Criminal Law

Leonard I. Weinglass, Lawyer, Dies at 77; Defended Renegades and the Notorious

Posted on March 27, 2011
Leonard I. Weinglass, Lawyer, Dies at 77; Defended Renegades and the Notorious By BRUCE WEBER Published: March 24, 2011 Correction Appended Leonard I. Weinglass, perhaps the nation?s pre-eminent progressive defense lawyer, who represented political renegades, government opponents and notorious criminal...

Overreliance on Drug Courts Comes at Too High a Cost

Posted on March 23, 2011
Overreliance on Drug Courts Comes at Too High a Cost Justice Policy Institute March 22, 2011 Full Report: http://www.justicepolicy.org/uploads/justicepolicy/documents/addicted_to_courts_final.pdf Report finds alternatives to drug courts can be more cost-effective and provide greater public safety benefits WASHINGTON, DC ? America?s growing...

VA: McDonnell signs bill allowing prisoners to maintain rest stops

Posted on March 22, 2011
"The state would pay the Department of Corrections $1.50 an hour per inmate." ....but how much does the prisoner get paid? McDonnell signs bill allowing prisoners to maintain rest stops Mar. 20, 2011 | Written by The Washington Post RICHMOND...

Response to possible prison union: Pressure mounts to give federal prisoners a pay raise

Posted on March 22, 2011
Pressure mounts to give federal prisoners a pay raise Drive in B.C. to craft a collective agreement for imnates could spill over into national system By Rebecca Lindell, Postmedia News March 21, 2011 Vancouver Sun A movement is building -both...

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New York?s Prisons Fall Short, Again

Posted on March 22, 2011
New York?s Prisons Fall Short, Again Published: March 21, 2011 Editorial- NY Times Perhaps as many as three-quarters of New York State?s 57,000 prison inmates need drug counseling or treatment to have a chance at productive, crime-free lives once they...

Fight is on to keep women's prison open Hillsborough Correctional Institution is the only faith- and character-based women's prison in the country.

Posted on March 22, 2011
Fight is on to keep women's prison open Hillsborough Correctional Institution is the only faith- and character-based women's prison in the country. By LOIS KINDLE | The Tampa Tribune Published: March 21, 2011 TAMPA - People often try to keep...

MA: Rage shouldn?t drive parole reform. By Judge Nancy Gertner

Posted on March 21, 2011
Rage shouldn?t drive parole reform By Nancy Gertner March 19, 2011 Boston Globe--Opinion IN AN outburst of righteous rage over the Polly Klass murder committed by a twice-convicted offender in California ? not unlike the reaction in Massachusetts to the...

Cruel and usual: US solitary confinement As incarceration rates explode in the US, thousands are placed in solitary confinement, often without cause.

Posted on March 21, 2011
Cruel and usual: US solitary confinement As incarceration rates explode in the US, thousands are placed in solitary confinement, often without cause. James Ridgeway and Jean Casella 19 Mar 2011 09:51 Features: Al Jeezera English The US does not keep....

WA: HB 1063--Bill to create parole review for juveniles sentenced to LWOP

Posted on March 19, 2011
Washington State has proposed legislation that would give the juvenile lifers in this state a second chance. It would remand us from a life without sentence to a minimum of 15 years with a parole hearing every third year after...

CA/NY: will build new urban youth prisons when rural ones are shut down

Posted on March 16, 2011
"Alameda County, where Oakland is located, will build a youth lockup to accommodate kids that would have gone to state youth prisons, says David Muhammad, the county's head of probation. "A huge concern is, you close (the state agency) completely,...

Book to focus on writing of women in prison

Posted on March 16, 2011
Hello, I am writing to share with you a little bit about my organization and one of our current projects. Body Republic is a global collaborative committed to voicing the experiences of women through music, art and literature. Through publication,...

FL: State shutting down three prisons

Posted on March 15, 2011
State shutting down three prisons Palm Beach Post by Dara Kam | March 15th, 2011 Florida¹s new corrections department secretary is shutting down three prisons, two boot camps and a road prison. DOC Secretary Edwin Buss said the closures will...

OH: Kasich plans to sell 5 prisons

Posted on March 15, 2011
Kasich plans to sell 5 prisons Governor to unveil proposal for two-year state budget; school cuts less than feared? Monday, March 14, 2011 11:51 PM By Alan Johnson The Columbus Dispatch While Gov. John Kasich's plan to sell four prisons...

Give formerly incarcerated people treatment, not prison time

Posted on March 15, 2011
"Grass-roots, community-run re-entry homes for people getting out of jail and prison, such as A New Way of Life Re-Entry Project in Los Angeles and Time for Change Foundation's housing program in San Bernardino, have clearly shown the way toward...

NH/Nat'l: new fed prison sits empty waiting for go-ahead to hire

Posted on March 15, 2011
"In northern New Hampshire, a new federal prison, with space for 1,280 inmates, sits vacant because the federal government has not been able to hire correctional officers and other employees...The new federal prison in Berlin, N.H., is another symbol of...

Editorial- The Abuse of Private Manning

Posted on March 15, 2011
Editorial- The Abuse of Private Manning Published New York Times: March 14, 2011 Pfc. Bradley Manning, who has been imprisoned for nine months on charges of handing government files to WikiLeaks, has not even been tried let alone convicted. Yet...

Community Voices: The two tragedies. By Karter Kane Reed who is serving a life sentence at Old Colony Correctional Center in Bridgewater, Mass.

Posted on March 14, 2011
Community Voices: The two tragedies By Karter Kane Reed who is serving a life sentence at Old Colony Correctional Center in Bridgewater, Mass. http://www.bostonbanner.com/local14-2011-03-03 On the evening of Dec. 26, 2010, Officer John Maguire was faithfully serving the community just...

PA: Professors: Prison fails mentally ill women

Posted on March 13, 2011
Professors: Prison fails mentally ill women By Chris Foreman TRIBUNE-REVIEW Sunday, March 13, 2011 Rosemary Gido calls state prisons asylums for the invisible, particularly women. A criminology professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Gido said an estimated 42 percent of...

TX: Proposals Could Make It Harder to Leave Prison

Posted on March 13, 2011
Proposals Could Make It Harder to Leave Prison By BRANDI GRISSOM Published: March 12, 2011 The Texas Tribune Danny Bell sat on a brick ledge outside the plain, beige Greyhound station a block from the prison complex in Huntsville and,...

IL: Quinn signs bill repealing Illinois death penalty

Posted on March 11, 2011
Quinn signs bill repealing Illinois death penalty BY DAVE MCKINNEY And Stephen Di Benedetto Mar 10, 2011 02:29PM SPRINGFIELD ? Acting on perhaps the most significant issue he will ever face, Gov. Quinn Wednesday signed landmark legislation to repeal the...

Prisons, Crime and Budgets: Time for a New Paradigm

Posted on March 10, 2011
Prisons, Crime and Budgets: Time for a New Paradigm Sheila R. Rule Founder, Resilience Multimedia Posted: March 10, 2011 12:57 PM Huffington Post The volume of tough talk has been ratcheted way up. Governors are talking tough on budget cuts....

No Crime, but an Arrest and Two Strip-Searches

Posted on March 09, 2011
No Crime, but an Arrest and Two Strip-Searches By ADAM LIPTAK WASHINGTON- NY Times March 7, 2011 Albert W. Florence believes that black men who drive nice cars in New Jersey run a risk of being questioned by the police....

State Budget Battles Converge on Prison Labor Force

Posted on March 09, 2011
State Budget Battles Converge on Prison Labor Force In These Times Mar 9, 2011 By Michelle Chen Prison isn't just about doing hard time. For many, it's about working full-time, too. These days, state governments seem ready to squeeze their...

B.C. inmates attempt to form first prison labour union in Canada

Posted on March 08, 2011
B.C. inmates attempt to form first prison labour union in Canada Agassiz, B.C.? The Canadian Press Published Friday, Mar. 04, 2011 3:25PM EST Inmates at a B.C. prison are in the final stages of applying to create a labour union,...

Amid revolution, Arab cartoonists are drawing attention

Posted on March 08, 2011
Amid revolution, Arab cartoonists are drawing attention By Michael Cavna Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, March 6, 2011 It was August of 2006 when Dalia Ziada, a young Egyptian writer, discovered her favorite comic-book action hero. He trumpeted justice...

AL: Group of formerly incarcerated people visit area, organize to turn around direction of prison system

Posted on March 06, 2011
Group of formerly incarcerated people visit area, discuss prison reform By Scott Johnson ? March 3, 2011 Montgomery, AL They have turned around their own lives, and now they want to turn around the di­rection of the U.S. prison sys­tem....

AK: Goose Prison project ---too expensive to finish

Posted on March 06, 2011
Alaskans deserve better than the not-so golden Goose Creek prison By Ben Brown | For the Juneau Empire March 6, 2011 There was alarming news this week in the Capitol related to a long-awaited capital project that was, at its...

NY: Senate Republicans call changes to prison population count unconstitutional

Posted on March 06, 2011
Senate Republicans call changes to prison population count unconstitutional Ithaca Journal Mar. 5, 2011 ALBANY -- Senate Republicans are still seething over a law passed last year to count prisoners in legislative redistricting based on their hometowns, not where they...

MN: Former Shakopee prison chaplain settles lawsuit with state after criticizing Chuck Colson's InnerChange Freedom Initiative

Posted on March 06, 2011
Former Shakopee prison chaplain settles lawsuit with state A Presbyterian minister says she was fired after she criticized an evangelical Christian program used in prisons. By ROSE FRENCH, Star Tribune Minneapolis Star Tribune- http://www.startribune...

ACLU report sheds light on Nevada prison conditions

Posted on March 06, 2011
ACLU report sheds light on Nevada prison conditions * By Susan Hillman, Prison Policy Examiner * March 5th, 2011 The ACLU is making several claims about Nevada's prisons, including having pregnant women in shackles and prisoners having to eat meat...

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