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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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FL: Drug Treatment A Sensible Approach

Posted on April 22, 2008
South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com Drug treatment a sensible approach April 20, 2008 By Mark Fontaine As legislators wrestle with strategies to solve Florida's budget crisis, it is prudent that the state's limited resources be spent wisely. One of the smart investments...

OK: $300 million bond package for prison "infrastructure"

Posted on April 22, 2008
Sun April 20, 2008 Keeping up the world behind bars By Julie Bisbee Staff Writer, The Oklahoman Many of Oklahoma's prisons are filling up and need improvements. As facilities age, they need costly repairs that the state Corrections Department might...

RI: Debtor's Prison

Posted on April 22, 2008
go to reinvestinjustice.org to learn more and see video testimony of people that have in debtor's prison in RI Skipped debt hearings put 2,500 in ACI Providence Journal, Tuesday, April 22, 2008 BY EDWARD FITZPATRICK PROVIDENCE ? Nearly 2,500 people...

KS: Actor tries to bring culture to inmates in Lansing prison?s mental health unit

Posted on April 20, 2008
Sunday, Apr 20, 2008 Actor tries to bring culture to inmates in Lansing prison?s mental health unit By ROBERT TRUSSELL The Kansas City Star It?s another bone-chilling Tuesday afternoon. Sheets of snow sweep across I-70 as Heidi Stubblefield makes the...

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Lawsuits test crackdown on sex criminals

Posted on April 20, 2008
Friday, April 18, 2008 Lawsuits test crackdown on sex criminals By John Gramlich, Stateline.org Staff Writer A death-penalty case argued before the U.S. Supreme Court this week marks the latest constitutional challenge to an ongoing, nationwide crackdown on sex criminals...

Department of Justice FY 2009 Budget Request

Posted on April 20, 2008
Department of Justice FY 2009 Budget Request President's Request Supports Increase for Department's National Security Efforts http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-04-2008/0004749082&EDATE= WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Attorney General Michael B...

Iowa Governor Signs Nation's First Racial Impact Sentencing Bill

Posted on April 18, 2008
Less than one year after a national report found Iowa prisons and jails maintain the highest rate of racial disparity in the nation, Governor Chet Culver yesterday signed legislation requiring examination of the racial and ethnic impact of all new...

Oregon: State Diminishes 'More Liberal than Most'

Posted on April 18, 2008
Oregon: State Diminishes 'More Liberal than Most' In March, a law was passed further disenfranchising Oregon residents. Thousands of individuals in Oregon's county jails are now ineligible to vote due to a new provision of House Bill 3638. Oregon law...

watch this! what's going on at 3 am in the morning for some women

Posted on April 18, 2008
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Outrageous but TRUE!: CA- Some women have their teeth pulled to be able to reunite with their children

Posted on April 18, 2008
A painful choice for moms in prison SOME HAVE TEETH PULLED TO LIVE WITH KIDS By Edwin Garcia Mercury News Sacramento Bureau Article Launched: 04/18/2008 01:30:41 AM PDT SACRAMENTO - Sarina Borg had a tough choice to make. She could...

Supreme Court Allows Lethal Injection for Execution

Posted on April 16, 2008
April 16, 2008 Supreme Court Allows Lethal Injection for Execution By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NY Times WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the most common method of lethal injection executions, likely clearing the way to resume executions...

Two Separate Societies: One in Prison, One Not

Posted on April 16, 2008
Two Separate Societies: One in Prison, One Not By Marie Gottschalk Tuesday, April 15, 2008; A15 Forty years ago, the Kerner Commission concluded in its landmark study of the causes of racial disturbances in the United States in the 1960s:...

Clinton Crime Agenda Ignores Proven Methods for Reducing Crime

Posted on April 14, 2008
Clinton Crime Agenda Ignores Proven Methods for Reducing Crime Advocates say plan will increase incarceration rates and negatively impact the poor and minorities Monday, April 14, 2008 Washington, D.C.--The Justice Policy Institute (JPI) announced today that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary...

NY: Youth prison to stay open study to take 3 years

Posted on April 14, 2008
Legislation approved Wednesday directs that a study compare the effectiveness of residential vs. community-based treatment for juveniles ? the latter, a new approach recommended in former Gov. Eliot L. Spitzer?s executive order carrying out a plan to close Great Valley...

More mentally ill end up in jails

Posted on April 14, 2008
More mentally ill end up in jails By Susan Abram, Staff Writer Article Last Updated: 04/14/2008 06:34:00 AM PDT SHERMAN OAKS - The number of psychiatric beds in public hospitals has fallen dramatically across California and the nation - with...

Citizens twice as likely to land in NJ prisons as legal, illegal immigrants

Posted on April 13, 2008
Citizens twice as likely to land in NJ prisons as legal, illegal immigrants by Brian Donohue/The Star-Ledger Saturday April 12, 2008, 9:33 PM U.S. citizens are twice as likely to land in New Jersey's prisons as legal and illegal immigrants,...

NY: Less Crime: No Reason to Shut Prisons

Posted on April 12, 2008
April 12, 2008 About New York Less Crime: No Reason to Shut Prisons By JIM DWYER For nearly a decade, one of New York City?s major exports ? criminals ? has been in decline, a result of less crime. In...

AL: 1,400-bed federal prison near Aliceville gets agency OK

Posted on April 12, 2008
1,400-bed federal prison near Aliceville gets agency OK Associated Press Updating 4:54 p.m. WASHINGTON ? Construction could begin this summer or fall on a 1,400-inmate federal prison near Aliceville in rural west Alabama that is expected to employ more than...

California prison czar seeks $7 billion more for inmate health care

Posted on April 12, 2008
State Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Denise Ducheny, D-San Diego, said the new request "seems startling," especially when combined with the expenditures under AB 900. "They haven't given us a plan on how they plan to spend the $7.4 billion," Ducheny...

From Welfare Shift in ?96, a Reminder for Clinton

Posted on April 12, 2008
From Welfare Shift in ?96, a Reminder for Clinton By PETER S. GOODMAN New York Times, April 11, 2008 In the summer of 1996, President Bill Clinton delivered on his pledge to ?end welfare as we know it.? Despite howls...

VT: Lawmakers' prison plans causing anxiety around Vermont

Posted on April 12, 2008
Times Argus Lawmakers' prison plans causing anxiety around Vermont April 11, 2008 By Daniel Barlow Vermont Press Bureau MONTPELIER � If you ask Windsor Town Manager Mike Farrell about the massive prison reorganization plan moving through the Statehouse, he'll tell...

Restoring Financial Aid to People with Drug Convictions

Posted on April 10, 2008
From the NAACP: RESTORING FINANCIAL AID TO MINOR DRUG OFFENDERS On behalf of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), our nation?s oldest, largest and most widely-recognized grassroots civil rights organization, I strongly urge you to support...

JPI: New report: Jail populations exploding; massive growth devastating local communities

Posted on April 01, 2008
Justice Policy Institute: New report: Jail populations exploding; massive growth devastating local communities http://www.justicepolicy.org/content.php?hmID=1811&smID=1581&ssmID=73 Jails bulging with people with mental illnesses, the homeless and people detained for immigration offenses; costing counties billions Washington, D...

OR: PRISONTOWN MYTH- The promise of prosperity hasn't come true for Oregon's rural communities

Posted on March 31, 2008
APRIL 2008: RURAL DEVELOPMENT PRISONTOWN MYTH The promise of prosperity hasn't come true for Oregon's rural communities OregonBusiness.com By Ben Jacklet The facility sits on a sweeping expanse of land so remote that it is difficult to determine the nature...

MA: Senate Bill # 884: mandatory minimum reform for people convicted of first time drug offenses

Posted on March 31, 2008
Senate bill # 884 allows non-violent first-time drug-offenders who have mandatory minimum sentences to be considered for parole after serving 2/3 of their sentence. It is now in the Massachusetts House of Representatives Judiciary Committee awaiting referral for passage by...

NY: A Saturday Night Deal Means 4 Adult Prisons Stay Open

Posted on March 31, 2008
"By late Sunday, deals were in place to resolve some of the most difficult issues that have vexed all three parties for weeks. According to officials who had been briefed on the talks, tentative agreements were reached to provide $1.8...

NY: Parole ---"Truth in Numbers"

Posted on March 31, 2008
By contrast, 1.6 percent of A1 felons who were paroled from 1999 through 2003 were returned to prison for committing a crime within three years. And something else changed has well -- the number of violent felons paroled increased from...

1980: Olympic Village First and Prison Second

Posted on March 31, 2008
This is a really great article on anti-prison organizing...don't forget to click on the link in this article so you can see the poster made by Stop the Olympic Prison. Some lesson on protest from the 1980 Olympics Michael A....

Dith Pran, ?Killing Fields? Photographer, Dies at 65

Posted on March 30, 2008
March 31, 2008 Dith Pran, ?Killing Fields? Photographer, Dies at 65 By DOUGLAS MARTIN NY Times Dith Pran, a photojournalist for The New York Times whose gruesome ordeal in the killing fields of Cambodia was re-created in a 1984 movie...

Virginia's prison gravy train

Posted on March 28, 2008
Virginia's prison gravy train Roanoke Times, March 28, 2008 By Ronald Fraser Fraser has a Ph.D. and writes on public policy issues for the DKT Liberty Project, a Washington-based civil liberties organization. In Virginia's booming prison economy there are winners...

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