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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: With Spitzer gone senators reject plan to close three prisons

Posted on March 15, 2008
Senators rejected Spitzer's plan to close three correctional camps and one prison..." "The Senate proposal also amends Corrections Law to require that the governor give 24 months notice for the closure of a correctional facility, rather than the 12...

States reconsider life behind bars for youth

Posted on March 15, 2008
March 12, 2008 States reconsider life behind bars for youth With nearly 2,400 inmates sentenced to life as juveniles, the U.S. is the only nation imposing the mandate on children. By Amanda Paulson | Staff writer of The Christian Science...

In Alabama, a Crackdown on Pregnant Drug Users

Posted on March 15, 2008
March 15, 2008 In Alabama, a Crackdown on Pregnant Drug Users By ADAM NOSSITER NY Times ANDALUSIA, Ala. ? A day after she gave birth in 2006, Tiffany Hitson, 20, sat on her front porch crying, barefoot and handcuffed. A...

Forbes: Cornell Locks-Up A Strong Quarter

Posted on March 15, 2008
Forbes.com Market Scan Cornell Locks-Up A Strong Quarter Ruthie Ackerman, 03.13.08 When federal and state governments run out of prison beds who are they going to call? The answer: private operators that run prisons and provide treatment services to federal...

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NY: Prisons closing in doubt due to Spitzer's resignation

Posted on March 13, 2008
Times Union, Albany, NY Spitzer's exit means hope for prison Governor sought closure of Hudson site; Paterson seen as more receptive By BOB GARDINIER, Staff writer First published: Thursday, March 13, 2008 HUDSON -- Opponents of Gov. Eliot Spitzer's call...

Henrietta Bell Wells, a Pioneering Debater, Dies at 96

Posted on March 13, 2008
March 12, 2008 Henrietta Bell Wells, a Pioneering Debater, Dies at 96 By DOUGLAS MARTIN, NY Times Henrietta Bell Wells, the only woman, the only freshman and the last surviving member of the 1930 Wiley College debate team that participated...

CCA Top Lawyer and Federal Judicial Nominee Gus Puryear Implicated in Private Prison Cover-up Scheme

Posted on March 13, 2008
CCA Top Lawyer and Federal Judicial Nominee Gus Puryear Implicated in Private Prison Cover-up Scheme March 13, 2008 ? Private Corrections Institute P R E S S R E L E A S E For Immediate Release Federal Judicial Nominee...

Former CCA Top Lawyer Proposed by Bush to the Federal Bench Scrunitized by Senate Judiciary Cmte

Posted on March 13, 2008
Thursday, Mar. 13, 2008 Scrutiny for a Bush Judicial Nominee By Adam Zagorin/Washington As the top lawyer for America's biggest private prison company, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), Gus Puryear IV, is known to sport well-pressed preppy pink shirts, and...

MI: State says it will close women's prison in Detroit area in 2009

Posted on March 12, 2008
State says it will close Detroit-area prison in 2009 3/11/2008, 6:34 p.m. ET By DAVID EGGERT The Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) ? The state announced Tuesday it plans to close a female prison located in suburban Detroit. The Robert...

Second Chance Bill Passes Senate

Posted on March 12, 2008
CQ TODAY PRINT EDITION ? LEGAL AFFAIRS March 11, 2008 ? 10:29 p.m. Senate Clears Legislation for Programs Aimed at Reducing Recidivism The Senate cleared legislation late Tuesday aimed at helping former inmates readjust to society after they are released...

MA: State needs to explore alternatives to jail, prison

Posted on March 12, 2008
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA) State needs to explore alternatives to jail, prison To the editor: Despite the unconscionable wreckage to lives and ever-increasing financial cost, Massachusetts, like the rest of the country, continues its jail...

Center for Uban Pedagogy Launches Making Policy Public

Posted on March 10, 2008
CUP launches Making Policy Public 1 message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CUP Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 4:23 PM To: info@anothercupdevelopment.org 1. MPP launch party, NY 2. MPP call for proposals 3. MPP for sale ...

The prison industry in the United States: big business or a new form of slavery?

Posted on March 10, 2008
The prison industry in the United States: big business or a new form of slavery? By Vicky Pelaez Global Research, March 10, 2008 El Diario-La Prensa, New York Human rights organizations, as well as political and social ones, are condemning...

Western MA: Editorial: The high price of prisons

Posted on March 10, 2008
The high price of prisons Editorial: Daily Hampshire Gazette Northampton, MA 03/10/2008 America's criminal justice system has reached a dubious milestone: For the first time ever, one in 100 Americans are now serving time in either a jail or prison,....

NY Times Editorial: "Prison Nation"

Posted on March 10, 2008
March 10, 2008 Editorial, NY Times Prison Nation After three decades of explosive growth, the nation?s prison population has reached some grim milestones: More than 1 in 100 American adults are behind bars. One in nine black men, ages 20...

Crime pays for US prison companies

Posted on March 09, 2008
Crime pays for US prison companies by Justin Cole Sunday, March 9, 2008 - 04:30 France 24 Financiers, real-estate agents and car salesmen might be suffering from America's economic malaise, but bulging jails have triggered a profit boom for corrections...

Foundation Is Questioned After Memoir Is Exposed

Posted on March 08, 2008
March 6, 2008, NY Times Foundation Is Questioned After Memoir Is Exposed By MOTOKO RICH The author who confessed this week to making up her memoir, ?Love and Consequences,? about growing up as a foster child in gang-ridden South-Central Los...

Bill Clinton says he regrets crack sentencing disparity, Hillary disagrees

Posted on March 08, 2008
"And Mrs. Clinton opposed a moderate proposal by the United States Sentencing Commission that would have retroactively reduced the draconian penalties for possession of crack cocaine ? a proposal supported by Mr. Obama, and by liberal as well as conservative...

Western MA: Man sentenced to Hampden County Jail for Drug Possession Hangs Himself

Posted on March 07, 2008
Westfield man hangs self in jail Thursday, March 06, 2008 By GEORGE GRAHAM Springfield Republican LUDLOW - A 41-year-old Westfield man hanged himself on Tuesday at the Hampden County Correctional Center. Kevin J. Small, of Westfield, hanged himself with a...

MA: Breakdown: The Prison Suicide Crisis (3 articles)

Posted on March 06, 2008
3 articles in the Boston Globe BREAKDOWN | THE PRISON SUICIDE CRISIS A system strains, and inmates die December 9, 2007 This story was reported by Globe Spotlight Team members Beth Healy, Michael Rezendes, Francie Latour, Jonathan Saltzman, and editor...

Biased system packs prisons with young black men

Posted on March 06, 2008
Biased system packs prisons with young black men 3/6/2008 Rochester MN Post Bulletin By Les Payne Legal scholars pondering reports that one of every 100 U.S. adults is in jail or prison need look no further than Roger Clemens to...

America Behind Bars: Why Attempts at Prison Reform Keep Failing

Posted on March 05, 2008
America Behind Bars: Why Attempts at Prison Reform Keep Failing By Liliana Segura AlterNet Posted March 5, 2008. A bloated prison system is against the country's best interests. Yet "tough on crime" rhetoric has gotten in the way of reform....

Women in N.Y. prisons seek better child custody protections

Posted on March 05, 2008
Women in N.Y. prisons seek better child custody protections BY DAN OSBURN Albany Bureau Press and Sun Bulletin, Binghamton, NY ALBANY-- Advocates for women in prison were joined by 250 formerly incarcerated women in Albany Tuesday to demand better treatment...

Supermax Subscriptions

Posted on March 05, 2008
Supermax Subscriptions seeks to connect the surplus of well-traveled citizens to a population that never goes anywhere: prisoners in American supermax prisons. As most of you know, frequent flyer miles often expire before it is possible to save enough of...

Government Starts Cutting Sentences Of Crack Prisoners. Bureau of Prisons Processes 400 Orders

Posted on March 05, 2008
Government Starts Cutting Sentences Of Crack Inmates Bureau of Prisons Processes 400 Orders By Darryl Fears Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, March 5, 2008; A02 The federal government said yesterday that it has received hundreds of court orders reducing the...

NY: Commission issues guidelines on reproductive care, including mammography, for county jails

Posted on March 04, 2008
Times Union Albany, NY New health rules for female inmates Commission issues guidelines on reproductive care, including mammography, for county jails By IRENE JAY LIU, Capitol bureau First published: Tuesday, March 4, 2008 ALBANY -- Female inmates in New York's...

VT: House Bill Begins Corrections' Transformation

Posted on March 04, 2008
The Senate Institutions Committee will include money in the proposed capital budget to pay for renovations needed if the department reorganizes how it used some prison space. A plan under consideration would move women out of the Dale Women's Facility...

Western MA: Governor's Bond Bill Could Add 56 More Cells for Women at Chicopee Jail

Posted on March 03, 2008
"Hampden County Sheriff Michael J. Ashe Jr. originally planned for a 176-cell facility, but project delays and rising costs resulted in a smaller facility. The governor's bond bill filed in January includes funding for county jails, including the women's jail...

Western MA: Prisoners sew cloth grocey bags

Posted on March 03, 2008
Inmates sew cloth grocery bags Monday, March 03, 2008 By NANCY H. GONTER Springfield Republican NORTHAMPTON - A group of inmates at the Hampshire House of Correction are working with a Cummington woman to change the way people bring home...

MD: A second chance is their first priority

Posted on March 02, 2008
"Since first offering, in June 2005, to provide ex-offenders with information about jobs and job-training services - with the outrageous idea that this might actually reduce crime in Baltimore and maybe even lower the state's rate of incarceration - nearly...

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