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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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OR: Tepid Reception for Racial Impacts Proposal. Sponsor finds unease when 'race' enters fray.

Posted on July 04, 2009
Tepid Reception for Racial Impacts Proposal By Jake Thomas /The Portland Observer Sponsor finds unease when 'race' enters fray When Oregon voters jumped on the "get tough on crime" bandwagon in the 1990s by approving Measure 11, they might not...

Especially awful editorial on proposal by Michigan's govenror to cage CA prisoners

Posted on July 04, 2009
Editorial: Win-win: Sending felons to Michigan Wednesday, Jul. 1, 2009 Sacramento Bee In the depths of the worst recession since World War II, California may be giving birth to a new export industry. It's an export in which California appears...

Methland The Death and Life of an American Small Town

Posted on July 04, 2009
Wasted Land Methland The Death and Life of an American Small Town By Nick Reding 255 pp. Bloomsbury. $25 Reviewed By WALTER KIRN Published: NY Times Book Review July 1, 2009 Think globally, suffer locally. This could be the moral...

Study Finds Gaps in Aid for Non-English Speakers in State Civil Courts

Posted on July 04, 2009
Study Finds Gaps in Aid for Non-English Speakers in State Civil Courts By JOHN SCHWARTZ Published: July 3, 2009 NY Times When Maythe Ramirez went to Superior Court in Contra Costa, Calif., for a child custody hearing in 2006, she...

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"Racism's Hidden Toll"

Posted on July 02, 2009
Racism's Hidden Toll by: Ryan Blitstein Does the stress of living in a white-dominated society make African Americans get sick and die younger than their white counterparts? Apparently, yes. more at.... http://www.miller-mccune.com/health/racisms-hidden-toll-1268...

MA: Organizations and Officials Call for Reform of CORI

Posted on July 01, 2009
Changes urged to state criminal records law June 30, 2009 By Vivian Nereim, Globe Correspondent Legislators, government officials, and community organizers called today for changes to the state's criminal records law that they said would help ex-offenders reenter society, including...

Alex Sanchez's Arrest by Tom Hayden

Posted on July 01, 2009
THE NATION LAW & JUSTICE Alex Sanchez's Arrest by TOM HAYDEN June 29, 2009 As a state legislator Hayden was a leading proponent of gang peace efforts, including Homies Unidos, and testified for asylum in the Alex Sanchez case. The...

CA: Program for parolees ends

Posted on June 30, 2009
Parolee re-entry program to end By Lanz Christian Ba�es Contra-Costa Times-Herald Posted: 06/28/2009 Solano County's parolee re-entry program will cease operations Wednesday. "It's completely over with," said Tony Pearsall, executive director of Fighting Back Partnership, which runs the program...

Editorial: Two Meals and Not Always Square

Posted on June 29, 2009
Editorial: Two Meals and Not Always Square Published: Sunday June 28, 2009 NY Times With budgets tight, states and local governments have been looking at prisons ? and prison food ? as a place to save money. Three days a...

MI-CA: Gov. Granholm offers to cage some of California's prisoners

Posted on June 29, 2009
State may take Calif. inmates By Dawson Bell ? Free Press Lansing Bureau ? June 29, 2009 LANSING ? Gov. Jennifer Granholm offered empty beds in Michigan prisons to house inmates from California today as the Golden State seeks solutions...

Mass. prison system overcrowded; Patrick aims to fix it

Posted on June 29, 2009
"The presence of inmates in the system taxes an already stretched prison system at a higher cost to the taxpayer. It costs $2,500 to supervise a person through parole, while it costs about $43,000 annually to incarcerate someone. And unsupervised...

An invisible woman is laid to rest

Posted on June 28, 2009
An invisible woman is laid to rest E.J. Montini Arizona Republic For most of her adult life, 48-year-old Marcia Powell was invisible. Then she died, and slowly came into view. If you were required in school to read H.G. Wells'...

MS: Free labor and $29.74 per day from the state...communities clamor for regional jails

Posted on June 28, 2009
Sunday, Jun. 28, 2009 Miss. communities clamor for regional jails By JACK ELLIOTT JR. - Associated Press Writer JACKSON, Miss. -- There are 11 county/regional jails scattered around Mississippi. With them, the Mississippi Department of Corrections has created its own...

Jena 6' beating case wraps up with plea deal?

Posted on June 27, 2009
JENA, La. ? Five members of the Jena Six pleaded no contest Friday to misdemeanor simple battery and won't serve jail time, ending a case that thrust a small Louisiana town into the national spotlight and sparked a massive civil...

MI: Prson Backers Pray to Keep Prison Open

Posted on June 27, 2009
Prison backers turn to prayer to save closing facility By Kathryn Lynch-Morin Bay City Times 6-26-09 STANDISH ? About 350 people attended a candlelight vigil Monday at Resurrection of the Lord Catholic Church in Standish to pray for a meeting...

AZ: Right-wing vigilantes kills a woman's child and her husband in their house in a border town

Posted on June 27, 2009
New Border Fear: Violence by a Rogue Militia By JESSE McKINLEY and MALIA WOLLAN NY Times Published: June 26, 2009 ARIVACA, Ariz. ? ?Somebody just came in and shot my daughter and my husband!? the woman shouted to the 911...

CT: HOUSE PASSES BUDGET : Rell Opposes Democrats' Budget Item That Would Close 2 Prisons

Posted on June 27, 2009
HOUSE PASSES BUDGET : Rell Opposes Democrats' Budget Item That Would Close 2 Prisons By CHRISTOPHER KEATING The Hartford Courant June 27, 2009 The state has fewer prison inmates than it did on the day of the tragic Cheshire killings...

Ruling could aid Pennsylvania prison lifers seeking release

Posted on June 27, 2009
The big word in the headline is COULD. Lois Posted on Fri, Jun. 26, 2009 Ruling could aid Pa. prison lifers seeking release PETER JACKSON The Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. - A federal judge has reaffirmed a ruling that could...

CA: Governor dumps plan to build prison hospitals

Posted on June 26, 2009
Governor dumps plan to build prison hospitals Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer Friday, June 26, 2009 (06-25) PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger disowned a tentative agreement Thursday to build prison hospitals to settle lawsuits over shoddy health care...

Editorial: Rape in Prison

Posted on June 25, 2009
Editorial Rape in Prison Published: June 23, 2009 NY Times Rape accompanied by savage violence has long been part of prison life. Congress finally confronted this horrendous problem by passing the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003. In addition to...

FL: Powerful business lobby calls for a halt to prison construction & change in sentencing policies

Posted on June 25, 2009
Change sought in Florida prison system A movement among powerful Florida leaders to overhaul the state's prison system is gaining steam as lawmakers grapple with shrinking resources. BY CAROL MARBIN MILLER Miami Herald 06.24.09 A call by Florida's most powerful...

Panel to Issue Standards To Reduce Prison Rapes

Posted on June 23, 2009
Panel to Issue Standards To Reduce Prison Rapes By SOLOMON MOORE- NY Times June 22, 2009 A Congressional commission plans to issue recommendations on Tuesday for standards to reduce sexual assaults in the nation?s jails and prisons. The commission cited...

MI: A new low? A candlelight vigil and prayers to keep a max security prison open

Posted on June 23, 2009
Standish Prison Candlelight Vigil Planned Residents Continue Fight To Keep Prison Open June 22, 2009 Standish Prison Candlelight Vigil Planned STANDISH, Mich. -- Resurrection of the Lord is organizing a vigil with Standish area leaders over Gov. Jennifer Granholm?s plans...

CO: Independent Ideas: Prison spending still shackles state budget Until sentencing laws change, not much can be done

Posted on June 22, 2009
Independent Ideas: Prison spending still shackles state budget Until sentencing laws change, not much can be done By By Mike Krause, For the Colorado Daily Sunday, June 21, 2009 On June 3, Gov. Bill Ritter signed Senate Bill 228, repealing...

The War Against the 'War on Drugs'---by Sasha Abramky

Posted on June 21, 2009
"America isn't about to abandon all of its "tough on crime" tenets. Nor should it in all instances. The three-strikes law will likely remain in place for violent offenders, as will the growing body of laws limiting where sex offenders...

ACLU sues over 'secretly created' fed prison unit for Muslim and other prisoners with "disciplinary cases"

Posted on June 19, 2009
ACLU sues over 'secretly created' fed prison unit June 19, 2009 TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) ? The American Civil Liberties Union sued the government Thursday over the creation of a special unit at the federal prison in Terre Haute, claiming...

MA Bar Association Drug Policy Task Force report on The Failure of the War on Drugs"

Posted on June 19, 2009
Massachusetts Bar Association's Drug Policy Task Force issued a major report, "The Failure of the War on Drugs: Charting a New Course for the Commonwealth." The report urges the Legislature to reform the state's approach to drug prevention, treatment and...

Racism's Hidden Toll

Posted on June 18, 2009
Racism's Hidden Toll By: Ryan Blitstein June 15, 2009 In the fall of 1976, Arline Geronimus began living in two separate, unequal worlds. At Princeton University, the political theory major became a research assistant to Charles Westoff, a professor who...

France: "Tour de France Penitentiaire" (thanfully everywhere isn't like it is here)

Posted on June 18, 2009
REHABILITATIVE RIDE This Tour tries to break down criminal cycle Scott Sayare, Associated Press Sunday, June 14, 2009 From behind prison bars, the view never changes. From behind the handlebars of racing bikes, dozens of French inmates are seeing the...

N.M. ACLU sues private prison company GEO Group for ?cruel and unusual punishment?

Posted on June 18, 2009
N.M. ACLU sues private prison company GEO Group for ?cruel and unusual punishment? By Gwyneth Doland 6/17/09 3:31 PM The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico is suing a privately-run prison in Clayton for imposing cruel and unusual punishment,...

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