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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 and Budgets

Posted on January 04, 2010
Editorial: Prisons and Budgets NY Times Published: January 3, 2010 The United States, which has less than 5 percent of the world?s population, has about one-quarter of its prisoners. But the relentless rise in the nation?s prison population has suddenly...

American Law Institute Gives Up Death Penalty Work Disavowing Framework for Cases It Created 50 Years Ago

Posted on January 04, 2010
Sidebar Group Gives Up Death Penalty Work in Frustration By ADAM LIPTAK- NY Times Published: January 4, 2010 WASHINGTON Last fall, the American Law Institute, which created the intellectual framework for the modern capital justice system almost 50 years ago,...

AZ: Prescott Valley prison opponents launch website

Posted on January 02, 2010
Prescott Valley prison opponents launch website By Ken Hedler, The Daily Courier Friday, January 01, 2010 PRESCOTT VALLEY - Opponents of a private prison that might be located in Prescott Valley have launched a website to fight it. Former Town...

ILLINOIS EXCHANGE: Tamms spending questioned

Posted on January 01, 2010
ILLINOIS EXCHANGE: Tamms spending questioned By GEORGE PAWLACZYK and BETH HUNDSDORFER Belleville News-Democrat December 31, 2009 Chicago Tribune TAMMS, Ill. - For almost 12 years, Illinois taxpayers have paid one of the highest per-inmate costs in the country to house...

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Treatment of Youths in New York Prisons Spurs Suit

Posted on December 31, 2009
Treatment of Youths in New York Prisons Spurs Suit By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE Published: December 30, 2009 NY Times ALBANY ? Youths detained in some of New York?s juvenile prisons have suffered bruises, cuts and a host of other injuries from...

VA & PA: Fairfax sheriff opposes Kaine's proposal to accept 1,000 PA prisoners which will cause more over crowding in county jails

Posted on December 30, 2009
Fairfax sheriff opposes Kaine's prison budget proposal Anita Kumar Washington Post Here's another person that isn't all that fond of at least one aspect of Gov. Tim Kaine's recently introduced budget proposal. Fairfax County Sheriff Stan G. Barry said the...

CT: Rell Pushing Ahead With Plan For Detention Center

Posted on December 30, 2009
Rell Pushing Ahead With Plan For Detention Center By ARIELLE LEVIN BECKER December 30, 2009 Plans to build a girls' juvenile detention center in Bridgeport are back on, Gov. M. Jodi Rell announced Tuesday, two months after her administration temporarily...

VA: Warden retiring after allegations she discriminated against lesbian prisoners and denied other access to religious services.

Posted on December 29, 2009
Warden at Troubled Va. Women's Prison to Step Down By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: December 28, 2009 RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- The warden at Virginia's largest women's prison is retiring amid allegations the prison discriminated against gay inmates and denied...

Southern Injustice. Convicted of murder in a deeply flawed trial, Herman Wallace has spent nearly 37 years in solitary confinement. Will new evidence finally lead to his release?

Posted on December 29, 2009
Mother Jones Southern Injustice Convicted of murder in a deeply flawed trial, Herman Wallace has spent nearly 37 years in solitary confinement. Will new evidence finally lead to his release? By James Ridgeway and Jean Casella | Tue Dec. 29,...

AZ: Budget cuts will not affect prisons

Posted on December 28, 2009
AZ: Budget cuts will not affect prisons By Diane Saunders Staff Writer The across-the-board budget cuts ordered by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer will not impact Arizona?s state prisons. ?The 7.5 percent (budget cut) will not apply to the Arizona Department...

In survey, Neb. lawmakers oppose new prison

Posted on December 28, 2009
In survey, Neb. lawmakers oppose new prison By NATE JENKINS-Columbus Telegram The Associated Press Monday, Dec 28, 2009 Prison crowding that often has Nebraska teetering on the edge of an emergency situation as defined by state law hasn't convinced many...

AZ: Prescott Valley 'not even close' to agreeing to CCA prison

Posted on December 26, 2009
Prescott Valley 'not even close' to locking up prison deal By Sue Tone, Reporter Tuesday, December 22, 2009 A little more than two years ago, many Prescott Valley residents expressed their views about a possible 2,000-bed minimum-security private prison built...

Editorial: Smart Answers to Recidivism

Posted on December 25, 2009
Editorial: Smart Answers to Recidivism Published: December 24, 2009 NY Times Faced with soaring prison costs, states are finally focusing on policies that would help former prisoners stay out of jail after they are released. Some legislatures are reshaping laws...

Nursing homes with razor wire. Are elderly prisoners really a threat to public safety?

Posted on December 24, 2009
Opinion Nursing homes with razor wire Are elderly prisoners really a threat to public safety? By David Fathi December 23, 2009 Sometime in the 1970s, the United States began a love affair with incarceration that continues to this day. After...

First Time Ever Holiday Appeal for the RCPP

Posted on December 23, 2009
Dear Friends, It is difficult to to this, but I feel like I have no alternative. As may know it has been many years since the Real Cost of Prisons Project received any funding. The cost of mailing comic books...

1000 PA prisoners being sent to MI keep prison open for up to four years

Posted on December 23, 2009
Dec. 22, 2009 Deal saves jobs at Muskegon prison 1,000 Pa. inmates to transfer to facility BY DAWSON BELL DETROIT FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER A state prison in Muskegon that was slated to close in January got a reprieve Monday...

America's Secret ICE Castles. Immigration agents are holding US residents in unlisted and unmarked

Posted on December 23, 2009
America's Secret ICE Castles Immigration agents are holding US residents in unlisted and unmarked subfield offices By Jacqueline Stevens This article will appear in the January 4, 2010 edition of The Nation. December 16, 2009 "If you don't have enough...

CT: Prison guards fight closure plan, claim risk

Posted on December 21, 2009
Prison guards fight closure plan, claim risk Sunday, December 20, 2009 By Luther Turmelle, North Bureau Chief CHESHIRE ? Corrections officers are vowing to take no prisoners in their fight to keep the Webster Correctional Institution open. But elected officials...

Combating Prisoner Abuse- Editorial in the NY Times in support of reforming PLRA

Posted on December 21, 2009
Editorial- NY Times Combating Prisoner Abuse December 20, 2009 When Mississippi inmates sued their prison, charging that they had been sodomized by a staff member, the claim was thrown out. Under a harsh federal law, inmates must show that they...

PA plans to send 1000 prisoners to VA and 1000 prisoners to MI

Posted on December 21, 2009
Pennsylvania to send 2,000 inmates to other states Monday, December 21, 2009 By Tom Barnes, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette HARRISBURG -- Faced with an ever-growing problem of prison overcrowding, state prison officials have decided to move 2,000 inmates to prisons in two...

De-Criminalizing Children & Legislative Update

Posted on December 18, 2009
Update: The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2009, S. 678, has been introduced and was approved by the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee by a vote of 12-7 on December 17th, 2009. Now all Senators need to be...

NJ: Demolition begins at Riverfront prison--including video

Posted on December 18, 2009
Demolition begins at Riverfront prison--including video see URL at bottom of this post. By GEORGE MAST ? Courier-Post Staff ? December 17, 2009 CAMDEN ? In a slow, arching sweep,the open jaws of an excavator ripped through the door of...

NY prison system opens unit for mentally ill (update)

Posted on December 17, 2009
NY prison system opens unit for mentally ill (update) By MARY ESCH, Associated Press Writer December 15, 2009 ALBANY - The first inmates moved Tuesday into a new state prison unit for disruptive mentally ill prisoners that was created in...

Politicians Are Portraying 'Gitmo North' as a Terrific Local Jobs Program--Don't Count On It.

Posted on December 17, 2009
Politicians Are Portraying 'Gitmo North' as a Terrific Local Jobs Program -- Don't Count On It By Liliana Segura, AlterNet Posted on December 17, 2009, Printed on December 17, 2009 http://www.alternet.org/story/144619/ The decision announced by the Obama administration this...

Black leaders urge census to change how it counts inmates

Posted on December 17, 2009
Congratulations to Peter Wagner of Prisoners of the Census, who is not mentioned here but who has created and championed this issue! Black leaders urge census to change how it counts inmates By Carol Morello Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday,...

Campaign for Youth Justice: Reauthorization of S.678...Juvenile Justice Act. Contact your sentator now.

Posted on December 16, 2009
Tell the Senate: Pass Juvenile Justice Reform Now! Targeting: The U.S. Senate Sponsored by: Campaign for Youth Justice The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2009, S. 678, has been introduced and is awaiting action in the U...

MA: Boston Bar Issues Report Saying MA should join almost every other state in allowing DNA tests to uncover wrongful convictions

Posted on December 16, 2009
Perhaps the committee?s most notable recommendation is for Massachusetts to join 46 other states that have passed laws allowing convicts to have DNA tests performed on evidence that may prove their innocence. The other states without DNA-testing statutes are Alabama,...

Extreme overtime puts California's prison health overhaul at risk...including salaries of $187,000

Posted on December 15, 2009
"California's prisons in 2008 spent $60 million on health care overtime. That doesn't count an additional $111 million in overtime for guards who protect on- and off-site health workers during medical appointments � more than double the amount being spent...

Congress Approves Appropriations for Second Chance Act ($108 million), Byrne ($560 million)

Posted on December 15, 2009
Congress Approves Appropriations for Key Criminal Justice Programs New York?The House and Senate have passed an omnibus appropriations bill (H.R. 3288) for the remainder of fiscal year 2010 that includes funding for the Department of Justice, the Department of Labor,...

H.R. 2450: Help Create Transparency and Fiscal Accountability in Privately-Owned Federal Prisons Co-Sponsor the Private Prison Information

Posted on December 15, 2009
Shelia Jackson Lee had introduced this Bill. They are seeking congressional co-sponsors. Help Create Transparency and Fiscal Accountability in Privately-Owned Federal Prisons Co-Sponsor the Private Prison Information Act, H.R. 2450 Current Co-Sponsors (11): Berry, Brady, D...

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