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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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FL: 3rd new juvenile prison to open in one county--privately run

Posted on June 17, 2009
3rd juvie prison to open Old detention center to become facility for high-risk youth By CHAD SMITH Thursday, June 11, 2009 ; Updated: 5:59 AM on Thursday, June 11, 2009 St. Augustine's juvenile detention center will close at the end...

AZ: Public vs. Private prisons in economy budget

Posted on June 16, 2009
Legislators want private firms to run prisons By Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services PublishedMay 20, 2009 - 02:15:48 am MST PHOENIX ? Republican legislative leaders are crafting a plan to farm out operation of three state prisons to private companies...

Luke Cole: Early Leader of Environmental Justice Movement

Posted on June 16, 2009
Luke Cole, Court Advocate for Minorities, Dies at 46 By DENNIS HEVESI Published: June 10, 2009 Luke Cole, an early leader of the environmental justice movement, which holds that many minority neighborhoods have become toxic dumping grounds because their residents...

Alan Berkman, 63, Activist Doctor, Dies

Posted on June 16, 2009
Alan Berkman, 63, Activist Doctor, Dies By DENNIS HEVESI- Tne New York Times Published: June 14, 2009 Physician, fugitive, federal prisoner, clinician to the homeless, advocate for AIDS patients. epidemiologist: That was the arc of Alan Berkman?s career...

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OK: DOC keep food costs low: $2.42 a day for 3 meals

Posted on June 16, 2009
DOC able to keep feeding costs low By The Associated Press Saturday, June 13, 2009 OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) ? The cash-strapped Oklahoma Department of Corrections has been able to offset the cost of feeding nearly 18,500 inmates daily because of...

Bail granted for imprisoned HIV-positive pregnant woman in Maine

Posted on June 16, 2009
Bail granted for imprisoned HIV-positive pregnant woman in Maine This morning, National Advocates for Pregnant Women and Center for HIV Law and Policy, and Elizabeth Frankel and Valerie Wright of the Maine law firm Verrill Dana, LLP, filed an emergency...

Architecture: "Behind Bars ... Sort Of"

Posted on June 14, 2009
Behind Bars ... Sort Of By JIM LEWIS Published: June 10, 2009 NY Times Pictures at this URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/magazine/14prisons-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine Go ahead and say it; everyone does. Certainly I did. Here?s a striking building, perched on a slope outside the small...

Testimony at Senate Hearing on national prison reform Commission introduced by Jim Webb

Posted on June 14, 2009
Testimony at Senate Hearing on national prison reform June 13,2009 The U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs convened a hearing on proposed national prison reform legislation. Virginia Senator Jim Webb introduced bill S...

LETTER TO EDITOR: Sonia Sotomayor v. Jim Crow concerning Hayden v. Pataki

Posted on June 12, 2009
LETTER TO EDITOR: Sonia Sotomayor v. Jim Crow By | Tuesday, June 2, 2009 Washington Times Your editorial, "The franchise for felons" (Opinion, Friday), fails to grasp the powerful point Judge Sonia Sotomayor made in her dissent in Hayden v....

CO: CO: Woman Prisoner Awarded $1.35 Million After Repeated Sexual Assaults by Guard

Posted on June 12, 2009
National Briefing | Rockies Colorado: Inmate Awarded $1.35. Million By DAN FROSCH Published: June 11, 2009 NY Times A female inmate who was raped by a sergeant at the Denver Women?s Correctional Facility was awarded more than $1.35 million by...

FL: Legislature gives OK to send prisoners out of state

Posted on June 12, 2009
FLORIDA PRISONS Florida Legislature gives OK to ship inmates out of state Sending criminals to out-of-state prisons is a 'safety valve' for BY STEVE BOUSQUET 06.08.09 Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau TALLAHASSEE -- Florida, famous for shipping orange juice all over the...

Please act in support of the Coalition for Prisoners' Rights Newsletter which is about to stop publication after 34 years due to $25,000 debt!

Posted on June 10, 2009
Friends, Many of you know of the Coalition for Prisoners' Rights Newsletter. I found out about it when I started hearing from prisoners and many wrote how important it was for them to receive it. When the Real Cost of...

NC: Education and Prison/Jail Spending

Posted on June 09, 2009
Education budgets outweigh prisons Catherine Pritchard Fayetteville Observer Q: With the state so strapped for cash for the schools, I would like to know how much do we actually pay for our prison systems as compared to what we pay...

Prisons Saving Money By Serving Less Food

Posted on June 09, 2009
Prisons Saving Money By Serving Less Food June 5, 2009 | Prisons in some American states are taking advice to tighten their belts literally by slimming down the amount of food they serve to inmates. Prisoners in Georgia are now...

NH: Prison Recuiting by BOP

Posted on June 09, 2009
Going to prison the hard way By: By CORIN HIRSCH, Staff Writer 6/5/2009 BERLIN -- Stay off drugs. Take a few more classes. Gain technology experience. Pay your bills. It isn't advice from parents, a guidance counselor or even a...

MI: Closing 8 prisons by executive order of Gov.

Posted on June 09, 2009
"I'm just not that comfortable letting this many convicted felons out into a poor economy," said Senate Minority Leader Mike Prusi, an Ishpeming Democrat who is "furious" prison facilities in his Upper Peninsula district will be closed." "Mel Grieshaber, executive...

Why shouldn't prisoners receive their social security?

Posted on June 09, 2009
David Hinman, a prisoner in Iowa, wrote today and posed this question. He is 65 and when he was in the "free-world" contributed to social security. He is not eligible for parole for a number years. This is what he...

AZ: Imgine the fury if Marcia Powell had died in Arpaio's jail

Posted on June 09, 2009
Imagine fury if inmate had died while on Arpaio's watch by E. J. Montini - Jun. 9, 2009 The Arizona Republic The gruesome passing of inmate Marcia Powell a few weeks back has proved that in Arizona it doesn't matter...

In Politics, Fact, Fancy Can Blur in Keystroke,Bogus Claim Linking Jail, School Raised Election After Election: "third grade talking point debunked."

Posted on June 05, 2009
In Politics, Fact, Fancy Can Blur in Keystroke Bogus Claim Linking Jail, School Raised Election After Election 'Third-grade' Talking Point Debunked By Maria Glod and Rosalind S. Helderman Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, June 4, 2009 "Imagine if your entire...

Foes of Rockefeller Drug Law Reform Attack Recent Changes By False Charges of Threats to Public Safety by Judges Sealing Records

Posted on June 04, 2009
From the Center for Community Alternatives (NY) Those opposed to the recently enacted Rockefeller Drug Law Reform have seized upon a small, but important aspect of the legislation - conditional sealing - as a way to attack the recent reforms...

AZ: Following death of Marcia Powell from exposure DOC will discontinue the use of outdoor cages until they figure out an alternative

Posted on June 04, 2009
Ariz. prisons discontinue use of outdoor cells Associated Press - June 2, 2009 8:54 PM ET PHOENIX (AP) - The Arizona Department of Corrections has discontinued the use of outdoor holding cells following the death of an inmate in triple-digit...

Life on Permanent Lockdown By James Ridgeway and Jean Casella---(The Angola 3)

Posted on June 04, 2009
""The use of so-called extended lockdown has grown exponentially since the 1980s and is now an almost routine part of the American criminal justice system. The practice has been denounced by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the United Nations...

AZ: Support for mentally ill is essential to help prevent more people from jail and the streets

Posted on June 03, 2009
Support for mentally ill is essential by Ann Rider - Jun. 2, 2009 12:00 AM Special for the Arizona Republic The tragic death of Marcia Powell, a mentally ill woman who died in an outdoor holding pen at Arizona State...

Project UNSHACKLE is building a powerful community-based movement at the complex intersection of HIV and mass imprisonment.

Posted on June 02, 2009
Welcome to Project UNSHACKLE! Confronting HIV and Mass Imprisonment Project UNSHACKLE is building a powerful community-based movement at the complex intersection of HIV and mass imprisonment. We are uniting people who are formerly imprisoned, HIV policy advocates, researchers, AIDS service...

New Poll Shows the Public Largely in Favor of Alternatives to Prison and Jail as a Response to Nonserious Offenses

Posted on June 02, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE- The National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) Oakland, CA, June 2, 2009 New Poll Shows the Public Largely in Favor of Alternatives to Prison and Jail as a Response to Nonserious Offenses The National Council on...

Despite Bleak Economy, Crime Numbers Take Positive Turn

Posted on June 02, 2009
Despite Bleak Economy, Crime Numbers Take Positive Turn By SOLOMON MOORE Published: June 1, 2009- NY Times Most types of crime declined nationally last year, despite the economic downturn, according to new data released by the Department of Justice on...

MA: Representative Gloria L. Fox?s statement regarding visit to Old Colony Correctional Center

Posted on June 02, 2009
Representative Gloria L. Fox?s statement regarding visit to Old Colony Correctional Center By Herald staff | Monday, June 1, 2009 | Saturday , May 30, 2009 REPRESENTATIVE GLORIA L. FOX "Those who know my work in the communities I serve...

Jerry Rosenberg, Jailhouse Lawyer, Dies at 72

Posted on June 02, 2009
Jerry Rosenberg, Jailhouse Lawyer, Dies at 72 By SEWELL CHAN Published: June 1, 2009 Jerry Rosenberg, who was spared the death penalty for the 1962 murders of two New York City police detectives, and who became a pioneering jailhouse lawyer...

NC: Small prison stubbornly survives through prison labor and poltical clout

Posted on June 01, 2009
Small prison stubbornly survives The governor wants to close the 94-inmate facility to save money; it just won't go away. May 31, 2009 BY ROB CHRISTENSEN AND BENJAMIN NIOLET, Staff Writers RALEIGH - Union Correctional Center in Monroe is a...

AZ: Acting Director of AZ DOC attends Marcia Powell's Memorial Service---organizing continues

Posted on June 01, 2009
Charles Ryan Attends Marcia Powell's Memorial Service, Says He Didn't Know Powell Had Guardian By Stephen Lemons in Feathered Bastard Saturday, May. 30 2009 @ 3:05PM About 200 people packed the pews at Encanto Community Church today at noon for...

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