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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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Doing time on their own dime: More states charge inmates for stays in jail, prison

Posted on June 04, 2010
Doing time on their own dime: More states charge inmates for stays in jail, prison FACING SOUTH - Online Magazine of the Institute for Southern Studies As the economic downturn worsens and states grapple with large budget deficits, many inmates...

MA: Partial Progress on Justice Reform

Posted on June 04, 2010
Partial Progress on Justice Reform Thursday, June 03, 2010 By Maureen Turner Last week's passage of a crime reform bill by the Massachusetts House is being seen by activists as an important, but not complete, step toward the reforms that...

SC: New Law Changes Criminal Sentencing

Posted on June 04, 2010
New law changes criminal sentencing By Yvonne Wenger The Post and Courier Thursday, June 3, 2010 COLUMBIA -- South Carolina has a new way of dealing with criminals that judges, victims' advocates, crime and justice experts and Republicans and Democrats...

CO: Monuments to Ignorance: It's time for Colorado to try social justice for a change

Posted on June 03, 2010
Monuments to Ignorance: It's time for Colorado to try social justice for a change By A.D. Rudder InsideWire MONDAY, MAY 24, 2010 CANON CITY, Colo, Man builds monuments to the things he worships; in Colorado that's police stations, courts, and...

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NY: Paterson Proposes Juvenile Justice Overhaul

Posted on June 03, 2010
City Room - Blogging From the Five Boroughs June 2, 2010, 12:00 pm Paterson Proposes Juvenile Justice Overhaul By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE NY Times Gov. David A. Paterson introduced legislation on Wednesday to begin overhauling New York?s troubled juvenile prison system,...

Idaho Fines CCA Over Prison Called One Of Most Violent In U.S.

Posted on June 03, 2010
Idaho Fines CCA Over Prison Called One Of Most Violent In U.S. Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010 Three years ago, the new administration of Idaho Gov. C.L. ?Butch? Otter and many legislators were talking up the idea of Idaho?s next major...

CA: Editorial Proposing Moving Prisoners to Jails from Prisons as a cost -cutting measure

Posted on June 03, 2010
Editorial: Keeping low-risk felons in jail worth a look June 2, 2010 The state of California is notorious for balancing its budget on the backs of local governments, and on first blush, the governor?s plan to funnel some felony offenders...

MA: In the dead of night, a Senate surprise. How the tide turned on illegal immigrants

Posted on June 03, 2010
In the dead of night, a Senate surprise How the tide turned on illegal immigrants By Noah Bierman Globe Staff / May 29, 2010 It was late Wednesday night, hour 11 of a grueling state budget debate, and senators were...

TX: Dying on the State's Dime

Posted on June 03, 2010
Dying on the State's Dime June 3, 2010 The Texas Tribune A gaunt old man, thick with whiskers and stricken with dementia, writhes under the covers of his bed. Down the hall, doctors monitor elderly diabetics with recently amputated limbs,...

No surprise---Prisoners hired in oil relief efforts, trained for hazardous materials work

Posted on June 02, 2010
"I've had less problems with these guys than when I've hired just normal people." Prisoners hired in oil relief efforts, trained for hazardous materials work By David Ferrara May 29, 2010 MOBILE, Ala. -- More than 200 prisoners are among...

Study Finds Blacks Blocked From Southern Juries

Posted on June 02, 2010
June 1, 2010 Study Finds Blacks Blocked From Southern Juries By SHAILA DEWAN NY Times In late April in a courthouse in Madison County, Ala., a prosecutor was asked to explain why he had struck 11 of 14 black potential...

IN: Twelve And Fifteen-Year-Old Charged With Murder As Adults

Posted on May 30, 2010
Twelve And Fifteen-Year-Old Charged With Murder As Adults (for a photo of the two boys entering the courtroom in prison stripes go the URL below) WARSAW, Ind. (Indiana?s NewsCenter) - The 15 and 12-year-old Kosciusko County boys charged with murder...

MA: Senate Budget Amendment for $5 jail fees fails---the fight is not over!

Posted on May 28, 2010
Here is what happened last night in the Senate and NEXT IMPORTANT STEPS. PLEASE MAKE CALLS AND EMAILS AND THEN FORWARD AND POST WIDELY! Many thanks.... Lois Budget Amendments: 487 the Senate Budget Amendment calling for a $5 a fee...

MA: CORI (Criminal Record) Reform Passes. (Next step lessening the time to seal reconrds)

Posted on May 27, 2010
Criminal records bill gets House OK Would limit access to job seekers? past The Boston Globe By Michael Levenson, Globe Staff | May 27, 2010 House lawmakers yesterday approved legislation long sought by Governor Deval Patrick that would limit employers?...

PA Hopes to Allow Businesses to Employ Inmates

Posted on May 26, 2010
PA Hopes to Allow Businesses to Employ Inmates May 26th, 2010 Pennsylvania corrections officials hope to allow private businesses to employ state prison inmates to teach more of them the job skills and work ethic they will need upon being...

Georgia: Atlanta Journal Constitution investigation: Georgia leads nation in criminal punishment

Posted on May 25, 2010
A billion-dollar burden or justice? AJC investigation: Georgia leads nation in criminal punishment By Carrie Teegardin and Bill Rankin? The Atlanta Journal-Constitution May 23, 2010 Georgia taxpayers spend $1 billion a year locking up so many criminal offenders that the...

IN: Indiana bars extended family from seeing more than 1 prisoner

Posted on May 25, 2010
Limit on prison visits angers South Bend family Indiana bars extended family from seeing more than 1 prisoner. By ALICIA GALLEGOS Tribune Staff Writer May 23, 2010 SOUTH BEND -- When Sam Dickens' son went to prison earlier this year,...

MA: Article on the proposed budget amendment to charge prisoners in jail $5 a day.

Posted on May 25, 2010
Robert Garvey, Hampshire County Sheriff: "I think it's very shallow thinking to think that the people who are here, number one, can afford [the fees]," Garvey told the Advocate. "Most of the people that I encounter in this facility usually...

MA: Senate passes budget amendment that would allow for jails to charge prisoners $5 a day.

Posted on May 24, 2010
I just learned from Jason Lydon that the budget amendment pasted below has now been introduced in the Senate. This is not the same exact language as the House budget amendment that has already passed, but it is very close...

CA: Small group of ill prisoners and those sentenced under 3 strikes cost the state plenty

Posted on May 23, 2010
Small group of ill inmates costs state plenty By Marisa Lagos, Chronicle Sacramento Bureau San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday, May 19, 2010 As California struggles to pay for social services for its poorest residents, it spends hundreds of millions of dollars...

Arguing Three Strikes

Posted on May 23, 2010
Arguing Three Strikes By EMILY BAZELON NY Times Magazine, Sunday May 23, 2010 One day last fall, Norman Williams sat drinking hot chocolate with his lawyer, Michael Romano, at a Peet?s coffee in Palo Alto, Calif. At an outdoor table,...

CA: Financial Impact of Health Care for Prisoners Who Are Ill and Three Strikes

Posted on May 21, 2010
Small group of ill inmates costs state plenty Marisa Lagos, Chronicle Sacramento Bureau San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday, May 19, 2010 As California struggles to pay for social services for its poorest residents, it spends hundreds of millions of dollars a...

Philadelphia: Pew report: City prison population can be reduced, safely

Posted on May 19, 2010
Pew report: City prison population can be reduced, safely By JULIE SHAW Philadelphia Daily New Philadelphia's prison population can be reduced without jeopardizing public safety if policymakers find ways to keep low-level offenders awaiting trial out of jail and continue...

VT: Progress made in transitional housing and programs to keep people of prison after returning to communities

Posted on May 19, 2010
Challenge Glass: Half Full or Half Empty? Mayy 17, 2010 by Tom Evslin Excerpt Corrections: Real progress was made here, too. Less people will be in prison AND public safety will be better protected. Diversion will keep some people out...

IN: Scathing Report Details Abuse At Juvenile Prison Report: Female Inmates Assaulted By Guards, Living In Filth

Posted on May 19, 2010
Scathing Report Details Abuse At Juvenile Prison Report: Female Inmates Assaulted By Guards, Living In Filth POSTED: 10:10 am EDT May 17, 2010 UPDATED: 7:44 pm EDT May 17, 2010 INDIANAPOLIS -- Federal authorities are calling on Indiana to address...

OK: For profit "Christian" prison proposed!

Posted on May 19, 2010
Ministry's prison plan still on hold By BILL SHERMAN World Religion Writer Published: 5/17/2010 A private firm proposing a prison in Wakita with all born-again Christian staff and programming does not yet have the commitments for prisoners it needs to...

IL: Justice Department Announces Agreement with Cook County Jail to Remedy Violations and Ensure Constitutional Rights of Prisoners

Posted on May 19, 2010
Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, May 13, 2010 Justice Department Announces Comprehensive, Cooperative Agreement with Cook County, Illinois, Board and Sheriff to Remedy Violations and Ensure Constitutional Rights of Inmates at Cook County Jail...

NH: Justice system overhaul: Bill's goal is to save money, reduce prison recidivism

Posted on May 19, 2010
"Some of these violations are a new crime entirely, but many are technical in nature," he said. "We've never had the flexibility of having intermediate sentences for parole violations, it's been easy to do it the old way, without thinking...

Jail More Likely Than Treatment For Americans With Psychiatric Disorders

Posted on May 17, 2010
Jail More Likely Than Treatment For Americans With Psychiatric Disorders By Michelle Diament May 13, 2010 Americans with severe mental illness are three times more likely to go to prison than to a psychiatric hospital, new research indicates. While the...

Supreme Court rules out some life sentences for juveniles---now to ending JLWOP for juveniles convicted of homicide!

Posted on May 17, 2010
Supreme Court rules out some life sentences for juveniles By Robert Barnes Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, May 17, 2010; 11:55 AM The Supreme Court ruled Monday that juveniles may not be sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of....

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