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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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The parallel world of Europe's anti-terror regimen

Posted on May 31, 2009
The parallel world of Europe's anti-terror regimen By Liz Fekete 28 May 2009, 5:00pm Below we reproduce the introduction to the latest edition of the European Race Bulletin. In the eighteen months since the European Race Bulletin carried out its...

The Rev. Gérard Jean-Juste, Champion of Haitian Rights in U.S., Dies at 62

Posted on May 31, 2009
The Rev. Gérard Jean-Juste, Champion of Haitian Rights in U.S., Dies at 62 By WILLIAM GRIMES Published: May 28, 2009- NY Times The Rev. Gérard Jean-Juste, a Roman Catholic priest who championed the rights of Haitians in the United States...

Ariz. halts use of outdoor prison holding cells

Posted on May 30, 2009
Ariz. halts use of outdoor prison holding cells By JONATHAN J. COOPER 5-30-09 PHOENIX (AP) ? The director of Arizona state prisons has suspended the use of unshaded outdoor holding cells in the wake of an inmate's death. Authorities said...

States and cities attempt to charge prisoners to stay

Posted on May 29, 2009
Debt to society costs some criminals $60 a night By Tracy Loew, USA TODAY May 28, 2009 Get arrested in Springfield, Ore., this fall, and you might spend the night in jail ? then get a bill for your stay....

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Ohio to release some very sick prisoners to nursing homes

Posted on May 29, 2009
Some ailing Ohio inmates going to nursing homes The Associated Press May 28, 2009 COLUMBUS, Ohio ? Officials say Ohio plans to send as many as 40 ailinginmates to nursing homes to ease prison overcrowding and save money. Prisons system...

AZ: Opponents Stop Federal Detention Center

Posted on May 29, 2009
SAN XAVIER DISTRICT NO LONGER CONSIDERING NOGALES HWY SITE FOR FEDERAL DETENTION CENTER May 21, 2009 Tohono O?odham Nation and District Leaders Working Together to Identify Alternative Location SELLS, AZ --- The San Xavier District of the Tohono O?odham Nation...

Netherlands to close 8 prisons due to lack of prisoners

Posted on May 29, 2009
Netherlands to close prisons for lack of criminals by NRC International 20-05-2009 The Dutch justice ministry has announced it will close eight prisons and cut 1,200 jobs in the prison system. A decline in crime has left many cells empty....

Stealing their right to vote

Posted on May 29, 2009
Stealing their right to vote Lee Wengraf examines a hidden scandal of American "democracy"--the disenfranchisement of millions of people for no other reason that that they were convicted of a crime. May 28, 2009 IN NOVEMBER, American voters made history...

NY: Prosecutors fight rule in new state drug laws that lets records be sealed

Posted on May 29, 2009
Prosecutors fight rule in new state drug laws that lets records be sealed By Joseph Spector ? Albany Bureau ? May 28, 2009 District attorneys across New York are criticizing a little-known provision in the state's new drug laws that...

What addiction really costs your state: detailed state by state expenditures

Posted on May 29, 2009
A message from Join Together at CASA* ==================================== May 28, 2009 Dear Colleague, According to a report CASA issued this morning, federal, state and local governments spend almost half a trillion dollars every year -- almost 11 percent of their...

Santa Barbara CA: Officials Mull Privatizing Mental Health Services by signing contract with Prison Health Services

Posted on May 29, 2009
Prison System for Sale Officials Mull Privatized Jail Mental Health Services Thursday, May 28, 2009 By Benjamin Gottlieb Santa Barbara County?s jail mental health system officially is for sale. The prospective buyer???a private Tennessee-based prison health company???is already lined up...

Judge Sotomayor's dissent on Hayden v. Pataki

Posted on May 29, 2009
* ProgressiveSouth's diary-- Voting experts point to two areas where Judge Sotomayor's rulings have stood out: FELON DISENFRANCHISEMENT: Judge Sotomayor's biggest voting rights case has likely been Hayden v Pataki. In this 2006 case in the 2nd Circuit, ex-felon...

Interfaith group seeks second chance for youths sentenced to life The coalition delivers a message of redemption in sermons at some 200 California churches, synagogues and mosques.

Posted on May 29, 2009
Interfaith group seeks second chance for youths sentenced to life The coalition delivers a message of redemption in sermons at some 200 California churches, synagogues and mosques. By Dana Parsons May 25, 2009 The major faith traditions teach that the...

CA: CCA to build prison for illegal immigrants in San Diego Co.

Posted on May 28, 2009
San Diego County approves immigrant prison SAN DIEGO, May 26, 2009 (UPI) -- Local officials in the San Diego area have approved a private company's plans for a prison to house more than 2,000 illegal immigrants. The 40-acre site on...

NY: Solar "farmer" is top bidder on closed prison farms

Posted on May 28, 2009
Mid-Hudson region's prison farms may harvest sun Solar panels could provide 9 megawatts By Adam Bosch Times Herald-Record Posted: May 27, 2009 A fashion designer from New Paltz wants to install solar energy panels at three prison farms that were...

CA: Valley is the best place for Gitmo prison

Posted on May 28, 2009
Valley is the best place for Gitmo prison Wednesday, May. 27, 2009 By Bill McEwen / The Fresno Bee President Barack Obama has a problem, and I've got a solution. He wants to close the Guantánamo Bay detention center, but...

Texas Dept of CJ begins screening immigrant prisoners in trial run of nationwide Department of Homeland Security program

Posted on May 26, 2009
Inmate screening put to test in Texas By STEWART M. POWELL WASHINGTON BUREAU May 25, 2009 WASHINGTON ? Texas prisons are test-driving the Obama administration?s planned nationwide immigration screening and are relaying for the first time the digital fingerprints of...

More calls for California to shut down its youth prison system

Posted on May 26, 2009
More calls for California to shut down its youth prison system By Karen de Sá Mercury News Posted: 05/25/2009 With California mired in near-catastrophic budget woes, a growing number of researchers are calling for the state to shut down its...

Budget crisis could curtail Oregon's prison boom

Posted on May 26, 2009
Budget crisis could curtail Oregon's prison boom by Susan Goldsmith, The Oregonian Monday May 25, 2009, 9:20 PM With nearly 14,000 people locked up in state prisons and another 35,000 under supervision from the Department of Corrections, criminal justice has...

Reps. Kenyatta Johnson and Ronald Waters Call for Review of Criminal Justice System in PA

Posted on May 26, 2009
Pa. lawmakers want to examine criminal-justice from all angles By DANA DiFILIPPO Philadelphia Daily News May 23, 2009 Two months after federal lawmakers announced plans for a top-to-bottom study of the nation's criminal-justice system, two state lawmakers from Philadelphia yesterday...

Bid to divert California prisoners to county jails denounced

Posted on May 23, 2009
From the Los Angeles Times Bid to divert California prisoners to county jails denounced Local officials say they don't have the room or the funding to house the low-level felons that the governor wants to send them. By Molly Hennessy-Fiske...

PA: Gary Tucker, a prisoner held in control unit found not-guilty of assault on a guard

Posted on May 22, 2009
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ HRC-FedUp! Courthouse Update Tucker Found Innocent! Prisoner beats false charges with HRC help ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gary Tucker Found Non-guilty! HRC and Family Support the Deciding Factor Torture survivor Gary Tucker, a state prisoner currently confined in 23-hour control unit...

Fingerprinting Plan Will Dramatically Increase Deportations 'Secure Communities' Would Ensnare People with Minor and More Serious Convictions

Posted on May 22, 2009
Fingerprinting Plan Will Dramatically Increase Deportations 'Secure Communities' Would Ensnare Minor as well as Serious Offenders Washington Independent By Daphne Eviatar 5/22/09 The idea of deporting illegal immigrants who are also hardened criminals wouldn?t seem like a controversial idea...

OK: Bill passes that would send immigrant prisoners to federal prisons for deportation.

Posted on May 22, 2009
Oklahoma bill would deport imprisoned aliens By The Associated Press Published: May 22, 2009 Legislation that authorizes state prisons to send illegal alien inmates to federal immigration officials for deportation has passed the state House. The bill would also prevent...

WA: Gov moves to deport illegal immigrants in prisons. Will not take part in ICE "rapid removal"

Posted on May 22, 2009
"The governor made it clear that the state would not join in ICE's rapid removal program. For immigrant advocates, the shift in policy was welcome news. From the beginning, the main concern for immigration groups was protecting due process. Deportation...

Supermax prisons not super enough?

Posted on May 22, 2009
Supermax Prisons in U.S. Already Hold Terrorists By Carrie Johnson and Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, May 22, 2009 In news conferences, speeches and debates this week, lawmakers from both parties, as well as the director of the...

Phoenix: Prisoners at Maricopa County Jail on Hunger Strike

Posted on May 21, 2009
"In the past four days, the number of inmates refusing to eat has grown. On Thursday, 1,504 refused the evening meals. On Friday, 1,800 refused to eat. On Saturday 1,219 did not eat and on Sunday night, 1,080 inmates turned...

AZ: Women serving a 27 month sentence for prostitution dies in holding cell after four hours in 103 degree heat.

Posted on May 21, 2009
Ariz. inmate dies after hours in outdoor cell By JONATHAN J. COOPER-5-22-09 PHOENIX (AP) ? An Arizona inmate who died after spending nearly four hours in the desert heat was left in an outdoor holding cell for twice as long...

Key Findings from America's Invisible Children: Latino Youth and the Failure of Justice

Posted on May 20, 2009
Key Findings from America's Invisible Children: Latino Youth and the Failure of Justice: On any given day, close to 18,000 Latino youth are incarcerated in America. The majority of these youth are incarcerated for nonviolent offenses. Most Latino youth are...

Tamms: Scrutiny Promised For Illinois' Supermax Prison

Posted on May 19, 2009
Scrutiny Promised For Illinois' Supermax Prison 05-16-09 07:22 PM Huffington Post ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Tamms Correctional Center's first warden made no apologies for christening the tough southwest Illinois prison a home for a "very unhappy inmate population...

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