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October 8th, 2021category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer September became the deadliest month for employees of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice since the Covid-19 pandemic began, even as coronavirus fatalities dropped across the state, a Dallas Morning News report said. Covid-19 led to the death...
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August 19th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy a Biometrica staffer In 1998, Hawai'i became the first U.S. state to pass a “Ban the Box” law. The law prohibited both public and private organizations from enquiring about a person’s criminal record in the early stages of the hiring process....
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August 5th, 2021category: News Reports
By Aara Ramesh As of Sunday, Aug. 1, Minnesota’s Healthy Start Act kicked in, allowing some incarcerated pregnant and immediately postpartum women to serve their sentences in halfway houses, rehab centers, and other similar community facilities, so as to encourage bonding between...
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July 28th, 2021category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer Source: Screengrab from the UNODC report depicting global prison population by regions The total number of people held in prison has increased by over 25% since 2000, with an estimated 11.7 million persons detained in jails across the...
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July 2nd, 2021category: News Reports
By Aara Ramesh On Thursday, July 1, Attorney General (AG) Merrick B. Garland issued an order staying all federal executions until a comprehensive review of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) policies and procedures can be completed. This is a sharp about-turn from...
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June 14th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Aara Ramesh Earlier this month, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) released its report concerning the application and execution of capital punishments in the U.S. in 2019. As of the year under review, capital punishment was legal in 32 states and...
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May 3rd, 2021category: Feature Stories
By a Biometrica staffer In 2018, a total of 4,135 state prisoners died in publicly or privately operated prisons, and an additional 378 federal prisoners died in facilities operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), according to a report published by...
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March 22nd, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy a Biometrica staffer The First Step Act (FSA) of 2018 requires the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) to collect data from the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) through its National Prisoner Statistics program on a number of different topics and to...
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March 18th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Charlotte Spencer Congress has had several new bills proposed so far this year to address the issue of prison reform. Together, they cover the topics of youthful offenders, nonviolent offenders, elderly offenders, Covid-19, solitary confinement, monitoring of electronic communications, re-entry into...
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March 11th, 2021category: Feature StoriesBy Charlotte Spencer As of March this year, there are already several bills proposed in the area of crime, prison, and law enforcement. These bills cover a wide range of topics including hate crimes, the death penalty, solitary confinement, mental health, parenthood...
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December 30th, 2020category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer The man authorities say was the most prolific serial killer in US history with nearly 60 confirmed victims died on Wednesday, the Associated Press reported. Samuel Little was 80, and had diabetes, heart trouble and other ailments. He...
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November 30th, 2020category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer An Indian national was sentenced to 20 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in operating a scam that defrauded US victims out of millions of dollars between 2013 and 2016. Hitesh...
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October 8th, 2020category: News Reports
By a Biometrica staffer Six men were arrested and charged federally with conspiring to kidnap the Governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, the US Department of Justice said in a statement. They planned to kidnap Whitmer from her vacation home in the Western...
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August 19th, 2020category: News Reports
A former Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Corrections Officer was sentenced to 42 months in prison and three years supervised release for sexually assaulting two women | © Pawel Strykowski - Dreamstime.com By a Biometrica staffer A former Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Corrections...