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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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LA: Artist Jackie Sumell designs a house based on the wishes of Angola prisoner Herman Wallace

Posted on December 14, 2008
Artist Jackie Sumell designs a house based on the wishes of Angola inmate Herman Wallace Posted by Doug MacCash, Art critic, The Times-Picayune December 13, 2008 5:00AM PRISONER DREAMS UP A HOME THE HOME: The House that Herman Built THE...

Report Blames Rumsfeld for Prisoner Abuses at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo

Posted on December 13, 2008
December 12, 2008, NY Times Report Blames Rumsfeld for Detainee Abuses By SCOTT SHANE and MARK MAZZETTI WASHINGTON ? A report released Thursday by leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee said top Bush administration officials, including Donald H...

TX: Prisoners set fire and take two hostages at GEO Reeves Co Detention Center

Posted on December 13, 2008
Saturday, Dec 13, 2008 Rioting inmates hold 2 hostages at privately run prison in West Texas The Associated Press PECOS ? Inmates at a privately run prison took two hostages Friday after starting a riot and setting at least one...

BJS: ONE IN EVERY 31 U.S. ADULTS WAS IN A PRISON OR JAIL OR ON PROBATION OR PAROLE AT THE END OF LAST YEAR

Posted on December 12, 2008
Bureau of Justice Statistics DECEMBER 5, 2007 ONE IN EVERY 31 U.S. ADULTS WAS IN A PRISON OR JAIL OR ON PROBATION OR PAROLE AT THE END OF LAST YEAR WASHINGTON ? The U.S. adult correctional population ? incarcerated or...

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ACLU Massachusetts: Detention and Deportation in the Age of ICE: Immigrants and Human Rights in Massachusetts

Posted on December 12, 2008
Detention and Deportation in the Age of ICE: Immigrants and Human Rights in Massachusetts ACLU Massachusetts http://www.aclum.org/ice/ Introduction EVERY DAY IN MASSACHUSETTS, approximately 800 immigrants and asylum-seekers are in detention in county jails around the state waiting to be deported...

Camp Hill PA: Torture in Solitary Confinement Uit

Posted on December 12, 2008
STATE CORRECTIONS Do special units go too far? They're designed for toughest inmates, but opponents say they're misused Friday, December 12, 2008 BY PETE SHELLEM Of The Patriot-News They're the worst of the worst in the state prison system. Fifty-five...

THREE TIMELY ACTIONS THAT COULD HELP END PRISON-BASED GERRYMANDERING

Posted on December 12, 2008
THREE TIMELY ACTIONS THAT COULD HELP END PRISON-BASED GERRYMANDERING by Peter Wagner, December 12, 2008 The next Census will be taken 14 months after our next President is sworn in. Counting the entire population, just once and in the right...

LAC Releases New Drug Law Reform Costs Savings Report (Very good study whether or not you are in NY)

Posted on December 12, 2008
? LAC Releases New Drug Law Reform Costs Savings Report (Very good study whether or not you are in NY) The Legal Action Center has just completed a new study, Drug Law Reform 2008 - Dramatic Costs Savings For New...

MI: Two prison closings approved by lawmakers (2 articles & editorial)

Posted on December 11, 2008
Prison closings to cost Ionia, Coldwater Local jobs, state revenue-sharing to be lost BY CHRIS CHRISTOFF ? Detroit FREE PRESS LANSING BUREAU CHIEF ? December 11, 2008 LANSING -- Gov. Jennifer Granholm's plan to close two state prisons topped her...

Northampton MA: Panhandling law is part of effort to sanitize the city

Posted on December 11, 2008
Panhandling law is part of effort to sanitize the city By Daily Hampshire Gazette- Northampton, MA Created 12/11/2008 To the editor: If the city is seeking a solution to what some view as troublesome behavior by a handful of panhandlers...

Company "Hires" Prisoners to Build Solar Modules

Posted on December 10, 2008
Company Hires Prison Inmates to Build Solar Modules Written by Ariel Schwartz Published on December 9th, 2008 Posted in solar energy Great news! If you?re sent to the Federal Correctional Institution in Otisville, NY, you may have the opportunity to....

Our neighbors to the north: Canadian incarceration rate up 2 percent to 36,300

Posted on December 10, 2008
Canadian incarceration rate up 2 percent Published: Dec. 9, 2008 at 10:33 AM OTTAWA, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- The number of Canadian adults in jails and prisons rose 2 percent in 2007-2008 to a daily average of 36,300 *inmates, Statistics...

IL: Blagojevich hires 208 guards with no prison to guard

Posted on December 09, 2008
Chicago Tribune Blagojevich hires 208 guards with no prison to guard Tribune staff report December 9, 2008 Associated Press SPRINGFIELD ? Just weeks after Gov. Rod Blagojevich announced hundreds of layoffs because of state budget woes, his administration hired 208...

PA: Sign of the Times: City workers transferred from libraries to prisons

Posted on December 09, 2008
Philadelphia Library Closings, News, the budget crisis City workers transferred from libraries to prisons City Paper Monday, December 8th, 2008 at 4:35 pm posted by Isaiah Thompson Here's the good news: most of the municipa Free Library guards working at...

PA: State resumes parole for people convicted of violent offences

Posted on December 08, 2008
State resumes parole for violent offenders Monday, December 01, 2008 The Associated Press HARRISBURG -- Pennsylvania's parole system must do a better job of identifying violent offenders who pose the greatest threat to public safety, an independent review found...

WA: Policy that lets prisoners serve half their sentences reduces money and doesn't increase crime

Posted on December 08, 2008
Tacoma, WA - Monday, December 8, 2008 News Tribune Policy that lets inmates get out early might stay JOSEPH TURNER A policy that has allowed many Washington inmates to get out of prison after serving only half of their sentences...

Judges to Decide Whether Crowded California Prisons Are Unconstitutional

Posted on December 08, 2008
December 8, 2008 Judges to Decide Whether Crowded California Prisons Are Unconstitutional By MALIA WOLLAN SAN FRANCISCO ? Faced with chronically packed prisons and a federal mandate to improve medical and living conditions, a three-judge panel is meeting here to...

Calif.'s Prop 5 Battle Exposes Fault Lines Between Treatment Groups, Drug Courts

Posted on December 08, 2008
Calif.'s Prop 5 Battle Exposes Fault Lines Between Treatment Groups, Drug Courts December 5, 2008 News Feature By Bob Curley The battle over California's recently defeated Proposition 5 has led to a schism between drug courts and addiction treatment providers...

Greece: Hunger Strike by Prisoners results in cutting prison population in half!

Posted on December 07, 2008
Hunger strike ends as Greek government caves Thursday, November 20 2008 @ 11:36 PM CST After 18 days 7,000 prisoners in Greece stop their hunger strike after the ministry of justice concedes to a series of their demands, promising to...

Fiscal Cost Forcasting for Criminal Sentencing

Posted on December 06, 2008
Sentencing laws needn?t drain us By Rachel E. Barkow and Joshua J. Libling | Saturday, December 6, 2008 Op-Ed Massachusetts, like most states around the country, is in fiscal crisis. Gov. Deval Patrick announced more than $1 billion in midyear...

Boston MA: A $26m try to tame city's crime hot spots New program's workers may have rough pasts

Posted on December 05, 2008
A $26m try to tame city's crime hot spots New program's workers may have rough pasts By Maria Cramer, Boston Globe Staff | December 4, 2008 The Boston Foundation and city officials are preparing to flood a 1.5-square-mile section of...

European Court Rules Against Britain?s Policy of Keeping DNA Database of Suspects

Posted on December 05, 2008
December 5, 2008- NY Times European Court Rules Against Britain?s Policy of Keeping DNA Database of Suspects By SARAH LYALL LONDON ? The European Court of Human Rights ruled unanimously on Thursday that Britain?s policy of gathering and storing the...

Call Governor Paterson to ask that Jalil Muntaqim & Herman Bell Be Returned to NY

Posted on December 05, 2008
New York State letter denies request The transfer of SF8 defendants Herman Bell and Jalil Muntaqim from the San Francisco County Jail back to New York State for their rightful parole hearings has been blocked by both state governors for...

Prison Overcrowding Crisis Unhealthy for All Californians

Posted on December 05, 2008
Prison Overcrowding Crisis Unhealthy for All Californians New America Media, Commentary, Donna Willmott, Posted: Dec 04, 2008 Review it on NewsTrust Editor's note: California prisons have become the largest mental health system for the poor, the largest battered women's shelter,...

Critical Solutions Upgrades the Federal Bureau of Prisons' Renewable Energy Towers With Latest Technology

Posted on December 05, 2008
PRESS RELEASE Critical Solutions Upgrades the Federal Bureau of Prisons' Renewable Energy Towers With Latest Technology Next Generation Wind Turbines and Solar Panels Are Upgraded and Installed On Previously Sold Units Last update: 8:01 a.m. EST Dec. 4, 2008 CLEVELAND,...

College May Become Unaffordable for Most in U.S.

Posted on December 04, 2008
December 3, 2008 College May Become Unaffordable for Most in U.S. By TAMAR LEWIN NY Times The rising cost of college ? even before the recession ? threatens to put higher education out of reach for most Americans, according to...

MA: Want to know the real reason the law-and-order set backs mandatory-minimum sentencing? They get their pockets lined by the 'prison-industrial complex.'

Posted on December 04, 2008
Freedom watch: Jailhouse bloc Want to know the real reason the law-and-order set backs mandatory-minimum sentencing? They get their pockets lined by the 'prison-industrial complex.' By HARVEY SILVERGLATE AND KYLE SMEALLIE | December 3, 2008 With aromatic puffs of change,...

MA: Gov. Patrick Taps Judge Grants fro SJC opponent of mandatory minimums

Posted on December 03, 2008
Patrick taps Superior Court judge Gants for SJC By Kyle Cheney/State House News Service Mon Dec 01, 2008, 01:12 PM EST Boston, Mass. - Gov. Deval Patrick on Monday nominated Superior Court Judge Ralph Gants, an opponent of mandatory minimum...

Review: Feel the Real Cost of Prisons by Paul Buhle

Posted on December 03, 2008
Feel the Real Cost of Prisons by Paul Buhle The Real Cost of Prisons Comix. Edited by Lois Ahrens, with comic art by Kevin Pyle, Sabrina Jones, and Susan Willmarth. Oakland: PM Press, 96pp, paperback, $12.95. The Real Cost of...

Odetta, Voice of Civil Rights Movement, Dies at 77

Posted on December 03, 2008
December 3, 2008- NY Times Odetta, Voice of Civil Rights Movement, Dies at 77 By TIM WEINER Odetta, the singer whose deep voice wove together the strongest songs of American folk music and the civil rights movement, died on Tuesday...

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