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Kids in jail: time out to hard time
TEXAS-AUSTIN (US)—Trying and sentencing children as young as 7 in adult courts occurs with alarming frequency and devastating results in the United States, according to a new policy report.The study...
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In prison, addiction is drug-free
BROWN (US)—Many prison systems across the country do not offer medical treatment for heroin and opiate addiction, despite the demonstrated social, medical, and economic benefits, a new study finds.The...
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Can Muslim radicals be rehabilitated?
RICE (US) — The U.S. government needs to adopt a policy of strict separation of incarcerated Muslim radicals from non-Muslim prisoners to avoid the spread of militant ideology.Such action is necessary...
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Trend: Prisons link US citizens to terror groups?
RICE (US) — Sixty percent of people arrested for Islamic terrorist activities between January 2009 and April 2011 were American citizens, according to a new report.Using data from international and...
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High-risk adults don’t get Hepatitis B vaccine
BROWN (US) — More than half of adults at the highest risk for hepatitis B remain unvaccinated—one reason that tens of thousands of people still contract the virus every year.Although there is an...
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Death penalty may not impact murder rate
NYU (US) — Use of the death penalty does not affect subsequent murder rates, says a study of over 50 years of crime statistics in Trinidad and Tobago.“Our analysis of homicides and serious crimes in...
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Prison time cuts lifespan until parole ends
VANDERBILT (US) — For every year spent behind bars, a person’s overall life expectancy decreases by two years. A new study looks at New York parolees released between 1989 and 2003 and reports a 15.6...
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Psychopaths not wired for empathy
U. CHICAGO (US) — Psychopaths show less activity in areas of the brain linked to empathy when they view images of people in distress, a study shows.Psychopathy affects approximately 1 percent of the...
View ArticleCut welfare spending to pay for prison reform?
RICE (US) — Efforts by the US federal government to improve living conditions in state prisons resulted in decreased welfare funding, a new analysis shows. “When courts are effective in increasing...
View ArticleYoung women 20 times more likely to die after prison
U. MELBOURNE (AUS) — Young adults just released from prison are much more likely to die compared to the general population. Nearly all of the deaths were due to drug-related causes or suicide,...
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‘Mindfulness’ training improves self-control for youth in jail
A meditation-based therapy known as ‘mindfulness’ training can improve attention skills in incarcerated youth and increase self-control over emotions and actions, research shows. The recent study is...
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For teens of jailed parents, prison cycle is hard to break
Jailed teens whose parents have a history of incarceration are unlikely to be successful without outside intervention. For a new study published in the Journal of Poverty, researchers examined the...
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Testing new inmates for HIV may be unnecessary
More than 90 percent of HIV-infected inmates entering prison in North Carolina have previously tested positive for the virus. A significant proportion of people with HIV in the United States enter the...
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Why health care for prisoners could lower costs
More than 95 percent of prisoners will return to the community, often carrying significant health burdens and associated costs with them. In a new study, researchers outline ways to improve health care...
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How to keep women on parole out of prison
As the female prison population grows, more should be done to help women probationers and parolees in poor urban areas remain crime-free, a new study reports. Black women on probation and parole feel...
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Are prisons our best chance to stop Hepatitis C?
Testing and treating the oversized prison population in the United States for hepatitis C could make it easier to stave off a national epidemic, but how to pay for it remains elusive. Nearly 4 million...
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Do Medicaid rules send people to prison?
People with schizophrenia are more likely to end up in prison in states with tight Medicaid policies governing antipsychotic drugs, research shows. The new study comes amid media scrutiny over whether...
View ArticleWhite Americans want harsh laws to fight ‘black crime’
In America, white people are more likely to support harsher laws if they think prison populations are disproportionately black. Although African Americans constitute only 12 percent of America’s...
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These games may improve psychopath behavior
People with psychopathy tend not to feel fear, consider the emotions of others, or reflect on their behavior—and these traits make them notoriously difficult to treat. A new study to appear in Clinical...
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Crack vs. powder: Why cocaine arrests aren’t the same
Black Americans are at a higher risk for arrest and incarceration due to drug possession. But experts say the reasons why are more complex than originally thought. When researchers looked at the...
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