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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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Stop, Question and Frisk in New York Neighborhoods

Posted on July 13, 2010
Published: July 11, 2010--NY Times Stop, Question and Frisk in New York Neighborhoods New York City?s police force, in its fight against crime, has increasingly used a strategy known as ?stop, question and frisk,? which allows officers to stop someone...

Our next marijuana frontier

Posted on July 13, 2010
"New York City's marijuana arrests are also racially skewed, reports Harry G. Levine, Queens College sociologist. Arrests for small amounts of marijuana in New York City have skyrocketed to unprecedented heights, he reports, with blacks (26 percent of the city's...

Despite incarceration, Branch #4003 deserves NAACP's attention---Prisoners and NAACP officials meet for a first ever seminar in a prison

Posted on July 12, 2010
For the first time ever, a delegation from the NAACP National Convention held a day long seminar organized by the prison branch of the NAACP at Crossroads Correctional Center in Cameron, MO. Branch #4003 has written and had accepted more...

Prison Culture---New Blog

Posted on July 11, 2010
Prison Culture is an attempt to document how the current prison industrial complex operates and to underscore the ways that it structures American society. I have created this blog as way to make sense for myself of all of the...

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U.S. Supermax Prisons Are Challenged in the European Court of Human Rights?and Lose the First Round

Posted on July 11, 2010
U.S. Supermax Prisons Are Challenged in the European Court of Human Rights?and Lose the First Round July 8, 2010 by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway (Solitary Watch) For years, four British nationals have been fighting against their extradition to the...

MA: Franklin County agrees to 1.1 million in settlement for strip-searching people held on a traffic warrant

Posted on July 09, 2010
Settlement in Mass. jail strip search cases By Associated Press | Thursday, July 8, 2010 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Local Coverage SPRINGFIELD ? An attorney says Franklin County officials have agreed to pay more than $1.1 million to non-drug and nonviolent...

Ill ex-prison employees blame US gov. computer recycling program

Posted on July 07, 2010
Ill ex-prison employees blame US gov. program By BILL KACZOR July 6, 2010 - Seattle Times Associated Press Writer MARIANNA, Fla. ? When former prison worker Freda Cobb developed sores on her arms, legs and back in 1997, she didn't...

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FILES LAWSUIT AGAINST ARIZONA'S RACIAL PROFILING LAW

Posted on July 06, 2010
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FILES LAWSUIT AGAINST ARIZONA'S RACIAL PROFILING LAW National Immigration Law Center and Other Groups Also Challenging Law Laud Obama Administration's Action WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit today challenging Arizona's recently...

Behind the Bars | Kentucky had gaps in monitoring troubled CCA Otter Creek prison

Posted on July 06, 2010
Behind the Bars | Kentucky had gaps in monitoring troubled Otter Creek prison By R. G. Dunlop- Louisville Courier Journal July 5, 2010 WHEELWRIGHT, Ky. -- Kentucky's oversight of a privately run prison in Floyd County was so lax and...

Study to explore influences on women involved in the criminal justice system

Posted on July 02, 2010
Study to explore influences on women offenders By Deborah Yetter Louisville Courier Journal June 28, 2010 As a young social worker, Seana Golder said she was profoundly influenced by her work with women inmates in a Louisiana prison -- many...

Chicago-Vindication for police torture victims

Posted on July 02, 2010
Vindication for police torture victims By Marlene Martin Marlene Martin of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty remembers the long struggle to win justice for victims of Chicago police torturers--a struggle that led to the guilty verdict this week...

Notorious Private PRison in Brush, CO, women's prison closing.

Posted on July 02, 2010
Local jobs lost as Brush prison closes Jesse Chaney, Brush News-Tribune staff writer Posted: 06/29/2010 High Plains Correctional Facility will close down after the state takes the remaining inmates away from the Brush prison today. Most of the employees at...

How the Recession Hurts Private Prisons

Posted on July 02, 2010
America?s constantly booming prison population has seemed like a good business to be in, but even that is slowing with the economy. By Nancy Cook June 30, 2010 Newsweek http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/30/how-the-recession-hurts-private-prisons.html Baldwin, Mich...

The Case for Treating Drug Addicts in Prison

Posted on July 02, 2010
The Case for Treating Drug Addicts in Prison Treatment for drug addiction works better and costs less than imprisonment alone. So why are states abandoning it? Mary Carmichael June 29, 2010 Newsweek http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/29/the-case-for-treating-drug-addicts-in-prison...

Do Rural Prisons Benefit Locals?

Posted on July 02, 2010
Do Rural Prisons Benefit Locals By Ben Adler July 1, 2010 Newsweekl Part of a Newsweek Series http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/01/do-rural-prisons-benefit-locals.html (for links to graphs and other articles) States like New York send prisoners from the city to the countryside...

MA: Jail Fees Defeated--for Now

Posted on July 02, 2010
Jail Fees Defeated--for Now Valley Advocate Thursday, July 01, 2010 By Maureen Turner An effort to allow county sheriffs to charge fees to inmates has failed, after fierce opposition from critics who say the policy would end up hurting inmates'...

MA: More on the shackling of women in MA

Posted on July 02, 2010
My letter was published in The Valley Advocate in response to an article about the Prison Birth Project. http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=11952The article states: "Pregnant women may not be afforded adequate nutrition, medical care or psychiatric services, and in some states they...

More from Hawaii- Commentary by Kat Brady and CCA Response

Posted on June 29, 2010
Using private prisons costs more than it seems By Kat Brady Star Advertiser- Jun 18, 2010 The recent death at Saguaro Correctional Center is further evidence of what happens when there is no transparency and accountability. Saguaro, located in the...

Hawaii: Mainland Private Prisons Should Be Audited: Open Letter to Hawaii Lawmakers ? Override Governor?s Veto of HB 415

Posted on June 29, 2010
Mainland Private Prisons Should Be Audited: Open Letter to Hawaii Lawmakers ? Override Governor?s Veto of HB 415 Hawaii Reporter-June 28, 2010 BY ALEX FRIEDMANN ? I am the associate editor of Prison Legal News, a non-profit publication that reports...

In Pennsylvania, prison still a growth industry

Posted on June 28, 2010
Karen Heller: In Pennsylvania, prison still a growth industry Incarceration is big here. The state even exports inmates. By Karen Heller Philadelphia Inquirer Columnist June 27, 2010 Great news: For the first time in a decade, state prison populations declined...

Boston Globe Editorial: "Confession isn't the only factor"

Posted on June 27, 2010
Globe Editorial The Boston Globe Confession isn?t the only factor June 27, 2010 HIS CLAIMS of innocence may well be false, but the case of convicted rapist Benjamin LaGuer nevertheless highlights a flaw in the Massachusetts parole system: Even though...

Kentucky transfers prisoners out of CCA Prison Leaving Only VT Prisoners

Posted on June 25, 2010
Kentucky pulls inmates out of privately run prison By BRETT BARROUQUERE Business Week- June 22, 2010 LOUISVILLE, Ky. Kentucky has pulled its inmates out of a privately run prison in the eastern part of the state because of what state...

NY: "Triumphant, grateful and humble best describes the atmosphere at the Ogdensburg Correctional Fac.

Posted on June 25, 2010
Prison Task Force Thanks Public By JIMMY LAWTON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 2010 Triumphant, grateful and humble best describes the atmosphere at the Ogdensburg Correctional Facility Task Force meeting where members thanked everyone who worked to keep the facility open...

NY: 2 of 4 prisons recommended for closure to stay open to protect upstate Democrats

Posted on June 25, 2010
Aubertine: No closure for Moriah, Ogdensburg Friday, June 18, 2010 The budget bills set to be debated and voted on today will preserve the imperiled Ogdensburg Correctional and Moriah Shock Incarceration facilities ? salvation announced by upstate Democratic Sen...

MA: Victory!- House-Senate Ways and Means Committee does NOT include jail fees in budget. Creates a Commission to Study Feasibility of Fees

Posted on June 24, 2010
A victory! The House-Senate Ways and Means Conference Committee has chosen NOT to include either of the House or Senate Budget Amendments that would have allowed sheriffs to charge fees. Instead they have opted to form a commission to study...

Canada: Sentencing act to cost billions: report. Cost of new prisons estimated to be $1.8 billion over 5 years

Posted on June 23, 2010
Sentencing act to cost billions: report Public safety minister disputes findings on cost of Truth in Sentencing Act Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/06/22/truth-in-reconciliation-pbo-report.html#ixzz0rgqYxVbR New legislation limiting the credit given to prisoners for time served in custody before and during their trials will...

Ark. prison dept. asks judge to ban book for prisoner

Posted on June 23, 2010
Ark. prison dept. asks judge to ban book for inmate June 22, 2010 LITTLE ROCK (AP) ? The Arkansas Department of Correction is asking a federal judge to ban an attorney from giving an inmate a book about prison accreditation...

Court Reverses Appeal of Angola 3's Albert Woodfox: No End in Sight to 38 Years in Solitary Confinement

Posted on June 22, 2010
Court Reverses Appeal of Angola 3's Albert Woodfox: No End in Sight to 38 Years in Solitary Confinement James Ridgeway and Jean Casella | June 22, 2010 From Solitary Watch Albert Woodfox has spent nearly all of the last 38...

OH: If passed legislation would allow for half of Ohio's 31 prisons to be privitized

Posted on June 22, 2010
Privatization sought for Ohio prisons By Jon Craig June 21, 2010 Cincinnati Enquirer COLUMBUS - At least half of Ohio's 31 prisons could be privately operated, under legislation recently introduced by two state senators. Republican State Sens. Bill Seitz of...

'I Was Scared to Sleep': LGBT Youth Face Violence Behind Bars

Posted on June 22, 2010
'I Was Scared to Sleep': LGBT Youth Face Violence Behind Bars By Daniel Redman June 21, 2010 The Nation Over the phone, Krystal has a calm and lilting Southern accent. She identifies as a woman now, but when she entered...

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