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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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Calif. prisons prepare for gay weddings

Posted on August 30, 2008
Calif. prisons prepare for gay weddings By LISA LEFF Associated Press Writer Article Launched: 08/28/2008 03:22:55 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO?Now that same-sex couples can get married in California, state prison officials are trying to figure out what that means for...

Tennessee: Pregnant Inmates at Jail Will No Longer Be Restrained

Posted on August 29, 2008
August 29, 2008 National Briefing | South Tennessee: Pregnant Inmates at Jail Will No Longer Be Restrained By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Pregnant inmates at Nashville?s jail will no longer be restrained, according to a policy change after an illegal immigrant...

Two Million on the Wrong Side of the Digital Divide Accessibility, Digital Divide, Prison Libraries, Interface

Posted on August 29, 2008
Two Million on the Wrong Side of the Digital Divide Accessibility, Digital Divide, Prison Libraries, Interface Volume 30, Number 1, Spring 2008 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Two Million on the Wrong Side of the Digital Divide Brenda Vogel Retired Library Coordinator, Maryland Correctional...

PA: Felon voting signs removed from Obama office

Posted on August 28, 2008
08/22/2008 Felon voting signs removed from Obama office By Michael Hays Pottstown, PA POTTSTOWN ? A simple sign in the window of the local Barack Obama campaign headquarters has reignited a conversation about convicted felons' right to vote in this...

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Why Did Darryl Die?

Posted on August 28, 2008
August 28, 2008 New York Times Editorial Why Did Darryl Die? Two years after a child died there, the Justice Department is conducting a much-needed investigation of New York?s Tryon Boys Residential Center, a juvenile facility in upstate Fulton County...

Rachel King, 45, anti-death penalty activist

Posted on August 28, 2008
Rachel King, 45, anti-death penalty activist By Daily Hampshire Gazette Created 08/27/2008 - 09:23 Rachel Carol King, 45, of Washington, D.C., formerly of Northampton, died Monday, Aug. 25, surrounded by family and friends at her summer home in Wayne, Maine...

Del Martin (1921 - 2008)

Posted on August 28, 2008
Del Martin August 27, 2008 Associated Press, by LISA LEFF: Del Martin, a pioneering lesbian rights activist who with her lifelong partner became a symbol for the movement to legalize gay marriage, died Wednesday morning. (August 27, 2008) She was...

Symposium: NYC "Slave Routes: Resistance, Abolition & Creative Progress"

Posted on August 27, 2008
SLAVE ROUTES: RESISTANCE, ABOLITION & CREATIVE PROGRESS An International Symposium in New York City OCTOBER 9 - OCTOBER 11, 2008 To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by the United States of America, New...

An Estimated 809,800 Inmates in the Nation's Prisons Were Parents to 1,706,600 Minor Children at Midyear 2007

Posted on August 26, 2008
Last update: 4:56 p.m. EDT Aug. 26, 2008 WASHINGTON, Aug 26, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- An estimated 809,800 prisoners of the 1,518,535 held in the nation's prison at midyear 2007 were parents of minor children, according to a report....

Wash. state welcomes back private jobs in prisons

Posted on August 25, 2008
August 25, 2008 Wash. state welcomes back private jobs in prisons Seattle Post Intelligencer THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TACOMA, Wash. -- More than four years after the state Supreme Court ruled that private companies could not operate out of state prisons,...

Goal: Keep mentally ill out of prison

Posted on August 24, 2008
Sunday, Aug 24, 2008 Goal: Keep mentally ill out of prison BY RON SYLVESTER The Wichita Eagle These links at this URL: ://www.kansas.com/213/story/504459.html # The book ?Criminalization of Mental Illness? by Risdon N. Slate and W. Wesley Johnson (Carolina Academic...

Judges Vetted by White House More Likely to Reject Asylum Bids

Posted on August 24, 2008
August 24, 2008 Vetted Judges More Likely to Reject Asylum Bids By CHARLIE SAVAGE NY Times WASHINGTON ? Immigrants seeking asylum in the United States have been disproportionately rejected by judges whom the Bush administration chose using a conservative political...

OH: Bill would free more deadbeat parents. Kids, state would all be winners, legislator says.

Posted on August 24, 2008
Bill would free more deadbeat parents. Kids, state would all be winners, legislator says Friday, August 22, 2008 3:10 AM By Jim Siegel THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Hoping to see more deadbeat parents placed in community-corrections programs instead of costly, crowded...

Former UNICOR worker and prisoners claim exposure to toxic material

Posted on August 22, 2008
Former prison worker claims exposure to toxic material By Lance Griffin Dothan Eagle August 21, 2008 MARIANNA, Fla. ? Freda Cobb?s three-ring binder is filled with more than 200 pages, most of them detailing 11 years of ailments, doctor visits...

Dennis Skillicorn's execution is postponed for 30 days

Posted on August 22, 2008
08/21/2008 | St. Louis Post-Dispatch The quality of mercy Late Wednesday afternoon the Missouri Supreme Court postponed for at least 30 days the state's plans to administer the death penalty for the first time in almost three years. It was...

THE MEANING OF "LIFE": LONG PRISON SENTENCES IN CONTEXT LIFERS IN PRISON

Posted on August 22, 2008
THE MEANING OF "LIFE": LONG PRISON SENTENCES IN CONTEXT LIFERS IN PRISON This is from the Sentencing Project from 2002/2003 The number of persons serving life sentences has grown along with the increase in the overall prison population of recent...

CO: 1,361 priosn employees live in Pueblo Co.

Posted on August 20, 2008
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 Pueblo attracts majority of prison workers Department of Corrections records show that 1,361 employees live in Pueblo County, while 1,252 reside in Fremont County. By DENNIS DARROW THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN August 20, 2008 03:10 am Of...

Cancer-Stricken 34-Year-Old Chinese Computer Engineer Dies After Being Denied Care in Private US Immigration Prison

Posted on August 19, 2008
Cancer-Stricken 34-Year-Old Chinese Computer Engineer Dies After Being Denied Care in Private US Immigration Prison Democracy Now 8-19-08. You can listen to the interview or read the transcript at this URL. http://www.democracynow.org/2008/8/19/35_year_old_immigrant_detainee_dies Earlier this month, a thirty-four-year-old Chinese computer engineer,...

What Do Prisoners Make for Victoria's Secret?

Posted on August 19, 2008
What Do Prisoners Make for Victoria's Secret? From Starbucks to Microsoft: a sampling of what US inmates make, and for whom" Mother Jones Caroline Winter July 21, 2008 Tens of thousands of US inmates are paid from pennies to minimum...

Where Does $49,000 for Each Prisoner Go?

Posted on August 19, 2008
Where Does $49,000 for Each Inmate Go? California spends four times as much per prisoner as Mississippi. Where does the money go?" July 21, 2008" The $49,000 Question California spends around $49,000 annually per adult inmate, nearly 4 times Mississippi,...

36 states offer release to ill or dying inmates

Posted on August 18, 2008
(a list of states can be found by going to the sidebar of the article. The URL is below.) 36 states offer release to ill or dying inmates Programs help cut costs of health care, officials say By Marty Roney...

States launch new war on poverty

Posted on August 18, 2008
States launch new war on poverty By Daily Hampshire Gazette 08/18/2008 Neal Peirce In a rare burst of positive news for America's hard-put poor families, 15 states have set up bipartisan commissions to see how to narrow the yawning income...

Wondering how McCain did so well at the Saddleback Church?

Posted on August 18, 2008
August 18, 2008 Despite Assurances, McCain Wasn?t in a ?Cone of Silence? By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE ORLANDO, Fla. ? Senator John McCain was not in a ?cone of silence? on Saturday night while his rival, Senator Barack Obama, was being...

Cutting dropout rates for the poor

Posted on August 18, 2008
Cutting dropout rates for the poor by Hans G. Despain By Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton, MA 8-18-08 Our children will be returning to school at the end of the month. In nine high schools in the Pioneer Valley, students are...

How will prisons handle TV switch?

Posted on August 17, 2008
How will prisons handle TV switch? The end of analog broadcasts in February raises issues for Ohio prison officials, 50,000 inmates. By Tom Beyerlein Staff Writer Sunday, August 17, 2008 Dayton Daily News TV or not TV? That may be...

TX: Smith County Commissioners Call November Jail Bond Election

Posted on August 17, 2008
Aug 15, 2008 Smith County Commissioners Call November Jail Bond Election Tyler TX Morning Telegraph By ROY MAYNARD Staff Writer Smith County commissioners on Thursday called a November election for a proposed $59.6 million jail bond proposal, but an opposition...

Letters from federal prisoners going electronic

Posted on August 16, 2008
Letters from federal prisoners going electronic MIAMI (AP) ? When Melvin Garcia was sent to prison almost a decade ago for racketeering, he had never used a computer. Now he sends 50 e-mails a month from a federal prison in...

In a Generation, Minorities May Be the U.S. Majority

Posted on August 14, 2008
August 14, 2008 In a Generation, Minorities May Be the U.S. Majority By SAM ROBERTS NY Times Ethnic and racial minorities will comprise a majority of the nation?s population in a little more than a generation, according to new Census...

TX: First ever prison phone system approved. 26 cents a minute for in-state calls

Posted on August 14, 2008
"Over its seven-year run, the contract could generate as much as $600 million in gross revenues, officials estimated." PRISON PHONES First-ever state prison pay phone system approved Inmates will pay 26 cents a minute for in-state calls By Mike Ward....

Illinois state prisoners artwork is on display at the Chicago Cultural Center as part of an exhibit, 'Light from Inside.'

Posted on August 14, 2008
Illinois state prisoners artwork is on display at the Chicago Cultural Center as part of an exhibit, 'Light from Inside.' watch the video.... http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=6325660 "I paint because it's an avenue that lets people know that people know that I'm more...

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