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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: New Report on Drug-Free Zone Inequities Provides Opportunity for 'Smart On Crime' Sentencing Reforms in Massachusetts

Posted on August 02, 2008
Sadly, this legislation failed to come to a vote in the legislative session that just end. HispanicBusiness.com New Report on Drug-Free Zone Inequities Provides Opportunity for 'Smart On Crime' Sentencing Reforms in Massachusetts BOSTON, July 26 /PRNewswire/ -- A new...

U.S. Blacks, if a Nation, Would Rank 16th in the world of people living with AIDS

Posted on July 31, 2008
July 30, 2008, NY Times U.S. Blacks, if a Nation, Would Rank High on AIDS By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN If black America were a country, it would rank 16th in the world in the number of people living with the...

Calculating Economics of an Eye for an Eye

Posted on July 30, 2008
July 29, 2008 Calculating Economics of an Eye for an Eye By PATRICIA COHEN NY Times In the Albanian canon, a 15th-century handbook detailing the rules of revenge that is still in circulation, a man?s relatives are expected ?to take...

UK: study and article relevant to the U.S. :The real cost of prison. Moral, social and political arguments for and against prison are all very well. But what about value for money?

Posted on July 28, 2008
The real cost of prison Moral, social and political arguments for and against prison are all very well. But what about value for money? by Kevin marsh Monday July 28 2008 In 1993, the UK prison population was 44,000. Today...

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Maine: A former guard calls for prison reform

Posted on July 26, 2008
Time for a clean sweep? A former guard calls for prison reform By LANCE TAPLEY | July 23, 2008 In early 2007, Rhonda Dawson, a thoughtful, candid, 45-year-old African-American guard at the Maine State Prison in Warren, quit her job...

UK: Taking on the Titans: he US prison system, with its superjails, now warehouses one in 100 of our citizens. That's not a model the UK should emulate. By Julia Sudbury

Posted on July 26, 2008
Taking on the Titans The US prison system, with its superjails, now warehouses one in 100 of our citizens. That's not a model the UK should emulate By Julia Sudbury guardian.co.uk Saturday July 26 2008 The first slavery abolitionists were...

MA: New study on inequities of school zone sentencing in Springfield released

Posted on July 26, 2008
"A new study by the Easthampton-based Prison Policy Initiative concludes the law places poor, black and Hispanic populations at risk of harsher penalties simply because of where they live. The initiative is a national organization which mapped the impact of...

CT: State legislators seek stronger protection for correction officers

Posted on July 25, 2008
TheDay.Com State legislators seek stronger protection for correction officers By Ted Mann Published Hartford - With a steadily rising population and a rash of violent attacks in the state's prisons, leading Democrats in the House of Representatives called Thursday for...

Why Texas Still Holds 'Em--- the boom in locking immigrants up

Posted on July 24, 2008
Why Texas Still Holds 'Em Forget oil and gold. In the Lone Star state, the boomtown business is locking up immigrants." Mother Jones Stephanie Mencimer" July 21" , 2008" In 1997, with the private prison business booming, the Corrections Corporation...

Bills, lawsuits attempt to thwart private prisons' escape from FOIA

Posted on July 24, 2008
U.S. � July 22, 2008 � Freedom of information The Reporters Committee for Freedom the Press Bills, lawsuits attempt to thwart private prisons' escape from FOIA Two Democratic lawmakers are looking to hold private prisons housing federal inmates to the...

VA: Restore the right of felons to vote

Posted on July 24, 2008
Restore the right of felons to vote Edward Hailes Jr. Hailes is a senior attorney at Advancement Project, a national civil rights organization in Washington, D.C. No single existing voting-rights inequity seems a starker injustice than the plight of people...

CA: Farmland vs. prison land for county

Posted on July 24, 2008
"The prison will not support local economy, nor will it bring jobs. In her study, "Building a Prison Economy in Rural America," Tracy Huling states that new prison jobs in rural areas are largely filled by transfers from other prisons,...

Legislation, lawsuits seek to shine light on private prisons

Posted on July 21, 2008
News Story Legislation, lawsuits seek to shine light on private prisons By Melanie Bengtson First Amendment Center Online intern 07.21.08 A bill before Congress would extend the Freedom of Information Act to require private prisons contracted by the federal government...

RI: Dozens of undocumented people who clean coutrhouses are arrested in ICE raid

Posted on July 20, 2008
Dozens arrested in raids at courthouses Wednesday, July 16, 2008 BY KAREN LEE ZINER and FELICE J. FREYER Journal Staff Writers PROVIDENCE ? Federal immigration agents and state police raided six Rhode Island courthouses yesterday, arresting dozens of people employed...

Federal Report Finds Poor Conditions at Cook County Jail

Posted on July 20, 2008
July 18, 2008 Federal Report Finds Poor Conditions at Cook County Jail By MONICA DAVEY NY Times CHICAGO ? People awaiting trial here at the Cook County Jail, one of the nation?s largest local jails, have endured vastly inadequate medical...

TN: Pregnant Woman Is Jailed Under ICE Pact

Posted on July 20, 2008
July 20, 2008 Immigrant, Pregnant, Is Jailed Under Pact By JULIA PRESTON It started when Juana Villegas, an illegal immigrant from Mexico who was nine months pregnant, was pulled over by a police officer in a Nashville suburb for a...

LA: Bill Requiring DOC to notify former prisoners of their voting rights signed into law

Posted on July 20, 2008
July 18, 2008. From The Sentencing Project Louisiana: Bill Requiring Voting Rights Notification Gets Thumbs Up from Local ACLU The ACLU of Louisiana has applauded Gov. Bobby Jindal's recent signing of a law that mandates the Department of Public Safety...

NC: Prisons Are Great! Right?

Posted on July 20, 2008
Sunday, July 20, 2008 Expanding prisons mean more jobs By John Fuquay Staff writer RALEIGH ? With the new state budget, lawmakers have approved more than $30 million over the past two years to expand the state prison in Scotland...

Criminal Charges Filed Against Immigrants at Unprecedented Rate

Posted on July 16, 2008
Criminal Charges Filed Against Immigrants at Unprecedented Rate HispanicLink, News Report, Alex Meneses Miyashita, Posted: Jul 15, 2009 Criminal immigration violation charges are being filed by the federal government at unprecedented levels this year, a report by Syracuse University?s Transactional...

NM: Questions remain about the state's dependency on for-profit prisons

Posted on July 16, 2008
Questions remain about the state's dependency on for-profit prisons Kate Nash | The New Mexican 7/13/2008 When the doors swing open on the Northeast New Mexico Correctional Facility next month, inmates will file in , new employees will start collecting...

Report says Calif. should end juvenile prisons

Posted on July 16, 2008
Report says Calif. should end juvenile prisons By Don Thompson Associated Press Writer / July 15, 2008 SACRAMENTO, Calif.?A state watchdog commission has recommended that California phase out its antiquated juvenile prisons by 2011, replacing them with regional lockups run...

PA: More new prisons proposed

Posted on July 16, 2008
By Richard Gazarik Pittsburgh TRIBUNE-REVIEW Thursday, July 10, 2008 Fayette County officials said Wednesday the state could build one of two new prisons in German Township to handle overcrowding within the Department of Corrections system, which expects to run out...

Mother Jones July-August Issue on Mass Incarceration

Posted on July 15, 2008
Mother Jones July/August Issue SLAMMED Inside America's broken?and broke?prison system Welcome to the Age of Incarceration Welcome to the Age of Incarceration We are locking up 1 in every 100 American adults?and going bankrupt in the process. By Jennifer Gonnerman...

The Shame of Postville, Iowa

Posted on July 13, 2008
July 13, 2008 Editorial The Shame of Postville, Iowa Anyone who has doubts that this country is abusing and terrorizing undocumented immigrant workers should read an essay by Erik Camayd-Freixas,(URL below) a professor and Spanish-language court interpreter who witnessed the...

Tracking and Monitoring System for Prisoners in California, Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Missouri, Virginia being used now...more states to follow

Posted on July 11, 2008
Wi-Fi Planet.com's Daily Newsletter RFID Tracking Allows Prisons to More Closely Monitor Inmates By Daniel Casciato One of the nation's largest correctional institutions is spending $3.3 million to install an RFID inmate tracking system to track and monitor over 2,000...

GEO Group Expands prison for immigrants to more than 1,500 in WA

Posted on July 11, 2008
Locked and loaded GEO Group will incarcerate more immigrants. Posted: Jul 10, 2008 by John Herbert NORTHWEST DETENTION CENTER: More immigrants will cross these tracks. Tacoma officials have confirmed that Florida-based private prison corporation the GEO Group has plans to...

Interpreter for some of the 400 immigrants arrested and sentenced in meat packing raid speaks up in their defense

Posted on July 11, 2008
July 11, 2008, NY Times An Interpreter Speaking Up for Migrants By JULIA PRESTON WATERLOO, Iowa ? In 23 years as a certified Spanish interpreter for federal courts, Erik Camayd-Freixas has spoken up in criminal trials many times, but the...

UN Special Rapporteur On Education: Seeking comments from prisoners and people who have been incarcerated on the right to education

Posted on July 10, 2008
Prisoners on Prison Education: the Special Rapporteur on education seeks to hear from people in, or formerly in, detention on their experience and views on the right to education in detention. The Special Rapporteur on education has chosen to present...

Guarded Hope: Lessons from the history of the prison boom by Robert Perkinson

Posted on July 10, 2008
"Navigating these uncertain waters, Abramsky, Gilmore, and Simon all conclude with guarded hope. Although California?s penal system has become one of the nation?s most crowded and dysfunctional in recent years, Abramsky cautiously praises Governor Schwarzenegger for revisiting the concept of...

Boston Review: 3 articles in Special Issue including: : "No Further Harm: What we owe to incarcerated fathers", "Guarded Hope:Lessons from the history of the prison boom" and "Reentry: Reversing mass imprisonment"

Posted on July 10, 2008
JULY/AUGUST 2008--- Boston Review all at: http://bostonreview.net/BR33.4/prison.php No Further Harm What we owe to incarcerated fathers by Mary Fainsod Katzenstein and Mary Lyndon Shanley -------------------- Guarded Hope Lessons from the history of the prison boom by Robert Perkinson ----------------------- Reentry...

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