Jails & Prisons

Have Prisons and Jails Simply Replaced Institutions in Warehousing People with Mental Illness and Cognitive Disabilities?

In what was widely regarded as a positive development in the United States, the number of individuals residing in institutions plunged from nearly 560,000 in 1955 to approximately 70,000 in 1994.  Unfortunately, this move was not followed by sufficient community resources to meet the needs of this population.  Some subsequently ended up being routed to the […]

Making Hard Time Harder: Programmatic Accommodations for Inmates with Disabilities Under the Americans with Disabilities Act

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Contact:   Tom Masseau or Debra Poulin – 501-296-1775   See www.AVIDprisonproject.org June 22, 2016   Little Rock, Arkansas – More than 600,000 inmates with disabilities in prisons across the country spend more time in prison, under harsher conditions, than inmates without disabilities, according to research. Today, Amplifying Voices of Prisoners with […]

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