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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: State suspends release of parolees

Posted on January 21, 2011
State suspends release of parolees Action follows board overhaul By Jonathan Saltzman Boston Globe Staff / January 21, 2011 In another sign of the upheaval resulting from Governor Deval Patrick?s sweeping overhaul of the Parole Board, a high-ranking public safety...

ID: Prisons looking at charging fees to inmates, families, parolees

Posted on January 20, 2011
Prisons looking at charging fees to inmates, families, parolees By Brad Iverson-Long January 19th, 2011 The Idaho Department of Correction (IDOC) is looking into charging or raising user fees to offenders and their families on things such as visits, including...

Marin County Officials Try to Prevent Construction of New San Quentin Death Row

Posted on January 20, 2011
Huffman appeals to Brown to reconsider San Quentin death row expansion By Richard Halstead Marin Independent Journal Posted: 01/18/2011 Marin officials making a last stand to prevent construction of a new $356 million death row complex at San Quentin State...

CA: Brown's prison plan has a hitch: County jails are overcrowded, too

Posted on January 20, 2011
Brown's prison plan has a hitch: County jails are overcrowded, too By Brad Branan Sacramento Bee Page 1B Jan. 18, 2011 Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to transfer state inmates to county jails faces a simple obstacle: Many jails don't have...

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HI: Public Safety director wants mainland prisoners home

Posted on January 19, 2011
Public Safety director wants mainland prisoners home Posted: Jan 18, 2011 3:21 PM EST Updated: Jan 18, 2011 11:58 PM EST By Jim Mendoza HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - "Our department stance is, why are we going to pay somebody else to...

NH: Privatizing among prison ideas. Corrections asks for outside input

Posted on January 19, 2011
Privatizing among prison ideas Corrections asks for outside input By Shira Schoenberg / Monitor staff January 19, 2011 The state Department of Corrections needs to save money, and all ideas are on the table. The department has asked public agencies...

D.C. jail to fingerprint visitors, check for warrants

Posted on January 19, 2011
D.C. jail to fingerprint visitors, check for warrants Washington Examiner By: Freeman Klopott 01/17/11 All visitors to the District's jail soon will have their fingerprints scanned and checked against law enforcement databases for outstanding warrants...

Americans Face Guantanamo-Like Torture Everyday in a Super-Max Prison Near You By Lance Tapley, Boston Review

Posted on January 19, 2011
Americans Face Guantanamo-Like Torture Everyday in a Super-Max Prison Near You By Lance Tapley, Boston Review Posted on January 18, 2011, Printed on January 19, 2011 http://www.alternet.org/story/149233/ Editor's Note: Courageous WikiLeaks whistleblower Bradley Manning is reportedly suffering some of the...

Ford Foundation to Put Up $50 Million for Documentaries

Posted on January 19, 2011
Ford Foundation to Put Up $50 Million for Documentaries By BROOKS BARNES NY Times---Jan. 18, 2011 Documentarians, rejoice! The Ford Foundation on Tuesday announced a five-year plan to pour $50 million into documentaries -? defined broadly, including online-only efforts -?...

Maine prison offers free college in effort to reduce repeat offenders , save money

Posted on January 18, 2011
"Philanthropist Doris Buffett, sister of billionaire Warren Buffett, fully finances the program through her Sunshine Lady Foundation. The foundation supports 16 prison college programs around the country at a total cost of about $1.5 million last year...

Indiana?s Answer to Prison Costs- NY Times Editorial

Posted on January 18, 2011
Indiana?s Answer to Prison Costs Editorial- NY Times- Published: January 17, 2011 For states that are serious about trimming deficits, out-of-control prison costs are a good place to start cutting. The expenses of housing and caring for more than one...

Lucasville OH- Death Row prisoners end hunger strike after state meets demands 'Semi-contact' visits among concessions to Lucasville riot leaders

Posted on January 18, 2011
Death Row inmates end hunger strike after state meets demands 'Semi-contact' visits among concessions to Lucasville riot leaders Monday, January 17, 2011 11:08 PM By Alan Johnson - The Columbus Dispatch A hunger strike by the three Lucasville riot leaders...

New Zealand: Jail for unpaid fines 'bad idea'

Posted on January 17, 2011
Jail for unpaid fines 'bad idea' 17/01/2011 New Zealand A bill that would make imprisonment a penalty for people with overdue fines, has today been criticised by a lobby group that says Ireland has abandoned similar legislation. The Courts and...

A new governor looks behind Georgia?s prison bars to save money

Posted on January 16, 2011
A new governor looks behind Georgia?s prison bars to save money January 15, 2011 By Jim Galloway Despite three years of turmoil, the economic crisis in Georgia has resulted in few fundamental shifts in state policy. We have had furloughs,...

MA: Gov. Patrick proposes revamped parole laws Wants stricter rules for those with repeat convictions

Posted on January 16, 2011
Patrick proposes revamped parole laws Wants stricter rules for repeat offenders By Michael Rezendes and Maria Cramer Globe Staff / January 15, 2011 Acting swiftly after the resignations of five state Parole Board members and a crisis of confidence in...

MA: Gov. Patrick Overhauls Parole Board After Paroled Prisoner Kills a Police Officer

Posted on January 14, 2011
Leslie Walker of Prisoners' Legal Services--?No matter what prisoners do in prison to conform their conduct to prison rules, no matter how thoroughly they are rehabilitated, and no matter how long they have lost their liberty, the governor?s new Parole...

New ?Scared Straight? Series Backs Discredited Strategy

Posted on January 13, 2011
New ?Scared Straight? Series Backs Discredited Strategy January 12, 2011 by John Kelly Documentary maker takes on juvenile justice establishment Supporters and critics of ?scared straight? programs ? which generally entail youths visiting prisons and prisoners in hopes that the...

MI: Prions Officials Probe Suicide Attempts at Women's Prison

Posted on January 11, 2011
Corrections officials probe suicide attempts at women's prison George Hunter / The Detroit News January 10. 2011 Ypsilanti ? The Michigan Department of Corrections has launched an investigation into a number of recent suicide attempts at the state's only women's...

IN: 12 year old boy sentenced to 25 years in prison

Posted on January 10, 2011
12 year old boy sentenced to 25 years in prison Updated: Tuesday, 04 Jan 2011 WARSAW, Ind. (WANE) - A 12-year-old Kosciusko County boy has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for his role in the killing of the...

CA: Prison spending gets a boost and Higher Ed & Health and Human Services Cut

Posted on January 10, 2011
----AND.....Health and Human Services would be cut $5.78 billion and higher education cut $1.8 billion. Prison spending gets a boost in budget January 10, 2011 PolitiCal---On politics in the Golden State One place where Gov. Jerry Brown is prepared to...

Dallas TX: Cornelius Dupree Jr. and Cory Session: Preventing miscarriages of justice

Posted on January 08, 2011
Cornelius Dupree Jr. and Cory Session: Preventing miscarriages of justice January 7, 2011 Dallas Morning News (Cornelius Dupree Jr. served 30 years in prison before his conviction was overturned on Jan. 4, 2011, based on DNA evidence. Cory Session is...

VA: James River to close and a reason found for Brunswick to remain open

Posted on January 08, 2011
The James River Correctional Center's 450 inmates will be moved to other prisons when it closes on April 1. By Frank Green Published: January 08, 2011 The Virginia Department of Corrections is closing its oldest prison, the James River Correctional...

The Scott Sisters? ?Debt to Society? and the New Jim Crow

Posted on January 08, 2011
The Scott Sisters? ?Debt to Society? and the New Jim Crow January 7, 2011 News from a Nation in Lockdown by James Ridgeway http://solitarywatch.com/2011/01/07/the-scott-sisters-debt-to-society-and-the-new-jim-crow/ Jamie and Gladys Scott walked out of prison today into the free world...

Georgia to Investigate Reports of Prisoner Abuse

Posted on January 08, 2011
Georgia to Investigate Reports of Prisoner Abuse by Julianne Hing ColorLines January 7 2011 On Thursday the Georgia Department of Corrections announced the Bureau of Investigations will look into allegations of retaliatory prisoner abuse following a fact-finding delegation?s visits to...

Podcast:-"Why Mass Incarceration Matters: Rethinking Crisis, Decline, and Transformation in Postwar American History"

Posted on January 08, 2011
Why Mass Incarceration Matters: Rethinking Crisis, Decline, and Transformation in Postwar American History Khalil G. Muhammad, associate editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Heather Ann Thompson, author of the article Why Mass Incarceration Matters: Rethinking Crisis, Decline,...

MA: Woburn Mayor Seeks Dismal of Parole Board Members Who Released Cinelli

Posted on January 06, 2011
"House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo has also expressed outrage about the Parole Board?s decision and some legislators are pushing for a bill that would eliminate the possibility of parole for certain repeat offenders." Woburn Mayor seeks dismissal of those who...

Iowa- Looming Setback on Voting Rights

Posted on January 06, 2011
Iowa Looming Setback on Voting Rights From the Sentencing Project: January 4, 2011 Newly-elected Governor Terry Branstad has vowed to rescind a 2005 executive order that has restored rights to an estimated 50,000 persons in the state who have completed...

Thousands Pay Tribute to Judy Bonds: She Has Been to the Mountaintop--and We Must Fight Harder to Save It

Posted on January 06, 2011
Thousands Pay Tribute to Judy Bonds: She Has Been to the Mountaintop--and We Must Fight Harder to Save It By Jeff Biggers Jan 4. 2011 She was a tireless, funny, and inspiring orator, and a savvy and brilliant community organizer....

IA: Unions praise Gov. for going forward with new prison for women

Posted on January 06, 2011
Unions praise Culver for going forward with Mitchellville prison project Blog post by William Petroski January 5, 2011 Des Moines Register The head of the Iowa State Building and Construction Trades Council said today the state?s decision to proceed with...

Lucasville Five Hunger Strike Begins - An Interview With Author Staughton Lynd by t he Angola 3 News

Posted on January 06, 2011
Lucasville Five Hunger Strike Begins - An Interview With Author Staughton Lynd by Angola 3 News Sunday, 02 January 2011 18:37 In 1993, the maximum security Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio was the site of an historic prisoner...

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