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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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Obama Proposes $528 Million Budget Increase for FBOP

Posted on April 26, 2010
Obama Proposes $528 Million Budget Increase for FBOP (04/22/2010) WASHINGTON ? As states throughout the country close prisons, implement population reduction measures and cut programming to overcome budgetary deficits, the federal government proposes to increase 2011 spending on federal prisons...

"A Better Chance" justice reinvestment for youth and communities in NY but Gov. Paterson Vetoes Funds for Programs

Posted on April 26, 2010
"A Better Chance" NY Times EDITORIAL April 25, 2010 Gov. David Paterson's juvenile justice task force was on the mark when it advised him to stop sending low-risk young offenders to faraway lockups and place more of them in lower-cost...

NY: Controlled Chaos: A Day Working the Rikers Island Book Cart

Posted on April 25, 2010
Controlled Chaos: A Day Working the Rikers Island Book Cart by Jamie Niehof, Intern, Correctional Services Program April 19, 2010 Another day of volunteering at Rikers Island with the NYPL has come to a close. Thursday I went to one...

Baltimore will gain residents in prison count shift. New Maryland law, first of its kind, tallies inmates as residents of last permanent address, not location of pr

Posted on April 25, 2010
Baltimore will gain residents in prison count shift New Maryland law, first of its kind, tallies inmates as residents of last permanent address, not location of prison By Erica L. Green, The Baltimore Sun April 24, 2010 For more than...

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TX: Driving tour shows times have changed at suburban Houston prisons Development and traffic bring the public closer than ever.

Posted on April 25, 2010
Driving tour shows times have changed at suburban Houston prisons Development and traffic bring the public closer than ever. By Mike Ward Austin AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF April 24, 2010 RICHMOND ? In years past, motorists visiting one of the 10 maximum-security...

Overcrowding is a Symptom, Not the Sickness for Prisons in Pennsylvania

Posted on April 24, 2010
Overcrowding is a Symptom, Not the Sickness for Prisons in Pennsylvania April 23, 2010 Pennsylvania prisons are overcrowded. The state's prison population continues to increase even as the national trend shows a decline. Recidivism rates remain high despite recent measures...

Book review: ?Orange Is the New Black' by Piper Kerman. An educated, middle-class white woman ends up in federal prison for a drug offense.

Posted on April 22, 2010
Book review: ?Orange Is the New Black' by Piper Kerman An educated, middle-class white woman ends up in federal prison for a drug offense. By Diana Wagman April 25, 2010 Many of us have done something that could have gotten...

Banning Revolution newspaper from Pelican Bay State Prison

Posted on April 22, 2010
Banning Revolution newspaper from Pelican Bay State Prison Imagine you are in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) of a prison that is as far from your family as it can be and still be located in the same state. You...

NY Times Editorial: Criminal Record Checks Making Census Workers Ineligible

Posted on April 21, 2010
Editorial- NY Times 4-21-10 We Can?t Tell You Why The Census Bureau is hiring a million or more people to assist with the 2010 count. It is temporary work, but it pays well. With national unemployment at nearly 10 percent,...

Crime Prediction Software Is Here and It's a Very Bad Idea- FL Dept of Juvenile Justice will use software to predict crime by youth involved in the juv. justice system

Posted on April 21, 2010
Crime Prediction Software Is Here and It's a Very Bad Idea Gizmodo Crime Prediction Software Is Here and It's a Very Bad IdeaThere are no naked pre-cogs inside glowing jacuzzis yet, but the Florida State Department of Juvenile Justice will...

Dorothy Height, Largely Unsung Giant of the Civil Rights Era, Dies at 98

Posted on April 21, 2010
Dorothy Height, Largely Unsung Giant of the Civil Rights Era, Dies at 98 By MARGALIT FOX Published: April 20, 2010 Dorothy Height, a leader of the African-American and women?s rights movements who was considered both the grande dame of the...

For US death row inmates, a long wait for execution

Posted on April 21, 2010
For US death row inmates, a long wait for execution AFP American Edition | 2010-04-18 They wait alone, in cells of just a few square meters, often for 15 or 20 years, sometimes more. For US inmates on death row,...

1,600 PA Prisoners Sent to VA and Michigan While 4 New Prisons Get Built

Posted on April 19, 2010
1,600 Pa. inmates jailed in Va., Mich. Inmates expected to be held out of state until 4 new state prisons built, official says. Monday, April 19, 2010 By Edward Lewis Staff Writer Convicted killer Henry Stubbs is among the 1,600...

CCA Wins 3 Florida Contracts

Posted on April 19, 2010
"Prison operators have seen revenue climb on strong demand in the various correctional and detention markets." Wall Street Journal APRIL 13, 2010 Corrections Corp Wins 3 Florida Prison Contracts; Geo Shut Out By Shara Tibken Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW...

GEO and Cornell Companies Merge Prisons, Detention and "Behavioral Health" Services

Posted on April 19, 2010
The GEO Group and Cornell Companies Announce $685 Million Merger Creates $1.5 Billion Revenue Diversified Provider of Essential Government Services April 19, 2010 BOCA RATON, Fla. & HOUSTON, Apr 19, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- --Combined Company Well Positioned to Capitalize...

CA: Agreement in Principle Signed by Federal Receiver to Build Massive $895 Million Prison "Hospital"

Posted on April 15, 2010
Deal is at hand Agreement on prison hospital isn't perfect but ought to be signed By The Stockton Record April 14, 2010 12:00 AM An "agreement in principle" has been struck between local officials on one side and the federal...

N.J. Prison Abused Inmates During Month-Long Lockdown

Posted on April 15, 2010
From Solitary Watch http://solitarywatch.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/n-j-prison-abused-inmates-during-month-long-lockdown/ N.J. Prison Abused Inmates During Month-Long Lockdown Jean Casella and James Ridgeway | April 14, 2010 Solitary confinement in U.S...

Editorial- NY Times A Fairer Way to Count

Posted on April 15, 2010
Editorial- NY Times A Fairer Way to Count Published: April 14, 2010 Maryland struck a blow for electoral fairness this week with a new law requiring that prison inmates be counted at their home addresses when legislative districts are redrawn...

CA: Two Prisoners' View of Overcrowding Crisis

Posted on April 15, 2010
Two Inmates' Views on California's Prison Overcrowding Crisis New America Media, Commentary, Dwight Abbott and Michael Cabral, Introduction by Michael Kroll, Posted: Apr 13, 2010 Editor's Note: This January, a panel of three federal judges ruled the State of California...

WV Editorial Lauds Moutaintop mining which makes way for "recession proof" prison jobs

Posted on April 13, 2010
"These jobs would not be available in that area had it not been possible, through the use of timbering and the mining of incidental coal, to create the flat land needed." Editorials- Charleston Daily Mail Tuesday April 13, 2010 Prisons...

CA: Bill challenges monopoly over manufacturing prison goods

Posted on April 13, 2010
Bill challenges monopoly over prison goods Monday, Apr. 12, 2010 By Jim Sanders / The Sacramento Bee SACRAMENTO -- California prisoners, unlike law-abiding citizens, have a guaranteed market for the products they make behind bars: State agencies are required by...

Maryland enacts law to count incarcerated people at their home addresses

Posted on April 13, 2010
Maryland enacts law to count incarcerated people at their home addresses First-in-nation law will improve fairness and accuracy of the Census data used for redistricting April 13, 2010 - Today, Governor Martin O'Malley signed into law a bill ensuring that...

NY Times Editorial on 287(g): "Too Broken to Fix"

Posted on April 13, 2010
April 9, 2010 Editorial- NY Times Too Broken to Fix The Department of Homeland Security?s inspector general has affirmed what sheriffs, police chiefs, civil-rights lawyers and immigrant advocates have said for years: Outsourcing immigration enforcement to an ill-trained and poorly...

Federal court rejects call for fair wages for prisoners

Posted on April 12, 2010
Court rejects call for fair wages for prisoners Bob Egelko, SF Chronicle Staff Writer Monday, April 12, 2010 After renowned attorney J. Tony Serra spent nine months in a federal prison camp for not paying his taxes, he calculated how...

Solitary Watch Watches National Geographic's Experiment in Solitary Confinement

Posted on April 09, 2010
Solitary Watch Watches National Geographic's Experiment in Solitary Confinement Jean Casella and James Ridgeway | April 2, 2010 From Solitary Watch As we wrote earlier, it's hard to say whether the National Geographic Channel's treatment of solitary confinement will do...

Civil Liberties Groups Oppose Obama?s Plan to Close Gitmo, Absent Serious Changes

Posted on April 09, 2010
Civil Liberties Groups Oppose Obama?s Plan to Close Gitmo, Absent Serious Changes By Spencer Ackerman 4/8/10 In an indication of the full-spectrum pressure that the Obama administration is facing on its plan to close Guantanamo Bay, today a coalition of...

Maine: Our View: Overuse of prison isolation issue that should not go away

Posted on April 08, 2010
Our View: Overuse of prison isolation issue that should not go away The Portland (Maine) Press Herald April 8, 2010 Backers of a bill that would limit the use of solitary confinement in Maine prisons did not get most of...

Report details Arizona's prison population and prisons

Posted on April 08, 2010
Report details Arizona's prison populace March 31, 2010 10:04 PM BY JAMES GILBERT - SUN STAFF WRITER http://www.yumasun.com/news/arizona-57396-report-profile.html According to a newly released report from the Arizona Prosecuting Attorney's Advisory Council, more than 94 percent of Arizona prison inmates are...

Progressive Wisconsin? State Marked by Empty Factories, Full Prisons

Posted on April 08, 2010
Progressive Wisconsin? State Marked by Empty Factories, Full Prisons In These Times April 5, 2010 State has highest black male incarceration rate in country; twelve times the rate of white men. By Roger Bybee Wisconsin has long enjoyed a reputation...

WA: All out effort to keep prison open succeeds for now despite too few prisoners

Posted on April 08, 2010
Closure plan for Larch prison put on hold State will bring in inmates to fill work crews until fate of facility resolved By Kathie Durbin Columbian staff writer Wednesday, March 31, 2010 While the fate of Larch Corrections Center remains...

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