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News, commentary and analysis on prisons: government proposals with the aim of stemming overcrowding and recidivism; inmate living conditions and changing demographics; sentencing issues.
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Alabama raising rates for inmate work squad labor. State get $15 a day. Prisoners get $2.

Posted on March 18, 2009
Alabama raising rates for inmate work squad labor Monday, March 16, 2009 TOM GORDON Birmingham (AL) News staff writer The state Department of Corrections began in October 2007 charging cities, counties and other governing bodies for labor done by prisoners,...

Some Minnesota counties struggle with empty jails

Posted on March 18, 2009
Some Minnesota counties struggle with empty jails By TOM ROBERTSON , Associated Press Minneapolis Star Tribune March 16, 2009 PARK RAPIDS, Minn. - This state-of-the-art jail facility in Park Rapids has enough beds to hold 116 prisoners. But on this...

OR: Bill introduced to count prisoners as part of their home communities

Posted on March 17, 2009
Statesman Journal 2009 Legislature Bill would change way inmates are counted March 17, 2009 Marion County's population would shrink for purposes of redrawing state legislative and federal congressional districts under a bill that the House Rules Committee took up Monday...

OR: State may need to use jail to imprison women as a result of Measure 57

Posted on March 17, 2009
State wants to send female inmates to Wapato jail by Edward Walsh, The Oregonian Sunday March 15, 2009, 9:03 PM The long-shuttered Wapato jail may finally open to house female prison inmates, whose numbers are expected to surge in the...

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Alaska: Lawmakers have second thoughts on "jumbo" state prison

Posted on March 16, 2009
Prison costs raise concern MAT-SU FACILITY: Lawmakers take new look at privatizing amid budget crunch. By SEAN COCKERHAM Published: March 15th, 2009 JUNEAU -- Legislators are cringing at the cost of the planned new jumbo state prison in the Matanuska-Susita...

FL: GEO Proposed 3,000 cage prison near Florida City

Posted on March 16, 2009
Corporation offers to build prison near Florida City GEO Group proposes to build a 3,000-bed correctional facility near Florida City that would cost $100 million and create 900 jobs. BY KYLE BAILEY Special to The Miami Herald A corporation wants...

Job losses hit black men hardest: Some 8 percent of black men in the US have lost their jobs since November 2007

Posted on March 16, 2009
Job losses hit black men hardest: Some 8 percent of black men in the US have lost their jobs since November 2007, according to a recent study. By Patrik Jonsson | Staff writer/ March 15, 2009 edition and Yvonne Zipp...

Calif. fight over inmate care may go to high court

Posted on March 15, 2009
Calif. fight over inmate care may go to high court By DON THOMPSON Associated Press Writer Posted: 03/14/2009 San Jose Mercury News SACRAMENTO?When the quality of health care in California's sprawling prison system was first challenged in court, it seemed...

Real Cost of Prisons Comix (the book)

Posted on March 14, 2009
The Real Cost of Prisons Comix edited by Lois Ahrens PM Press Reviews: http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php?story=loisahrens#reviews Ordering info: https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=48 One out of every hundred adults in the U...

MA: Telephone company price gouging

Posted on March 14, 2009
A bad call for prisoners By Ronald Fraser / As You Were Saying . . . | Saturday, March 14, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Op-Ed It is time to end telephone price gouging in prisons. If phone companies in Florida,...

A Nation of Jailers by Glenn Loury

Posted on March 14, 2009
A Nation of Jailers by Glenn Loury Lead Essay- Cato Unbound March 11th, 2009 The most challenging problems of social policy in the modern world are never merely technical. In order properly to decide how we should govern ourselves, we...

TX: Lawmakers considering plan that would cap the number of juveniles being sent to TYC jails and keep them in the county in which they live

Posted on March 14, 2009
Lawmakers eyeing Travis' plan for juveniles Proposal among many being considered that would reform youth agency, save state money. By Bob Banta and Mike Ward AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Thursday, March 12, 2009 Legislators are studying proposals from Travis and other counties...

FL: Private Prison Problems Not Quickly Fixed

Posted on March 13, 2009
Report: Florida prison problems not quickly fixed By JESSICA GRESKO , 03.12.09, 04:11 PM EDT The agency that oversees Florida's six privately run prisons needs to ensure that problems found during audits - such as broken alarms and unsanitary infirmaries...

NV: Prisoner Internet access plan advances

Posted on March 13, 2009
Inmate Internet access plan advances By CATHY BUSSEWITZ, Associated Press Writer Thursday, March 12, 2009 (03-12) 16:52 PDT Carson City, Nev. (AP) -- Nevada lawmakers advanced a plan Thursday that would allow some state prison inmates ? who lost the....

MS:Omnibus spending Bill brings $205 million for construction of Federal Prison in Yazoo

Posted on March 12, 2009
Spending bill brings large windfall to Mississippi By CHRIS TALBOTT ? March 12, 2009 JACKSON - The federal omnibus spending bill that President Barack Obama signed on Wednesday funnels millions of dollars to Mississippi, including $205 million for construction at...

IL : Pontiac Prison to Stay Open After Months of Lobbying by town and guard's unions

Posted on March 12, 2009
" PCC is the only institution in the state to currently house condemned inmates. It also has the largest segregation unit in which many of the state?s ?worst of the worst? inmates are housed. Pontiac is the state?s only facility...

Voting Rights Elude Some People in FL With Felony Convictions

Posted on March 12, 2009
NY Times By GARY FINEOUT Published: March 11, 2009 TALLAHASSEE, Fla.? Florida?s procedures for restoring voting rights to convicted felons are so cumbersome, bureaucratic and confusing that some ex-convicts are being denied their rights, according to a report by...

Another excellent article from Tom Barry on "The National Imperative to Imprison Immigrants for Profit"

Posted on March 12, 2009
The National Imperative to Imprison Immigrants for Profit Tom Barry | March 10, 2009 Americas Program, Center for International Policy (CIP) There is a codependent relationship between the private prison industry and the federal government's immigration enforcement apparatus...

PA: Officials present preliminary plans for Graterford Prison replacement

Posted on March 12, 2009
03/11/2009 WEB EXCLUSIVE ... Officials present preliminary plans for Graterford Prison replacement By: David Hare , For The Valley Item At a Skippack Township Board of Supervisors meeting March 11, state officials presented preliminary plans for two new prisons that...

Justice Dept. Opens Investigation of Arpaio's Office

Posted on March 11, 2009
NY Times National Briefing | Southwest Arizona: Inquiry Into County Sheriff?s Office By PAUL GIBLIN Published: March 10, 2009 The United States Department of Justice opened an investigation into the Maricopa County Sheriff?s Office for suspected civil rights violations...

New look at sentencing guidelines for cocaine

Posted on March 10, 2009
"The U.S. Sentencing Commission tallied all 4,262 crack cases for 2006. It calculated a median drug quantity of 1.8 ounces." New look at sentencing guidelines for cocaine Claire Cooper Sunday, March 8, 2009 SF Chronicle Willie Mays Aikens has returned...

Veterans Courts Are An Alternative to Jail

Posted on March 10, 2009
These courts give wayward veterans a chance The first veterans court opened last year in Buffalo, N.Y.; its success stories have led to more across the country. By Nicholas Riccardi March 10, 2009 Los Angeles Times Reporting from Tulsa, Okla....

Introduction to Mumia Abu-Jamal's Jailhouse Lawyers By Angela Davis

Posted on March 10, 2009
Introduction to Mumia Abu-Jamal's Jailhouse Lawyers By Angela Davis March 02, 2009 http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/20752 One of the most important public intellectuals of our time, Mumia Abu-Jamal has spent more than twenty-five years behind bars, the majority of that time on death...

Tennessee: State eyes cost-effective alternatives to prison

Posted on March 09, 2009
Commissioner George Little: ?We can figure out how to better manage those populations,? he said. ?What I think it opens up is a discussion of who we are locking up, how long they are being locked up and do we...

UK: We should try rehabilitating 'lifers' Given the questionable conditions life-sentence prisoners are kept in, we should be grateful more don't re-offend once released

Posted on March 09, 2009
We should try rehabilitating 'lifers' Given the questionable conditions life-sentence prisoners are kept in, we should be grateful more don't re-offend once released By Erwin James Sunday 8 March 2009 16.00 GMT The Guardian Of the thousand or so life-sentence...

MA: Towns Weigh Recriminalizing Marijuana Use

Posted on March 09, 2009
Towns weigh ban on pot use By Scott Stafford, Berkshire Eagle Staff Updated: 03/07/2009 Even though 65 percent of voters in Massachusetts agreed with the ballot initiative known as Question 2 ? the decriminalization of less than an ounce of...

GA:: CCA takes over jail as ICE detention center

Posted on March 09, 2009
March 9, 2009 CCA bringing 160 jobs to Georgia Atlanta Business Chronicle Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) landed a contract to manage detainee populations for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the North Georgia Detention Center in Gainesville, Ga...

Derrick Z. Jackson: "Rectifying a 'mistake' in drug sentencing"

Posted on March 09, 2009
The Boston Globe Rectifying a 'mistake' in drug sentencing By Derrick Z. Jackson Globe Columnist / March 7, 2009 CRIMINAL JUSTICE will never supplant the economy, war, or healthcare as a top priority, but when Attorney General Eric Holder called...

New book: Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women

Posted on March 09, 2009
Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women By Vikki Law PM Press Now available In 1974, women imprisoned at New York?s maximum-security prison at Bedford Hills staged what is known as the August Rebellion. Protesting the brutal beating of...

PA: Rendell's prison plan could lock him up in costly quandary Increased budget likely to cause inmate population to swell

Posted on March 08, 2009
Rendell's prison plan could lock him up in costly quandary Increased budget likely to cause inmate population to swell Sunday, March 08, 2009 By Daniel Malloy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Excellent chart: http://www.post-gazette.com/downloads/20090308Correction_population...

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