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Recent News from the RCPP Weblog AZ: "Marcia Powell's Death Unavenged: County Attorney Passes on Prosecuting Prison Staff" with comments from Donna Hamm and Peggy Plews Prison Without Walls (The Atlantic Monthly) MI: How to close prisons and still not save money People who have been incarcerated face big debt challenges after prison & burdened by paying off large bills CO: Canon City Opens 316 "high security" 24 hour a day lock down cages 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
Free pen-pal website for prisoners, their families and friends:
http://www.prisonvoices.com/

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