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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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On the Arizona Boarder---violent crime has been declining

Posted on June 20, 2010
On Border Violence, Truth Pales Compared to Ideas By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD NY Times June 19, 2010 When Representative Gabrielle Giffords, Democrat of Arizona, announced that the Obama administration would send as many as 1,200 additional National Guard troops to...

MD: Activists wage late attempt to stop youth jail. Project in the works for five years; some call it poor use of precious dollars.

Posted on June 18, 2010
Activists wage late attempt to stop youth jail. Project in the works for five years; some call it poor use of precious dollars By Julie Bykowicz The Baltimore Sun June 17, 2010 Activists have launched a last-minute attempt to halt...

MI: Dept. of Corrections overspends budget by $46 million

Posted on June 18, 2010
Dept. of Corrections overspends budget by $46 million Dept. has 'blown through its caps' two of last three years By Todd A. Heywood 6/14/10 Michigan Messenger LANSING ? Nine months after state lawmakers and the governor approved an operational budget...

Case Study -Will the Supreme Court Keep Prisons Overcrowded?

Posted on June 18, 2010
Case Study Will the Supreme Court Keep Prisons Overcrowded? By Adam Cohen, June 17, 2010 Time Magazine California is often on the cutting edge of national trends ? and so it is now with the "ugly bed." That is prison...

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Baltimore jails more of its citizens than nearly any other city- but putting people committing low risk crimes in jail makes the city less safe

Posted on June 18, 2010
Incarceration city Our view: Baltimore jails more of its citizens than nearly any other American city, but most serious crimes are committed by a relative handful of violent career offenders June 15, 2010 Baltimore arrests and jails more of its...

CA: Court of Appeal Rejects First Amendment Claim by Prison Inmate

Posted on June 17, 2010
Court of Appeal Rejects First Amendment Claim by Prison Inmate Possession of Book Authored by Radical Killed in Prison Break Properly Used to Tie Inmate to Gang, Justices Say Metropolitan News-Enterprise Monday, June 14, 2010 By KENNETH OFGANG, Staff Writer...

U.S. Supreme Court to hear California prison overcrowding case

Posted on June 16, 2010
U.S. Supreme Court to hear California prison overcrowding case By Howard Mintz 06/14/2010 San Jose Mercury News The fate of California's expensive, overstuffed prison system is now in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court. In a brief order, the...

Solitary Watch: No Evidence of National Reduction in Solitary Confienment

Posted on June 16, 2010
Solitary Watch News from a Nation in Lockdown No Evidence of National Reduction in Solitary Confinement June 15, 2010 by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway An article in yesterday?s USA Today suggests that there?s been a widespread reduction in the...

Justices Ease Deportation Rule in Minor Drug Cases

Posted on June 16, 2010
Justices Ease Deportation Rule in Minor Drug Cases By ADAM LIPTAK Published: June 14, 2010 WASHINGTON ? Immigrants who are legally in the United States need not be automatically deported for minor drug offenses, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in...

Some states say they are reducing the number of people locked in cages 23/7 to save money

Posted on June 15, 2010
"The number of prisoners in solitary confinement ? typically locked away for 23 hours a day ? grew 40% from 1995 to 2000 when there were 80,870 segregated inmates, a study by The Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's...

New Orleans-Sheriff proposed jail with enough cells for 1 in 60 residents of the city

Posted on June 15, 2010
Monday, June 14, 2010 Sheriff Gusman Unveils Plans to Expand Largest per Capita Jail in the US >From Our Friends at the ACLU of Louisiana: The ACLU of Louisiana calls on the New Orleans City Council to reject Sheriff Marlin...

VA: Another death at Wallens Ridge

Posted on June 15, 2010
Prisoners are being double celled who should not be leading to tragic consequences which of course, the DOC can predict and prevent if they wanted to. Va. inmate: 'Only way to stop me' is death row * AP foreign, Sunday...

PA: MORE prisons to be built!

Posted on June 14, 2010
Contract Awarded for New State Prison in Benner Township, Centre County HARRISBURG, Pa., June 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The state departments of General Services and Corrections today announced that Hensel Phelps Construction Co. of Chantilly, Virginia, has been awarded a $174...

OR: Plan will reactivate women's prison. Crowding at Coffee Creek facility prompts transfers to a converted State Street site.

Posted on June 14, 2010
Plan will reactivate women's prison Crowding at Coffee Creek facility prompts transfers to a converted State Street site Nearly a decade after the state closed its crowded and obsolete prison for women in Salem, corrections officials plan to move female...

Interview with Michelle Alexander in TalkingDrugs---"I am mystified why people refer to all the laws authorizing discrimination as "unintended collateral consequences

Posted on June 11, 2010
From the interview.... "By the way, I am mystified why people refer to all of the laws authorizing discrimination against drug offenders in employment, housing, and public benefits as ?unintended collateral consequences? of the drug war. ... If you pass...

OR: Gov. keeps 3 prisons open--says he won't use his power to commute sentences of people convicted of felonies

Posted on June 11, 2010
Oregon budget cuts: Governor looks to reserve fund to help Corrections Dept. Gov. Ted Kulongoski nixed a budget-cutting plan to close three state prisons because he wasn?t willing to use his power to commute the sentences of hundreds of convicted...

NY: Juvenile Prison stays open with 155 workers and 6 young men and a NY Times Editorial: "Real Justice for Juveniles"

Posted on June 11, 2010
June 8, 2010 155 Workers, 6 Young Men, 1 Fiscal Mess By JIM DWYER NY Times Every day brings dreadful news of some worthy cause that is going to be cut because government budgets are being hit with cannonballs. Today,...

Second Death This Year of Hawaiian Prisoner at CCA AZ Prison

Posted on June 11, 2010
Isle inmate's death sparks investigation By Mary Adamski POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Jun 11, 2010 The second death this year of a Hawaii inmate in an Arizona prison is setting off alarm bells with the state Department of Public Safety...

Commonwealth v. Vassell---finally "justice" after 2 1/2 years of injustice

Posted on June 10, 2010
In Our Opinion: Commonwealth v. Vassell By Daily Hampshire Gazette 06/09/2010 The most talked-about criminal case in Hampshire County reached its "disposition" last week not with decades of threatened prison time for defendant Jason Vassell but the legal dialing down...

A MAP For Getting Well---St. Francis House in Boston

Posted on June 10, 2010
A MAP For Getting Well By Pippin Ross Spirit of Change ?It?s a lot cheaper and safer to help people pull it together, then toss them onto the street or into prison!? ? Fred Smith, MAP founder ?What you?re seeing...

MA: Fight Over Jail Fees Continues. Activists target key lawmakers over the controversial policy.

Posted on June 09, 2010
Fight Over Jail Fees Continues Activists target key lawmakers over the controversial policy. Valley Advocate (Northampton, MA) News Thursday, June 10, 2010 By Maureen Turner Efforts to make inmates in county jails pay room-and-board and other fees continue to march...

New Study Shows Immigration Reduces Violent Crime

Posted on June 09, 2010
New Study Shows Immigration Reduces Violent Crime During the 1990s immigration rates reached record levels, leading to speculation about the relationship between immigration and crime. Using data from the FBI's Uniform Crime Report and U.S. Census Bureau, Tim Wadsworth, an...

The High Budgetary Cost of Incarceration

Posted on June 08, 2010
The High Budgetary Cost of Incarceration Center for Economic and Policy Research June 2010, John Schmitt, Kris Warner, and Sarika Gupta The United States currently incarcerates a higher share of its population than any other country in the world. We....

IN: Women prisoners raise money to help Indiana prison nursery

Posted on June 08, 2010
Inmates raise money to help Ind. prison nursery Associated Press June 7, 2010 INDIANAPOLIS ?Inmates at prisons across Indiana have raised more than $5,600 to help support a parenting education program for pregnant offenders at the Indiana Women's Prison...

Justices Approve Bureau of Prisons' Calculations for 'Good Time Credit'

Posted on June 08, 2010
"...in a strongly worded dissent Justice Anthony Kennedy said the ruling will add "tens of thousands of years" collectively to time served, at a "cost to taxpayers of untold millions of dollars." In human terms, Kennedy added, the ruling will...

NAACP LDF Releases Report on Prison-Based Gerrymandering

Posted on June 07, 2010
NAACP LDF Releases Report on Prison-Based Gerrymandering June 1, 2010 (New York, New York) ? Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) released Captive Constituents, a report on prison-based gerrymandering. As the report details, most states and local...

Dying Inside- The Elderly In Prison

Posted on June 06, 2010
Al Jazeera English's painful look at dying and the elderly in the OK prison system http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/faultlines/2010/06/20106383722130548.html...

Review- The Real Cost of Prisons Comix in Culture Magazine-So. Cal's Medical Marijuana Lifesytyle Magazine

Posted on June 06, 2010
The Real Cost of Prisons Comix Thu, Jun 3, 2010 Entertainment Reviews, Reviews The Real Cost of Prisons Comix The Real Cost of Prisons Project (RCPP) director Lois Ahrens created the organization in 2000 to shine a spotlight on the...

Buried in the Bureau of Prisons

Posted on June 05, 2010
Buried in the Bureau of Prisons June 5, 2010 David C. Fathi Director, ACLU National Prison Project Imagine a country in which prisoners can be denied visits, and even telephone calls, with family members for years at a time. Imagine...

JAIL POPULATION DECLINES BY MORE THAN TWO PERCENT IN THE 12 MONTHS ENDING JUNE 30, 2009

Posted on June 05, 2010
JAIL POPULATION DECLINES BY MORE THAN TWO PERCENT IN THE 12 MONTHS ENDING JUNE 30, 2009 June 3, 2010 (Bureau of Justice Statistics) WASHINGTON ? As of midyear 2009, 767,620 inmates were held in custody of county and city jail...

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