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Prison Reform Law Doesn't Go Far Enough - Bloomberg

The Moral Horror of America’s Prisons Congress isn’t doing enough to fix the current U.S. penal system, which is a failure of historic proportions. December 28, 2018 By Tyler Cowen - Opinion Now that President Donald Trump has signed a bipartisan criminal justice bill into...

'Changing The Mindset': Female Inmates In Training For A Life After Prison

Crystal Lansdale carrying concrete blocks during a practice at a TRAC workshop in the Washington Corrections Center for Women in Gig Harbor, Wash. December 25, 2018 By Cheryl Corley - NPR The inside of one of the buildings at Washington Corrections Center for Women looks like...

Visiting Applications and Rules for Visiting Federal Bureau of Prisons (all BOP)

Federal Prisons Inmate visitation application - To visit, you must be pre-approved. You can only visit an inmate if they have placed you on their visiting list and you have been cleared by the BOP. An inmate is given a Visitor Information Form when he/she arrives at a new...

From Courtroom to Prison

When you are sentenced you will be taken straight out of the back of the courtroom, from the dock, down to the cells. You will not be able to see any friends or family and you will need to have taken with you into the dock anything you want to take to prison. When you are...