies have contributed to the growth of gangs.
Tags: crime; violence; gangs; California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation; prison; jail
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Prison Medicine: Costly Decisions, Dire Consequences
The Dispatch follows the lead from the death of a 19-year old inmate Sean Schwamberger from an undetected drug-resistant staph infection, in order to carry out a detailed investigation of healthcare in prisons. The revelations are startling. While some critically ill inmates died after waiting an hour for ambulances, some went without surgery for 16 months during which time their ailments worsened. It was also found that the track record of some physicians who treated the inmates, included felony. And amid complaints of the low caliber and poor performance of contractor-provided physicians, the taxpayer pays more than $1 million in bills to pay wrongful death and medical negligence claims filed by inmates and their families.
Tags: Gov. Bob Taft; Pickaway Correctional Institution; Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction; Dr. Bruce Martin
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When "Tough Love" Kills
Numerous accounts of abuse and even death at juvenile boot camps have lead to a high degree of scrutiny. And because boot camps have a "64 to 75 percent recidivism rate" they are the least effective of any rehabilitation program. Many states such as Maryland, Georgia and California have shut down their state-run boot camp programs.
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What We Have Here is a Failure to Rehabilitate
This article "examines the turmoil within Colorado's Youthful Offender System, an innovative 'last chance' program for violent adolescents facing the adult prison system. Operated by the Department of Corrections, YOS showed promise in its early years but is now plagued with staff turnover and dissension and a rising failure rate, stemming from a clash of cultures between rehabilitation-minded veteran staffers and new employees brought in by the DOC as the program expanded...."
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The Scariest Criminal
Governing Magazine reports that "Sex offenders are more likely than ever to be punished for their crimes. But that means policy makers face though decisions about how to deal with them in crowded prisons-and after their release....While the phenomenon of a prison system with so many sex offenders is new, the philosophical debates behind the decisions hat are putting them there are centuries old. Balancing the rights of the community and the rights of the individual is an ancient task...."
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Washington Times examines a Maryland prison's rehabilitation program, after the prison repeatedly furloughed a convicted murderer serving a triple-life sentence; discovers the prison psychiatrists may accept and release prisoners with virtually no oversight by the state Department of Corrections, Nov. 17 - Dec. 20, 1988.