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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.
By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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NH: Officials pushing to fill youth detention center

Posted on October 22, 2010
Officials pushing to fill youth detention center By MARK HAYWARD New Hampshire Union Leader October 22, 2010 MANCHESTER ? With New Hampshire's only state-run juvenile detention center less than half full, a lawmaker warned Thursday that officials have to find...

NV: Prisons chief says closure could save $9 million a year

Posted on October 22, 2010
"The director is also recommending in his proposed budget a $15 charge for a person who wants to visit an inmate. This would cover part of the cost of the background check and would be a one-time fee." Prisons chief...

U.K: Justice Secretary plans to close prisons through instituting reforms---! What a concept.

Posted on October 22, 2010
"Proper investment in community solutions and mental healthcare, effective working between departments and greater devolution to local authorities would cut crime and reduce reoffending. This could be the first government to prove that closing prison works...

PA: GEO proposes prison for 2,500 undocumented immigrants

Posted on October 21, 2010
Proposed immigrant prison could bring new jobs and new questions A Florida company wants to build a 2,500-bed detention center in Upper Mount Bethel Township. By Andrew McGill, OF THE MORNING CALL October 20, 2010 A private prison operator may...

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Susan Burton Wins 2010 Harvard Kennedy School Gleitsman Citizen Activist Award for Work with Formerly Incarcerated Women

Posted on October 21, 2010
Susan Burton Wins 2010 Harvard Kennedy School Gleitsman Citizen Activist Award for Work with Formerly Incarcerated Women AND....you can vote now and OFTEN for Susan to be the CNN Hero of the Year. She is one of 10 who can...

PA: step forward in reducing prison population BUT it will take years...

Posted on October 20, 2010
"It will take more years and more reform to get Pennsylvania to the point where it will significantly reduce its prison population, as has happened in other states," he said." http://republicanherald.com/news/bill-targets-prison-overcrowding-costs-1.1051353 Bill targets prison overcrowding costs BY ROBERT SWIFT (HARRISBURG...

NM: Budget cuts force DOC to recruit Americorps volunteers and social work students. Some prisoners to be transferred back to state prisons.

Posted on October 20, 2010
Budgets force prisons to tap community for help Updated at: 10/18/2010 By: Gadi Schwartz, KOB Eyewitness News State prisons are turning to cheap labor to deal with the most recent round of budget cuts asking volunteers, college interns and even...

Final Call: Report: Modern-Day Debtors' Prisons Devastating the Poor

Posted on October 20, 2010
?The industry itself is tremendous. Can you imagine what it takes to run, say, California State Prisons in terms of food services, clothing, armaments, initially the building trades? It's a multi-billion dollar industry that a great number of people are...

With Soros Foundation Grant, NPR to Step Up State Government Reporting

Posted on October 18, 2010
With Grant, NPR to Step Up State Government Reporting By ELIZABETH JENSEN NY Times - Oct. 17, 2010 NPR has received a $1.8 million grant from the Open Society Foundations to begin a project called Impact of Government that is...

Deportation Program Grows -Texas Fully Adopts Much-Debated Federal Plan Aimed at All Counties by 2013

Posted on October 18, 2010
Deportation Program Grows Texas Fully Adopts Much-Debated Federal Plan Aimed at All Counties by 2013 By ANA CAMPOY October 18, 2010, Wall Street Journal AUSTIN, Texas?A federal program that scans local jails for illegal immigrants is being expanded across the...

NY: SPECIAL REPORT: Prison suicide rates rise; solitary confinement adds to risk

Posted on October 17, 2010
SPECIAL REPORT: Prison suicide rates rise; solitary confinement adds to risk Mary Beth Pfeiffer ? Poughkeepsie Journal ? October 17, 2010 Just days from her 23rd birthday in June and six months before possible release from prison, Danaroy Countryman did...

PA: Bill would ease overcrowding in Pa. prisons

Posted on October 16, 2010
Bill would ease overcrowding in Pa. prisons Rendell's OK of new law would house 'lower-risk offenders' elsewhere Saturday, October 16, 2010 By Tom Barnes, Post-Gazette Harrisburg Bureau HARRISBURG -- For years, state legislators have been talking about doing something to...

Women convicted of killing their husbands are freed from prison under new Missouri law

Posted on October 16, 2010
Women convicted of killing their husbands are freed from prison under new Missouri law AP October 15, 2010 Two women who spent more than 30 years in Missouri prisons for killing their abusive husbands were released Friday after their lawyer...

Buffalo NY: Let?s all work to end Holding Center abuse

Posted on October 16, 2010
Let?s all work to end Holding Center abuse By Karima Amin, a retired Buffalo teacher, is founder of Prisoners Are People Too and co-chair of the Erie County Prisoners? Rights Coalition. October 16, 2010 On Aug. 5, 2009, we stood...

Daedalus Issue: The Challenges of Mass Incarceration in America: Does Locking Up More People Reduce Crime?

Posted on October 15, 2010
The Challenges of Mass Incarceration in America: Does Locking Up More People Reduce Crime? CAMBRIDGE, MA ? More Americans are serving time in prison or jail than at any point in the nation?s history, reflecting an incarceration rate that greatly...

CA: Anatomy of a Prison Crisis

Posted on October 14, 2010
Anatomy of a Prison Crisis By Joe Domanick October 13th, 2010 The Crime Report How Arnold Schwarzenegger tried (and failed) to fix California?s dysfunctional prison system Dressed in a navy-blue windbreaker emblazoned with the gold seal of The Great State...

"Lockdown" by Walter Dean Myers 2010 National Book Award Finalist, Young People's Literature

Posted on October 14, 2010
"Lockdown" by Walter Dean Myers 2010 National Book Award Finalist, Young People's Literature ABOUT THE BOOK "When I first got to Progress, it freaked me out to be locked in a room and unable to get out. But after a...

Toxic Persons New research shows precisely how the prison-to-poverty cycle does its damage.

Posted on October 11, 2010
Toxic Persons New research shows precisely how the prison-to-poverty cycle does its damage. By Sasha Abramsky - Posted on Slate Oct. 8, 2010 http://www.slate.com/id/2270328/ Forty years after the United States began its experimentation with mass incarceration policies, the country is...

NY Times Editorial: NY Juvenile Prisons: "Two Words: Wasteful and Ineffective"

Posted on October 11, 2010
Two Words: Wasteful and Ineffective NY Times Editorial October 10, 2010 New York State will spend an extraordinary $170 million this year on 21 juvenile facilities. The system has more than 2,000 employees to oversee fewer than 700 children. This...

"High Cost of Crime" by Charles M. Blow

Posted on October 09, 2010
"By their estimates, more than 18,000 homicides that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recorded in 2007 alone will cost us roughly $300 billion. That?s about as much as we?ve spent over nine years fighting the war in Afghanistan....

MA-VA: Clarke, MA DOC Commissioner gets job in VA

Posted on October 09, 2010
Massachusetts corrections chief to be next director for Va. prisons Rosalind Helderman Oct. 9, 2010 Washington Post Gov. Bob McDonnell named Harold Clarke director of the state Department of Corrections. Clarke has been commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Correction...

Throw the books at inmates"

Posted on October 08, 2010
HICKS: Throw the books at inmates By Brian Hicks Friday, October 8, 2010 OK, there are probably a few things you don't want inmates in your jail reading. For instance, the J. Campbell Bruce classic "Escape From Alcatraz" or other...

Pennsylvania's juveniles seek relief for life sentences

Posted on October 07, 2010
According to 2008 state records, the most recent available, 444 inmates are in prison for life for crimes they committed before their 18th birthdays. However, Bradley Bridge, a defense attorney and reformer, says 2010's total tops 470. Pennsylvania's juveniles seek...

ACLU And Brennan Center Reports Expose Resurgence Of Debtors' Prisons

Posted on October 07, 2010
" In For a Penny: The Rise of America's New Debtors' Prisons" October 4, 2010 ACLU And Brennan Center Reports Expose Resurgence Of Debtors' Prisons NEW YORK ? Poor defendants are being jailed at increasingly alarming rates for failing to...

The Quality of Whose Life? An Introduction to America's Modern Anti-Poor Movement

Posted on October 07, 2010
The Quality of Whose Life? An Introduction to America's Modern Anti-Poor Movement By Paul Boden Organizing Director, Western Regional Advocacy Project October 5, 2010 It's clear that there's a huge disconnect between our ideals and public policy. For example, The...

Electronics recycling at federal prisons under fire

Posted on October 06, 2010
"In 2009, the recycling business employed 860 inmates earning from 23 cents to $1.15 an hour, according to Unicor's annual report. Sales from recycling operations last year were about $9.2 million." Electronics recycling at prisons under fire Myron Levin, FairWarning...

NY: High Cost of Prison Guards and Nurses

Posted on October 05, 2010
High Cost of Prison Workers Tuesday, 05 Oct 2010 By Barbara Nevins Taylor MYFOXNY.COM - Every time a criminal gets locked up in New York it costs taxpayers about $55,000 a year to keep him or her behind bars. But...

"Criminal Justice Debt: A Barrier to Reentry" a new report from the Brennan Center

Posted on October 05, 2010
"Criminal Justice Debt: A Barrier to Reentry" By Alicia Bannon, Mitali Nagrecha, Rebekah Diller 10/04/10, The Brennan Center for Justice. Executive Summary Many states are imposing new and often onerous ?user fees? on individuals with criminal convic�tions...

CO: Former DOC head working in Afghanstan says: "Our corrections system is the most effective human-rights tool we have in Afghanistan"

Posted on October 04, 2010
Colorado corrections experts bring modern prison programs to Afghanistan By Kirk Mitchell The Denver Post Posted: 10/03/2010 In Afghanistan, Colorado's Bill Zalman is leading a team of U.S. corrections experts who are training wardens of that nation's 33 regional prisons...

Jena LA: Drug bust or racist revenge?

Posted on October 04, 2010
Drug bust or racist revenge? Criminal Justice, Talk About Race ? By Jordan Flaherty May 14, 2010 Race-Talk At four am on July 9 of last year, more than 150 officers from 10 different agencies gathered in a large barn...

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