Punishment

 

Fiscal Pressures Lead Some States to Free Inmates Early

NEW!!! Latest study from the Justice Policy Institute on the impact of jailing on local communities: http://www.justicepolicy.org/images/upload/08-04_REP_JailingCommunities_AC.pdf

Torture in Our Own Backyards: The Fight Against Supermax Prisons

NEW!!!  Even the conservative Heritage Foundation thinks this is too much!!  1 percent of U.S. adults behind bars

    Two follow-up articles:  Prison-growth study debated

Stop Filling Prisons, California -- Advocates to Take Sentencing Reform Case to Voters

Poor medical care at Nevada prison cited

NEW!!  Unlocking America: Why and How to Reduce America's Prison Population -  http://www.jfa-associates.com/publications/srs/UnlockingAmerica.pdf

What happens to those who are exonerated after years behind bars or on death row?  Read this two-part series in the New York Times: Free and Uneasy

For Women Behind Bars, "Health Care" Can Be Deadly

Census Study Eyes Blacks in Prison

Barred From Public Housing, Even to See Family

Prisons Purging Books on Faith From Libraries

Shipping out Prisoners 

Criminalization of individuals with severe psychiatric disorders

Those on parole have paid their debts

Can't get enough California inmates

States Export Their Inmates as Prisons Fill

Jailing Nation: How Did Our Prison System Become Such a Nightmare?

It pays to have money.  For $82 a Day, Booking a Cell in a 5-Star Jail

New!!! Excellent piece by Paul Street Reverse Reparations: Race, Place, and the Vicious Circle of Mass Incarceration

Jail’s Return in Brooklyn Raises Hopes and Fears

Detaining Immigrant Families & CCA: Two Related Articles

Give ex-felons a second chance

Another case of injustice!!  Outrageous Injustice

Cases of innocent men released from prison.

7Million now in the CJ system

Prison and Jail Population Rises Again - click here for full report: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/pjim05.pdf

California Prison Crisis - see Little Hoover Commission Report

Calif. to Transfer Inmates Out of State

Pension or Penitentiary?

State fills up prisons with drug criminals

From the Sentencing Project! Incarceration and Crime

http://www.sentencingproject.org/pdfs/incarceration-crime.pdf