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Recent News from the RCPP Weblog Georgia prison strike, one year later: Activists outside the walls have failed those inside the walls The State of Sentencing 2011 by Nicole Porter, The Sentencing Project. Chicago's ban on torture should spur others to act too CA: Stop the Conversion of Valley State Prison from a Women's to a Men's Prison Vera Institute: Study Finds State Taxpayers Pay 14 Percent Higher Prison Costs Than Budgets Reflect Read more news, commentary, and analysis from the RCPP Weblog

The Real Cost of Prisons Project seeks to broaden and deepen the organizing capacity of prison/justice activists working to end mass incarceration. The Real Cost of Prisons Project brings together justice activists, artists, justice policy researchers and people directly experiencing the impact of mass incarceration to create popular education materials and other resources which explore the immediate and long-term costs of incarceration on the individual, her/his family, community and the nation.

Art by Carnell Hunnicutt

The Real Cost of Prisons Project thanks the Ramsay Merriam Fund for its generous support.