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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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Last Entry: March 27, 2011 at 18:14:51

Please Help My Good Friend Tiyo!

Posted on October 03, 2010
Hello all- This letter was written by Monty Neill, a long-time friend of Tiyo's (30+ years). It was Monty that introduced Tiyo to Howard Zinn and this is how Howard became Tiyo's good friend and champion for more than 30...

Oregon to close prison, lay off 63 workers in $2.5 million budget cut

Posted on October 01, 2010
Oregon to close prison, lay off 63 workers in $2.5 million budget cut Published: Thursday, September 30, 2010, 10:13 PM By Les Zaitz, The Oregonian For the first time in its history, Oregon will shut down an operating prison as...

Article on new Pew Report: "Collateral Costs: Incarceration's Effect on Economic Mobility"

Posted on September 30, 2010
The Cost of Jail to America?s Working Population By Annie Lowrey 9/29/10 The Washington Independent This week, the Pew?s Economic Mobility Project is up with an astonishing report ("Collateral Costs: Incarceration's Effect on Economic Mobility" by Bruce Western and Becky...

MILK NOT JAILS Campaign Organizers Arrested in Buffalo, NY

Posted on September 29, 2010
MILK NOT JAILS Campaign Organizers Arrested in Buffalo, NY September 26, 2010 Buffalo, NY ? Two MILK NOT JAILS Campaign Organizers were arrested late Saturday night on Allen Street in Buffalo, NY after a successful day of serving ice cream...

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Report: Native Hawaiians Over-Represented in Hawai'i's Criminal Justice System

Posted on September 29, 2010
NATIVE HAWAIIANS OVER-REPRESENTED IN HAWAI'I'S CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM (September 29,2010) Groundbreaking research shows that Native Hawaiians are more likely to be incarcerated than other racial or ethnic groups in Hawai'i HONOLULU, HAWAI'I - The Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) released...

Voices from Solitary: A Little Taste of "Freedom"

Posted on September 28, 2010
Voices from Solitary: A Little Taste of "Freedom" James Ridgeway and Jean Casella | September 27, 2010 at 12:41 pm | http://solitarywatch.com/author/jamesridgewayandjeancasella/ It's a measure of the torment of solitary confinement that by comparison, life in the general population of...

CA: CA- Schwarzenegger vetoes anti-shackling bill

Posted on September 28, 2010
September 27, 2010 From the office of Assemblymember Nancy Skinner The Governor just vetoed the bill with 2 sentences..... ?CSA?s mission is to regulate and develop standards for correctional facilities, not establish policies on transportation issues to and from other...

Lewisburg Prison Project: 2 per cell foments prison's violence

Posted on September 27, 2010
Group: 2 per cell foments prison?s violence By Marcia Moore The Daily Item, Sunbury, PA September 25, 2010 ? Despite taking in the most disruptive and aggressive inmates in the federal Bureau of Prisons, the U.S. Penitentiary at Lewisburg still...

MN: Pushing uphill to keep teens from landing in adult prisons

Posted on September 27, 2010
Pushing uphill to keep teens from landing in adult prisons By GAIL ROSENBLUM, Star Tribune Last update: September 25, 2010 - 9:40 PM Minneapolis Star Tribune Jason Sole headed to Minneapolis' Seward neighborhood in January, hoping the horrific news he'd...

Essay from Al Cunningham on California's Death Row "Underneath My Bed--A Monster Waits"

Posted on September 25, 2010
I received this essay from Al Cunningham a few months ago. After reading the article in today's NY Times about an impending execution to take place at San Quentin this Wednesday, I thought this would be the time to post...

With Conditions, Judge Clears Way for a California Execution

Posted on September 25, 2010
With Conditions, Judge Clears Way for a California Execution By JESSE McKINLEY Published: September 24, 2010 NY Times SAN FRANCISCO ? A murderer and rapist has been cleared by a federal judge for execution in California next week in what...

VA: Prison Legal News Wins Concessions in Lawsuit

Posted on September 24, 2010
Prison News wins concessions in lawsuit By Tasha Kates Published: September 23, 2010 The Daily Progress A monthly prison issues magazine has settled its lawsuit against Virginia Department of Corrections officials for $125,250 and some changes to the prison?s policy...

Support the Restoration of Access to Higher Ed for Prisoners--

Posted on September 23, 2010
SUPPORT RESTORING ACCESS TO HIGHER EDUCATION FUNDING The Education from the Inside Out Coalition is a nonpartisan collaborative of criminal justice and education advocates, led by the College and Community Fellowship and The Fortune Society's David Rothenberg Center for Public...

NC: Sheriffs want lists of patients using painkillers

Posted on September 23, 2010
Sheriffs want lists of patients using painkillers September 8, 2010 BY LYNN BONNER - staff writer News and Observer Sheriffs in North Carolina want access to state computer records identifying anyone with prescriptions for powerful painkillers and other controlled substances...

Susan Burton of New Way of Life Makes It Into the Top Ten of CNN Heroes. Please vote for her so she can be chosen as #1!

Posted on September 23, 2010
Here's a message from Susan Burton, founder of A New Way of Life Reentry Project in Los Angeles. Susan has made it into the top ten CNN Heroes. Please vote for her and vote often (it's allowed). It takes one...

National Atlas of Sentencing and Corrections

Posted on September 22, 2010
The Justice Mapping Center launched the National Atlas of Sentencing and Corrections?an online tool that shows a neighborhood-level view of where prisoners, probationers, and parolees are from and where corrections spending is highest. The atlas serves as an tool for...

NAACP traveling billboard campaign: Focus tax money on schools, not prisons

Posted on September 22, 2010
NAACP billboard: Focus tax money on schools, not prisons By Peter Mucha Philadelphia Inquirer Staff Writer September 21, 2010 A billboard, big as a bus and sporting two symbols of freedom, is touring Philadelphia, urging new thinking about how tax...

Missouri Tells Judges Cost of Sentences

Posted on September 21, 2010
Missouri Tells Judges Cost of Sentences By MONICA DAVEY Published New York Times: September 18, 2010 ST. LOUIS ? When judges here sentence convicted criminals, a new and unusual variable is available for them to consider: what a given punishment...

MA: Judge troubled by life term for juvenile but won't reduce conviction

Posted on September 16, 2010
Odgren loses bid for lower sentence Judge troubled by life term, but won?t reduce conviction By Milton J. Valencia, Globe Staff | September 16, 2010 Citing her legal limitations, a Superior Court judge refused yesterday to alter the conviction of...

Racial Disparity in School Suspensions- Black boys are nearly 3 times as likely to be suspended as white boys and Black girls nearly 4 times as likely as white girls

Posted on September 15, 2010
September 13, 2010 Racial Disparity in School Suspensions By SAM DILLON NY Times In many of the nation?s middle schools, black boys were nearly three times as likely to be suspended as white boys, according to a new study, which...

Phone Justice!

Posted on September 12, 2010
How has the cost of prison phone calls impacted you? What needs to change? On Wednesday, September 15th Thousand Kites will be part of a MAG-Net delegation meeting with Federal Communications Commission Chairman Genachowski and Commissioner Clyburn. Earlier in the...

Texas officials plan seminary at Darrington prison

Posted on September 12, 2010
Texas officials plan seminary at Darrington prison � 2010 The Associated Press Sept. 11, 2010, 10:22AM AUSTIN, Texas ? Texas officials say they plan to open a non-denominational seminary at the maximum-security Darrington Unit south of Houston. The program will...

OH: Warren County ahead of state in alternative sentencing

Posted on September 12, 2010
Warren County ahead of state in alternative sentencing Judges use work release, electronic monitoring as sentencing options By Ed Richter, Staff Writer 9:15 PM Saturday, September 11, 2010 LEBANON ? As Ohio continues to grapple with balancing its biennium budget,...

PA: "Empty Bars"

Posted on September 10, 2010
Empty Bars POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 9, 2010 By Matt Stroud Pittsburgh City Paper Pennsylvania's prison population has increased by almost 800 percent in the past four decades. In a bid to relieve overcrowding, the Department of Corrections has sent 2,100....

NY Times Editorial: Making Prisons Safer

Posted on September 10, 2010
NY Times Editorial: Making Prisons Safer September 9, 2010 Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. has spent nearly 15 months weighing new mandatory rape prevention policies for federal prisons and state correctional institutions that receive federal money. The policies, which are...

MA: "The Reform Proof Prison" and "Troubled Over Bridgewater - Why Massachusetts' correctional system hasn't gotten any better"

Posted on September 09, 2010
The reform-proof prison Boston Phoenix Troubled Over Bridgewater: Old Colony Correctional Center has been plagued by suicide, overcrowding, and brutality ? and things are only getting worse By CHRIS FARAONE | September 8, 2010 http://thePhoenix.com/Boston/news/108081-troubled-over-bridgewater/ On a winter evening around...

AZ enforces it's death penalty on Hawaiian prisoners even though HI abolished the death penalty

Posted on September 08, 2010
Hawai`i abolished the death penalty many years ago. Yet, the State of Arizona is pursuing the death penalty against three Hawai`i inmates accused of murdering Bronson Nunuha and Clifford Medina while confined at CCA's Saguaro prison. This difference in the...

Dallas, PA - "Life and Death in Pennsylvania's Solitary Confinement Cells" From Solitary Watch

Posted on September 08, 2010
Life and Death in Pennsylvania's Solitary Confinement Cells James Ridgeway and Jean Casella | September 7, 2010 Matt Stroud has been doing excellent reporting on solitary confinement in the weekly Philadelphia City Paper. In August he published "A Death in...

ANN ARBOR: U of M-based Prison Creative Arts Project enters 21st year

Posted on September 06, 2010
ANN ARBOR: U of M-based Prison Creative Arts Project enters 21st year Sunday, September 5, 2010 By Donna Iadipaolo, Special Writer In the 1980s, University of Michigan professor William "Buzz" Alexander introduced a powerful theater exercise to Peruvian shanty-town peasants...

Women Dixon Springs (IL) Boot Camp ---photo slide show "The Impact Incarceration Program"

Posted on September 05, 2010
Photographer: Julia Marie Rendleman Project Title: "The Impact Incarceration Program" The Impact Incarceration Program at the Dixon Springs Boot Camp in Southern Illinois is a 120-day program where inmates participate in a military-like boot camp instead of serving their judge-mandated...

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