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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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Boston: Study shows wide disparity in sentencing after U.S. v Booker

Posted on December 20, 2010
Disparity cited in sentence lengths Analyst studying Hub?s US judges alleges bias risk By Jonathan Saltzman Boston Globe Staff / December 20, 2010 Since the US Supreme Court struck down mandatory sentencing guidelines five years ago in a landmark ruling,...

CO: Jail Drops Postcard-Only Policy Following ACLU Lawsuit El Paso County Sheriff Agrees To Stop Suppressing Prisoners? First Amendment Rights

Posted on December 20, 2010
Jail Drops Postcard-Only Policy Following ACLU Lawsuit El Paso County Sheriff Agrees To Stop Suppressing Prisoners? First Amendment Rights December 20, 2010 (ACLU Press Release) DENVER ? The El Paso County Jail today dropped its policy of restricting prisoners? outgoing...

Georgia Prison Strike: A Hidden Labor Force Resists

Posted on December 19, 2010
Georgia Prison Strike: A Hidden Labor Force Resists By Michelle Chen December 17, 2010 In These Times Last week a diverse group of nonviolent protesters across Georgia stood up for their rights, calling for decent wages, better social services and...

An unfinished DREAM

Posted on December 18, 2010
AN UNFINISHED DREAM WASHINGTON ? Today, the U.S. Senate failed to pass the DREAM Act, bipartisan legislation that, had it been passed, would have provided undocumented young women and men who were brought to the U.S. as young children with...

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NY Times Letter to the Editor: Education for Prisoners and the GA Prisoners Strike

Posted on December 18, 2010
December 17, 2010 Education for Prisoners NY Times To the Editor: Re ?Inmates in Georgia Prisons Use Contraband Phones to Coordinate Protest? (news article, Dec. 13): Georgia inmates contend that access to educational opportunities beyond the G.E.D. will better prepare...

The Worst of the Worst: Supermax Torture in America

Posted on December 18, 2010
" To little public outcry, tens of thousands of American citizens are being held in equivalent or worse conditions in this country?s super-harsh, super-maximum security, solitary-confinement prisons, or in comparable units of traditional prisons." The Worst of the Worst: Supermax...

GA Prison Inmate Strike Enters New Phase, Prisoners Demand Human Rights, Education, Wages For Work

Posted on December 18, 2010
GA Prison Inmate Strike Enters New Phase, Prisoners Demand Human Rights, Education, Wages For Work Black Agenda Report Story by Bruce A. Dixon, audio interview by Glen Ford The historic strike of Georgia prisoners, demanding wages for their labor, educational...

Julian Assange's statement on his release in support of all other prisoenrs held in solitary

Posted on December 18, 2010
Julian Assange's statement on his release LONDON | Thu Dec 16, 2010 LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange was released on bail Thursday after spending nine days in a London jail over alleged sex crimes in Sweden. Assange, who...

Incoming Maine Gov. May Make Deal With Private Prison Firm

Posted on December 18, 2010
Incoming Maine Gov. May Make Deal With Private Prison Firm Friday, December 17th, 2010 In the recent Maine gubernatorial campaign the Corrections Corporation of America, the nation?s largest for-profit prison operator, spent $25,000 on behalf of Republican candidate Paul LePage,...

Georgia prisoner strike comes out of lockdown

Posted on December 17, 2010
Georgia prisoner strike comes out of lockdown By Kung Li Facing South December 16, 2010 Georgia prisoners came out of their cells today, ending the lockdown phase of the largest prison work strike in U.S. history. The coordinated, nonviolent action...

Hawaiian Prisoners Beaten, Threatened in CCA Prison in Arizona

Posted on December 17, 2010
Hawaiian Prisoners Beaten, Threatened in CCA Prison in Arizona Dec. 16, 2010 A lawsuit brought on behalf of 18 Hawaiian prisoners held in Corrections Corporation of America?s Saguaro Correctional Center in Eloy charges that guards stripped, beat, and kicked the...

PA: Pardons Board recommends commutation for three men with life sentences

Posted on December 16, 2010
Pardons Board recommends commutation for three men with life sentences Pennsylvania Prison Society Wednesday, December 14, the Pardons Board voted unanimously on three cases, recommending a commutation of life sentences for Tyrone Werts, Keith O. Smith and William Fultz...

Once Yearly Request: Please support the work of the Real Cost of Prisons Project.

Posted on December 16, 2010
Once Yearly Request: Please support the work of the Real Cost of Prisons Project. Dear RCPP Blog Reader, Please support the work of the Real Cost of Prisons Project. One hundred percent of your tax-deductible donation will help to fund...

IN: Governor Endorses Recommendations of Changes to Criminal Code and Sentencing Policies

Posted on December 16, 2010
Indiana Releases Results Of State Sentencing Study Posted By admin On December 15, 2010 http://www.thegovmonitor.com Governor Mitch Daniels today endorsed recommendations from the first comprehensive review of Indiana?s criminal code and sentencing policies in more than 30 years...

IN: One step forward and two steps back. Ind. reaches prison expansion deal with GEO

Posted on December 16, 2010
One stop forward and two steps back.... Ind. reaches prison expansion deal with company Associated Press December 15, 2010 INDIANAPOLIS www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-in-prisonexpansion,0,3865719.storychicagotribune.com Indiana has reached a deal with a company that operates a central Indiana prison calling for the private company...

IN: Some counties using risk-assesment to keep people out of prison

Posted on December 16, 2010
Some counties try to determine who will break law again By Maureen Hayden CNHI Statehouse Bureau The Herald Bulletin Dec 14, 2010 INDIANAPOLIS ? Gov. Mitch Daniels put sentencing reform on his legislative agenda for the new year, but in...

Atlanta Journal Constitution: Prisoners Discuss Planning, Details of Prison Protest

Posted on December 15, 2010
Inmates discuss planning, details of ongoing prison protest By Rhonda Cook The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Tuesday, December 14, 2010 As happens every morning at Smith State Prison, the cell doors were remotely unlocked just before dawn Tuesday. And, as has happened...

Interview with Elaine Brown on the Georgia Prisoners Strike on Democracy Now

Posted on December 14, 2010
Here's a link to the excellent interview with Elaine Brown on 12-14-10 http://www.democracynow.org/2010/12/14/prisoner_advocate_elaine_brown_on_georgia...

Strength to Love: A Challenge to the Privatized Prison Industry By Marion Wright Edelman- DC group challenges CCA at Board Meeting

Posted on December 14, 2010
Strength to Love: A Challenge to the Privatized Prison Industry By Marion Wright Edelman December 13, 2010 A few months ago a group of earnest and determined stockholders traveled together by bus from Washington, DC to Nashville, Tennessee to attend....

NY Times Editorial: Shut Those Doors

Posted on December 13, 2010
December 12, 2010 Shut Those Doors Editorial: NY Times As soon as Governor-elect Andrew Cuomo takes office, he should close a half-dozen more of New York?s ruinously expensive, and half-empty, juvenile detention facilities. He should also press the State Legislature...

MA Sheriff sues guards for running a racist and sexist union website

Posted on December 13, 2010
Ending era of racism By Adrian Walker Globe Columnist / December 13, 2010 Frank G. Cousins Jr. freely admits that he has a hard time talking about the entrenched problems involving race and gender in his department. That isn?t an...

Georgia: Prisoners at 6 Prisons Stage A Strike

Posted on December 12, 2010
?Their general rage found a home among them ? common ground ? and they set aside their differences to make an incredible statement,? said Elaine Brown, a former Black Panther leader who has taken up the inmates? cause. She said...

MA: article and 2 videos on the Criminal Justice Policy Coalition Panel on LWOP

Posted on December 12, 2010
Criminal Justice Policy Coalition Panel focuses on LWOP and Restorative Justice December 9th, 2010 Boston Examiner Suffolk University Law School was the venue for a ?star-studded? panel of criminal justice advocates recently as Massachusetts? sentencing and correctional policies came under...

CA: Lawmaker fights closing of youth prison

Posted on December 12, 2010
Alyson Huber fights Preston youth prison closure Marisa Lagos, San Fransisco Chronicle Staff Writer Friday, December 10, 2010 A plan to shut down one of the state's few remaining juvenile justice facilities to save tens of millions of dollars a...

Obama's Drug War By Michelle Alexander

Posted on December 09, 2010
Obama's Drug War By Michelle Alexander | December 9, 2010 The Nation Among the very few people celebrating our country's fiscal crisis are criminal justice reformers. Bill Piper, national affairs director for the Drug Policy Alliance, gushed recently, "Budgetary issues...

KS: To gauge parole, Kansas courts soon will use statistical tool pioneered in Johnson County

Posted on December 09, 2010
To gauge offenders? parole, Kansas courts soon will use statistical tool pioneered in Johnson County By JOE LAMBE The Kansas City Star December 6, 2010 Ted Kim of Lenexa was busted for drugs last year but deserved a break. Statistics...

NH: Jail employees to vote on the National Correctional Employees Union based in Springfield MA and started by MA guards

Posted on December 09, 2010
Jail employees to vote on new union By Shira Schoenberg Created 12/08/2010 Concord NH Monitor Merrimack County- Labor board clears way for election Merrimack County corrections employees will vote later this month on whether to join a new union. The....

"Liberate N.Y. from its prisons" by Robert Gangi

Posted on December 09, 2010
Liberate N.Y. from its prisons By Robert Gangi December 7, 2010 Albany Times Union Despite a sharply declining prison population and the very real need to cut state agency budgets, New York has closed hardly any of its underutilized prisons....

TX: Lawsuit Filed Against Geo & Reeves Co In Death of Immigrant Detained at Prison

Posted on December 09, 2010
Lawsuit filed in prison death of illegal immigrant By PAUL J. WEBER The Associated Press December 8, 2010 SAN ANTONIO -- Family members of an illegal immigrant found dead in a federal prison filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Texas...

VA Case Settled: DOC must allow Final Call and Programs from the Nation of Islam at Red Onion

Posted on November 25, 2010
Va. Muslim inmate case settled By the Associated Press Washington Post- November 24, 2010 Virginia has settled a lawsuit filed by a Muslim inmate who claimed the prisons system violated his rights by refusing him an Islamic newspaper and religious...

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