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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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Arizona?s Prison Privatization Scheme Is a Comedy Gold Mine. The Joke's on Us

Posted on December 15, 2009
Arizona?s Prison Privatization Scheme Is a Comedy Gold Mine. The Joke's on Us Thursday 10 December 2009 by: Caroline Isaacs, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed You know you?re in trouble when "The Daily Show" sends...

Colorado's prison spending tops all other states

Posted on December 15, 2009
DATA GEEK: Colorado's prison spending tops all other states December 11, 2009 Prisons and other programs for criminal offenders consumed a bigger chunk of Colorado?s 2008 government budget than for any other state, according to data the U.S. Census Bureau...

NY: Juvenile Jails: Official Hopes Prison Crisis May Spur Change

Posted on December 15, 2009
?I have people on staff that have two, three, four, five cases of abuse or inappropriate restraint, and I can?t get rid of them because of civil service rules", Ms. Carrion said." Official Hopes Prison Crisis May Spur Change By...

Protest on 12-18 at AZ DOC by SWOP and others. Open Letter from the Sex Workers Outreach Project and allies to Charles L. Ryan, Director of the Arizona DOC

Posted on December 15, 2009
When: Friday December 18th, 2009 NOON Where: AZ Department of Corrections 1601 West Jefferson St. Phoenix, AZ 85007 Sex Workers and allies are coming together in front of the AZ Department of Corrections on December 18th, as part of International...

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U.S. Said to Pick Illinois Prison to House "Detainees" from Guantanamo

Posted on December 15, 2009
U.S. Said to Pick Illinois Prison to House Detainees By CHARLIE SAVAGE Published: December 14, 2009 WASHINGTON ? The Obama administration is expected to announce on Tuesday that it has selected a prison in northwestern Illinois to house terrorism suspects...

New York Finds Extreme Crisis in Youth Prisons: problems are so acute that the state agency overseeing the prisons has asked New York?s Family Court judges not to send youths to any of them unless they are a significant risk to public safety

Posted on December 14, 2009
New York Finds Extreme Crisis in Youth Prisons By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE Published: December 13, 2009 NY Times ALBANY ? New York?s system of juvenile prisons is broken, with young people battling mental illness or addiction held alongside violent offenders in...

Poor Children Likelier to Get Antipsychotics

Posted on December 13, 2009
Poor Children Likelier to Get Antipsychotics By DUFF WILSON Published: December 11, 2009: NY Times New federally financed drug research reveals a stark disparity: children covered by Medicaid are given powerful antipsychotic medicines at a rate four times higher than...

The Graying of America?s Prisons: Part Two (with a focus on Angola LA, Tiyo Attallah Salah-El in Dallas PA and Norfolk MA Prison)

Posted on December 11, 2009
The Graying of America?s Prisons: Part Two By James Ridgeway Thursday, December 10th, 2009 Part two of our special report explores the movements in several states to relieve the burdens and tragedy America?s increasingly geriatric prison population Albert Woodfox and...

Pennsylvania's prison population grew much faster than any other state's from 2007 to 2008

Posted on December 10, 2009
Pa. prison population shows big growth By Peter Mucha December 9, 2009 INQUIRER STAFF WRITER Pennsylvania's prison population grew much faster than any other state's from 2007 to 2008, according to figures released by the Justice Department this week...

Tilda Sosaya

Posted on December 09, 2009
Tilda Sosaya Born December 30, 1946 in Queens, New York, passed away November 20, 2009, from complications of liver cancer. She was a long-time resident of New Mexico. Tilda was a strong woman who centered her life on her children...

U.S. Prison, Jail Population Continues Upward At Slower Pace

Posted on December 09, 2009
U.S. Prison, Jail Population Continues Upward At Slower Pace Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 2:01 pm The nation?s correctional population?prisons, jails, probation, and parole?increased .5 percent last year, about one third of the average annual growth rate since 2000, the U...

American Youth in the 21st Century: Pathologized, Criminalized and Disposable

Posted on December 09, 2009
American Youth in the 21st Century: Pathologized, Criminalized and Disposable By Henry A. Giroux, AlterNet. Posted November 16, 2009. Young people today face imprisonment, the prescription of psychotropic drugs, psychiatric confinement, and zero tolerance policies that model schools after prisons...

VA: Rastafarian prisoners in segregation for nearly 10 years

Posted on December 09, 2009
Rastafarian inmates in segregation for nearly 10 years Tue Dec 8, 2009 RICHMOND, Va. -- Bill Clinton was president when a handful of Virginia prisoners entered segregation cells rather than cut their hair. The inmates, Rastafarians, complain the Department of...

MA: Death of Dominican immigrant in jail in Boston- Prison Health Services Defends "Care"

Posted on December 09, 2009
Jail defends care after inmate death By Maria Sacchetti The Boston Globe Staff / December 6, 2009 The new $20 million building was built for women, but the floor plan was a safety risk because it lacked privacy and protection...

The Graying of America?s Prisons By James Ridgeway

Posted on December 07, 2009
The Graying of America?s Prisons By James Ridgeway Monday, December 7th, 2009 4:00 am Part One of our Special Report, we look at one of the hidden legacies of the tough-on-crime policies of previous decades: a growing population of aging...

MA: Woman serving shoplifting sentence dies at Framingham

Posted on December 06, 2009
Woman serving shoplifting sentence dies at Framingham prison By Jonathan Saltzman Globe Staff / December 5, 2009 The Boston Globe A 38-year-old former Dedham woman serving a one-year prison sentence for shoplifting died Thursday at the minimum-security South Middlesex Correctional...

Can Our Shameful Prisons Be Reformed? By David Cole

Posted on December 05, 2009
Volume 56, Number 18 � November 19, 2009 NY Review of Books Can Our Shameful Prisons Be Reformed? By David Cole Race, Incarceration, and American Values by Glenn C. Loury, with Pamela S. Karlan, Tommie Shelby, and Lo�c Wacquant Boston...

NY Times Editorial: Protection for the Vulnerable---stepping up the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act--including report on atrocities by guards at the Westchester Co Jail in N

Posted on December 04, 2009
NY Times Editorial Protection for the Vulnerable Published: December 3, 2009 The federal government is stepping up enforcement of an important law ? the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act ? which authorizes the Justice Department to sue prisons, jails,...

CT: State Proposes Closing Minimum-Security Prison In Cheshire

Posted on December 03, 2009
State Proposes Closing Minimum-Security Prison In Cheshire By CHRISTOPHER KEATING December 2, 2009 Hartford Courant The state is recommending that a minimum-security prison in Cheshire be closed, a move that would have been unheard of during the tough-on-crime days of...

MA: Prison & Jail Budgets Soar Exeeding Higher Ed, Health, Social Services. People in prisons surged by 300% and jails about 320%.

Posted on December 03, 2009
"....It also found that staffing expenditures soared 56 percent from 1995 to 2003, to $312 million, and that much of the increase stemmed from overtime costs and a contract with the union that represents correction officers." Correction agencies? budgets soaring...

MA: Letter from Gordon Haas of the Norfolk Lifers Group to Comm. Harold Clarke on the proposed firing of the chaplains

Posted on December 02, 2009
November 25, 2009 Mr. Harold Clarke Commissioner?Department of Correction 50 Maple Street ? Suite 3 Milford MA 01757 Dear Commissioner Clarke, I am much dismayed and shocked by the news that you are laying off/firing prison chaplains. The decision to...

Immigration Detention System Lapses Detailed By Bipartisan Study Group and Human Rights Watch

Posted on December 02, 2009
Immigration Detention System Lapses Detailed By NINA BERNSTEIN Published: December 2, 2009 NY Times A growing number of noncitizens are being held unnecessarily and transferred heedlessly in an expensive immigration detention system that lacks basic fairness, a bipartisan study group...

UC Berkeley?s Teach in Prison program is creating the San Quentin All Access Computer Center, the prison?s first instructional computer lab.

Posted on December 02, 2009
Due Processing: Incarceration and the Digital Divide http://www.citris-uc.org/events/RE-Dec-02 Themes Intelligent Infrastructure Emphases Services Science and Technology Campuses UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Merced, UC Santa Cruz * December 2, 2009: 12:00pm - 1:00pm * Location: Banatao Auditorium, 3rd floor, Sutardja...

CT: Rell: Close Minimum-Security Webster Prison In Cheshire; AFSCME Union Local 387 Opposes Plan As Ill-Advised

Posted on December 01, 2009
Rell: Close Minimum-Security Webster Prison In Cheshire; AFSCME Union Local 387 Opposes Plan As Ill-Advised By Christopher Keating Hartford Courtant December 1, 2009 In a highly unusual attempt to save money, the Rell administration is recommending the closure of a...

Vinny Schiraldi Juvenile Justice Chief in DC & founder of the Justice Policy Institute to Head NYC Probation Department

Posted on December 01, 2009
Juvenile justice chief in D.C. is leaving post Schiraldi will lead New York City's probation department By Nikita Stewart Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, December 1, 2009 Vincent N. Schiraldi, whose advocacy of less restrictive detention for juvenile offenders was...

Killings in WA state may set-back any "progress" on clemency, parole and JLWOP

Posted on December 01, 2009
Old Clemency May Be Issue for Huckabee By KATE ZERNIKE Published: November 30, 2009 NY Times When Mike Huckabee, a former Southern Baptist minister then serving as governor of Arkansas, granted clemency to Maurice Clemmons nine years ago, he cited...

Telemundo: Unbelievable Even for Arpaio: Woman Forced to Give Birth While Shackled

Posted on November 30, 2009
Video: Sheriff Joe Arpaio Forces Woman to Give Birth While Shackled by Mariela Rosario | 11.18.2009 Telemundo The news team for Telemundo 52 recently reported on Alma Minerva Chacon, a women who was terrorized by Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Unfortunately,...

Sick but True: GA Jail Painted Pink, Jumpsuits and Handcuffs Pink

Posted on November 30, 2009
GA jail goes pink Posted: Nov 27, 2009 11:50 AM EST BEN HILL CO, GA (NBC) - Georgia's Ben Hill County jail is getting a new look, and most inmates won't be thrilled. The Sheriff is painting the entire jail...

NJ: School zone law could be reformed with re-sentencing possilbe & additional changes could result in more judicial descretion

Posted on November 29, 2009
N.J. bill would give judges more discretion Nov. 29, 2009 By Adrienne Lu Philadelphia Inquirer Trenton Bureau New Jersey's drug-free school-zone law, conceived to protect schoolchildren, could be amended to give judges more discretion in sentencing offenders under a bill...

MA: Editorial: Smarter sentencing saves money

Posted on November 29, 2009
Editorial: Smarter sentencing saves money The MetroWest Daily News Posted Nov 29, 2009 If there's a bright side to a financial emergency, it's the opportunity a crisis brings to stop spending money on things that aren't working. Consider the money...

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