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"The Recession Behind Bars"

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Op-Ed Contributor The Recession Behind Bars By KENNETH E. HARTMAN Published: September 5, 2009 New York Times Lancaster, Calif. EVERY weekday morning the prison?s not on lockdown, the yard holds its collective breath waiting for the pale-orange package cart to appear through multiple layers of chain-link and razor-wire fences. For most prisoners, this lumbering vessel is their only tangible, physical connection back to the free world. The last couple of years the cart has arrived less often and with visibly lighter loads. We get broadcast television, so the state of the economy outside is no secret. Our families and friends tend to come from the segments of society that are the worst off in the best of times, and worse off still in times like these...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 06, 2009 (boomark / email).