Criminal Law

NY Times Editorial: "Prison Nation"
March 10, 2008 Editorial, NY Times Prison Nation After three decades of explosive growth, the nation?s prison population has reached some grim milestones: More than 1 in 100 American adults are behind bars...

New York Times editorial on "Prison Nation"
Joining the chorus of papers commenting on the recent Pew Center report, "One in 100: Behind Bars in America 2008" (discussed here), today the New York Times has this editorial titled "Prison Nation...

Dickensian complaint over NJ prison conditions
A helpful reader alerted me to this news of a new lawsuit concerning New Jersey's prison conditions, which indirectly touches on many economic issues that surround prison nation. Here are excerpts the article: Conditions out of Charles Dickens' novel beset...

Bureau of Justice Statistics Report: Parents in Prison and Their Children
News release: "An estimated 809,800 prisoners of the 1,518,535 held in the nation’s prison at midyear 2007 were parents of...

CRIMINAL: "A Nation of Prisions"
This is not good. Not good at all, and the timing of the review of our penal code could not be any better. Nation of prisons The study of America's prison population by the nonpartisan Pew Center on the States should shock citizens and provoke fresh thinking at every level of government.

The Population of Americas Prisons
This was printed in response to the Prison Nation Editorial in the NY Times which is posed on the Real Cost of Prisons blog at www.reacostofprisons.org/blog March 16, 2008 Letters, NY Times The Population of America?s Prisons To the Editor:...