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Investigative Series in the Sacramento Bee on Behavior Management Cages in CA

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Behavior modification units: About this series Posted at 12:10 AM on Sunday, May. 09, 2010 Sacramento Bee These stories are based on a review of thousands of pages of research studies, audits, coroner reports, legal filings and evaluations concerning conditions in the California prison behavior modification units, which were renamed behavior management units in 2008. Hundreds of personal notes, e-mails, inmate rosters and internal memos from the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation also were reviewed, some of them released in response to a California Public Records Act request. Dozens of scholarly articles and reports about prison conditions were consulted, as were hundreds of pages of inmate notes, correspondence, administrative filings and appeals, and legal records...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 11, 2010 (boomark / email).