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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.
By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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Conviction Overturned After 36 Years in Solitary For "Angola 3" Member Albert Woodfox

Posted on July 09, 2008
COALITION TO FREE THE ANGOLA THREE July 8, 2008 Conviction Overturned After 36 Years in Solitary For "Angola 3" Member Albert Woodfox Federal Judge Rules Flawed Trial Lead to Wrongful Conviction in Case of Prison Guard's Murder Lawyers Call on...

NY: CLOSE-TO-HOME TREATMENT FOR YOUTHS GAINS NOTICE BUT OBSTACLES PUT IN PATH BY PRISON DEPENDENT GROUPS

Posted on July 08, 2008
CLOSE-TO-HOME TREATMENT FOR YOUTHS GAINS NOTICE An initiative by the city Department of Probation shows signs of success. By Betsy Morais City Limits WEEKLY #647 July 7, 2008 Dr. Clarice Bailey was sent to New York City by the Ash...

Georgia sex offender law criminalizes homelessness

Posted on July 08, 2008
Georgia sex offender law criminalizes homelessness USA Today, July 7, 2008 ATLANTA (AP) ? A strict new Georgia law is designed to keep sex offenders away from children by monitoring how close they live to schools, parks and other spots...

MA: Update on CORI Reform & Governor's Executive Order

Posted on July 08, 2008
Update on CORI Reform & Governor's Executive Order July 17th, 2008 10AM Boston City Hall - Piemonte Room 5th floor The Massachusetts Alliance to Reform CORI, Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, and the Boston Worker's Alliance have actively engaged the Executive...

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Boston Globe: Making a start on CORI

Posted on July 08, 2008
Making start on CORI By Adrian Walker, Globe Columnist | July 8, 2008 The idea of making it easier for convicts to get jobs has always been a tough sell at the State House. But even though the Legislature appears...

NM: Prison reform? It?ll take more than task-force report. By Tilda Sosaya

Posted on July 07, 2008
Sunday, July 6, 2008 THE NEW MEXICAN MY VIEW: Prison reform? It?ll take more than task-force report By Tilda Sosaya The Governor?s Prison Reform Task Force is recommending changes to the New Mexico Department of Corrections, including a name change...

A measure of justice for Regina McKnight

Posted on July 07, 2008
Tue, Jul. 01, 2008 A measure of justice for Regina McKnight By BARRY LESTER and SUE VEER Guest Columnist, The State Newspaper In 1991, Regina McKnight turned to cocaine to numb the pain she felt as a result of her...

CA: Aging prisoners add to prison strain in Calif.

Posted on July 07, 2008
Aging inmates add to prison strain in Calif. By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press Writer Published 9:07 am PDT Saturday, July 5, 2008 Louis Rodriguez, a lifelong thief, is costing California taxpayers a lot of money. And so are others...

TX: Critics: Prison labor hurts free-world jobs. Program allows companies to employ prisoners, operate for less with subsidies

Posted on July 07, 2008
Houston & Texas News July 6, 2008, 11:40PM Critics: Prison labor hurts free-world jobs Program allows companies to employ inmates, operate for less with subsidies By LISA SANDBERG Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle Austin Bureau AUSTIN ? The East Texas town...

Miles to go for L.A. justice. Policing is improved; now let's focus on the root causes of crime. By Joe Domanick

Posted on July 06, 2008
From the Los Angeles Times Miles to go for L.A. justice Policing is improved; now let's focus on the root causes of crime. By Joe Domanick July 6, 2008 Over the last few decades, it's been easy to blame the...

CA/National: Aging Prisoners "Nursing Homes" Very Costly

Posted on July 06, 2008
Aging inmates add to prison strain in Calif. By DON THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer Saturday, July 5, 2008 Vacaville, CA (AP) -- Louis Rodriguez, a lifelong thief, is costing California taxpayers a lot of money. And so are others like...

IA: Number of prisoners decreases but of course spending is up

Posted on July 05, 2008
Fewer People Packed Into Iowa Prisons July 2, 2008 CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- The number of inmates in Iowa prisons is down, due in part to a drop in the number of prison terms and fewer offenders returning for parole...

NJ: Prisoner labor cut-back

Posted on July 05, 2008
Inmate workers sacked Tight budget slashes number of prisoner work details Wednesday, July 02, 2008 BY RALPH R. ORTEGA NJ Star-Ledger Staff In a wobbly economy, prison inmates seem ideal candidates for a hard day's work. They earn no wages,...

WA: GEO detention center expands by 50%

Posted on July 04, 2008
Tacoma, WA - Friday, July 4, 2008 Immigration center plans expansion SCOTT FONTAINE; The News Tribune Last updated: July 3rd, 2008 12:20 PM (PDT) The corporation that runs the federal immigration detention center on Tacoma?s Tideflats plans to expand the...

China Inspired Interrogations at Guant�namo

Posted on July 04, 2008
July 2, 2008 China Inspired Interrogations at Guant�namo By SCOTT SHANE NY Times Correction Appended WASHINGTON ? The military trainers who came to Guant�namo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of....

NY Times Editiorial: Don?t Teach Our Children Crime

Posted on July 03, 2008
NY Times July 3, 2008 Editorial Don?t Teach Our Children Crime Under the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, the states agreed to humanize their often Dickensian juvenile justice systems in exchange for increased federal aid. This promising...

MI: people with felony convictions and homeless people eligible to vote

Posted on July 03, 2008
Ex-felons, homeless are part of state voting process By Eric T. Campbell The Michigan Citizen DETROIT ? The 2008 primary race for the highest office in the nation has brought millions of new voters to the polls. With the end...

Scottish Prisons Commission: re-thinking punishment

Posted on July 01, 2008
"Scotland has one possible future where its prisons hold only serious offenders, prison staff regularly and expertly deliver programmes that can affect change and there is a widely used and respected system of community-based sentences. "There is another possible future,...

Decades Later, Still Asking: Would I Pull That Switch?

Posted on July 01, 2008
"This appreciation of another?s right is crucial in interrogation, Dr. Packer suggests. When prisoners? rights are ambiguous, inhumane treatment can follow. Milgram?s work, in short, makes a statement about the importance of human rights, as well as obedience...

Texas man cleared of shooting suspected burglars---it all depends on who you are and who you kill

Posted on July 01, 2008
July 1, 2008 Texas man cleared of shooting suspected burglars By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 5:14 a.m. ET HOUSTON (AP) -- Ever since he fatally shot two men he suspected of burglarizing his next-door neighbor's home, 62-year-old Joe Horn...

Drug Arrests Were Real; the Badge Was Fake

Posted on July 01, 2008
July 1, 2008 Drug Arrests Were Real; the Badge Was Fake By MONICA DAVEY NY Times GERALD, Mo. ? Like so many rural communities in the country?s middle, this small town had wrestled for years with the woes of methamphetamine....

2 Editorials on Expanding Democracy & Disenfranchisement

Posted on June 30, 2008
June 30, 2008 Editorial, NY Times Expanding Democracy in Florida Among the world?s democracies, the United States is uniquely unforgiving in denying ex-offenders the right to vote. Nowhere is the problem worse than in Florida, where criminal justice experts estimate...

JJPL AND FFLIC WIN HISTORIC VICTORY WITH CLOSURE OF JETSON YOUTH PRISON

Posted on June 30, 2008
The results of years of litigation, media advocacy and family organizing reached a high point in 2003-2004 with the closure of the hyper-violent Tallulah youth prison and sweeping juvenile justice reform legislation, requiring a change from a punitive juvenile system...

CA: Dispute over California prison crowding to go to trial. A court-appointed referee tells federal judges that state officials and others have failed to settle the case of poor inmate healthcare.

Posted on June 28, 2008
From the Los Angeles Times Dispute over California prison crowding to go to trial A court-appointed referee tells federal judges that state officials and others have failed to settle the case of poor inmate healthcare. By Tim Reiterman Los Angeles...

The Sentencing Project's response to George Will's Column: "More Prisons, Less Crime"

Posted on June 26, 2008
The Sentencing Project www.sentencingproject.org Do More Prisoners Equal Less Crime? A Response to George Will In a recent syndicated column (?More Prisons, Less Crime,? Washington Post, June 22, 2008), commentator George Will argues that the world record incarceration rate in...

UK: Plan to shut women's jails is shelved

Posted on June 25, 2008
From (London) Times Online June 24, 2008 Plan to shut women's jails is shelved Richard Ford, Home Correspondent Radical proposals to close all 13 women's jails in England and Wales and replace them with small house units holding up to...

MA CORI Reform Update

Posted on June 25, 2008
June 24, 2008 MA CORI Reform Update The following information regarding the status of CORI legislation is based on an update by Aaron Tanaka of the Boston Worker's Alliance (BWA), an organizational member of the Mass. Alliance to Reform CORI...

Venezuela: Amid Despair in a Venezuelan Prison, Strains of Hope From a Music Program

Posted on June 23, 2008
June 23, 2008 Los Teques Journal Amid Despair in a Venezuelan Prison, Strains of Hope From a Music Program By SIMON ROMERO NY Times LOS TEQUES, Venezuela ? When Nurul Asyiqin Ahmad was taken seven months ago to her cell...

Faith takes a leap in jailhouse conversions. New programs test theory that religion can salvage "criminals"

Posted on June 23, 2008
"Bolstered by President Bush's recent signing of the Second Chance Act, which promises more money for faith-based programs to help rehabilitate prisoners,corrections officials and religious volunteers are testing the largely unproven theory that faith can not only salvage criminals, but...

CA: Editorial: Turn prisons into places of learning

Posted on June 23, 2008
June 23, 2008 Lompoc Record (CA) Turn prisons into places of learning There is a high-noon showdown approaching, and the outcome may have a profound effect on California's future. The state's massive prison system health-care operations are technically in receivership,...

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