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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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Reports by The Sentencing Project and Human Rights Watch detail persistently high arrest and convictions for African Americans in drug-related cases

Posted on May 06, 2008
May 6, 2008 Reports Find Racial Gap in Drug Arrests By ERIK ECKHOLM NY Times (Report URLs at the bottom of this email.) More than two decades after President Ronald Reagan escalated the war on drugs, arrests for drug sales...

California parolees get a chance in community programs

Posted on May 06, 2008
California parolees get a chance in community programs By Andy Furillo - afurillo@sacbee.com Published 12:00 am PDT Sunday, May 4, 2008 California corrections officials are again diverting thousands of parole violators into community programs instead of sending them to prison,...

WI: Guards use sick days to inflate salary. Some call in close to overtime shifts, reach 6-figure pay.

Posted on May 06, 2008
JOURNAL SENTINEL WATCHDOG REPORTS Guards use sick days to inflate salary Some call in close to overtime shifts, reach 6-figure pay By PATRICK MARLEY Posted: May 3, 2008 Madison - October 2006 was a busy month for one Green Bay...

CA: Taxpayers File Landmark Lawsuit to Prevent $12 Billion in Prison Construction Debt

Posted on May 06, 2008
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 Taxpayers File Landmark Lawsuit to Prevent $12 Billion in Prison Construction Debt Coalition also releases expert report by economist Adam Werner exposing true cost of AB900 Dressed in Arnold Schwarzenegger masks, taxpayers hand out $12 billion...

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NJ: Close Hospitals? Why not Close Prisons Instead!

Posted on May 05, 2008
Close Hospitals? Why not Close Prisons Instead! Posted by David H. Kerr May 04, 2008 3:05PM NJ.Com This budget alternative should be considered by our Governor and legislature since it not only will save millions but will increase the safety...

Fiscal Pressures Lead Some States to Free Inmates Early

Posted on May 05, 2008
Fiscal Pressures Lead Some States to Free Inmates Early By Keith B. Richburg and Ashley Surdin Washington Post Staff Writers Monday, May 5, 2008; A01 NEW YORK -- Reversing decades of tough-on-crime policies, including mandatory minimum prison sentences for some...

CCA Immigrant Detention: Immigration agency, contractors are accused of mistreating detainees

Posted on May 05, 2008
U-T SPECIAL REPORT graphs and other links at this URL: Immigrant detention budget soars The number of people held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement has jumped 36 percent since 2005, when the agency held a daily average of 19,718 detainees,...

CCA Detention Centers: For Immigrants Who Died in U.S. Custody, Few Details Provided

Posted on May 05, 2008
May 5, 2008 For Immigrants Who Died in U.S. Custody, Few Details Provided By NINA BERNSTEIN NY Times Word spread quickly inside the windowless walls of the Elizabeth Detention Center, an immigration jail in New Jersey: A detainee had fallen,...

Adults or Kids? States debate what the best response is to teenagers who commit crimes.

Posted on May 04, 2008
Adults or Kids? States debate what the best response is to teenagers who commit crimes. By Sarah Hammond April 2008 When teenagers break the law, do they need rehabilitation or punishment? For several years in the 1990s, state lawmakers decided...

Blocking the Transmission of Violence

Posted on May 04, 2008
May 4, 2008 Blocking the Transmission of Violence By ALEX KOTLOWITZ NY Times Magazine LAST SUMMER, MARTIN TORRES WAS WORKING AS A COOK IN AUSTIN, Tex., when, on the morning of Aug. 23, he received a call from a relative....

VT: Lawmakes Agree to Restructure Prisons Including Closing One

Posted on May 01, 2008
Lawmakers agree to restructure prisons Burlington (VT) Free Press By Nancy Remsen ? Free Press Staff Writer ? May 1, 2008 MONTPELIER -- Legislative negotiators agreed Wednesday that Vermont's prison system will be shuffled, with all female inmates moving...

FL: Money for prisons, cuts for schools

Posted on May 01, 2008
The Florida Times-Union May 1, 2008 Money for prisons, cuts for schools By RON LITTLEPAGE The Times-Union Millions of dollars for prisons, sure. -------------------------------------------------- Money for schools, not so much. The lock-'em-up Florida Legislature is set to approve a budget...

In France, Prisons Filled With Muslims

Posted on April 30, 2008
In France, Prisons Filled With Muslims By Molly Moore Washington Post Foreign Service Tuesday, April 29, 2008; A01 SEQUEDIN, France -- Samia El Alaoui Talibi walks her beat in a cream-colored head scarf and an ink-black robe with sunset-orange piping,...

Report of the NYS Comm. on Local Government Efficiency & Competitiveness: Regional Jails & Managing Prisoner Populations

Posted on April 30, 2008
21st Century Local Government Report of the NYS Commission on Local Government Efficiency and Competitiveness April 2008 EXCERPT Regional Jails and Managing Inmate Populations Oversight of county jails is provided by the State Commission of Correction(SCOC), which has the mission...

Anti-Drug Task Force Funding Leads to Police Corruption and Destruction of Lives

Posted on April 30, 2008
Huffington Post Anthony Papa Anti-Drug Task Force Funding Leads to Police Corruption and Destruction of Lives Posted April 29, 2008 In early March, a federally-funded narcotics task force struggling to increase its fiscal support carried out a crime sweep in...

TX: Prisons go begging for guards

Posted on April 30, 2008
Prisons go begging for guards 04/30/2008 Lisa Sandberg San Antonio Express-News AUSTIN ? The Neal prison in Amarillo has so few guards working these days that Dorothy Barfoot, a correctional officer, often finds herself working alone in a dorm with...

LA: Youth prison abuse alleged

Posted on April 29, 2008
Youth prison abuse alleged * By SANDY DAVIS * Advocate staff writer * Published: Apr 19, 2008 - Page: 1A A state senator said Friday he will submit legislation next week to close Jetson Center for Youth by June 30,...

CT: Major Crime Bill OK'd By House

Posted on April 29, 2008
Major Crime Bill OK'd By House By Ted Mann, The Day Published on 4/26/2008 in Home �State �State News Hartford - The House of Representatives approved the legislature's major crime bill Friday, doubling and tripling sentencing requirements for repeat violent...

Jesse Boyar---Long-time fighter for prisoners

Posted on April 29, 2008
Below is an obituary notice for Jesse Boyar, long-time fighter for prisoners and against the prison system. Jesse's son Patrick spent many many years in the Corcoran SHU but last week Jesse told me that he was relieved that Patrick,...

IA: $130 Bond for IA State Penitentiary

Posted on April 28, 2008
From The Hawk Eye Newspaper House votes for prison funding Other infrastructure needs also addressed. By CHRISTINIA CRIPPES With House passage of the state's infrastructure bill Friday night, southeast Iowa is one step closer to getting a new prison in...

CA: The state will search its database for relatives of unidentified suspects in hopes of developing leads.

Posted on April 27, 2008
California takes lead on crime-fighting techniques The state will search its database for relatives of unidentified suspects in hopes of developing leads. Critics voice privacy concerns. By Maura Dolan and Jason Felch, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers April 26, 2008...

Boston Globe Op-Ed:Fixing our criminal sentencing system

Posted on April 27, 2008
Fixing our criminal sentencing system Boston Globe By David W. White Jr. | April 26, 2008 David W. White Jr. is president of the Massachusetts Bar Association. A NUMBER of news stories this spring have shown us that the criminal...

"Buried Alive: Solitary Confinement in Arizona's Prisons and Jails"

Posted on April 27, 2008
"Buried Alive: Solitary Confinement in Arizona's Prisons and Jails" by Caroline Isaacs and Mathew Lowen. AFSC Arizona The report is the first attempt to catalog the use and impacts of solitary confinement for adults and juveniles in the Arizona Department...

PA: more prisons in planned

Posted on April 27, 2008
Even if the bills in Pennsylvania get signed into law and all of the policies are implemented, the state is likely not looking at closing any prisons but may have to build only two rather than three new ones, Beard...

Seeking Employment for Ex-Cons in Newark

Posted on April 27, 2008
April 27, 2008 Seeking Employment for Ex-Cons in Newark By ANDREW JACOBS NY Times NEWARK ? Over the past two years, Peter Santos has hired 40 ex-convicts to help him build and renovate apartments here; 36 did not last, many...

Guant�namo: Detainees? Mental Health Is Latest Legal Battle

Posted on April 26, 2008
April 26, 2008 Detainees? Mental Health Is Latest Legal Battle By WILLIAM GLABERSON NY Times Page 1 Next month, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni who was once a driver for Osama bin Laden, could become the first detainee to be...

CA: Can Technology Fix California Prison Health Care?

Posted on April 24, 2008
Can Technology Fix California Prison Health Care? http://www.cio.com/special/california_prison_IT 3 part article ? Kim S. Nash, CIO April 11, 2008 Four years ago at San Quentin, the 156-year-old prison where the state of California keeps some of its most dangerous criminals,...

What if 5.3 Million More Americans Could Vote?

Posted on April 23, 2008
What if 5.3 Million More Americans Could Vote? By Erika Wood, AlterNet Posted on April 21, 2008, Printed on April 22, 2008 http://www.alternet.org/story/82457/ This is a big year for American democracy. Hundreds of thousands of new voters are not only...

Remembering Reproductive Rights for Prisoners

Posted on April 23, 2008
AlterNet Remembering Reproductive Rights for Prisoners By Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check Posted on April 3, 2008, Printed on April 22, 2008 http://www.alternet.org/story/81166/ The recent news that the Supreme Court let stand a lower court ruling that incarcerated women have...

NY Times: American Exception: Inmate Count in U.S. Dwarfs Other Nations?

Posted on April 23, 2008
April 23, 2008 American Exception Inmate Count in U.S. Dwarfs Other Nations? By ADAM LIPTAK, Page 1 NY Times Good maps and graphs at the URL for this article. The United States has less than 5 percent of the world?s...

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