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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.
By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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PA: Judges Plead Guilty in Scheme to Jail Youths for Profit

Posted on February 13, 2009
Judges Plead Guilty in Scheme to Jail Youths for Profit February 12, 2009 By IAN URBINA and SEAN D. HAMILL NY Times At worst, Hillary Transue thought she might get a stern lecture when she appeared before a judge for...

Katrina vanden Heuvel on "Senator Webb's Act of Strength"

Posted on February 13, 2009
Senator Webb's Act of Strength posted by Katrina vanden Heuvel on 02/12/2009 The Nation Our criminal justice system is broken. The US represents 5 percent of the world's population but accounts for nearly 25 percent of its prison population. We...

NY: Jail Guard Union Throws Party for Indicted Rikers Island Guards

Posted on February 13, 2009
Jail Guard Union Throws Party for Indicted Guards Posted by Graham Rayman at 2:47 PM, February 9, 2009 Last Friday, the Voice has learned, the union for correction officers held a 10-hour fundraiser to benefit three members who were indicted...

VA: Voting rights for people with non-violent felony convictions dies without even a vote

Posted on February 12, 2009
Voting rights resolution dies in House committee Del. Onzlee Ware sponsored a bill to help restore voting rights to nonviolent felons. By Michael Sluss RICHMOND -- Without discussion or debate, a House of Delegates committee on Friday hurriedly voted down...

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CA: The Prison Overcrowding Fix

Posted on February 11, 2009
News Analysis The Prison Overcrowding Fix By SOLOMON MOORE Published: February 10, 2009 In San Francisco last week, a federal court was hearing final arguments in the prison overcrowding lawsuit that led Monday to an unprecedented decision to reduce the...

Pa. judges accused of jailing kids for cash

Posted on February 11, 2009
Pa. judges accused of jailing kids for cash By MICHAEL RUBINKAM and MARYCLAIRE DALE, \Associated Press Writers Michael Rubinkam And Maryclaire Dale, Associated Press Writers WILKES-BARRE, Pa. ? For years, the juvenile court system in Wilkes-Barre operated like a conveyor...

CA: Panel of Judges Rule State must release up to 57,000 prisoners---3 articles

Posted on February 10, 2009
From the Los Angeles Times Judges back a one-third reduction in state prison population Jurists issue tentative ruling in lawsuit brought by inmates, who say overcrowding in state prisons violates their right to adequate healthcare. By Michael Rothfeld February 10,...

MA: Local legislators weigh in on prison fee idea

Posted on February 09, 2009
Local legislators weigh in on prison fee idea By Stephanie Ganias/ Milford Daily News correspondent Feb 08, 2009 BOSTON One state legislator has a simple plan to bring in $10 million for the state: Charge inmates small fees for rooming...

Budget crunch forces Florida prisons to feed inmates for less

Posted on February 09, 2009
Budget crunch forces Florida prisons to feed inmates for less By Steve Bousquet, Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau Monday, February 9, 2009 St. Petersburg Times MADISON ? Three times a day, the inmates at Madison Correctional Institution discover what a budget deficit...

Singing the prison blues Incarceration rate has direct impact on Florida's finances

Posted on February 09, 2009
The News-Journal February 08, 2009 Singing the prison blues Incarceration rate has direct impact on Florida's finances Everyone in Florida government is singing the Budget Blues. But underlying the melody is a drumbeat many state leaders profess not to hear:...

California budget mess: Where did our money go?

Posted on February 08, 2009
Good graph at this URL http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_11649004?nclick_check=1 California budget mess: Where did our money go? By Paul Rogers and Leigh Poitinger Mercury News Posted: 02/08/2009 California is broke. But lost in the day-to-day drama over IOUs, furloughs and huge deficits is...

NY: Towns must do without prison work crews

Posted on February 08, 2009
Towns must do without prison work crews State eliminated all but 2 groups By Keith Goldberg Times Herald-Record Posted: February 07, 2009 MOUNT HOPE ? It didn't cost a dime for Mount Hope to re-paint its senior center last summer....

Five Big Ideas We Should Be Talking About (including closing some prisons)

Posted on February 08, 2009
Published on OurFuture.org (http://www.ourfuture.org) Five Big Ideas We Should Be Talking About By Sara Robinson Created 02/04/2009 - 1:19am http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2009020604/five-big-ideas-we-should-be-talking-about Summary: This is a moment for a big vision, painted in bold strokes...

The Census: Phantom Constituents

Posted on February 07, 2009
February 6, 2009, 5:55 pm The Census: Phantom Constituents By Brent Staples http://theboard.blogs.nytimes.com/ There are many ways to hijack political power. One of them is to draw state or city legislative districts around large prisons ? and pretend that the...

NY: Sentencing Commission Calls for Drug Law Reform and Critical Response from NY Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver

Posted on February 06, 2009
Sentencing Commission Calls for Drug Law Reform February 3, 2009 Panel also recommends determinate sentencing, graduated sanctions for parole violators A bi-partisan panel that spent nearly two years studying New York State?s sentencing statutes today called for further reforms to...

CT: Gov. delays sending 16 & 17 year old youth to juvenile system

Posted on February 06, 2009
Criminal justice initiative clipped in Rell budget By Keith M. Phaneuf Journal Inquirer Published: Thursday, February 5, 2009 HARTFORD ? Though criminal justice initiatives traditionally are one area both political parties insist are immune to budget cuts, even they may...

NY: Rikers Fight Club After indications for more than a year that guards were using inmates as enforcers, New York's jails are rocked by a pair of indictments

Posted on February 06, 2009
Rikers Fight Club After indications for more than a year that guards were using inmates as enforcers, New York's jails are rocked by a pair of indictments By Graham Rayman published: February 04, 2009 The Village Voice Eighteen months after...

Arpaio?s America

Posted on February 06, 2009
Arpaio?s America Editorial: NY Times including a picture on the editorial page of the shackled men Published: February 5, 2009 It has come to this: In Phoenix on Wednesday, more than 200 men in shackles and prison stripes were marched...

Warren Kimbro, Ex-Panther Who Turned to Life of Service After Killing, Dies at 74

Posted on February 05, 2009
Warren Kimbro, Ex-Panther Who Turned to Life of Service After Killing, Dies at 74 By BRUCE WEBER Published: February 5, 2009 NY Times Warren Kimbro, who as a fledgling member of the Black Panther Party shot and killed a...

National Academy of Sciences Report finds Science Found Wanting in Nation?s Crime Labs

Posted on February 05, 2009
"One person who has reviewed the draft and who asked not to be identified because of promises to keep the contents confidential said: ?I?m sure that every defense attorney in the country is waiting for this report to come out....

PA: Cut spending with inmate fees, not guard jobs, union says

Posted on February 05, 2009
Warning....an infuriating article! Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Cut spending with inmate fees, not guard jobs, union says By Brad Bumsted STATE CAPITOL REPORTER Thursday, February 5, 2009 HARRISBURG ? Inmates who committed crimes from burglary to murder pay token amounts for health...

WA: State Rep. works to change law that prohibits people who owe fines but are not in prison or parole from voting

Posted on February 05, 2009
Eye On Olympia Darneille takes another run at broadening felons? rights to vote upon release from prison? February 1 Comments (0) Two years ago, the state Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that even after felons are released from prison, the state...

MI: State should expand Parole Board to cut prison stays and costs

Posted on February 05, 2009
State should expand Parole Board to cut prison stays and costs February 4, 2009 Michigan's $2-billion-a-year prison system holds thousands of inmates who have served their minimum sentence and are eligible for release. Not all of them merit paroles, of...

Lawsuits Suggest Pattern of Rikers Guards Looking Other Way

Posted on February 05, 2009
Lawsuits Suggest Pattern of Rikers Guards Looking Other Way By BENJAMIN WEISER Published: February 3, 2009 When two guards were accused last month of encouraging inmates in one Rikers Island jail to police themselves, leading to beatings and in one...

Albion, New York Portrait of a prison town.

Posted on February 04, 2009
Albion, New York Portrait of a prison town. By Andrew Marantz / Albion, New York Tuesday, February 3, 2009 America?s prison system is the biggest in history. Of the roughly nine million prisoners in the world, over two million are...

PREVENTING CRIME 101: MORE COLLEGE IN PRISONS

Posted on February 03, 2009
PREVENTING CRIME 101: MORE COLLEGE IN PRISONS Increasing higher ed opportunities behind bars lowers recidivism rates and incarceration costs over the long run, say advocates. > By Jarrett Murphy City Limits WEEKLY #673 February 2, 2009 At a time when...

Despite Vow, Target of Immigrant Raids Shifted

Posted on February 03, 2009
Despite Vow, Target of Immigrant Raids Shifted By NINA BERNSTEIN Published: February 3, 2009 NY Times The raids on homes around the country were billed as carefully planned hunts for dangerous immigrant fugitives, and given catchy names like Operation Return...

Call for Papers: The International Prison Privatization Experience: A Transatlantic and Transpacific Dialogue, Houston, TX, August 6-8, 2009

Posted on February 03, 2009
The International Prison Privatization Experience: A Transatlantic and Transpacific Dialogue, Houston, TX, August 6-8, 2009 Call for Papers The Barbara Jordan Institute for Policy Research, the BJ-ML School of Public Affairs Administration of Justice Department, and Justice Strategies will convene...

Defining ?Cruel and Unusual? When Offender Is 13

Posted on February 03, 2009
Sidebar Defining ?Cruel and Unusual? When Offender Is 13 By ADAM LIPTAK Published: February 2, 2009 In 1989, someone raped a 72-year-old woman in Pensacola, Fla. Joe Sullivan was 13 at the time, and he admitted that he and two...

Some of the spending In the Senate Stimulus Bill

Posted on February 02, 2009
$150 million for the Office of the Federal Detention Trustee - (OFDT) is an organization that achieves efficiencies, effectiveness and operational synergies within the detention and incarceration community by fostering interagency cooperation, mutual understanding, accountability and teamwork...

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