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Recent News from the RCPP Weblog MA: R.I.P. Ray Gauthier August 31, 1948 - January 22, 2010 Washington Post Editorial "Va. legislators should embrace bills to protect juveniles in prison" Warning: tranquilizers necessary before reading. Penn State receives 1.27 million grant to study end of life care for prisoners. Speaking to L.A. lawyers, Justice Kennedy blasts the prison guard union calling its influence in passing three strikes "sick" Obama budget includes $527.5M for Justice Dept. Justice Dept. projects increase of 7000 more prisoners by 2011 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.

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