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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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297 Illegal Immigrants Sent to Prison in Federal Push

Posted on May 23, 2008
May 24, 2008 297 Illegal Immigrants Sent to Prison in Federal Push By JULIA PRESTON NY Times WATERLOO, Iowa ? In temporary courtrooms at a fairgrounds here, 270 illegal immigrants were sentenced this week to five months in prison for...

VA: Voting rights elusive for people with felony convictions

Posted on May 23, 2008
Voting rights elusive for ex-felons Virginia joins Kentucky with harsh reinstatement laws by : Scott Weaver In the coming summer months, when Virginia Organizing Project (VOP) organizer Harold Folley knocks on doors and talks to folks about the 2008 elections,...

MA: Youth lockup doesn't work and isn't fair

Posted on May 23, 2008
"...why Latino youths are five times more likely, and African American youths eight times more likely, than Caucasian youths to be confined in a detention or correctional facility?" Friday, May 23, 2008 Youth lockup doesn?t work and isn?t fair Clive....

The Chronicle of Philanthropy: Leaving Hard Time Behind. Foundations lead effort to change juvenile-justice sytems

Posted on May 23, 2008
The Chronicle of Philanthropy From the issue dated May 15, 2008 Leaving Hard Time Behind Foundations lead effort to change juvenile-justice systems By Caroline Preston When Emily Tow Jackson first started talking to leaders of local youth organizations in the...

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OH: Federal Jugde Approves Plan to Overhaul Prisons for Youth

Posted on May 22, 2008
Overhaul of state's juvenile prisons approved Wednesday, May 21, 2008 8:40 PM By ALAYNA DEMARTINI THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH The state's overcrowded, understaffed and violent juvenile prisons are about to be overhauled. A federal judge approved a plan yesterday to improve...

CA: Under California prison plan, local authorities would help some prisoners turn their lives around

Posted on May 21, 2008
NEWS ANALYSIS Under California prison plan, local authorities would help some criminals turn their lives around Proposed legal settlement would require communities to come up with alternatives to incarceration for offenders convicted of new crimes or found to have violated...

MA: Another example of how the DOC creates obstacles for people wanting to work with prisoners

Posted on May 21, 2008
Another example of the obstacles created by the MA DOC in preventing people from going into MA prisons and jails. May 19, 2008 Society of the Incarcerated: Acknowledging the Voices of America's Ever-Increasing Prison Population by Anna Clark - USA...

The rights of detainees

Posted on May 21, 2008
Editorial: Daily Hampshire Gazette Northampton, MA The rights of detainees 05/21/2008 The Franklin County Jail has been sued by a man who says he was strip-searched twice before his court arraignment after being arrested for allegedly failing to pay excise...

Makeshift Space for Inmates as Prisons Exceed Capacity

Posted on May 21, 2008
May 20, 2008 Makeshift Space for Inmates as Prisons Exceed Capacity By JENNIFER 8. LEE New York?s federal prisons are letting inmates sleep in areas not originally designed for inmate beds ? like television rooms ? because of overcrowding in...

MA; Supreme Judicial Court allows use of statistical evidence of racial profiling

Posted on May 21, 2008
SJC allows use of statistical evidence of racial profiling By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press 05/21/2008 Daily Hampshire Gazette BOSTON - Drivers who are stopped by police and suspect racial profiling can use statistical information to make their case, and if...

Panel OKs closure of Louisiana youth prison

Posted on May 20, 2008
Panel OKs closure of Louisiana youth prison May 20, 2008 BATON ROUGE (AP) ? Gov. Bobby Jindal?s administration is supporting a plan to shut down a state juvenile prison near Louisiana?s capital city and send its teenage inmates to facilities...

Afghanistan: U.S. Military to Build 6-10 prisons each the size of football fields

Posted on May 19, 2008
January 7, 2008, NY Times Foiling U.S. Plan, Prison Expands in Afghanistan By TIM GOLDEN WASHINGTON ? As the Bush administration struggles for a way to close the military prison at Guant�namo Bay, Cuba, a similar effort to scale down...

Meet Gus Puryear: Bush's Latest Villainous Nominee for a Lifetime Judgeship

Posted on May 18, 2008
Meet Gus Puryear: Bush's Latest Villainous Nominee for a Lifetime Judgeship By Silja J.A. Talvi, AlterNet Posted on May 5, 2008 http://www.alternet.org/story/84388/ Editor's Note: In 2004, Estelle Richardson's lifeless and battered body was found on the floor of a Corrections...

NC: Lawmakers laugh at prison reform

Posted on May 17, 2008
Few fixes for full prisons Some inmates held at county jails. But an alternative is met with laughter Dan Kane, Staff Writer For North Carolina lawmakers, the response to the state's growing prison population over the past decade has been...

35 Years of Rockefeller Drug Laws, and Hope There Won?t Be 36

Posted on May 17, 2008
May 13, 2008 NYC 35 Years of Rockefeller Drug Laws, and Hope There Won?t Be 36 By CLYDE HABERMAN NY Times New York governors come and go (some more swiftly than others). State lawmakers tend to hang around longer, but...

MA: For women addicts, jail can replace treatment. Some sent for care must wait at prison

Posted on May 17, 2008
For women addicts, jail can replace treatment Some sent for care must wait at prison May 15, 2008 Boston Globe This story was written by Globe correspondents Kelsey Abbruzzese, Brittany Peats, and Jordan Zappala. Tina Wambolt knew she needed help...

New Tack on Straying Parolees Offers a Hand Instead of Cuffs

Posted on May 17, 2008
May 17, 2008 NY Times New Tack on Straying Parolees Offers a Hand Instead of Cuffs By ERIK ECKHOLM WICHITA, Kan. ? Since his release in January after serving time for a 2006 theft conviction, Lonnie Kemp has violated his...

Vicky Gunderson awarded prize for organizing on behalf of justice for youth

Posted on May 16, 2008
Published - Friday, May 16, 2008 Onalaska woman honored for justice work The Campaign for Youth Justice and the National Juvenile Justice Network named Vicky Gunderson of Onalaska recipient of this year?s National Mother of Distinction Award. This honor is...

Schwarzenegger drops plan for early release of 22,000 inmates

Posted on May 13, 2008
Schwarzenegger drops plan for early release of 22,000 inmates By Andy Furillo May 13, 2008 Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has dumped his plan to release about 22,000 lower-risk inmates from prison before they complete their terms, The Bee learned Monday. The...

Regina McKnight -- Victory at Long Last!

Posted on May 12, 2008
Great News! This is from Lynn Paltrow at National Advocates for Pregnant Women who fought this fight on behalf of Regina. Regina McKnight -- Victory at Long Last Today, we were thrilled to learn that after 8 long years, the...

Cornell 1Q profit jumps nearly sevenfold

Posted on May 11, 2008
Cornell 1Q profit jumps nearly sevenfold Associated Press 05.09.08, 1:50 PM ET http://www.forbes.com - Cornell 1Q profit jumps nearly sevenfold ? Forbes.com HOUSTON - Cornell Cos., a provider of corrections and treatment services to federal and state agencies, said Friday...

Comic book: Mexico draws dire picture for migrants

Posted on May 10, 2008
Mexico draws dire picture for migrants The cover of a Mexican comic book aimed to deter illegal immigration says "Migrants: Only alive can you do something for your families." By Chris Hawley and Sergio Solache, USA TODAY. April 21, 2008...

Racial Inequity and Drug Arrests

Posted on May 10, 2008
May 10, 2008 NY Times Editorial Racial Inequity and Drug Arrests The United States prison system keeps marking shameful milestones. In late February, the Pew Center on the States released a report showing that more than 1 in 100 American...

In the Face of Great Loss, Embracing Innocence

Posted on May 10, 2008
May 10, 2008 About New York In the Face of Great Loss, Embracing Innocence By JIM DWYER The woman was seated just two chairs away at the table, but the man had to speak over music that filled the room....

Two responses in the NY Times to aricle and editorial about detention centers

Posted on May 09, 2008
Two of the five letters printed by the NY Times today in response to the "Death by Detention" editorial and the article ?Few Details on Immigrants Who Died in U.S. Custody? (front page, May 5). To the Editor: Your May...

Federal prison industries program expects to lose millions in sales

Posted on May 08, 2008
May 8th, 2008 Federal prison industries program expects to lose millions in sales By ELISE CASTELLI The federal program that sells office furniture and other products made from prison labor expects to lose millions of dollars in sales because of...

Wyo sends minimum-security inmates to max security prison

Posted on May 08, 2008
Thursday, 08 May 2008 Wyo sends minimum-security inmates to max security prison CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) Sixteen minimum-security inmates from Wyoming are among the more than 100 inmates the state has sent to a maximum-security Virginia prison that has been the...

Western MA Inside Out Program: The more we imprison, the less we vote

Posted on May 08, 2008
Conor Clarke and Greg Yothers The Boston Globe The more we imprison, the less we vote May 5, 2008 FOR THE past 12 weeks, we have both been students in an Amherst College class on citizenship. Unlike most college courses,...

MA: Packed Prisons. The how and why of overcrowding.

Posted on May 07, 2008
Packed Prisons The how and why of overcrowding By CARA BAYLES Phillip is a gentleman. He folds up his limbs with poise and wears wool pants with an impeccable crease. He's prone to diatribes against misogyny. He's a "voracious reader,"...

NY Times Editorial: Death by Detention in CCA Prison

Posted on May 07, 2008
May 6, 2008 Editorial, NY Times Death by Detention A chilling article by Nina Bernstein in The Times on Monday recounted the secrecy, neglect and lack of oversight that are a few of the shameful symptoms of the booming sector...

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