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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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Last Entry: March 27, 2011 at 18:14:51

Crime Report Shows Violent Crime Fell in 2008 as Incarceration Rates Continue to Decrease

Posted on September 15, 2009
Crime Report Shows Violent Crime Fell in 2008 as Incarceration Rates Continue to Decrease Justice Policy Institute September 15, 2008 WASHINGTON, D.C.-Violent crime in the United States fell by 1.9 percent and property crimes by 0.8 percent in 2008, according...

Medical Inattention in New York Prisons

Posted on September 15, 2009
Editorial Medical Inattention in New York Prisons NY Times Published: September 15, 2009 Prison inmates are the sickest people in society, with infection rates for blood-borne viruses like H.I.V. and hepatitis C far higher than the general population...

Prison Comix by Jim Ridgeway

Posted on September 12, 2009
Prison Comix September 5, 2009 With more and more older people going to prison there is a growing demand for educational materials to keep their minds alive and well amid the deadening atmosphere of the American correctional system?created in large...

MA: Supreme Judicial Court Rules All Prison/Jail Calls are Not Private

Posted on September 12, 2009
?Under today?s decision, prosecutors, for the first time, can listen to every telephone conversation a prisoner has with all family members, doctors, social workers, or priests,?? Garin said. ?This allows prosecutors to get any of those recordings for any reason...

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Dallas PA: State to investigate allegations about Dallas prison guards

Posted on September 11, 2009
Friday, September 11, 2009 10:27 am State to investigate allegations about Dallas prison guards Fed Up! says prisoners claim guards facilitated suicide of convicted murderer Matthew Bullock. By Steve Mocarsky ? Times Leader Staff Writer The state Department of Corrections...

Bridgewater: The men in Mass. who need our help

Posted on September 11, 2009
The focus of this is Bridgewater but doesn't mention the suicide and suicide attempts at Framingham. The men in Mass. who need our help By Mark S. Coven The Boston Globe September 10, 2009 THE THREE men sat in court,...

MA: Possible closing of 4 prisons....although reality of it very doubtful

Posted on September 11, 2009
The Boston Globe Prisons facing $100m in cuts :Fiscal scenario may prompt closings, layoffs By Jonathan Saltzman and Peter Schworm Globe Staff / September 11, 2009 Under increasing financial pressure, the state?s prison system is weighing close to $100 million...

Pippin Ross, former reporter at WFCR talks about her years at Framingham Prison

Posted on September 11, 2009
Former reporter released from MCI-Framingham By Dan McDonald/Daily News staff Posted Sep 06, 2009 FRAMINGHAM ? Doing time in MCI-Framingham may have landed Pippin Ross, who once ran a public radio station in western Massachusetts before she was jailed for...

Dora Schriro to leave ICE to run NY Dept of Correction

Posted on September 10, 2009
Immigration Official to Run New York?s Jails By NINA BERNSTEIN Published: September 8, 2009 The corrections expert appointed just a month ago to direct an overhaul of the nation?s troubled immigration detention system is leaving the Obama administration to be...

UK:

Posted on September 10, 2009
A fair day's prison work? By Eric Allison -Wednesday 9 September 2009 The Guardian UK When work - however lousy - is preferable to staying in a cell, prisoners can easily be exploited, writes Eric Allison When a radical prisoner...

Dee Hubbard: Fighter Against Corruption and Private Prisons

Posted on September 10, 2009
One for the little people By Krestia DeGeorge Anchorage Press September 2, 2009 According to the story, written by Rich Mauer, Hubbard bears no small responsibility for the start of what would eventually become the federal government?s investigation into government...

VA Ban on Prison Book Program Prompts Protests

Posted on September 10, 2009
A Title Wave of Controversy Va. Ban on Prison Book Program Prompts Protests By Maria Glod Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, September 10, 2009 A Virginia inmate studying for his GED asked for a dictionary, explaining that "there's a lot...

The Tragedy of Our 'Disappeared' Veterans

Posted on September 09, 2009
The Tragedy of Our 'Disappeared' Veterans By Penny Coleman, AlterNet Posted on August 12, 2009, Printed on September 9, 2009 http://www.alternet.org/story/140828/ Wayne McMahon was busted on gun charges six months after he got out of the Marines. He was jumped...

VA: Plan to close 3 prisons

Posted on September 09, 2009
Va. to Cut 929 Jobs To Ease Shortfall Kaine Plan Includes Trims in College Aid, Closure of 3 Prisons By Anita Kumar Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, September 9, 2009 RICHMOND, Sept. 8 -- Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine announced...

CA: Audit Faults CDC with Huge Systemic Problems Including the Cost of 3 Strikes

Posted on September 09, 2009
"Aside from the questions of inefficiency and fattened paychecks, the auditor noted that California's "three strikes" sentencing law adds billions to the state's corrections costs. Because that law imposes longer-than-usual sentences on inmates who commit a third felony after two...

KY: KY: Bill would cancel Aramark Contract Where as Many as 300 Prisoners Became Ill and Might Have Provoked "Riot"

Posted on September 09, 2009
"State corrections officials say the contract with Aramark saves $5 million each year and allowed them to give corrections officers a nearly 7 percent raise in 2008." Bill would cancel prison food contract By Valarie Honeycutt Spears Complaints about the...

PA: Tyrone Werts and William Fultz First to Go Before Board of Parole After Federal Judge Ruling But Now Must Wait Again

Posted on September 09, 2009
This was sent to me Gale Muhammad of Women Who Never Give Up!. Please send letters in support of Werts and Fultz can be sent to the Pennsylvania Board of pardons 333 Market St. 15th floor, Harrisburg PA 17126-0333. Below...

Study Finds Only Half of All Federal and State Prisons offer Methadone and Buprenorphine and Only In Very Limited Circumstances

Posted on September 09, 2009
Study finds US prison system falls short in treating drug addiction PROVIDENCE, RI ? Almost a quarter of a million individuals addicted to heroin are incarcerated in the United States each year. However, many prison systems across the country still...

PA to build four new prisons

Posted on September 08, 2009
Pa. grapples with growing prison needs By Mario F. Cattabiani Inquirer Harrisburg Bureau HARRISBURG - Pennsylvania is preparing to embark on a major prison-construction blitz that will cost more than $800 million. But the four new prisons can't be completed...

"The Recession Behind Bars"

Posted on September 06, 2009
Op-Ed Contributor The Recession Behind Bars By KENNETH E. HARTMAN Published: September 5, 2009 New York Times Lancaster, Calif. EVERY weekday morning the prison?s not on lockdown, the yard holds its collective breath waiting for the pale-orange package cart to...

VA: Some prisoners elibible for parole held longer than guidelines suggest

Posted on September 04, 2009
Some inmates eligible for parole held longer than guidelines suggest By Frank Green September 3, 2009 Richmond Times Dispatch Some 706 parole-eligible inmates are being been held longer in Virginia prisons, at $24,332 each per year, than recommended under the...

Dee Hubbard: Organizer, Researcher, Activist Against Private Prison Movement

Posted on September 02, 2009
From Frank Smith, Organizer, Private Corrections Institute on Dee Hubbard: It hasn't ever been publicized, but Dee and I were largely responsible for initiating and "following the money" that resulted in the successful prosecution of a dozen Alaska legislators, lobbyists...

SILENT TORTURE: Dog Days Turn Deadly in America?s Prisons

Posted on September 02, 2009
SILENT TORTURE: Dog Days Turn Deadly in America?s Prisons by James Ridgeway First published in his blog Unsilent Generation on 1 September 2009 http://baltimorechronicle.com/2009/090109Ridgeway.shtml The U.S. government made a point of building new air-conditioned facilities for prisoners at Guantanamo Bay...

MA: Time to Pass a Law in MA Banning the Use of Shackles for Women in Labor, Delivery and Post-Partum

Posted on September 02, 2009
Published in the September 2, 2009 Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton, MA To the editor: Unlike New York ("6th State will curb shackling - N.Y. set to ban use on pregnant women"), Massachusetts has no law banning the shackling of women...

AZ: Prison Legal News, ACLU of AZ Sue CCA Over Sensorship of Books Sent to Prisoners

Posted on September 02, 2009
SOURCE: PRISON LEGAL NEWS, ACLU OF ARIZONA Publisher Sues Corrections Corporation of America Over Censorship of Books Sent to Prisoners September 2, 2009 Phoenix, AZ ? Prison Legal News (PLN), a non-profit monthly publication that reports on criminal justice-related issues,...

ColorLines Review: The Real Cost of Prisons Comix: Vivid comics show the impacts of mass incarceration on communities of color

Posted on September 02, 2009
Issue #52, Sept/Oct 2009 The Real Cost of Prisons Comix By Jenna M. Lloyd Vivid comics show the impacts of mass incarceration on communities of color. September 2, 2009 Locking 2.3 million people behind bars is a vast social project....

NJ Professor asks: Why were books banned at state prisons?

Posted on September 02, 2009
Millburn professor asks : Why were books banned at state prisons? by Patricia C. Kelley/Independent Press Monday August 24, 2009, 6:25 PM (Editor of "Inside Out: Voices from New Jersey State Prison" Kal Wagenheim wants to know where his self-published...

Study shows that denying prisoners parole does little to reduce crime

Posted on September 01, 2009
August 26, 2009 Study: Late parole is no deterrent Karen Bouffard / Detroit News Lansing Bureau Lansing -- Keeping inmates in prison past their earliest parole dates does little to reduce crime, according to a study released today by a...

Op-Ed: Bob Herbert- "Innocent But Dead"

Posted on September 01, 2009
Op-Ed Columnist Innocent but Dead By BOB HERBERT Published: August 31, 2009 There is a long and remarkable article in the current New Yorker about a man who was executed in Texas in 2004 for deliberately setting a fire that...

NC: Closing prisons only temporary as prison population booms

Posted on August 31, 2009
Cuts mean fewer prisons and programs Stricter guidelines result in more prisoners and longer sentences, but North Carolina's resources are strained. By Michael Biesecker Aug. 30, 2009 RALEIGH As a result of tough-on-crime sentencing laws approved by legislators 15 years...

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