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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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MA: Setting compassionate release back.... Boston Globe article on Edward Corliss

Posted on January 17, 2010
This one article will certainly be used to thwart the movement toward compassionate release. Lois The Boston Globe In 2006 parole bid, a plea for leniency Tape of suspect projects suffering | Years after release; man held in shooting By...

Court Decides Privte Prisons Responsible for Infants

Posted on January 15, 2010
Court Decides Prisons Responsible for Infants On January 11, 2010, the California Fourth District Court of Appeal issued a ruling holding that private community-based prisons contracted with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation have a legal duty to provide...

Editorial: Sentenced to Abuse

Posted on January 15, 2010
Editorial: Sentenced to Abuse Published: January 14, 2010 NY Times The Justice Department needs to act swiftly and decisively to protect young people who are being battered and raped in juvenile corrections facilities all across the country. A shocking new...

TN: New huge prison plans finalized

Posted on January 15, 2010
Monday, Jan. 11, 2010 Prison plans finalized BY THE NUMBERS * 900: Existing capacity * 1,444: Additional capacity * 2,300: Eventual capacity * $210 million: Estimated project cost * 2013: Planned opening Source: Tennessee Department of Correction Tennessee Department of...

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CCA loses contract in for caging immigrants in CA but gets a renewed contact for immigrant prisons in NM

Posted on January 15, 2010
CCA loses part of federal contract Company says rising California wages to blame for Bureau of Prisons decision Email | Print By Geert De Lombaerde 01-13-2010 8:44 AM ? The Federal Bureau of Prisons has not renewed its contract with...

CA: Apple Valley considers a prison

Posted on January 14, 2010
Apple Valley ponders state prison January 10, 2010 BROOKE EDWARDS Staff Writer APPLE VALLEY ? Plans to build a 500-bed state prison facility on the northern edge of town are back before the council Tuesday. The town first expressed support...

Cornell Co. Announces contract with BoP to cage 2,507 immigrants

Posted on January 14, 2010
Cornell Companies Announces Contract Award With Federal Bureau of Prisons Globe Newswire January 12, 2010: 04:02 PM ET HOUSTON, Jan. 12, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cornell Companies, Inc. (NYSE:CRN) announced today that it has received a contract award from the...

Haiti: Country Without a Net

Posted on January 14, 2010
Op-Ed Contributor Country Without a Net By TRACY KIDDER Published: January 13, 2010 NY Times THOSE who know a little of Haiti?s history might have watched the news last night and thought, as I did for a moment: ?An earthquake?...

Drug Policy Alliance on Legal Aid Society Report Finding that 2004 and 2005 Rockefeller Drug Reforms a Huge Success

Posted on January 14, 2010
Sections of the press release from DPA. A link to the Legal Aid Society report is at the bottom of this email. January14,2009 New Legal Aid Society Report Finds that 2004 and 2005 Rockefeller Drug Law Reforms Huge Success: Tens...

CA: Judges OK Schwarzenegger plan to reduce prison crowding

Posted on January 13, 2010
Judges OK Schwarzenegger plan to reduce prison crowding The proposal includes some home detention with satellite tracking devices, permitting some felons to serve time in county jails instead of state prisons and reducing sentences for property crimes...

Prevent criminal activity, spend less on prisons

Posted on January 12, 2010
Prevent criminal activity, spend less on prisons Patrick J. Boyd,Rachel Davis Tuesday, January 12, 2010 Inmates are crowded into bunks at California State Prison... Are cost-saving prisons the California dream? Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is trying to funnel money toward higher...

New Site: Solitary Watch

Posted on January 12, 2010
From Jim Ridgeway about the launch of Solitary Watch New Site: Solitary Watch Posted: 12 Jan 2010 10:49 AM PST Readers of Unsilent Generation will know that I?ve written before on prison reform issues, aging behind bars, and the case...

Officials Hid Truth of Immigrant Deaths in Jail

Posted on January 10, 2010
Officials Hid Truth of Immigrant Deaths in Jail By NINA BERNSTEIN Published: January 9, 2010- NY Times Silence has long shrouded the men and women who die in the nation?s immigration jails. For years, they went uncounted and unnamed in...

Common sense on prison, education funds By Derrick Z. Jackson

Posted on January 09, 2010
"Massachusetts was no different than any other state. According to Pew data, the commonwealth had the nation?s sixth-highest ratio of corrections spending compared to higher education spending. In 1987, Massachusetts spent 30 cents on corrections for every dollar spent on...

Justice Department Study: Youths Sexually Abused in Juvenile Prisons

Posted on January 08, 2010
Study: Youths sexually abused in juvenile prisons USA Today 1-8-10 By Martha T. Moore, USA TODAY More than 12% of youths in juvenile prisons are sexually abused while in custody there, according to a Justice Department study out Thursday, and...

NY Times Editorial: Spineless in California

Posted on January 08, 2010
"The only real way for California to cut prison costs is to reverse sentencing policies that have filled its prisons to bursting and have driven up costs by about 50 percent over the last decade alone. Among other things, too...

CA: Governor's call for giving colleges priority over prisons faces hard political tests

Posted on January 07, 2010
Governor's call for giving colleges priority over prisons faces hard political tests Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to save money by privatizing prisons and the wisdom of linking the funding of universities and corrections facilities present formidable obstacles in Sacramento...

CA: (Some) Experts laud Schwarzenegger's plan to shift prison funds to universities

Posted on January 07, 2010
Experts laud Schwarzenegger's plan to shift prison funds to universities By Charles Piller Sacramento Bee Published: Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010 Prison, legal and financial experts generally praised Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to shift state prison funding to public universities, but...

CA: Private prisons? A sweet deal for some

Posted on January 07, 2010
Private prisons? A sweet deal for some By Dan Morain Published: Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010 - 12:00 am | Page 13A Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is bullish on private prisons. And no one could be happier than the executives at Corrections...

CA: Prison to ax its woodworking classes. Adult programs and rehabilitation programs have 2/3 of their budgets cut

Posted on January 07, 2010
Prison to ax its woodworking classes Written by Ashley Archibald, The Union Democrat January 05, 2010 Sonora, CA For the past 10 years, Randy Bland has held a job that might make some people nervous. He oversees the mill and...

Utica NY: Don?t count prisoners as constituents

Posted on January 07, 2010
Don?t count prisoners as constituents Utica Observer-Dispatch (Utica, NY) editorial. Jan 7, 2010 AT ISSUE: Using inmates to determine county?s legislative districts is wrong. It is simply inane that the 6,000-plus prison inmates at Oneida County?s four prisons are factored...

Guantanamo/Thompson IL: State panel vote paves way for sale of Thomson Correctional Center to federal government

Posted on January 07, 2010
State panel vote paves way for sale of Thomson Correctional Center to federal government By Monique Garcia Tribune reporter January 7, 2010 A panel of state lawmakers recommended closing a little-used prison in northwest Illinois on Wednesday, giving Gov...

WA: Convicted felons entitled to vote, court rules. Judge: Racial discrimination claims have merit

Posted on January 06, 2010
Convicted felons entitled to vote, court rules Judge: Racial discrimination claims have merit Tuesday, January 5, 2010 By LEVI PULKKINEN SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF In a move that could see Washington inmates voting from prison, a federal appeals court has thrown out...

NY Times Editorial: Juvenile Injustice

Posted on January 06, 2010
"....the Legislature will finally have to put the needs of the state?s children ahead of the politically powerful unions and upstate lawmakers who want to preserve jobs ? and the disastrous status quo ? at all costs." Editorial: Juvenile Injustice...

Maine and solitary confinement

Posted on January 05, 2010
Corrections: a growth industry in Maine By Stan Moody Dec 23, 2009 The third-highest budget item for Maine -- right behind human services and education -- is the cost of incarcerating the failures of human services and education. More than...

John Irwin

Posted on January 05, 2010
January 5, 2010 Take from an email from The Sentencing Project John Irwin The Sentencing Project joins the criminal justice reform community in mourning the loss of our board member, friend and colleague, John Irwin, who died on January 3rd...

DOCS opens new facility for mentally ill inmates

Posted on January 05, 2010
DOCS opens new facility for mentally ill inmates By Allison Roselle January 04, 2010 The first seven men have moved into a new mental health unit at an upstate prison designed to treat inmates with serious mental illnesses and disciplinary...

Tribes Receive $224 Million for Corrections Construction

Posted on January 04, 2010
Tribes Receive $224 Million for Corrections Construction The Department of Justice is awarding $224 million to tribal communities to fund the renovation and construction of prisons and jails. (11/22/2009) WASHINGTON ? The Department of Justice is awarding $224 million to...

A Pretty Penny for Prisons

Posted on January 04, 2010
A Pretty Penny for Prisons by Brandon Gee Jan 04 2010 The prison business is proving recession-proof. But is it right to privatize penitentiaries? When Damon Hininger took over as president and CEO of Nashville-based Corrections Corporation of America in...

Group: Muslim chaplains needed in Va. prisons

Posted on January 04, 2010
Group: Muslim chaplains needed in Va. prisons Media General News Service Published: January 4, 2010 RICHMOND ? A seven-year-old prison chaplain group recently was awarded a one-of-its-kind, $25,000 state subcontract to minister to a rapidly growing faith behind bars: Islam...

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