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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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AL: New Federal Prison for 1,400 Women

Posted on September 22, 2008
New prison for women to be built near Aliceville September 22, 2008 11:06 EDT ALICEVILLE, Ala. (AP) -- Alabama is getting a new federal lockup, so says the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. The agency said a medium-security prison for women...

Juvenile Junction

Posted on September 20, 2008
Juvenile Junction By Will Di Novi The Nation September 15, 2008 The girls at the Mississippi detention center were tied up for weeks at a time. Minor offenders, some as young as 13, were cuffed and chained when they ate...

GOP Intimidation Halts Historic Drive to Register Voters in Alabama

Posted on September 20, 2008
GOP Intimidation Halts Historic Drive to Register Voters in Alabama State Law Allows Certain People to Vote Even While Incarcerated Alabama Department of Corrections Caves to Republican Pressure, Tells Advocates: You Can No Longer Register Voters Inside Alabama Prisons DOTHAN?Alabama-based...

PA: New prison coming to Fayette

Posted on September 20, 2008
New prison coming to Fayette By CHRIS FOREMAN Friday, September 19, 2008 Valley Independent A booming population in the state criminal justice system is causing the construction of at least two new state prisons, including one at a Fayette County...

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TX: County rejects prisons but welcomes toxic waste dump

Posted on September 20, 2008
Struggling Andrews County sees value, not risk, in nuclear site By Enrique Rangel | A-J AUSTIN BUREAU Saturday, September 20, 2008 Story last updated at 9/20/2008 - 3:05 am AUSTIN - Like many rural counties in West Texas and across...

NY Times Op-Ed: Blocking Care for Women

Posted on September 20, 2008
September 19, 2008 Op-Ed Contributor Blocking Care for Women By HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON and CECILE RICHARDS LAST month, the Bush administration launched the latest salvo in its eight-year campaign to undermine women?s rights and women?s health by placing ideology ahead...

Arkansas:

Posted on September 18, 2008
Northwest Arkansas Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Reading matter for state prisons gets careful look BY JON GAMBRELL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 PINE BLUFF ? As in any library, the bookshelves overseen by Dennice Alexander draw visitors with...

CA: Yolo prison foes vow to keep fighting

Posted on September 18, 2008
Yolo prison foes vow to keep fighting By Hudson Sangree Wednesday, September 17, 2008 This story is taken from Sacbee / News. Opponents of a new prison approved for rural Yolo County land say their fight will continue. Looking to...

PA: Bill addressing crowded prisons gets PA. Senate OK. Plans move forward on building 3 more prisons.

Posted on September 18, 2008
Bill addressing crowded prisons gets Pa. Senate OK By MARC LEVY Wednesday, September 17, 2008 Wilkes-Barre Times Leader Legislation designed to move thousands of nonviolent criminals out of state prisons more quickly and rein in booming correctional costs is nearing...

OK: Counties reminded people with felony convictions can vote

Posted on September 18, 2008
Counties reminded ex-felons can vote Publication:The Oklahoman Sept 18, 2008 Section:Front page By Michael Kimball Staff Write The American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma mailed letters to the state?s county election boards this week reminding them former felons have the...

TX: Gritis for Breakfast Blog: TYC commitments to grow dramatically despite declining juvie crime

Posted on September 16, 2008
TYC commitments to grow dramatically despite declining juvie crime September 15, 2008 Grits for Breakfast Blog Having analyzed on Saturday the Legislative Budget Board's incarceration projections for the adult prison system, let's take a look at LBB's projections regarding youth...

TX: Grits for Breakfast Blog: Legislative Budget Board: Texas' prison population will dip next year for the first time in decades before rising further

Posted on September 16, 2008
Saturday, September 13, 2008 LBB: Texas' prison population will dip next year for the first time in decades before rising further Ever since the Governor fired Dr. Tony Fabelo and abolished the state's independent criminal justice number crunchers, the Texas...

NY: Bad Choices: Why cut public colleges while propping up unnecessary prisons?

Posted on September 16, 2008
Bad Choices: Why cut public colleges while propping up unnecessary prisons? Posted by Syracuse Post-Standard Editorial Board September 16, 2008 Editorial New York state has cut projected funding for its public universities three times this year. But it can't seem...

Violent Crime Fell in 2007; Areas with lower incarceration rates experienced greater crime reductions

Posted on September 15, 2008
Violent Crime Fell in 2007; Areas with lower incarceration rates experienced greater crime reductions Monday, September 15, 2008 Justice Policy Institute WASHINGTON, D.C.--Violent crime in the United States fell by 1.4 percent in 2007, according to an analysis released today...

MA: Higher education shouldn't take a back seat to prisons

Posted on September 15, 2008
Higher education shouldn't take a back seat to prisons By Daily Hampshire Gazette Created 09/15/2008 Sen. Stan Rosenberg is right in being outraged by how the state Legislature is not prioritizing funding for public higher education (Guest Column, Sept...

States Restore Voting Rights for Ex-Convicts, but Issue Remains

Posted on September 13, 2008
September 14, 2008 States Restore Voting Rights for Ex-Convicts, but Issue Remains Politically Sensitive By SOLOMON MOORE NY Times Striding across a sweltering strip-mall parking lot with her clipboard in hand, Monica Bell, a community field organizer in Orlando, Fla...

60 Days Left in NV to Restore Voting Rights

Posted on September 12, 2008
Public News Service - NV � August , 2008 60 Days Left in NV to Restore Voting Rights Las Vegas, NV ? The clock is ticking for an estimated 20,000 Nevadans who have paid their debts to society and...

NYCLU Launches Public Education Campaign on the Voting Rights of People with Criminal Records

Posted on September 12, 2008
Published by the New York Civil Liberties Union (http://www.nyclu.org) NYCLU Launches Public Education Campaign on the Voting Rights of People with Criminal Records As the presidential election approaches, the New York Civil Liberties Union today announced it has launched an...

Cornell Companies: Cashing in on crime

Posted on September 12, 2008
Cornell Companies: Cashing in on crime Small Cap Investor September 12, 2008 Shares of Cornell Companies (NYSE:CRN) are on a six-month prison break, and investors aren?t about to issue an all-points bulletin. Since sinking to $15.69 on March 10, the....

Bay Area: September 24 to 29th: Book events for the Real Cost of Prisons Comix

Posted on September 10, 2008
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 7 PM. Book Launch Green Arcade Bookstore 1680 Market Street, San Francisco Speakers: Lois Ahrens, editor, Real Cost of Prisons Comix and director/founder, The Real Cost of Prisons Project. Marlon Altan is a social studies teacher...

MI: Public wants smarter, less costly criminal justice policies

Posted on September 09, 2008
Public wants smarter, less costly criminal justice policies For decades, politicians have believed that sounding tough on crime was their ticket to getting elected. Such beliefs, along with a few high-profile crimes, have generally driven prison policies over the last...

Jail and Jesus

Posted on September 09, 2008
Jail and Jesus The Bible is heavy on redemption, and the plight of prisoners is a recurring theme in the New Testament. With 1 in 100 American adults incarcerated, are Christians doing enough to address the root causes of this...

Voter Registration by Students Raises Cloud of Consequences

Posted on September 08, 2008
September 8, 2008 Voter Registration by Students Raises Cloud of Consequences By TAMAR LEWIN The widespread practice of students? registering to vote at their college address has set off a fracas in Virginia, a battleground state in the presidential election...

MA: State sets record high for prisoners

Posted on September 07, 2008
State sets record high for inmates Critics say prison plan is all bunk By Laura Crimaldi | Sunday, September 7, 2008 Facing its largest inmate population in state history, the Department of Correction is installing bunk beds for the first...

Slavery Haunts America?s Plantation Prisons--Angola Prison

Posted on September 04, 2008
Slavery Haunts America?s Plantation Prisons Wednesday, 03 September 2008 Black Agenda Report by Maya Schenwar Angola Prison Angola Prison isn't "even really a metaphor for slavery. Slavery is what's going on." The plantation prisons of Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas are...

An Open Letter to Gov. Sarah Palin on Women's Rights

Posted on September 04, 2008
An Open Letter to Gov. Sarah Palin on Women's Rights By Lynn Paltrow, National Advocates for Pregnant Women Posted on September 4, 2008, Printed on September 4, 2008 http://www.alternet.org/story/97457/ Dear Governor Sarah Palin: Many Americans agree with your position regarding...

Editorial: UK: Let the penal reformers build jails

Posted on September 02, 2008
Let the penal reformers build jails 02/09/2008 Telegraph (UK) In truth, the prison reform group Nacro has never been much in favour of building new jails. Over the years, the organisation has sought to rebrand itself from a do-gooder outfit...

UK: Prison reform charity Nacro joins bid to run jails

Posted on September 02, 2008
Prison reform charity Nacro joins bid to run jails Group drops scepticism over privatisation to tender alongside security firm * Rachel Stevenson and agencies * guardian.co.uk, * Tuesday September 02 2008 12:16 BST A charity that works with offenders and...

Incarceration As Forced Migration: Effects on Selected Community Health Outcomes

Posted on September 02, 2008
Incarceration As Forced Migration: Effects on Selected Community Health Outcomes Posted on: Tuesday, 2 September 2008, 03:00 CDT By Thomas, James C Torrone, Objectives. We estimated the effects of high incarceration rates on rates of sexually transmitted infections and teenage...

NV: Judge: No typewriters for prisoners

Posted on August 30, 2008
Judge: No typewriters for prisoners By BRENDAN RILEY Associated Press Writer 08/28/2008 CARSON CITY, Nev.?A ban on personal typewriters for Nevada prison inmates, who have used them for decades to prepare appeals of their sentences, has been upheld by a...

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