http://realcostofprisons.org/blog/ Copyright 2008 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:11:24 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.11 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss NY Times July 3, 2008 Editorial Don’t Teach Our Children Crime Under the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, the states agreed to humanize their often Dickensian juvenile justice systems in exchange for increased federal aid. This promising... http://realcostofprisons.org/blog/archives/2008/07/ny_times_editio.html http://realcostofprisons.org/blog/archives/2008/07/ny_times_editio.html Youth Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:11:24 -0500 Ex-felons, homeless are part of state voting process By Eric T. Campbell The Michigan Citizen DETROIT — The 2008 primary race for the highest office in the nation has brought millions of new voters to the polls. With the end... http://realcostofprisons.org/blog/archives/2008/07/mi_people_with_1.html http://realcostofprisons.org/blog/archives/2008/07/mi_people_with_1.html Disenfranchisement/Census Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:57:45 -0500 "Scotland has one possible future where its prisons hold only serious offenders, prison staff regularly and expertly deliver programmes that can affect change and there is a widely used and respected system of community-based sentences. "There is another possible future,... http://realcostofprisons.org/blog/archives/2008/07/scottish_prison.html http://realcostofprisons.org/blog/archives/2008/07/scottish_prison.html International News Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:43:14 -0500 "This appreciation of another’s right is crucial in interrogation, Dr. Packer suggests. When prisoners’ rights are ambiguous, inhumane treatment can follow. Milgram’s work, in short, makes a statement about the importance of human rights, as well as obedience." July 1,... http://realcostofprisons.org/blog/archives/2008/07/decades_later_s.html http://realcostofprisons.org/blog/archives/2008/07/decades_later_s.html News related to Mass Incarceration Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:44:40 -0500 July 1, 2008 Texas man cleared of shooting suspected burglars By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 5:14 a.m. ET HOUSTON (AP) -- Ever since he fatally shot two men he suspected of burglarizing his next-door neighbor's home, 62-year-old Joe Horn... http://realcostofprisons.org/blog/archives/2008/07/texas_man_clear.html http://realcostofprisons.org/blog/archives/2008/07/texas_man_clear.html Outrageous but True Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:24:31 -0500 July 1, 2008 Drug Arrests Were Real; the Badge Was Fake By MONICA DAVEY NY Times GERALD, Mo. — Like so many rural communities in the country’s middle, this small town had wrestled for years with the woes of methamphetamine.... http://realcostofprisons.org/blog/archives/2008/07/drug_arrests_we.html http://realcostofprisons.org/blog/archives/2008/07/drug_arrests_we.html War on Drugs Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:08:18 -0500 June 30, 2008 Editorial, NY Times Expanding Democracy in Florida Among the world’s democracies, the United States is uniquely unforgiving in denying ex-offenders the right to vote. Nowhere is the problem worse than in Florida, where criminal justice experts estimate... http://realcostofprisons.org/blog/archives/2008/06/2_editorials_on.html http://realcostofprisons.org/blog/archives/2008/06/2_editorials_on.html Disenfranchisement/Census Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:22:39 -0500 The results of years of litigation, media advocacy and family organizing reached a high point in 2003-2004 with the closure of the hyper-violent Tallulah youth prison and sweeping juvenile justice reform legislation, requiring a change from a punitive juvenile system... http://realcostofprisons.org/blog/archives/2008/06/jjpl_and_fflic.html http://realcostofprisons.org/blog/archives/2008/06/jjpl_and_fflic.html Youth Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:13:00 -0500 From the Los Angeles Times Dispute over California prison crowding to go to trial A court-appointed referee tells federal judges that state officials and others have failed to settle the case of poor inmate healthcare. By Tim Reiterman Los Angeles... http://realcostofprisons.org/blog/archives/2008/06/ca_dispute_over.html http://realcostofprisons.org/blog/archives/2008/06/ca_dispute_over.html Financing and Siting Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:15:15 -0500 The Sentencing Project www.sentencingproject.org Do More Prisoners Equal Less Crime? A Response to George Will In a recent syndicated column (“More Prisons, Less Crime,” Washington Post, June 22, 2008), commentator George Will argues that the world record incarceration rate in... http://realcostofprisons.org/blog/archives/2008/06/the_sentencing_3.html http://realcostofprisons.org/blog/archives/2008/06/the_sentencing_3.html News related to Mass Incarceration Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:20:42 -0500 From (London) Times Online June 24, 2008 Plan to shut women's jails is shelved Richard Ford, Home Correspondent Radical proposals to close all 13 women's jails in England and Wales and replace them with small house units holding up to... http://realcostofprisons.org/blog/archives/2008/06/uk_plan_to_shut.html http://realcostofprisons.org/blog/archives/2008/06/uk_plan_to_shut.html International News Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:57:08 -0500 June 24, 2008 MA CORI Reform Update The following information regarding the status of CORI legislation is based on an update by Aaron Tanaka of the Boston Worker's Alliance (BWA), an organizational member of the Mass. Alliance to Reform CORI... http://realcostofprisons.org/blog/archives/2008/06/ma_cori_reform_1.html http://realcostofprisons.org/blog/archives/2008/06/ma_cori_reform_1.html Obstacles to Coming Home Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:46:51 -0500 June 23, 2008 Los Teques Journal Amid Despair in a Venezuelan Prison, Strains of Hope From a Music Program By SIMON ROMERO NY Times LOS TEQUES, Venezuela — When Nurul Asyiqin Ahmad was taken seven months ago to her cell... http://realcostofprisons.org/blog/archives/2008/06/venezuela_amid.html http://realcostofprisons.org/blog/archives/2008/06/venezuela_amid.html Women and Children Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:37:13 -0500 "Bolstered by President Bush's recent signing of the Second Chance Act, which promises more money for faith-based programs to help rehabilitate prisoners,corrections officials and religious volunteers are testing the largely unproven theory that faith can not only salvage criminals, but... http://realcostofprisons.org/blog/archives/2008/06/faith_takes_a_l.html http://realcostofprisons.org/blog/archives/2008/06/faith_takes_a_l.html Obstacles to Coming Home Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:59:59 -0500 June 23, 2008 Lompoc Record (CA) Turn prisons into places of learning There is a high-noon showdown approaching, and the outcome may have a profound effect on California's future. The state's massive prison system health-care operations are technically in receivership,... http://realcostofprisons.org/blog/archives/2008/06/ca_editorial_tu.html http://realcostofprisons.org/blog/archives/2008/06/ca_editorial_tu.html News related to Mass Incarceration Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:47:28 -0500