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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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Coalition for Prisoners' Rights Newsletter now can be found on the Real Cost of Prisons website

Posted on August 29, 2009
As many of you know, the C.P.R. newsletter was published for 34 years. In June 2009, they mailed an announcement to their 9,100 subscribers ... almost all of whom are prisoners saying the could no longer afford to keep printing...

CA to close largest youth prison at Chino and convert it into an prison for men

Posted on August 28, 2009
California to close its largest juvenile prison The Heman G. Stark Youth Correctional Facility in Chino will be converted into an adult prison. The move is part of a plan to 'right-size' staff at the Division of Juvenile Justice. By...

Vt. Prison Health Care Questioned by Guards

Posted on August 28, 2009
Vt. Prison Health Care Questioned Montpelier, Vermont - August 27, 2009 Vermont's state employees union claims the Corrections Department is providing inadequate training and care for mentally ill prisoners. Prison officials say the facts prove otherwise...

Homeless and Struggling In New Orleans On the Fourth Anniversary of Katrina, New Orleans is Still Far From Recovery

Posted on August 28, 2009
Homeless and Struggling In New Orleans On the Fourth Anniversary of Katrina, New Orleans is Still Far From Recovery by Jordan Flaherty August 25th, 2009 http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/08/homeless-and-struggling-in-new-orleans/ Crawling through a hole in a fence and walking through an open doorway, Shamus...

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Editorial NY Times: California Is Failing the Prison Test

Posted on August 27, 2009
Editorial California Is Failing the Prison Test Published: August 26, 2009- NY Times The California Legislature has failed several times to change backward sentencing and parole policies that keep the state?s prisons dangerously overcrowded with too many minor offenders sent...

NY largely bans use of shackles during childbirth

Posted on August 27, 2009
NY largely bans use of shackles during childbirth By CRISTIAN SALAZAR Associated Press Writer � 2009 The Associated Press Aug. 26, 2009 NEW YORK ? Gov. David Paterson on Wednesday signed into law a bill that largely bans the use...

3,900 stimus checks went to prisoners...1,700 by mistake

Posted on August 27, 2009
3,900 stimulus checks went to prison inmates By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER (AP) ?8-26-09 WASHINGTON ? The federal government sent about 3,900 economic stimulus payments of $250 each this spring to people who were in no position to use the money to...

Fed court says excluding people convicted of violent crimes from early release programs not valid

Posted on August 26, 2009
Exclusion policy on early prison release ruled invalid An appeals panel says the Federal Bureau of Prisons has not adequately explained why inmates who have committed murder, rape and other violent crimes can't participate in the program. By Carol J....

PA: The number of prisoners increased by 40% in 9 years

Posted on August 25, 2009
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Number of inmates in Pa. prisons increases by 40 percent in nine years By Debra Erdley Sunday, August 23, 2009 Pennsylvania's prison population explosion is forcing officials to look hundreds of miles away for solutions. While the general...

DOJ publishes a report condemning treatment of youth at four of the New York's Juvenile Prisons

Posted on August 24, 2009
Report Cites Abuse at State Juvenile Prison Centers By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE Published: August 24, 2009- NY Times ALBANY ? Children at four juvenile detention centers in New York were so severely abused by workers that it constituted a violation of...

MA: MA: (8-17) Metro-West Article: Two More Women Prisoners Attempt Suicide at Framingham

Posted on August 22, 2009
Two more MCI-Framingham inmates attempt suicide By Dan McDonald/Daily News staff The MetroWest Daily News Posted Aug 17, 2009 FRAMINGHAM ? Two more MCI-Framingham inmates tried to kill themselves this month, bringing the count for attempted suicides inside the Loring...

NY Times Editorial: "Protecting Mother and Child" and links to Rebecca Project Info on State by State Shackling Policies

Posted on August 22, 2009
Editorial NY Times Protecting Mother and Child Published: August 21, 2009 Obstetricians and other medical professionals have long called for an end to the barbaric and medically risky practice of shackling pregnant prisoners ? by their legs, wrists and even...

Study Backs Heroin to Treat Some Addicted to Heroin

Posted on August 22, 2009
Study Backs Heroin to Treat Addiction By BENEDICT CAREY Published: August 19, 2009 New York Times The safest and most effective treatment for hard-core heroin addicts who fail to control their habit using methadone or other treatments may be their...

"The Unforgiven"

Posted on August 21, 2009
The Unforgiven By Curtis Cartier Santa Cruz News Aug 20, 2009 It?s a sweltering day in Tracy. July behind bars at Deuel Vocational Institution smells like sweat, bleach and old orange peels. Clifford Bair, a white-haired, goateed first-degree murderer?a lifer?perches...

MI: 400 more women claim payouts fro $100 settlement for prison rapes and other assaults

Posted on August 21, 2009
400 more women claim payouts from $100 million in prison attacks Aug. 20, 2009 By DAVID EGGERT Detroit Free Press- Associated Press Another 400 current or former female inmates filed claims for part of a $100 million settlement for those...

KY: Supreme Court Announces Pilot Project Allowing for People Charged with 600 Different Offenses Not To Spend Time in Jail

Posted on August 20, 2009
Nonviolent offenders could avoid jail in Kentucky High court reveals pilot plan to save $12 million each month By Stephenie Steitzer August 17, 2009 The Kentucky Supreme Court announced a pilot project Monday that could save counties an estimated $12...

Hawaii/KY: 128 women from Hawaii now at CCA- Otter Creek will return to HI after guards accused of sexually assaulting 23 women including seven from Hawaii

Posted on August 20, 2009
Female inmates to return to isles By Kaylee Noborikawa Aug 19, 2009 The majority of 128 female inmates from Hawaii housed at a private Kentucky correctional facility will return to the islands within a month, Public Safety Director Clayton Frank...

NY: Governor Paterson Promises Women Demonstrating in Front of His Office He Will Sign Anti-Shackling Bill

Posted on August 20, 2009
Governor to Save Jailed Mothers From Shackling During Labor By Helena Zhu Epoch Times Staff Aug 18, 2009 NEW YORK?Making a surprise appearance at a protest held outside his mansion, New York Governor David Paterson promised a group of activists...

Nicholas Kristoff: Priority Test: Health Care or Prisons?

Posted on August 20, 2009
Op-Ed Columnist : Priority Test: Health Care or Prisons? http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/20/opinion/20kristof.html?_r=1 By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Published: August 19, 2009- NY Times At a time when we Americans may abandon health care reform because it supposedly is ?too expensive,? how is it...

Maine: New Law Allows Some Terminally Ill Inmates to Leave Prison Early

Posted on August 19, 2009
New Law Allows Some Terminally Ill Inmates to Leave Prison Early August 14, 2009 Reported By: Anne Ravana Today Gov. John Baldacci signed into law a bill that amends a few correctional programs. LD 1224, "An Act Regarding the Operation...

Colloquy for Prison Health Amendments

Posted on August 18, 2009
From Charlie Sullivan of CURE: Dear friends, on July 31st, Cong. Robby Rush (D-IL) by unanimous consent placed a colloquy (a conversation with Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) in the record of H.R. 3200, the comprehensive universal health care bill. This...

California might act to jail more drug offenders A move to increase funding to anti-drug units could result in increasing the state's prison population at a time when it's under order to reduce overcrowding.

Posted on August 18, 2009
California might act to jail more drug offenders A move to increase funding to anti-drug units could result in increasing the state's prison population at a time when it's under order to reduce overcrowding. By Eric Bailey August 18, 2009...

Second Chance Act- a total of $100 million proposed by House and Senate Bill half that amount

Posted on August 18, 2009
U.S. House of Representatives recommends mark of $100 million for the Second Chance Act in FY2010. An infinitesimal sum for the 700,000 men and women expected to be released from federal and state prisons this year and over 9 million...

KY: CCA Otter Creek Women's Prison Plagued by Allegations of Sexual Assaults by Guards--State Does Imposes No Fine and Extends Contract

Posted on August 17, 2009
At the state women's prison "starting pay there is $18.18 an hour for workers with no corrections experience, and $19.17 an hour for those with experience. Starting pay at Otter Creek is $8.25 an hour." 81% of co's are male....

Detroit Free Press Editorial: "For Jobs' Sake Bring in Out-of-State Prisoners"

Posted on August 16, 2009
"A bigger concern is whether the federal government would retain local correctional officers. For that reason, inmates from other state correctional systems are probably preferable, as Michigan could determine who works at the prison." Posted: Aug. 15, 2009 EDITORIAL- Detroit...

LA Times Op-Ed: The disaster before the disater at Chino

Posted on August 16, 2009
Opinion: The disaster before the disaster at Chino The prison was once a model for a new era of enlightened criminal justice, but Californians' refusal to meet their fiscal and social responsibilities ruined that vision. By Volker Janssen August 15,....

States going to great lengths to squeeze money from pirsoners

Posted on August 16, 2009
Some states are charging inmates fees for prison stay Daily charges help ease prison costs amid budget cuts By Deborah Hastings Associated Press / August 16, 2009 A one-night stay? Ninety dollars. Need to see a doctor? Ten bucks. Want...

Folsom Embodies California's Prison Blues

Posted on August 15, 2009
Folsom Embodies California's Prison Blues by Laura Sullivan August 13, 2009 In January 1968, Johnny Cash set up his band on a makeshift stage in the cafeteria at Folsom State Prison in California. "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash," he said in...

MA: 6 women at Framingham attempt suicide in 4 months. DOC blames cuts in budget.

Posted on August 15, 2009
Female inmate suicide bids top 6 By O?Ryan Johnson Friday, August 14, 2009 Boston Herald Two suicide attempts by female prisoners this month at MCI-Framingham brings the total to six attempts at the prison since May, one of which was...

CCA loses open-records case brought by Alex Friendman of Prison Legal News

Posted on August 14, 2009
Private prison company loses open-records case By The Associated Press 08.14.09 NASHVILLE ? The Tennessee Court of Appeals has ruled that private prison company Corrections Corporation of America is subject to the state's open-records law. The Nashville-based company falls under...

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