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KY: Leads the nation in prisoner growth rate

Posted on March 02, 2008
Sunday, March 2, 2008 Louisville Courier Journal Nation of prisons The study of America's prison population by the nonpartisan Pew Center on the States should shock citizens and provoke fresh thinking at every level of government. The statistics are breath-taking...

CT: Cost of prisons soar. Medical training costs almost as much as a year in prison

Posted on March 02, 2008
Sunday, March 2, 2008 5:21 AM EST As prison population soars, so do costs BY PAUL HUGHES REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN HARTFORD -- Locking up convicted murderers costs almost as much as training medical students at the University of Connecticut. The difference is...

A Card Carrying Civil Liberterian

Posted on March 02, 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...

VA: For want of $100, some stuck in jail

Posted on March 02, 2008
For want of $100, some stuck in jail Richmond sheriff seeks options for accused as they await trial By DAVID RESS, TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER Friday, Feb 29, 2008 - 12:09 AM Updated: 10:54 AM About one of every 30 people...

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In Alabama, a Fight to Regain Voting Rights Some Felons Never Lost

Posted on March 02, 2008
By SHAILA DEWAN NY Times March 2, 2008 DOTHAN, Ala. ? The Rev. Kenneth Glasgow, onetime criminal and founder of a ministry called The Ordinary People Society, spent years helping people with criminal records regain the right to vote in...

German comic book on the Holocaust

Posted on March 01, 2008
February 27, 2008, NY Times Abroad No Laughs, No Thrills, and Villains All Too Real By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN BERLIN ? The other morning Jens Augner, slight and owlish, a schoolteacher in his 40s, quizzed his eighth-grade class of 13- and...

PA Legislature asked to fund 3 more prisons

Posted on February 29, 2008
PA Legislature asked to fund 3 more prisons Friday, February 29, 2008 By Tom Barnes, Post-Gazette Harrisburg Bureau HARRISBURG -- Jeffrey A. Beard is a state official who runs a steadily growing empire, one that will oversee hundreds more people...

MS: Senate OKs Bill for 3000 more cages

Posted on February 29, 2008
Senate OKs bill for more prisons By Leah Rupp ?\ February 28, 2008 Clarion-Ledger Ten more counties could eventually see regional prisons go up within their boundaries under a bill that cleared the Senate this afternoon. Senate Bill 2642 would...

CT: Education Falls Below Prisons In State Budget

Posted on February 29, 2008
Education Falls Below Prisons In State Budget By Julie Wernau, The Day Published on 2/29/2008 Connecticut is one of four states in the nation spending more money on its prison system than on higher education, according to a Pew Charitable...

TN: ACLU Sues Tennessee's Felon Disenfranchisement Law As Modern Day Poll Tax

Posted on February 29, 2008
ACLU Sues Over Tennessee?s Felon Disenfranchisement Law 2/25/2008 Group Says Payment Provision Is A Modern Day ?Poll Tax? NASHVILLE ? The American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of Tennessee filed a lawsuit today in federal court challenging the state?s 2006...

1 in 100 U.S. Adults Behind Bars, Pew Study Says

Posted on February 28, 2008
February 28, 2008 1 in 100 U.S. Adults Behind Bars, New Study Says By ADAM LIPTAK, NY Times For the first time in the nation?s history, more than one in 100 American adults is behind bars, according to a new...

NY: Overhaul Prisons to Cut Costs

Posted on February 28, 2008
Overhaul prisons to cut costs By ELIZABETH LYNAM [ Elizabeth Lynam is deputy research director of the Citizens Budget Commission, a nonpartisan nonprofit civic organization, http://www. cbcny.org.] First published: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 With the economy slowing and increasingly uncertain,...

Californians United For A Responsible Budget -Brief Filed in Prison Overcrowding Lawsuit on Measures to Save Millions

Posted on February 27, 2008
February 27, 2008 Coalition Proposes Reductions in Prison Population That Will Save the State Millions of Dollars Brief Filed in Prison Overcrowding Lawsuit Advocates Measures to Save Millions Without Affecting Public Safety SAN FRANCISCO- Today Californians United For A Responsible...

Immigrants far less likely than native-born Americans to commit crimes

Posted on February 26, 2008
February 26, 2008 National Briefing | West California: Study of Immigrants and Crime By JULIA PRESTON, NY Times Immigrants in the state, about 35 percent of adults, are far less likely than native-born Americans to commit crimes, according to a...

Mrs. Johnnie Carr, 97, Is Dead. Civil Rights Leader

Posted on February 26, 2008
?Look back, but march forward,? Mrs. Carr urged the huge crowd of young people. February 26, 2008 Johnnie Carr, 97, Is Dead; Was Active in Bus Boycott By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) ? Johnnie Carr, an early civil...

NYPD in the Subways. An interactive map of racial profiling

Posted on February 25, 2008
NYPD in the Subways. An interactive map. Check out the racial breakdown of people stopped and charged while riding the subways in NYC http://www.nydailynews.com/features/maps/subways_nypd/...

TN: CCA to Build 8th Private Prison

Posted on February 24, 2008
Tenn.: New Private Prison Opening CCA to Add 8th Private Prison in Tennessee February 22, 2008: 12:40 PM EST NEW YORK (Associated Press) - Corrections Corporation of America on Friday announced plans to build its eighth private prison facility in...

Minors in the Big House

Posted on February 23, 2008
Minors in the Big House Te-Ping Chen The Nation January 28, 2008 First, she felt shock. When Oluwaseun Animashaun, of Providence, Rhode Island, learned that her state was planning to try 17-year-olds as adults, she couldn't believe it. She thought...

CT: Training School Reversal

Posted on February 23, 2008
he most glaring hole in the juvenile detention system is the lack of facilities for girls. Long Lane has been closed for five years, and there has been little progress in helping female offenders under DCF care. Many are sent...

VA: Senate Agrees to Re-entry Bill & Bill Moves to the House

Posted on February 22, 2008
?How much more do you need to know to move to say that housing, employment and medical care assistance is needed for those who re-enter society?? Branch-Kennedy said. Senate OKs Inmate Rehabilitation Bill By Alexander Harris February 4, 2008 RICHMOND...

CCA VP nominated by Bush Adm. to be Federal Trial Court Judge

Posted on February 21, 2008
Gus Puryear is the General Counsel & Executive VP of CCA nominated by Bush Administration to be federal trial court judge Meet Bush's Prison Nominee News: Tennessee's next trial court judge might be a prison company executive who has less...

MA: Shift in crack sentencing rules begins to free prisoners

Posted on February 21, 2008
US shift may free up to 30 inmates Judges here trim prison time for crack convictions By Jonathan Saltzman, Globe Staff | February 21, 2008 Federal judges in Massachusetts have begun ordering the release of prisoners convicted of crack cocaine...

New Orleans: Demoliton begins on jail destroyed during Hurricane Katrina

Posted on February 20, 2008
"The Justice Facilities Master Plan released last September called for the Sheriff's Office to get back to its pre-Katrina size of more than 6,000 beds by 2015. One part of the plan envisioned as many as 8,000 beds, up considerably...

Cash cruch boosts private prison profits

Posted on February 20, 2008
Cash crunch boosts government service firms By Helen Chernikoff, Reuters Wednesday February 20 2008 http://www.guardian.co.uk/feedarticle?id=7324401 NEW YORK, Feb 20 (Reuters) - The weakening U.S. economy has unleashed layoffs, reduced profits and sucked value from the stock market, but some companies,...

A Home Remedy: Alternative Sentencing Program for Youth

Posted on February 20, 2008
February 20, 2008 A Home Remedy for Juvenile Offenders By LESLIE KAUFMAN NY Times When Jacob Rivera, 15, was resentenced in May on an assault conviction, he felt he had received a ?blessing.? Only months earlier he had been sentenced...

CA: 6,900 "beds" cut in prison plan. Lawmakers critical of $222,000 cost for each new bunk.

Posted on February 20, 2008
6,900 beds cut in prison plan Lawmakers critical of $222,000 cost for each new bunk. By Andy Furillo - afurillo@sacbee.com Published 12:00 am PST Wednesday, February 20, 2008 California's $7.9 billion prison construction and rehabilitation plan will provide at least...

OR: Bad Bills: more prison time, more prisoners, more money

Posted on February 20, 2008
Lawmakers talk minimum prison time Alternative to ballot initiative heads to full House, Senate for votes PETER WONG Statesman Journal February 20, 2008 Lawmakers moved ahead Tuesday with a less costly alternative to a more expensive ballot initiative that would...

NY Times Op Ed: Bob Herbert: Cruel and Gratuitous

Posted on February 19, 2008
February 16, 2008 Op-Ed Columnist Cruel and Gratuitous By BOB HERBERT, NY Times It happened last spring. The police commissioner?s office and a New York City police captain tried to convince the public that a marauding band of kids had...

TX: Pretrial detention, unnecessary incarceration driving Texas jail overcrowding

Posted on February 18, 2008
http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2008/02/pretrial-detention-unnecessary .html Friday, February 08, 2008 Pretrial detention, unnecessary incarceration driving Texas jail overcrowding The topic of the panel I presented on at yesterday's jail overcrowding symposium in San Antonio was "Who are in county jails and why?," and a...

VT: Retired teachers lauded for prison schools

Posted on February 18, 2008
Retired teachers lauded for prison school By Barbara Leitenberg Burlington (VT) Free Press February 18, 2008 Once a teacher, always a teacher. The Vermont Retired Teachers Association received a national award in September for the establishment of the Community High...

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