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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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NY Times Editorial: NY Legislature Should Close 6 Residential Detention Centers for Juveniles

Posted on March 27, 2008
New York Times Editorial New Day, Line by Budget Line Published: March 27, 2008 Moving beyond the steamy executive headlines, the New York Statehouse had better show taxpayers something more promising than business as usual as it tackles the deficit-threatened...

ID: Lawmakers won't consider plan for $190 million 1,500 cage prison

Posted on March 27, 2008
Times-News 3/27/08 ID lawmakers get late-session sticker shock, nix $190M prison By JOHN MILLER BOISE, Idaho - State lawmakers have told Department of Correction leaders it's too late in the session for them to even consider a proposal for a...

'Angola 2' Leave Solitary Cells in La. After 36 Years....changing cells is not enough!

Posted on March 27, 2008
Listen to the story.... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89140779 'Angola 2' Leave Solitary Cells in La. After 36 Years by Laura Sullivan Morning Edition, March 27, 2008 ? Two former Black Panthers imprisoned in Louisiana are out of solitary confinement for the first...

NY: None of hundreds of people convicted of violent felonies who were released returned to prison

Posted on March 27, 2008
Out, on good behavior: Paroling violent felons is a controversial practice, but none of the hundreds released in the last 4 years has had to return to prison By MICHAEL HILL, Associated Press Writer Adirondack Daily Enterprise Posted on: Monday,...

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NY: The Juveniles Are Gone, Yet the Jails Remain

Posted on March 27, 2008
March 26, 2008 About New York The Juveniles Are Gone, Yet the Jails Remain By JIM DWYER The public pays about $500 a night for each of the 25 beds in the Auburn Residential Center ? a place for teenagers...

GA: Jail and Prison Cells ncrease as beds in psychiatric hospitals decline

Posted on March 27, 2008
"The chief justice's task force noted that in the past 20 years, Georgia jails have added 23,000 beds and prisons have added 35,000, while the number of psychiatric hospital beds has declined." Atlanta Journal Constitution Mentally ill strain state jails...

IL: Families fight closing of Stateville Prison

Posted on March 27, 2008
"Built north of Joliet in 1925, Stateville is home to 3,280 prisoners and is the closest state correctional facility to Chicago and its growing suburbs. Rather than spend an estimated $100 million to refurbish Stateville to the level of other...

Adelanto CA: Home to two prisons. "In Adelanto, a low ebb for a high desert town"

Posted on March 27, 2008
In Adelanto, a low ebb for a high desert town Alleged drowning of dozens of kittens by the animal control chief is only the latest in a litany of scandals to plague the town. By David Kelly, Los Angeles Times...

Private Prisons Share Prices Rise

Posted on March 27, 2008
Sector Snap: Private Prisons Rise Private Prison Operators Rise in Afternoon Trading; Analysts Expect Strong Year for Geo Group March 24, 2008 NEW YORK (Associated Press) - Shares of for-profit prison operators are rising after analysts reacted positively to meetings...

How low can you go? Alabama sheriffs may pocket leftover food money of $1.75 a day after feeding inmates at county jails.

Posted on March 25, 2008
Alabama attorney general rules that Alabama sheriffs may pocket leftover food money of $1.75 a day after feeding inmates at county jails. Tuesday, March 25, 2008 KIM CHANDLER News staff writer MONTGOMERY - Alabama sheriffs may pocket leftover food money...

Supermax Subscriptions at Tamms Supermax

Posted on March 25, 2008
Hello all, Two weeks ago, Supermax Subscriptions sent a mailing asking every man incarcerated at Tamms C-Max unit if they would like to receive magazine subscriptions: free gifts from people with surplus airline award miles that they'd like to exchange...

The Sentencing Project guide to 2008 Presidential Candidates' Platforms on Criminal Justice

Posted on March 24, 2008
The Sentencing Project guide to 2008 Presidential Candidates' Platforms on Criminal Justice. This guide provides information on a range of key criminal justice issues, including sentencing policy, reentry, felony disenfranchisement, and the death penalty...

FL: Proposed funding cuts to successful drug treatment programs may leave thousands untreated

Posted on March 24, 2008
"Proposed cuts at the corrections department -- which could total almost $30 million -- would eliminate all substance-abuse treatment for prison inmates and those on probation, said Gretl Plessinger, an agency spokeswoman. The drug treatment cuts would be the deepest...

Torture in Our Own Backyards: The Fight Against Supermax Prisons

Posted on March 24, 2008
Torture in Our Own Backyards: The Fight Against Supermax Prisons By Jessica Pupovac, AlterNet Posted on March 24, 2008 Imagine living in an 8-by-12 prison cell, in solitary confinement, for eight years straight. Your entire world consists of a dank,....

Gap in Life Expectancy Widens for the Nation

Posted on March 23, 2008
"Some health economists contend that the disparities between rich and poor inevitably widen as doctors make gains in treating the major causes of death. Nancy Krieger, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, rejected that idea. Professor Krieger...

"Through The Wire" by Charlotte Hill O'Neal after a visit with Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace

Posted on March 23, 2008
This poem was written in March 2008, after a first time visit to Brother Albert Woodfox and Brother Herman Wallace, political prisoners who have been locked down unjustly for 40 years in Angola State Penitentiary in Louisiana, 36 of those...

ID: Governor vetoes $16 million for drug treatment but wants $70 million for max. security prison with 300 cages

Posted on March 21, 2008
"The services benefit many participants in drug courts, said Sen. Dean Cameron, R-Rupert and co-chairman of the Joint Finance-Appropriations budget writing committee. "The legislature over the last several years has had a paradigm shift. We don't want to be building...

Los Angeles: Small Businesses Offer Alternatives to Gang Life

Posted on March 20, 2008
March 20, 2008, NY Times Entrepreneurial Edge Small Businesses Offer Alternatives to Gang Life By JAMES FLANIGAN IN Los Angeles, a corporation that runs several small businesses is demonstrating that the training and discipline of working in a small company...

AZ: Napolitano's Bill to Bring Private Prisons Under the State's Authority, Dies

Posted on March 20, 2008
Napolitano's recurring prison bill dies, unsupported by locals By LINDSEY GEMME, Editor March 20, 2008 Senate Bill 1142, a piece of legislature which came out of Governor Janet Napolitano's office this year to bring private prisons under state authority, has...

Support For The Angola Three IS Growing

Posted on March 20, 2008
Support For The Angola Three Appears To Be Growing Men Placed In Solitary Confinement For Upwards Of Three Decades By Val Wilson Story Mar 19, 2008 Watch The Video-- http://www.nbc33tv.com/news/local/16841931.html Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox have been held in solitary...

OH: Gov. signs bill to bring faith-based groups in to work with prisoners being released

Posted on March 20, 2008
Associated Press, Mar 18, 2008 Faith groups to help inmates being released from state prisons By JOHN McCARTHY Associated Press Writer COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Any assistance inmates can get before being released from prison is helpful and a bill...

ID: House approves $70 million for maximum security prison for mentally ill prisoners

Posted on March 20, 2008
House approves funding to plan for mental health facility The Associated Press, Edition Date: 03/18/08 Idaho Statesman BOISE, Idaho ? The House has approved $3 million in funding to draw up plans for a maximum security facility for mentally ill...

AL: Faith-based organizations partner with state to provide services from prisoners returning to communities

Posted on March 20, 2008
"Faith-based organizations have a long history of volunteer and missionary work in the state's prisons. The new program will expand and formalize the arrangement, Allen said. After the meeting of church leaders, charity managers and state officials, which was closed...

NY Times Editorial: Mr. Obama's Profile in Courage

Posted on March 19, 2008
NY TIMES March 19, 2008 EDITORIAL Mr. Obama's Profile in Courage There are moments - increasingly rare in risk-abhorrent modern campaigns - when politicians are called upon to bare their fundamental beliefs. In the best of these moments, the speaker....

Workshop from CURB: CAN CALIFORNIA BUILD ITS WAY OUT OF THE PRISON CRISIS?

Posted on March 19, 2008
CAN CALIFORNIA BUILD ITS WAY OUT OF THE PRISON CRISIS? A workshop available from Californians United for a Responsible Budget, CURB We want to bring this workshop to you, your school, community group, union or organization across the state. To...

New Mexico: Immigration advocates say prison expansion will only compound problems

Posted on March 18, 2008
Immigration advocates say prison expansion will only compound problems Bryan Gibel | For The New Mexican 3/17/2008 - 3/13/08 A privately operated prison designed for detained immigrants will be ready to open three months from now in a remote location...

Transcript of Barack Obama's Speech on Race

Posted on March 18, 2008
March 18, 2008 Transcript Barack Obama?s Speech on Race The following is the text as prepared for delivery of Senator Barack Obama?s speech on race in Philadelphia, as provided by his presidential campaign. ?We the people, in order to form...

Getting Out and Staying Out

Posted on March 17, 2008
Executives Teach Inmates How to Be Employees By CAROL HYMOWITZ Wall Street Journal- March 17, 2008 Mark Goldsmith didn't expect to go to jail when he volunteered to be "principal for a day" at a New York City school. But...

Angola 3 Story featured on NBC News

Posted on March 17, 2008
NBC ran this last night- Angola 3 Story http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/#23661740...

The Population of America?s Prisons

Posted on March 16, 2008
This was printed in response to the Prison Nation Editorial in the NY Times which is posed on the Real Cost of Prisons blog at www.reacostofprisons.org/blog March 16, 2008 Letters, NY Times The Population of America?s Prisons To the Editor:...

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