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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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Strapped States Are Bullish For Private Prisons

Posted on March 19, 2010
Strapped States Are Bullish For Private Prisons Frobes Andy Obermueller 03.18.10 I just stumbled upon some interesting data from the federal government: The average wage of the 15.2 million employees in California, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics,...

BOP increases of 7,000 by federalizing state crimes, immigrants, and women

Posted on March 19, 2010
Prisons Swollen by Foreigners, Druggies By NICK WILSON Courthouse News Thursday, March 18, 2010 WASHINGTON (CN) - The U.S. has more prisoners per capita than any other nation while the federal prison population - half of it made up of...

News of the sick: Chicago: Sherriff to save money by serving prisoners breakfasst at 4:30 AM

Posted on March 19, 2010
Sheriff Tom Dart. In an attempt to save money, Dart will have prisoners arrive to breakfast at 4:30 a.m. 03-18-10 -Huffington Post Sheriff Tom Dart has been cutting costs with a vengeance at the Cook County Department of Corrections. And...

Calif prison receiver seeks release of ill inmates

Posted on March 19, 2010
Calif prison receiver seeks release of ill inmates DON THOMPSON Posted March 16, 2010 SACRAMENTO, Calif. ? SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The federal receiver who runs California's prison health care system said Tuesday he will ask state lawmakers to approve...

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Pew Survey Shows State Prison Population Dropped in 2009

Posted on March 17, 2010
Pew Survey Shows State Prison Population Dropped in 2009 "Combining the state and federal figures, the nation's total prison population rose by 1,099 inmates. Given the small size of the national increase, the incarceration rate did not change and remains...

MT: meeting with Crow tribe/feds/private prison company re: uses for empty prison in Hardin

Posted on March 17, 2010
Talks held on Hardin jail future ED KEMMICK Of The Gazette Staff | Posted: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 Sherry Matteucci, a former U.S. attorney for Montana, gave more details Tuesday on a recent meeting in Hardin to discuss possible uses...

Canada: Proposed Youth Criminal Justice Act would give judges power to consider non-criminal behavior when sentencing youth

Posted on March 17, 2010
Youth sentencing changes proposed Amendment named for Quebec teen who died in 2004 March 16, 2010 | 4:11 PM ET \ The Canadian Press The Conservative government hopes changes proposed Tuesday will make "protection of society a primary goal" of...

Prison agency: Throwing away books was mistake

Posted on March 16, 2010
Prison agency: Throwing away books was mistake By CHRISTOPHER WILLS - Associated Press Writer Belleville News- Monday, Mar. 15, 2010 SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois Corrections Department said Monday it made a mistake by throwing away three trash bins' worth...

Defendants Fresh From War Find Service Counts in Court

Posted on March 16, 2010
Defendants Fresh From War Find Service Counts in Court By JOHN SCHWARTZ Published: March 15, 2010- NY Times CHARLESTON, W.Va. ? When Judge Robert C. Chambers handed down Timothy Oldani?s federal sentence for selling stolen military equipment on eBay, he...

ID: ACLU suing CCA for "Gladiator School" for $115 million in punitive damages

Posted on March 15, 2010
Sunday, March 14th, 2010 at 1:11 am ACLU Private Prison Lawsuit: Idaho Correctional Center, ?Gladiator School? By Beth There is currently an ACLU private prison lawsuit involving the Idaho Correctional Center known as ?gladiator school? among the inmates there...

Significant political stakes ride on how the census counts prisoners

Posted on March 15, 2010
Significant political stakes ride on how the census counts prisoners Should the census count inmates as residents of the prisons where they're held ? often hundreds of miles from home? Or should they be tallied as citizens of the cities...

Cruel Punishment Is Not Unusual for Clarence Thomas

Posted on March 13, 2010
Cruel Punishment Is Not Unusual for Clarence Thomas James Ridgeway and Jean Casella | March 12, 2010 Solitary Watch Veteran New York Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse has an opinion piece today on Clarence Thomas's "silent but sure" stance...

Mothers among the fastest growing prison population

Posted on March 12, 2010
Mothers among the fastest growing prison population by Cat Mayin Koo March 11, 2010 She squared her posture and with a piercing, straight-ahead look, the 49-year-old grandmother of six said, ?Crack. I was ad�dicted to crack for over 20 years.?...

MA: Patient?s death at Bridgewater is ruled homicide

Posted on March 11, 2010
Patient?s death after scuffle is ruled homicide By Jonathan Saltzman and Milton J. Valencia, Globe Staff | March 10, 2010 The death of a psychiatric patient who scuffled with correction officers at Bridgewater State Hospital in May has been ruled...

The New Jim Crow: How the War on Drugs Gave Birth to a Permanent American Undercaste By Michelle Alexander

Posted on March 10, 2010
The New Jim Crow: How the War on Drugs Gave Birth to a Permanent American Undercaste By Michelle Alexander- March 8, 2010 http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175215/tomgram%3A_michelle_alexander%2C_the_age_of_obama_as_a_racial_nightmare/ Ever since Barack Obama lifted his right hand and took his oath of office, pledging to serve...

MA: Some at Bristol jail got boost in pension. Sheriff?s hires gained windfall

Posted on March 09, 2010
Some at Bristol jail got boost in pension Sheriff?s hires gained windfall By Andrea Estes Boston Globe Staff / March 9, 2010 ed as a part-time, on-call pharmacist for the New Bedford Board of Health, making $2,200 a year. Then,...

MS:State triples spending on prisons while doubling amount spent on schools

Posted on March 09, 2010
"Meanwhile, the House last week killed a bill that could have cut the sentences of some drug offenders in half, pared the prison population by 1,000 inmates and saved the Mississippi Department of Corrections $8 million through 2013." Education, prisons...

MI: Business joins fight to right-size prisons

Posted on March 09, 2010
Business joins fight to right-size prisons Posted: March 8, 2010 Detroit Free Press Business leaders have taken a lead role in efforts to reform Michigan's oversized prison system. Legislators should pay attention. Lansing can't resolve its long-term budget crisis without...

FL: Lawmakers to consider: Is it time to close the Dozier School for Boys?

Posted on March 09, 2010
Lawmakers to consider: Is it time to close the Dozier School for Boys? By Ben Montgomery, Waveney Ann Moore and John Frank, Times Staff Writers Tuesday, March 9, 2010 TALLAHASSEE ? Florida's oldest reform school has survived a century of...

Behind Bars II: Substance Abuse and America?s Prison Population: 1.5 million meet the DSM IV medical criteria for substance abuse or addiction, and another 458,000, while not meeting the strict DSM IV criteria, had histories of substance abuse

Posted on March 07, 2010
Behind Bars II: Substance Abuse and America?s Prison Population Source: National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University http://www.casacolumbia.org/articlefiles/575-report2010behindbars2.pdf From press release: Of the 2.3 million inmates crowding our nations prisons and jails, 1...

Woman charged in breast milk assault on jailer

Posted on March 07, 2010
Woman charged in breast milk assault on jailer March 7, 2010 OWENSBORO, Ky.?A woman in jail for public intoxication was accused of assaulting a jailer by squirting breast milk at her. WYMT-TV reported that a 31-year-old woman was arrested Thursday...

Most House Republicans Vote to Let Schoolchildren Be Held Down, Tied Up, and Put in Solitary Confinement

Posted on March 06, 2010
Most House Republicans Vote to Let Schoolchildren Be Held Down, Tied Up, and Put in Solitary Confinement By James Ridgeway and Jean Casella | March 5, 2010 Solitary Watch On Wednesday afternoon, the United States House of Representatives passed H.R.....

Alarmist NY Times Story Could Hurt Efforts To Reduce Overcrowded Prisons

Posted on March 06, 2010
Alarmist NY Times Story Could Hurt Efforts To Reduce Overcrowded Prisons Jill Harris, Managing Director for Public Policy, Drug Policy Alliance Posted: March 5, 2010 02:35 PM Huffington Post Today the New York Times has several articles describing the effects...

Utah Anti-Abortion Bill Citing ?Reckless Act? Is Withdrawn

Posted on March 05, 2010
Utah Anti-Abortion Bill Citing ?Reckless Act? Is Withdrawn By KIRK JOHNSON Published: March 4, 2010 NY Times DENVER ? A sweeping anti-abortion statute in Utah that would have allowed up to life in prison for a woman whose fetus died...

For Jamie Scott, an $11 Robbery in Mississippi May Carry a Death Sentence

Posted on March 05, 2010
(Wexford is the private "health care" provider.) "Wexford refuses to fill critical medical positions. Wexford refuses to grant off-site visits for seriously ill inmates. Wexford refuses to renew critical prescription medicine for inmates. And, according to those who worked for...

PA: Jeffrey Beard proposes releasing short-term state prisoners to halfway houses

Posted on March 04, 2010
Prison head: Release short-term state inmates to halfway houses Tuesday, March 02, 2010 By Tom Barnes, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette HARRISBURG -- The head of the state prison system today outlined steps that could be taken at little or no cost to...

NY Times Editorial: Federal sentencing bill on crack vs. powder cocaine faces up hill battle

Posted on March 04, 2010
Editorial: Bad Science and Bad Policy NY Times Published: March 2, 2010 The federal law that mandates harsher prison terms for people arrested with crack cocaine than for those caught with cocaine powder is scientifically and morally indefensible. Bills to...

JUVENILE JUSTICE IN MICHIGAN

Posted on March 04, 2010
JUVENILE JUSTICE IN MICHIGAN 2nd chance for killer kids? Feb. 28, 2010 BY L.L. BRASIER FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER Dontez Tillman and Thomas McCloud were 14-year-old middle schoolers in Pontiac in the summer of 2008. Neither was old enough to...

California man gets eight years for stealing cheese Robert Ferguson was sentenced under the 'three strikes' law, as critics again plea for reform of state's overcrowded prisons

Posted on March 04, 2010
California man gets eight years for stealing cheese Robert Ferguson was sentenced under the 'three strikes' law, as critics again plea for reform of state's overcrowded prisons Wednesday 3 March 2010 The Guardian Daniel Nasaw A California man has been...

Lynn Paltrow of National Advocates for Pregnant Women on Democracy Now on Utah Abortion Bill That Could Punish Women for Miscarriages

Posted on March 03, 2010
See/hear an excellent interview with Lynn Paltrow at: http://www.democracynow.org/2010/3/3/pregnant_women_utah and... Utah Bill Would Criminalize Illegal Abortions By KIRK JOHNSON Published: February 28, 2010- NY Times DENVER ? The origins of Utah State House Bill 12 lie in an act of...

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