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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

MA: State public safety chief says threat of closing prisons is real

Posted on February 18, 2011
State public safety chief says threat of closing prisons is real By Kyle Cheney State House News Service Posted Feb 17, 2011 BOSTON ? Gov. Deval Patrick?s public safety chief had a message Thursday for those who have questioned the...

MA: OUR VIEW: Mass. should implement inmate fees (Taunton Daily Gazette) and response from Paul Heroux

Posted on February 18, 2011
OUR VIEW: Mass. should implement inmate fees Taunton Daily Gazette- GateHouse News Service Feb 01, 2011 If crime doesn?t pay, then why are we all paying for inmates to have free housing, three squares a day and medical, and dental...

Jails are the new asylums for women

Posted on February 18, 2011
Jails are the new asylums for women By Megan Cottrell 02.16.11 - Chicago Reporter If there's one thing that Rosemary Gido wants her students to know, it's this: "It's not rocket science. Jails and prisons are the new asylums," she...

IN Prison Reform Dealt a Blow by Prosecutors

Posted on February 17, 2011
IN Prison Reform Dealt a Blow by Prosecutors A criminal justice reform bill that Gov. Mitch Daniels hoped would save more than $1 billion by reducing the number of people held in prison is headed to the Senate floor. But...

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CA: After 18 years, Pelican Bay prison abuse case to close

Posted on February 17, 2011
California Watch Daily Report After 18 years, Pelican Bay prison abuse case to close February 10, 2011 | Michael Montgomery A long-running legal action that exposed widespread abuses at the state?s highest security prison and forced major reforms within California's...

Justice Policy Institute: Budget Wrongly Invests in Policing and Prisons Not Prevention and Communities

Posted on February 17, 2011
Justice Policy Institute: Budget Wrongly Invests in Policing and Prisons Not Prevention and Communities Justice advocates disturbed by proposed $28 billion for expensive, ineffective and unfair policies WASHINGTON, D.C. ? The Justice Policy Institute (JPI) released a factsheet today criticizing...

Philadelphia: Go Directly to Jail. Alternatives to prison are badly needed in Philly. But neighbors are trying to block the first one.

Posted on February 17, 2011
?Go Directly to Jail Alternatives to prison are badly needed in Philly. But neighbors are trying to block the first one. by Holly Otterbein City Paper Published: Feb 16, 2011 The building that could house the city's first day reporting...

Two articles on the Proposed New Orleans Jail- One from the NY Times and one from the The Times-Picayune

Posted on February 17, 2011
Sheriff Wants a Big Jail in New Orleans, but City Balks By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON New York Times- February 15, 2011 NEW ORLEANS ? Even in the context of Louisiana, which has the highest incarceration rate in the United States, which...

MA: "Legislators see merit in reforming parole laws"---but at least one local prison reform advocate (Lois Ahrens) disagrees with proposed legislation

Posted on February 16, 2011
Legislators see merit in reforming parole laws By Ben Storrow 02/16/2011 Daily Hampshire Gazettte AMHERST ? Area legislators are supporting efforts to reform the state?s parole laws in the wake of the slaying of a police officer allegedly at the...

CO: Governor may close Ft. Lyon prison for aging and ill prisoners and move them to other prisons. Ending 50 vocational programs also being considered.

Posted on February 16, 2011
Governor may close Ft. Lyon prison for aging inmates By Kirk Mitchell The Denver Post 02/15/2011 Gov. John Hickenlooper proposes shutting down the medium-security prison in Fort Lyon that treats aging and ill inmates as part of correctional budget-cutting plans...

Justice Budget Includes 10% Increase for Prisons

Posted on February 15, 2011
* The Justice Department is seeking a 2% budget increase, for $28.2 billion * Part of that money would go to renovate a prison that could house detainees * But lawmakers have blocked bringing Guantanamo prisoners to U.S. soil *...

SC: Patience thins as prison numbers stay high in state despite revamped criminal laws

Posted on February 15, 2011
Patience thins as prison numbers stay high in state By Yvonne Wenger - The (Charleston) Post and Courier Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011 COLUMBIA -- Legislators revamped South Carolina's criminal laws last year, but the state is still waiting for judges...

WA: Death of an island prison

Posted on February 15, 2011
Death of an island prison Mcneil Island: Direct savings expected to be $12 million a year ? but closure will raise other costs SEAN ROBINSON AND STACIA GLENN; Staff writers | ? Published February 13, 2011 Up until three months...

HI: Isle Prisoners become key source of (slave) labor

Posted on February 15, 2011
Isle prisons become key source of labor Private and public groups hit hard by the recession are increasingly hiring less costly inmate workers By Dan Nakaso Feb 14, 2011 The demand for prison work crews as cheap labor for nonprofit...

AL: Editorial: Medicaid, no happy choices

Posted on February 15, 2011
Editorial: Medicaid, no happy choices Published: Monday, February 14, 2011, By Mike Hollis, The Huntsville Times In just a couple of weeks the Legislature will convene in Montgomery to face Alabama's most serious budget crisis since the Great Depression...

NY Daily News Editorial: N.Y. needs a prison break: With lower crime, costs should be lowered too -- if unions will allow it

Posted on February 15, 2011
N.Y. needs a prison break: With lower crime, costs should be lowered too -- if unions will allow it Editorials Daily News Tuesday, February 15th 2011 Thanks to plunging crime rates, New York's prison system is far bigger than it...

NY: Establishing the prison closure advisory task force

Posted on February 15, 2011
Published on Governor (http://www.governor.ny.gov) No. 7 ESTABLISHING THE PRISON CLOSURE ADVISORY TASK FORCE Created 2011-02-09 17:48 WHEREAS, the crime rate in New York State has dropped dramatically over the past decade and alternatives to incarceration have helped direct individuals convicted...

IN: OUTTA HERE Community effort needed to reverse trend in under-18 population

Posted on February 13, 2011
The first articles in this Terre Haute Indiana paper about the Census results were celebratory until Peter Wagner of the Prison Policy Initiative pointed out that the population increase was the prison and that the apparent population growth was masking...

MA: Rethinking Drug-Free School Zones Gov. Patrick proposes changing a policy critics say is unfair and ineffective.

Posted on February 13, 2011
Rethinking Drug-Free School Zones Gov. Patrick proposes changing a policy critics say is unfair and ineffective. Thursday, February 10, 2011 By Maureen Turner The only thing new about Gov. Deval Patrick's recent proposal to shrink so-called "drug-free" school zones in...

Egyptian Activists Inspired by Forgotten 50 Year Old Martin Luther King Comic

Posted on February 13, 2011
Egyptian Activists Inspired by Forgotten Martin Luther King Comic Feb 11th 2011 By: Andy Khouri http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/02/11/martin-luther-king-comic-egypt/?a_dgi=aolshare_facebook While the world's political pundits debate the role the United States has played in the historical events presently occurring in Egypt, one activist is...

TX House budget writers urge prisons to release sick and elderly prisoners

Posted on February 11, 2011
Texas House budget writers urge prisons to release more feeble inmates By ROBERT T. GARRETT / Austin Bureau Dallas Morning News Published 10 February 2011 11:55 AM More on this story AUSTIN ? Texas? corrections chiefs should consider freeing more...

NY Times Editorial: Judge Fogel and the Death Penalty

Posted on February 11, 2011
February 10, 2011 Judge Fogel and the Death Penalty On Tuesday, Judge Jeremy Fogel of the Federal District Court in northern California toured a new facility at San Quentin State Prison for executing inmates. Five years ago, in Morales v....

6 Key conservative Principles: Cutting Crime. Cutting Costs. Reinforcing Conservatism.

Posted on February 11, 2011
Cutting Crime. Cutting Costs. Reinforcing Conservatism. By Marc Levin Along with scores of conservative Republicans, right-of-center values won the 2010 midterm elections, as the principles of limited government, reduced spending and public-sector accountability earned the frustrated public?s support...

Liberal-Arts Colleges Reach Minds Behind Bars. How to Teach the Liberal Arts Behind Bars 1

Posted on February 11, 2011
Liberal-Arts Colleges Reach Minds Behind Bars How to Teach the Liberal Arts Behind Bars 1 February 6, 2011 The Chronicle of Higher Education By Lauren Sieben John Hammers spent the past 12 years behind bars. His daily routine consisted mostly...

New Report On Bipartisan Approaches To Reducing Crime, Recidivism, and Corrections Cost By Council of State Governments Justice Center

Posted on February 09, 2011
Congressman Wolf Announces New Report On Bipartisan Approaches To Reducing Crime, Recidivism, and Corrections Cost By Council of State Governments Justice Center Published: 02/08/2011 Washington, D.C.?Congressman Frank Wolf (R-VA) was joined by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Senator John Cornyn...

PA: Former Judge Is on Trial in ?Cash for Kids? Scheme

Posted on February 09, 2011
Former Judge Is on Trial in ?Cash for Kids? Scheme By JON HURDLE and SABRINA TAVERNISE NY Times: February 8, 2011 SCRANTON, Pa. ? A former Pennsylvania judge went on trial in federal court on Tuesday, charged with racketeering, bribery...

HI: State should reduce reliance on incarceration

Posted on February 08, 2011
State should reduce reliance on incarceration Honolulu-Star Advertiser Island Voices: Editorial January 26, 2011 By Marilyn Brown The decision by Gov. Neil Abercrombie and Department of Public Safety Director Jodie Maesaka-Hirata to return Hawaii inmates to the state hopefully signals...

TX: Prison agency proposes 1,000 layoffs, less drug treatment, fewer meals for prisoners

Posted on February 08, 2011
Prison agency proposes 1,000 layoffs, less drug treatment, fewer convict meals By Mike Ward AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Feb. 7, 2011 State prison officials are considering a budget-cutting plan to lay off more than 1,000 workers , close three drug treatment centers...

MA: Letter published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette in favor of changing unfair school zone laws

Posted on February 07, 2011
School zone drug laws need to be reformed By Daily Hampshire Gazette Created 02/07/2011 To the editor: The headline "Proposal draws ire - Gov. Patrick wants to shrink drug-free zone near schools" should actually have read, "Gov. proposes an end...

Hawaii/AZ: Hawaii Brings Back Prisoners from CCA Prisons in AZ

Posted on February 07, 2011
State Retrieves Inmates From Private Prisons By PURNA NEMANI Monday, January 31, 2011Last Update: 7:51 AM PT Courthouse News Service HONOLULU (CN) - Hawaii's new governor, Neil Abercrombie, kept his promise last week by bringing 243 inmates back to Hawaii...

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