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MA: Another example of how the DOC creates obstacles for people wanting to work with prisoners

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Another example of the obstacles created by the MA DOC in preventing people from going into MA prisons and jails. May 19, 2008 Society of the Incarcerated: Acknowledging the Voices of America's Ever-Increasing Prison Population by Anna Clark - USA - Who talks about prisoners these days? Certainly not the US presidential candidates or most others up for election in 2008, unless it?s in tangential ?get tough on crime? rhetoric. In the media, quality coverage such as Jeff Gerritt?s Pulitzer-nominated series on medical care in Michigan prisons, which appeared last year in The Detroit Free Press, is overshadowed by courtroom dramas and legal thrillers. MSNBC has built something of a franchise in its ?To Catch a Predator? series, which lures people to a Dateline set, humiliates them by reading their chat room transcripts with someone they thought was underage, and then calls on a police crew to rather unnecessarily tackle them in an arrest sequence right out of a summer blockbuster...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 21, 2008 (boomark / email).