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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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Doing time on their own dime: More states charge inmates for stays in jail, prison

Posted on May 17, 2010
Doing time on their own dime: More states charge inmates for stays in jail, prison Institute of South Studies As the economic downturn worsens and states grapple with large budget deficits, many inmates may find themselves paying for their crimes...

An Imperfect Improvement: Obama's New Drug War Strategy by Ethan Nadelmann

Posted on May 14, 2010
An Imperfect Improvement: Obama's New Drug War Strategy Ethan Nadelmann Drug Policy Alliance, Executive Director Posted: May 11, 2010 The White House's 2010 National Drug Control Strategy, released this morning by President Obama and drug czar Gil Kerlikowske, is both...

CCA says times are good for private prisons

Posted on May 14, 2010
""At current incarceration rates, jail and prison populations would grow by about 121,000 between 2010 and 2015, or more than 24,000 per year on average," Corrections Corp. said in a February presentation. Both "high recidivism" among felons and "inmate population...

MA: Imprisoned by mandates

Posted on May 13, 2010
Imprisoned by mandates By Yvonne Abraham Globe Columnist / May 13, 2010 A lot of legislators are skittish these days, worried voters will dump them now that Massachusetts is a state Sarah Palin would visit ? however briefly. Maybe that?s...

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Okla. prisons struggle to be tough, cheap

Posted on May 11, 2010
Okla. prisons struggle to be tough, cheap 05/10/10 SEAN MURPHY, Associated Press Writer Alva Review/Courier OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) ? Facing severe budget problems, Oklahoma is one of many states trying to cut its spending on corrections. But Oklahoma legislators also...

Investigative Series in the Sacramento Bee on Behavior Management Cages in CA

Posted on May 11, 2010
Behavior modification units: About this series Posted at 12:10 AM on Sunday, May. 09, 2010 Sacramento Bee These stories are based on a review of thousands of pages of research studies, audits, coroner reports, legal filings and evaluations concerning conditions...

Massachusetts sets out to bill prison inmates for room and board

Posted on May 09, 2010
Massachusetts sets out to bill prison inmates for room and board By JOHN P. KELLY The Patriot Ledger Posted May 08, 2010 @ 10:47 AM Mike Fralick walked out of prison ``dead broke'' in December, he said, determined to find...

NY-State Court of Appeals Rules that class action suit challenging the adequacy of the state's public defender system can move forward

Posted on May 08, 2010
Suit Over Legal Aid Advances in New York By WILLIAM GLABERSON Published: May 6, 2010 The 4-to-3 ruling by the State Court of Appeals came in a closely watched suit that civil liberties lawyers said could be a model for...

Resolved: Inmates Make Tough Debaters

Posted on May 08, 2010
NY- Big City Resolved: Inmates Make Tough Debaters By SUSAN DOMINUS NY Times Published: May 7, 2010 The two debate teams sat across a large room on Thursday night waiting for their face-off to begin. On one side were the...

Sheena Duncan, White Who Fought Apartheid, led Black Sash , Dies at 77

Posted on May 08, 2010
Sheena Duncan, White Who Fought Apartheid, Dies at 77 By CELIA W. DUGGER Published: May 7, 2010 JOHANNESBURG ? Sheena Duncan, who led the Black Sash, a group of middle-class white women in South Africa who protested against apartheid and...

Prison Health News relaunched

Posted on May 08, 2010
Prison Health News, founded in 2001, (http://community-justice.org/projects/phn/) is a quarterly newsletter written by and for people who have been in prison or are currently living behind the walls. Spanning topics on medical updates, health care advocacy tips and mutual support,...

Mass. fails in commitment to juvenile justice

Posted on May 06, 2010
May 5, 2010 The Boston Globe RE ?JURY convicts Odgren of murder?? (Page A1, April 30): In the murder conviction of a youth who happens to be diagnosed with all sorts of mental disabilities, the real crime is that states...

A conversation with authr Piper Kerman, author of "Organge is the New Black"

Posted on May 05, 2010
A conversation with author Piper Kerman: How a Smith grad's post-college path led to prison By Suzanne Wilson Created 05/05/2010 Piper Kerman's memoir, "Orange Is the New Black: My Year In a Women's Prison," begins with her graduation from Smith...

Los Angeles: Overcrowded Men's Central Jail Plagued by Violence and Hazardous Living Conditions, New ACLU Report Finds

Posted on May 05, 2010
Overcrowded Men's Central Jail Plagued by Violence and Hazardous Living Conditions, New ACLU Report Finds "...the only solutions are to either reduce the jail population dramatically or close it." from the report: "...the ACLU urgently renews its call for the...

Families Rally for Emancipation and Empowerment: Family Survivial Guide

Posted on May 05, 2010
FREE Family Survival Guide FREE! is a grassroots collective of people impacted by the hardships resulting from a loved one?s imprisonment. Our mission is to support, strengthen and empower impacted families through peer-to-peer support ??each one teach one,? self-advocacy and...

CA: Can a new prison save a town?

Posted on May 04, 2010
Can a new prison save a town? By Alana Semuels, Los Angeles Times May 3, 2010 Wanda Leung sits at her restaurant's cash register, flipping through a newspaper. It's lunchtime, but the turquoise stools at the counter are empty. Drought...

CA: Federal Appellate Court Rejects Schwarteneggers attempt to end court appointed health receiver

Posted on May 04, 2010
California can't ditch prison medical receiver, court says By Denny Walsh Sacramento Bee Published: Saturday, May. 1, 2010 A federal appellate court on Friday rejected the Schwarzenegger administration's attempt to rid itself of the court-appointed receiver charged with bringing prison...

RCP blog named one of top 50

Posted on May 04, 2010
Real Cost of Prisons Project Blog has been named one of "Top 50 Criminology Blogs "by CriminoBlogica http://www.mastersincriminology.com/top-50-criminology-blogs.html...

MA: Bill passed in House on charging prisons up to $5 a day in Jails

Posted on May 02, 2010
Barbara Dougan of MA FAMM writes that the bill passed is for jails only NOT prisons and jails....maybe half as bad as reported in the press. Call your Senators and tell them NO! Amendment 26, AS PASSED: Representative Poirier of...

MA: House passes bill allowing jails and prisons to chrarge prisoners up to $5 a day!

Posted on May 01, 2010
Prisoners could pay up to $5 a day May 1, 2010 The Massachusetts House has adopted a controversial fee for prison inmates that the courts had earlier blocked Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson from imposing at county jails. The courts...

MI: Jail to Go With Post Card Only Mail

Posted on May 01, 2010
Isabella jail to go with post card only mail Published: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 By SUSAN FIELD Clare Managing Editor Citing the time consuming process of sorting mail and the contraband sometimes found in envelopes, Isabella County Sheriff Leo Mioduszewski...

CA: Editorial: Professors and prisons ?Professors and Prison Guards: An Overview of California?s State Workforce?

Posted on April 30, 2010
"Ultimately, the report makes a good case that (a) the prison system is a runaway train for state spending, and (b) that California is not going to be able to drastically reduce state employment without having a major impact on...

Prisoners seeking pen pals

Posted on April 30, 2010
Prisoners seeking pen pals By KRISTIN TILLOTSON, Minneapolis Star Tribune April 26, 2010 Prisoner-correspondence websites serve as eHarmonies for the incarcerated - and sometimes just friendly contact with the outside world. In the age of e-mail, instant messaging and Twitter,...

CA: Down Prison Road--an excellent article on the March for California's future through the prison towns of the San Joaquin Valley to Sacramento

Posted on April 28, 2010
Down Prison Road Tuesday 27 April 2010 by: David Bacon, t r u t h o u t | Report Chowchilla, California - High in the mountains overlooking Bakersfield and the south end of the San Joaquin Valley is a...

VA: Fairfax chain gangs fill gaps for cash-strapped DOT

Posted on April 27, 2010
Fairfax chain gangs fill gaps for cash-strapped DOT By Derek Kravitz Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, April 26, 2010 The vest-wearing, lawn-mower-pushing members of Fairfax County's modern chain gang don't look like jail inmates. Well-disciplined landscapers, yes...

GA: Homeland Security's Inspector General Critical of Sheriff departments 287g procedures

Posted on April 27, 2010
Report critical of immigration detention program By Andria Simmons April 25, 2010 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution A federal oversight body?s critical report has rekindled a debate about the effectiveness of a program touted by local law enforcement as a way to...

TX: For the Lucios, Private Prison Consulting is a Family Affair- Corplan specializes in selling desperate communites prisons

Posted on April 27, 2010
For the Lucios, Private Prison Consulting is a Family Affair by Forrest Wilder Texas Observer- Published on: Friday, April 23, 2010 Updated below State Rep. Eddie Lucio III, a Brownsville Democrat, is following in his father's footsteps by joining forces...

MI: How to close a prison and still not save money.

Posted on April 27, 2010
SPECIAL REPORT: Why Michigan prison costs keep growing By The Center for Michigan - April 14, 2010 By Melissa Preddy As Michigan lawmakers negotiate next year's corrections department budget, analysts are perplexed by a persistent conundrum: The state's spending on...

CA Prison Hospice Helps Inmates and Care-Givers

Posted on April 27, 2010
CA Prison Hospice Helps Inmates and Care-Givers April 26th, 2010 Inside prison walls, Gary Rubenstein is facing a death sentence, but one not imposed by a judge or jury. He has terminal lung cancer and has stopped treatment, saving the...

Robert Hicks founder of Deacons for Defense and fought the Ku Klux Klan in LA dies at 81

Posted on April 26, 2010
Robert Hicks, Leader in Armed Rights Group, Dies at 81 By DOUGLAS MARTIN Published: April 24, 2010 Someone had called to say the Ku Klux Klan was coming to bomb Robert Hicks?s house. The police said there was nothing they...

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