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MA: Major Changes in CORI (Criminal Record Information)

Posted on August 08, 2010
This is from the Boston Workers Alliance. On Friday, August 6, 2010, Gov. Deval Patrick signed into law major changes in CORI laws. For more information on the changes go to the Boston Workers Alliance website: http://www.bostonworkersalliance.org/ CORI Reform Information...

Report: Criminalizing Undocumented Boosts For-profit Prisons

Posted on August 07, 2010
Report: Criminalizing Undocumented Boosts For-profit Prisons New America Media, News Report, Khalil Abdullah, Posted: Aug 06, 2010 WASHINGTON ? While public attention has focused on state policies toward immigrants -- namely, Arizona?s controversial immigration law ? federal authorities have for...

The Economist: "Rough Justice in America: Too many laws, too many prisoners"

Posted on August 06, 2010
Rough justice in America Too many laws, too many prisoners Never in the civilised world have so many been locked up for so little The Economist Jul 22nd 2010 | Spring, Texas THREE pickup trucks pulled up outside George Norris?s...

Interview with Jim Ridgeway in Counterpunch "In the Hole-America's Solitary Nightmare"

Posted on August 06, 2010
In the Hole America's Solitary Nightmare By RUSSELL MOKHIBER He always wanted to be an insider. But it never worked out. His DNA wouldn?t allow it. He was always an outsider. Always taking the side of the less powerful. As...

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The Economist: "Rough Justice: America locks up too many people, some for acts that should not even be criminal."

Posted on August 05, 2010
Crime and punishment in America Rough justice America locks up too many people, some for acts that should not even be criminal The Economist Jul 22nd 2010 IN 2000 four Americans were charged with importing lobster tails in plastic bags...

Obama signs law targeting disparities in crack and powede cocaine cases

Posted on August 05, 2010
Obama signs law targeting disparities in cocaine cases August 3, 2010 USA Today President Obama signed a law today designed to change the way that crack and powder cocaine are handled in court The Fair Sentencing Act is "a bipartisan...

Indian Casinos: More Is Less Education

Posted on August 04, 2010
Published on Daily Yonder (http://www.dailyyonder.com) July 29, 2010 A controversial study finds that Indian casinos are good for low-wage workers but unlikely to produce more high-wage earners. bingo cards Mohawk Bingo Palace [8] Casino gambling has increased employment and raised...

New York to correct miscount of incarcerated people New law caps decade-long effort to improve fairness and accuracy of data used for state and local redistricting

Posted on August 04, 2010
New York to correct miscount of incarcerated people New law caps decade-long effort to improve fairness and accuracy of data used for state and local redistricting August 3, 2010 - Today, the New York State Senate passed legislation ensuring that...

California prisons silencing SF Bay View

Posted on August 03, 2010
San Francisco Bay View - http://sfbayview.com - California prisons silencing SF Bay View August 2, 2010 by Nick Theodosis U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall sought to protect the practice of free speech by challenging a standard illegitimate dictate of...

Hawaii/AZ- Hawaiian prisoners in lockdown at CCA prison in AZ

Posted on August 01, 2010
Hawaii Inmates In Lockdown At Arizona Prison Prisoners Fight Over Xbox, Prison Employee Seriously Injured Jodi Leong KITV4 News Reporter July 30, 2010 HONOLULU -- An Arizona prison that is housing about 1,884 Hawaii inmates, remains in lockdown -- five...

Rural sheriffs dealing with new problem: more women in jail

Posted on August 01, 2010
Rural sheriffs dealing with new problem: more women in jail Published: Friday, July 30, 2010, 9:41 PM Richard Cockle, The Oregonian An inmate in the 104-bed Malheur County Jail caused problems one day recently by stealing food from other inmates....

"Voting Behind Bars" by Linda Greenhouse

Posted on July 30, 2010
Voting Behind Bars By LINDA GREENHOUSE July 29, 2010 NY Times: Opinionator Another public conversation about race may be the last thing the Obama administration wants, but thanks to the Supreme Court, one is very likely on the way. It...

Appropriations approves $50 Million for Second Chance Act programs and almost $4 Billion for state and local law enforcement

Posted on July 29, 2010
July 2010 National Reentry Resource Center NewsletterHill Update Senate Appropriations Bill Includes $50 Million for Second Chance Act On Thursday, July 22, 2010, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved an appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2011 that allocates $50 million for...

Slideshow: San Quentin State Prison's university

Posted on July 29, 2010
Slideshow: San Quentin State Prison's university KALWNews.org July 28, 2010 By Rina Palta Link to the article and also a slide show. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/kalw/detail?entry_id=68899 As a child, Troy Williams grew calloused to the South Central Los Angeles street ethos: Gangs, violence,...

Congress Lowers Penalties for Crack Cocaine- A change moving in the right direction

Posted on July 28, 2010
Now the 5 year mandatory minimum sentence for crack is 5 grams. After the Bill becomes law, it is raised to 28 grams. After the Bill is signed into law 50 grams of crack is raised to 280 grams for...

Novel approach: reading courses as an alternative to prison

Posted on July 28, 2010
Novel approach: reading courses as an alternative to prison In Texas, offenders are being sent on reading courses instead of prison. Could it work in the UK? By Anna Barker The Guardian, Wednesday 21 July 2010 With one of the...

MI: DOC director gives speech on the value of justice reinvestment

Posted on July 27, 2010
Governor?s Luncheon: DOC director headlines annual event By Jon Szerlag The Ionia Sentinel-Standard Sat Jul 24, 2010, 12:29 AM EDT IONIA, Mich. -For the annual Ionia Free Fair?s Governor?s Luncheon, the guest speaker of the afternoon was selected for ties...

Prison Shouldn't be a Bar to Motherhood

Posted on July 25, 2010
"By allowing for greater flexibility in the foster care system, New York joins a small group of states that have adjusted their laws, including Nebraska, New Mexico, Colorado and California. But in most of the country, parental rights remain in...

BP Hires Prison Labor to Clean Up Spill and Gets a Tax Break of $2,400 For Every Prisoner for Doing It

Posted on July 24, 2010
BP Hires Prison Labor to Clean Up Spill While Coastal Residents Struggle Abe Louise Young July 21, 2010 The Nation In the first few days after BP's Deepwater Horizon wellhead exploded, spewing crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, cleanup...

MO: Momentous Event: Prisoners Organize the First Ever Seminar at a Prison with NAACP Convention-Goers and Members of the NAACP Prison Chapter

Posted on July 23, 2010
NAACP's prison branch in Cameron gets its wish to host conventioneers By Nadia Pflaum, Thu., Jul. 15 2010 ?On Saturday, 20-some NAACP convention-goers walked through the metal detectors at the maximum security prison in Cameron, Missouri, to participate in a...

NLG and CCR Sue VA for preventing prisoners access to "Jailhouse Lawyer's Handbook"

Posted on July 22, 2010
Va. prison officials sued Washington Post July 21, 2010 By Maria Glod Two civil rights organizations are suing Virginia prison officials because they banned inmates from receiving a book teaching them how to file lawsuits against prisons. National Lawyers Guild...

THE SENTENCING OF LYNNE STEWART

Posted on July 22, 2010
THE SENTENCING OF LYNNE STEWART By Michael Steven Smith ?At all times throughout history the ideology of the ruling class is the ruling ideology.? Karl Marx Lynne Stewart is a friend. She used to practice law in New York City....

From Solidarity Watch: Judge Rules Procedures at Tamms Supermax Violate Constitution

Posted on July 22, 2010
Judge Rules Procedures at Tamms Supermax Violate Constitution Jean Casella and James Ridgeway | July 21, 2010 A federal judge yesterday ruled that current procedures for sending prisoners to the Tamms Correctional Center in southern Illinois--and keeping them there indefinitely--is...

Job Cut Back for Prisoners in Federal Prisons

Posted on July 21, 2010
Prison workforce feels pinch July 21, 2010 By Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY The nation's unemployment crisis is now reaching far inside prison walls. Since 2008, thousands of inmates have lost their jobs as federal authorities shutter and scale back operations...

NY Times Editorial-" Hiring and Fairness"

Posted on July 21, 2010
NY Times Editorial Hiring and Fairness Published: July 20, 2010 Boston, Chicago and San Francisco set a welcome example earlier in the decade when they abandoned counterproductive policies that often barred former offenders from municipal jobs, no matter how minor...

CA: Poetic Justice presents an original musical "Off The Hook" set in a CA prison featuring a cast of formerly incarcerated people

Posted on July 20, 2010
The original musical drama OFF THE HOOK, set in a California prison and featuring a 15-member cast of formerly incarcerated people, will debut Aug. 13 at 8 p.m. at The Empty Space in Bakersfield. Deborah Tobola, artistic director of the...

NPR : "Difficult Births: Laboring And Delivering In Shackles"

Posted on July 20, 2010
Difficult Births: Laboring And Delivering In Shackles by Andrea Hsu, NPR http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128563037 (To everyone who helped on the background for this story, thank you!...Lois)...

MA: With 8th suicide, appeals for change in prison system

Posted on July 20, 2010
With 8th suicide, appeals for change in prison system State brings in a specialist By Jonathan Saltzman Globe Staff / July 16, 2010 Suicides in Massachusetts state prisons are occurring at a rate more than four times the national average...

NY: Federal Oversight for Youth Prisons Imposed. Advocates Say Most Young People Can Be Treated in Their Communities.

Posted on July 15, 2010
"... advocates for youths in state custody said they would continue to seek a far-reaching transformation in the juvenile justice system in New York, which they say merely warehouses youths who in most cases need intensive psychiatric care and counseling...

Rising from a life of crime and now to prison

Posted on July 14, 2010
July 14, 2010 Letter to the Boston Globe ACCORDING TO the Globe?s reporting of Alex DoSouto?s turnaround from a life of crime, most likely he will stay the course to his college dreams despite his sentence of two to three...

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