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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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Last Entry: March 27, 2011 at 18:14:51

Interview with Staughton Lynd by Amy Goodman: Prisoners at Supermax Ohio Penitentiary Begin Hunger Strike to Protest 17+ Year Solitary Confinement

Posted on January 06, 2011
Prisoners at Supermax Ohio Penitentiary Begin Hunger Strike to Protest 17+ Year Solitary Confinement 1-6-11 Four prisoners in the supermax Ohio State Penitentiary have launched a hunger strike to protest what they call their harsh mistreatment under solitary confinement...

WI: After 150 years, Wisconsin?s prison population finally declines

Posted on January 05, 2011
After 150 years, Wisconsin?s prison population finally declines December 24, 2010 By Matt Hrodey Milwaukee Magazine After more than 150 years of persistent increases, the Wisconsin Department of Corrections is reporting a sustained decline in the state?s prison population...

Ohio: Private-prison consultant chosen to run ODRC

Posted on January 05, 2011
Private-prison consultant chosen to run ODRC Tuesday, January 4, 2011 01:37 PM Columbus Dispatch CHILLICOTHE -- Gov.-elect John Kasich, who has said he wants to explore privatizing state prison operations, has chosen a former longtime state prisons official who later...

MA: Virulently Anti-Gay Pastor Changes Focus From Uganda and Moves to "Re-Christianize Springfield"!

Posted on January 05, 2011
Shift in mission for religious firebrand Antigay pastor refocuses on aiding Springfield By Michael Levenson Globe Staff / January 5, 2011 SPRINGFIELD ? He gained international attention after he was accused of stoking violence against gays in Uganda. One of...

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Virginia taxpayers bear burden of empty prison

Posted on January 04, 2011
Virginia taxpayers bear burden of empty prison By: Ben Giles 01/03/11 8:05 PM Washington Examiner Staff Writer A $105 million prison in Virginia has stood empty for four months since its completion last summer because the state doesn't have enough...

LA Times Editorial: All the Sara Kruzans deserve a chance

Posted on January 04, 2011
LA Times Editorial: All the Sara Kruzans deserve a chance The woman who killed her pimp as a teen but turned her life around in prison was granted clemency. A bill in the state Senate would allow similar leniency for...

NAACP Fact-Finding Delegation Investigates Abuse Claims at Georgia Prisons

Posted on January 04, 2011
NAACP Fact-Finding Delegation Investigates Abuse Claims at Georgia Prisons by AFRO Staff Afro Briefs Originally published January 03, 2011 The Georgia State Conference of the NAACP is spearheading an investigation into abuse allegations at two Georgia prisons...

Georgia: N.A.A.C.P. Says Guards Beat Prisoners

Posted on January 04, 2011
Georgia: N.A.A.C.P. Says Guards Beat Prisoners By ROBBIE BROWN Published: NY Times January 3, 2011 The N.A.A.C.P. says three prisoners were beaten by guards in retaliation for a strike, but the prison leadership denies wrongdoing. The N.A.A.C.P. and the inmates?...

Georgia Prison System Retaliates Against Prisoners Involved in Historic Protest

Posted on January 03, 2011
Georgia Prison System Retaliates Against Prisoners Involved in Historic Protest The Louisiana Justice Institute December 31, 2010 From Our Friends at the US Human Rights Network and the Concerned Coalition to Respect Prisoners? Rights: The Concerned Coalition to Respect Prisoners?...

Outlawed, Cellphones Are Thriving in Prisons

Posted on January 03, 2011
Outlawed, Cellphones Are Thriving in Prisons By KIM SEVERSON and ROBBIE BROWN Published: January 2, 2011 NY Times ATLANTA ? A counterfeiter at a Georgia state prison ticks off the remaining days of his three-year sentence on his Facebook page....

Schwarzenegger Commutes Sara Kruzan?s Sentence

Posted on January 03, 2011
Schwarzenegger Commutes Sara Kruzan?s Sentence Rare commutation highlights the excessive nature of life without parole sentences for youth Press Release from the Campaign for Fair Sentencing of Youth January 3, 2011 Yesterday, Sara Kruzan?s life without the possibility of parole...

From Solitary Watch: On Bradley Manning, Solitary Confinement, and Selective Outrage

Posted on January 02, 2011
On Bradley Manning, Solitary Confinement, and Selective Outrage January 2, 2011 by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway Solitary Watch For the past few weeks, progressive online media sources have been alive with outrage against the conditions in which accused Wikileaker...

Escape route-The surprising potential of a prison library

Posted on January 02, 2011
Escape route-The surprising potential of a prison library By Avi Steinberg December 26, 2010 The Boston Globe Every day, for the almost two years I worked as a staff librarian at the Suffolk County House of Correction at South Bay,...

Suicides rise in N.Y. prisons

Posted on January 02, 2011
Suicides rise in N.Y. prisons Elmira Correctional Facility rate is among the highest By Mary Beth Pfeiffer ?mbpfeiff@poughkeepsiejournal.com ? January 1, 2011 Suicides in New York state prisons soared in 2010 to their highest rate in 28 years, as 20....

Bob Herbert: For Two Sisters, the End of an Ordeal

Posted on January 01, 2011
For Two Sisters, the End of an Ordeal By BOB HERBERT Published: December 31, 2010 I got a call on New Year?s Eve from Gladys Scott, which was a terrific way for 2010 to end. As insane as it may...

Hawaii: Over Detention of Prisoners May Be Systemic

Posted on December 31, 2010
Over Detention Of Inmates May Be Systemic Reported by: Andrew Pereira December 31, 2010 KHOU A local attorney and the Hawaii chapter of the ACLU believe the Department of Public Safety is violating prisoners? constitutional rights by keeping them jailed...

James Ridgeway's interview on the release of the Scott sisters

Posted on December 31, 2010
Gladys and Jamie Scott were sentenced to life in prison in 1994 for an armed robbery which netted $11, while their three male accomplices received lesser sentences and have since been released. Civil rights groups have been lobbying Gov. Haley...

Hawaii/AZ: Auditor blasts Hawaii oversight of CCA Prisons

Posted on December 31, 2010
Auditor blasts Hawaii oversight of private prisons By HERBERT A. SAMPLE - Dec 30, 2010 9:20 AM ET By The Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) ? The state's auditor on Wednesday blasted the Hawaii Department of Public Safety's management of a...

MS: Scott Sisters Who Have Served 16 Years for an $11 Robbery FINALLY Freed

Posted on December 30, 2010
Miss. Gov. Haley Barbour to free sisters sentenced to life in prison for robbery By Krissah Thompson Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, December 30, 2010 Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) announced late Wednesday that he will grant an early release...

PA: Good News! Rendell to commute life sentences for three

Posted on December 30, 2010
Rendell to commute life sentences for three By Robert Moran http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/20101230_Rendell_to_commute_life_sentences_for_three.html Inquirer Staff Writer Gov. Rendell is scheduled Thursday to commute the life sentences of three men convicted of slayings during the 1970s in Philadelphia, his spokesman said Wednesday night...

Please support the work of the Real Cost of Prisons Project.

Posted on December 27, 2010
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CA: Former women prisoners face longer odds staying out after aid programs slashed

Posted on December 26, 2010
Former women prisoners face longer odds staying out after aid programs slashed By Mineko Brand SF Public Press ? Dec 24 2010 By the time Sunshine Schmidt was 19, her rebellious streak led her to prison in Wisconsin for violating...

AZ/CA: CCA Red Rock Prison Riot Involves Approximately 110 California Prisoners

Posted on December 24, 2010
Red Rock Correctional Center Riot By LINDSEY GEMME The Eloy Enterprise December 23, 2010 At approximately 1:21 p.m. Thursday afternoon, Eloy Fire responded to a call at the Red Rock Correctional Center for an assault victim, which quickly expanded to...

Chicago & Minneapolis: More anti-war activists subpoenaed

Posted on December 24, 2010
More anti-war activists subpoenaed, attorney says Action apparently part of federal terror-funding inquiry December 23, 2010|By Andy Grimm, Tribune reporter More federal grand jury subpoenas went out this week as part of an apparent investigation into possible links between U...

IL: Thomson Correctional Center heads to auction block

Posted on December 22, 2010
Thomson Correctional Center heads to auction block By Dave Manley The Journal-Standard Posted Dec 17, 2010 Freeport, Ill. ? Thomson Correctional Center sat as cold and quiet as the snow surrounding the structure on Thursday. Over a year ago the...

NY: Bloomberg proposes that NY State return juveniles to local communities

Posted on December 22, 2010
December 21, 2010 Bloomberg Makes a Proposal on Youth Prisons By RUSS BUETTNER NY Times Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said Tuesday that he would ask New York State to turn over control of prisons and services for juvenile offenders to...

Community Coalition Meets With GA Corrections Officials, Visits First Prison. What Would Dr. King Say or Do?

Posted on December 22, 2010
Community Coalition Meets With GA Corrections Officials, Visits First Prison. What Would Dr. King Say or Do? by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon, with assistance from Ingemar Smith 12/22/2010 Last Friday members of the Concerned Coaltion to Protect Prisoner...

Washington Post Investigation: "Top Secret America" By Dana Priest and William Arkin

Posted on December 21, 2010
Washington Post Investigation: "Top Secret America" By Dana Priest and William Arkin Washington Post December 20, 2010 Nine years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans,...

Death Penalty Down With More Sentences of LWOP

Posted on December 21, 2010
December 21, 2010 Death Penalty Down in U.S., Figures Show By JOHN SCHWARTZ NY Times States are continuing a trend of executing fewer prisoners and juries are wary of sentencing criminal defendants to die, according to year-end figures compiled by...

Prisons the biggest recipient of Alabama's education stimulus dollars

Posted on December 20, 2010
"Alabama spent about $4,500 in education stimulus dollars per prisoner, about four times the amount per student in kindergarten through 12th grade." Prisons the biggest recipient of Alabama's education stimulus dollars December 19, 2010, Rena Havner Philips, Press-Register Alabama?s biggest...

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