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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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NY Times Editorial: Prisons, Redistricting and the Census

Posted on February 11, 2010
Editorial: Prisons, Redistricting and the Census NY Times Published: February 10, 2010 The Census Bureau struck a blow for electoral fairness recently when it decided to speed up publication of its data on prison populations to ensure it is available...

NY: For Detained Youths, No Mental Health Overseer

Posted on February 11, 2010
For Detained Youths, No Mental Health Overseer By JULIE BOSMAN New York Times: February 10, 2010 Edwina G. Richardson-Mendelson has been the administrative judge of the New York City Family Courts for nine months, in charge of the judges responsible....

Mentally ill inmates sue Ohio prisons

Posted on February 11, 2010
Mentally ill inmates sue Ohio prisons By Dan Horn February 10, 2010 Mentally ill prisoners in Ohio are more likely to get into trouble and end up back in prison after they are released because state officials turn them loose...

Muskegon Correctional Facility ready to begin accepting Pennsylvania prisoners

Posted on February 10, 2010
"The deal is expected to net Michigan an average daily ?profit? of $2.15 for each inmate...." Muskegon Correctional Facility ready to begin accepting Pennsylvania inmates By John S. Hausman | Muskegon Chronicle February 06, 2010 MUSKEGON ? As recently as...

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Washington Post Editorial "Va. legislators should embrace bills to protect juveniles in prison"

Posted on February 06, 2010
Editorial: Va. legislators should embrace bills to protect juveniles in prison Washington Post Friday, February 5, 2010 THERE IS NO safer political bet than supporting legislation to protect children from harm. That bet is tougher when the children in question...

MA: R.I.P. Ray Gauthier August 31, 1948 - January 22, 2010

Posted on February 06, 2010
R.I.P. Ray Gauthier August 31, 1948 - January 22, 2010 (On January 22 our friend Ray died on 8 North, the Department of Correction's hospital unit at the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital in Jamaica Plain. The Shattuck is a Department of...

Warning: tranquilizers necessary before reading. Penn State receives 1.27 million grant to study end of life care for prisoners.

Posted on February 05, 2010
Posted on February 3, 2010 4:56 AM Penn State researchers receive money for new prison study By Laura Nichols Email Penn State Collegian Staff Writer Penn State researchers making end-of-life care for prison inmates are the focus of a $1.27...

Speaking to L.A. lawyers, Justice Kennedy blasts the prison guard union calling its influence in passing three strikes "sick"

Posted on February 05, 2010
Justice Kennedy laments the state of prisons in California, U.S. Speaking to L.A. lawyers, the Supreme Court jurist blasts the prison guard union's influence, calling it 'sick' but sidesteps questions about the ruling he wrote last month on campaign spending...

Obama budget includes $527.5M for Justice Dept. Justice Dept. projects increase of 7000 more prisoners by 2011

Posted on February 04, 2010
President Obama unveiled a multitrillion-dollar spending plan that would boost the deficit to a record-breaking $1.56 trillion. 2011 budget gives federal prisons $528M Proposed increases in the 2011 budget for Justice Department programs: Feb 4-2010 By Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY...

Youth prison system under pressure- proposed Senate bill would require states to track use of restraints in juvenile detention

Posted on February 03, 2010
"A bill before the U.S. Senate would require states to track the use of restraints in juvenile detention, which some states do voluntarily."The research tells us unequivocally" restraint "can result in a child's death," says Tara Andrews of the Coalition...

NY: Jim Crow Policing

Posted on February 02, 2010
Op-Ed Columnist Jim Crow Policing By BOB HERBERT Published: New York Times. February 1, 2010 The New York City Police Department needs to be restrained. The nonstop humiliation of young black and Hispanic New Yorkers, including children, by police officers...

2nd National Prisoner's Families Conference, Feb 25 & 26th in Orlando, FL

Posted on February 02, 2010
For info go to the URL below 2nd National Prisoner's Families Conference, Feb 25 & 26th in Orlando, FL http://solutionsforelpaso.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/conference-listing-of-workshops.pdf...

California WatchBlog Probe examines whether Chino inmates were locked in cages for days

Posted on February 01, 2010
California WatchBlog Probe examines whether Chino inmates were locked in cages for days January 12, 2010 | Michael Montgomery The Office of the Inspector General is probing allegations that inmates at the California Institution for Men in Chino have been...

"Compassionate Release" has little effect on early release of sick and dying priosoners

Posted on January 30, 2010
January 30, 2010 Law Has Little Effect on Early Release for Inmates By CARA BUCKLEY NY Times COXSACKIE, N.Y. ? With his swollen legs and a throaty rasp that whistles like a kettle through his broken teeth, Eddie Jones is...

Pregnant and Shackled: Hard Labor for Arizona's Immigrants

Posted on January 30, 2010
Pregnant and Shackled: Hard Labor for Arizona's Immigrants By Valeria Fernandez, New America Media Posted on January 28, 2010, Printed on January 30, 2010 http://www.alternet.org/story/145428/ PHOENIX, Ariz.-- Miriam Mendiola-Martinez, an undocumented immigrant charged with using someone else?s identity to work,...

Howard Zinn: A Great and Wonderful Man

Posted on January 28, 2010
Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo, dies at 87 January 27, 2010 08:20 PM By Mark Feeney and Bryan Marquard, Globe Staff Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement...

NH: Prison population could shrink by 20% in 5 years if state paid for mental health treatment, housing and jobs to cut recidivism limit prison time for people with nonviolent convictions

Posted on January 28, 2010
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 Study on prison populations draws praise By KEVIN LANDRIGAN CONCORD ? The State Prison population would shrink nearly 20 percent in five years if the state paid for mental health treatment and more intense supervision of...

NY: City Signals Intent to Put Fewer Teenagers in Jail and Nick Kristof column on "Kids in Crisis (Behind Bars)"

Posted on January 28, 2010
City Signals Intent to Put Fewer Teenagers in Jail Richard Perry/The New York Times By JULIE BOSMAN Published: January 20, 2010 The Bloomberg administration plans to merge the city?s Department of Juvenile Justice into its child welfare agency, signaling a...

NY: Judge Bars Youth Prisons From Routine Shackling

Posted on January 27, 2010
Judge Bars Youth Prisons From Routine Shackling By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE Published: January 26, 2010 ALBANY ? The agency that runs the state?s juvenile prison system routinely violates the law by shackling youthful offenders when taking them to court even when...

Howard Zinn 1922-2010. A Great and Wonderful Man

Posted on January 27, 2010
I knew Howard through my friendship with Tiyo Attallah Salah-El, sentenced to life in PA. Howard was a distance learning history teacher of Tiyo's more than 30 years ago. When Tiyo and I became friends, I met Howard. Howard and...

WI: Dungeons & Dragons Prison Ban Upheld

Posted on January 27, 2010
Dungeons & Dragons Prison Ban Upheld By JOHN SCHWARTZ Published: January 26, 2010 Prisons can restrict the rights of inmates to nerd out, a federal appeals court has found. In an opinion issued on Monday , a three-judge panel of...

CA launches plan to cut prison population on reducting the number of parole violators sent back to prison

Posted on January 26, 2010
California launches plan to cut prison population As cost-saving measures, the number of parole violators returned behind bars will be cut and low-risk offenders will not be regularly supervised by a parole agent By Patrick McGreevy January 26, 2010 Reporting...

PA considers using closed mental hospitals for prisoners

Posted on January 25, 2010
State considers plan to transfer prison inmates Published: January 24, 2010 HARRISBURG - Turning closed or partially-used state mental hospitals into state prisons to hold inmates with mental health issues is an idea being kicked around by House lawmakers...

NY: 2 additonal prisons slated to be closed

Posted on January 21, 2010
Published January 19, 2010 10:50 pm - Lyon Mountain Correctional Facility, Moriah Shock Incarceration Facility targeted in Paterson budget. 2 local prisons doomed By LOHR McKINSTRY Staff Writers MORIAH ? Prison staffs in Lyon Mountain and Moriah were shocked Tuesday...

KY: DOC officials grilled over bad Aramark food.

Posted on January 21, 2010
Corrections leaders grilled about prison food 1/20/2010 BRUCE SCHREINER The Associated Press (AP) ? FRANKFORT, Ky. - Kentucky lawmakers grilled top corrections officials Wednesday about the quality of meals served in state prisons in seeking to determine what role inmate...

NY State: a proposed new law which would lift the tax exemption on commissaries with a portion of sales tax going localities

Posted on January 21, 2010
This proposed legislation in NY would create just one more way that local rural communities could benefit from the poor who are kept behind the prison walls. See attached proposed Bill. New Yorkers: contact your legislators and ask them to...

Jim Ridgeway: Will the U.S. Send Haitian Refugees to Guantanamo?

Posted on January 20, 2010
"Once at the Guantanamo facility, the refugees would be supervised by the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which oversees the facility and has contracted the Florida-based Geo Group firm to manage day-to-day operations?." From Jim Ridgeway: Unsilent Generation http://unsilentgeneration...

New Orleans: Sex Workers Now Being Charged as "sex offenders"

Posted on January 20, 2010
Her Crime? Sex Work in New Orleans By Jordan Flaherty ColorLines magazine With police charging sex workers as sex offenders?the majority of them Black women?activists hope the city?s mayoral elections next month will pave the way for fighting the law...

NJ: Gov. Corzine signs 3 bills to help former prisoners readjust to live outside

Posted on January 19, 2010
Gov. Corzine signs bills to help ex-offenders readjust to life outside prison By Chris Megerian/Statehouse Bureau January 18, 2010, 9:42PM TRENTON -- Gov. Jon Corzine tonight signed three bills aimed at making it easier for former inmates to readjust to...

Fire risk mounts in Arizona prisons

Posted on January 19, 2010
Fire risk mounts in Arizona prisons Pleas for funds to fix safety problems ignored for years By JJ Hensley and Casey Newton - Jan. 17, 2010 The Arizona Republic The potential for tragedy looms large at Arizona prisons, where each...

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