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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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MA: prison towns to loose mitigation money

Posted on October 29, 2008
News Wicked Local Walpole News Walpole to lose $750k prison mitigation money By Jeb Bobseine Fri Oct 17, 2008, 12:09 PM EDT WALPOLE - Walpole will lose $750,000 it gets for being home to a state prison, according to the...

PA: State hopes new prisons, early release cut crowding

Posted on October 28, 2008
State hopes new prisons, early release cut crowding Monday, October 27, 2008 By Tom Barnes, Post-Gazette Harrisburg Bureau HARRISBURG -- A steady rise in the number of inmates and the political risks of paroling prisoners early are complicating the state's...

Bureau of Prisons Institutes Revised Policy on Shackling Pregnant Women

Posted on October 28, 2008
Feminist Daily News Wire October 27, 2008 Bureau of Prisons Institutes Revised Policy on Pregnant Inmates The Bureau of Prisons recently announced a policy change that bans shackling of pregnant federal prison inmates except in extreme circumstances. According to the...

Girls are the fastest growing segment of national juvenile justice population

Posted on October 27, 2008
Number of girls arrested in Cape Girardeau not matching national trend Monday, October 27, 2008 By Bridget DiCosmo Southeast Missourian Though young women are the fastest growing segment of the national juvenile justice population, according to the National Council on...

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Campaigns butt heads over felons' voting rights

Posted on October 27, 2008
Campaigns butt heads over felons' voting rights The Roanoke Times October 25, 2008 RICHMOND -- Republican John McCain's presidential campaign is accusing Democratic rival Barack Obama and Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine of making a coordinated effort to add felons to...

MA: State cuts endanger jail diversion program

Posted on October 27, 2008
State cuts endanger jail diversion program By Dan McDonald/Daily News staff The MetroWest Daily News Posted Oct 21, 2008 @ 11:44 PM FRAMINGHAM ? Gov. Deval Patrick's recent budget cuts effectively eliminated an innovative jail diversion program that aimed to...

PA: State hopes new prisons, early release cut crowding

Posted on October 27, 2008
State hopes new prisons, early release cut crowding Monday, October 27, 2008 By Tom Barnes, Post-Gazette Harrisburg Bureau HARRISBURG -- A steady rise in the number of inmates and the political risks of paroling prisoners early are complicating the state's...

Great Britian: Number of babies born in prison soars

Posted on October 26, 2008
Number of babies born in prison soars By Ben Russell, home affairs correspondent Monday, 27 October 2008 The Independent (UK) The number of children born behind bars has almost doubled since Labour came to power, with new figures showing women...

Pahrump NV: CCA Detention Tabled for Now

Posted on October 26, 2008
Oct. 24, 2008 Detention center pact tabled By MARK WAITE Pahrump Valley Times (NV) Action on a proposed development agreement with Corrections Corporation of America for a federal detention center was postponed another two months until Dec. 16 by Nye...

CA: "California's prison healthcare mess"- op-ed by Franklin Zimring

Posted on October 26, 2008
From the Los Angeles Times Opinion California's prison healthcare mess Judicial action might be quietly welcomed by some officials under political and economic pressure. By Franklin E. Zimring October 25, 2008 The continuing saga of federal court efforts to reform...

Hepatitis C Treatment Is Cost-effective For The US Prison Population

Posted on October 26, 2008
Hepatitis C Treatment Is Cost-effective For The US Prison Population ScienceDaily (Oct. 25, 2008) ? Treating all U.S. prisoners who have hepatitis C with the standard therapy of pegylated-interferon and ribavirin would be cost-effective, according to a new study...

NY youth center staffed at $1.7M cost, but no kids

Posted on October 25, 2008
NY youth center staffed at $1.7M cost, but no kids Associated Press - October 24, 2008 1:05 PM ET SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - New York, buffeted by the economic meltdown and facing billions in deficits, is spending $1.7 million in...

VA: R.I.H.D: Advocacy conference promotes rehabilitation, not warehousing

Posted on October 25, 2008
Advocacy conference promotes rehabilitation, not warehousing By Lillie (Ms. K) Branch-Kennedy More than 150 people came to Richmond from across the country to attend a conference that had a simple but profound message: prisoners and inmates are people too, and...

NY Times Editorial: The California Prison Disaster

Posted on October 25, 2008
October 25, 2008 The California Prison Disaster Editorial NY Times The mass imprisonment philosophy that has packed prisons and sent corrections costs through the roof around the country has hit especially hard in California, which has the largest prison population,...

U.S. Judge Orders Arpaio to Improve Jails

Posted on October 25, 2008
October 24, 2008 U.S. Judge Orders Arizona Sheriff to Improve Jails By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD NY Times Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz., who has built a national reputation with his get-tough tactics, and county health officials have violated...

Anamosa IA: 58 non-prisoners and 1,300 non-voiting prisoners make up one ward

Posted on October 24, 2008
October 24, 2008 Census Bureau?s Counting of Prisoners Benefits Some Rural Voting Districts By SAM ROBERTS, NY Times Danny R. Young, a 53-year-old backhoe operator for Jones County in eastern Iowa, was elected to the Anamosa City Council with a...

PA: Prison offers benefits to German Twp.

Posted on October 23, 2008
Prison offers benefits to German Twp. By Amy Revak , Herald-Standard 10/23/2008 When the newest state prison for Fayette County opens in a few years, the institution will be by far the largest employer in German Township. "Basically, everybody is...

Hiding Out In Prison Bonds---How Lease Revenue Bonds Work

Posted on October 23, 2008
For more information on this, you can go to: http://www.realcostofprisons.org/materials/comics/prisontown_flowchart.pdf Hiding Out In Prison Bonds Adviser Soapbox Alex Anderson, Forbes Tax Advantaged Investor 10.22.08 Prison bonds are a subset of a fixed income security class called lease revenue bonds (LRBs)...

Activists publish comics expos� on 'real cost of prisons': A Q&A

Posted on October 22, 2008
Activists publish comics expos� on 'real cost of prisons': A Q&A By Larry Parnass 10/22/2008 - 13:57 NORTHAMPTON - All this decade, Lois Ahrens of Northampton has been working to reveal the social, emotional and plain old dollar cost the...

LAPD officers more likely to stop, search and arrest minorities than whites, report says

Posted on October 21, 2008
LAPD officers more likely to stop, search and arrest minorities than whites, report says The report by a Yale professor also found that LAPD officers were less likely to find weapons or drugs on blacks or Latinos than whites when...

PA: State parole freeze bloating prison populations

Posted on October 21, 2008
State parole freeze bloating prison populations By Joseph A. Slobodzian Inquirer Staff Writer October 13, 2008 Two weeks after Gov. Rendell halted paroling state inmates, the population of Pennsylvania's 27 prisons continues to swell. Officially, the Sept...

Medical Neglect Is the Norm in Women's Prisons

Posted on October 21, 2008
Medical Neglect Is the Norm in Women's Prisons By Betty Brink, Ms. Magazine. Posted October 20, 2008. Women inmates die and suffer from medical neglect in a prison system that is much more of a threat to them than they...

MS: Assistant DA hleps to reduce jail overcrowding

Posted on October 20, 2008
ADA helps Rankin jail reduce crowding Clarion-Ledger October 20, 2008 BRANDON ? The number of inmates at Rankin County's jail last week hit 380 - 71 inmates above the jail's suggested 309 capacity. But that number could have been higher...

CA: Phone Companies Rip Off Prisoners Families

Posted on October 19, 2008
Phone Companies Rip Off Inmate Families Phone Rates from Inside Jail Are Unregulated By Charles Montaldo, About.com An Investigation by the Associated Press in California has found that telephone companies and county governments have been bilking millions of dollars from...

VA: Richmond Investors Plan to Cash in on Immigrant Detainees

Posted on October 19, 2008
Richmond Investors Plan to Cash in on Immigrant Detainees by Jeff Winder Changing immigration enforcement policy has left federal authorities struggling to cope with rapidly rising numbers of detainees. A controversial partnership in Farmville, VA proposes to address the crisis...

VA: Editorial: A sensible call for sentencing reform

Posted on October 18, 2008
"The cost to build and operate the prisons needed to hold all of these people is enormous: States spent about $2 billion on construction alone in 2006." Editorial: A sensible call for sentencing reform Virginia's junior senator insists on taking...

VA: Regional jail could benefit from prison closing

Posted on October 18, 2008
Regional jail could benefit from prison closing The state prison in Dublin will close next year, while the regional jail is looking to hire 130 more officers. 10/14/08 Roanoke Times By Kevin Litten It's too early to tell how big...

Utah prison inmates building homes for state

Posted on October 18, 2008
Utah prison inmates building homes for state October 14th, 2008 @ 10:05pm By Lori Prichard The State of Utah is now in the business of building and selling homes, in the hopes of providing those homes to lower- and middle-income...

NV: Article on Frank Smith Fighting Detention Center

Posted on October 18, 2008
Oct. 15, 2008 Opponent plans meeting on detention center By MARK WAITE Pahrump Valley Times (Nevada) Officials from Corrections Corporation of America don't plan to be in attendance when the Private Corrections Institute hosts a meeting on the pros and...

OK: Lawmakers say private prisons can save the state money

Posted on October 18, 2008
Lawmakers say private prisons can save the state money October 16th, 2008 Tulsa Beacon Private prisons are safer and can be built and operated at much lower costs than public prisons, the two highest-ranking public safety lawmakers noted after recently...

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