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• in Politics
  Luxuries for Criminals: The MP3 Player Debate
  Pilot program allows prisoners to purchase MP3 players and browse over one million songs
  by eklemens / on Feb 28, 2012
• in Politics
  Wartime Contracting
  $30 Billion Wasted in Afghanistan and Iraq
  by eklemens / on Aug 30, 2011
• in TV
  National Geographic Explorer Examines the Human Cost of "Solitary Confinement"
  As much as you would like to “get away from it all,” could you survive years of 24/7 solitary confinement?
  by missbobetier / on Oct 10, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “prisons”

 

• Roundup: Private prisons, primary contests, tech law and privacy

  
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  Here are a few odds and ends that havent made it into full Grits posts but deserve readers attention: Court of Criminal Appeals races in play in 2014 GOP primary There has been much speculation in political and legal circles this spring that all three Texas Court of Criminal Appeals judges up for reelection in ...
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• Should prisons be run for profit by corporations?

  
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  by rPawela Question by itsamini1 : Should prisons be run for profit by corporations? This has already lead to a juvenile judge being bribed to send more kids to prison. The corporations are paid by the number of prisoners and has lead to cruel cost cutting measures. Best answer: Answer by prekinpdx ...
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• NC Muslim gets four life terms for jihad plot to behead witnesses whose testimony helped convict him for earlier jihad plot to slaughter U.S. servicemen and their families

  
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  Unrepentant: "The Koran is the truth that invalidates all other religions. If you do not submit, he will severely judge you, and on the day of judgment you will enter hellfire." "Man sentenced in plot against terror witnesses," by Michael Biesecker for the Associated Press , May 10 (thanks to Lookmann): A North ...
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• Report: Deal cut to close two private prisons

  
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  Though Grits had heard that the decision over prison closures wouldnt be made until a 9 a.m. meeting of the budget conference committee on Monday, at which I was told to expect "fireworks," Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman reported today (" Deal reported on plan to close two private prison ," May 10) that a deal ...
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• Our murdered sons legacy of hope

  
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  Jimmy Mizen was murdered in an unprovoked attack, aged 16, in 2008. Erwin James meets his parents, Barry and Margaret, who have turned their familys tragic loss into a legacy of peace and hope "There are three things that every child needs," says Barry Mizen. "To feel loved, to feel valued and to feel safe." Sitting ...
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• Scott Thorson: The Boy Toy’s Story

  
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  Scott Thorson knew the high life as Liberace’s lover and the low life as his ex. Now, an HBO movie is about to revisit the days of wine and sequins.        
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• Using Expensive Legal Claims As Leverage, Top Enron Fraudster Reaches Deal To Slash Sentence

  
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  Jeffrey Skilling Even when Jeffrey Skilling was first sentenced for conspiring in one of the largest corporate fraud schemes in modern history, he received less jail time than some low-level drug offenders sentenced to harsh mandatory minimums. But this week, Skilling reached a deal with the Department of ...
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• Teen Went to Jail for Throwing a Steak, and Other Injustices Paid for By Private Prisons

  
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  I have watched almost every episode of Law & Order, including the UK version. I learned a lot of things, like always ask for a lawyer, even if you’re not guilty and, when visiting New York City, never look behind trucks or dumpsters because you will always find a dead body. I also knew that [...]
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• The sacrifices I was raised on: how empathy brings us closer to a radical politic of family

  
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  Originally posted at Strong Families and at the Community blog, by Shanelle Matthews  My biological dad was in prison when I was little. My mom, single at the time, would drive me, my brother, and sister to see him. Because I was little, I don’t have a lot of memories of this time, but I do remember one ...
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• The Phil Spector School of Rock, at The Rock.

  
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  Corcoran State Prison, CA —In this tough prison there are few bright spots.  Charles Manson, Sirhan Sirhan and many other convicted criminals who have committed despicable crimes wait here to simply die.    Most other inmates will quickly get out and the rate of return is astronomical. Of course they destroy ...
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• Americas 10 Worst Prisons: Reeves County

  
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  Burning down the Big House: Abysmal health care sparked riots at Reeves. AP Photo/Pecos Enterprise, Smokey Briggs #1: ADX (federal supermax) #2: Allan B. Polunsky Unit (Texas) ...
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• Blue Point Trading Market View – May 10, 2013

  
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  Victorian England Charles Dickens debtors prisons come to America. Thousands of poor Ohioans face the prospect of incarceration, even though imprisoning someone for a debt that person can not pay is prohibited by the U.S. Constitution, a 1983 United States Supreme Court decision (declaring this practice to be a ...
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• "Looking Past the Hype: 10 Questions Everyone Should Ask About Californias Prison Realignment"

  
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  The title of this post is the title of this new paper on SSRN by Joan Petersilia and Jessica Snyder. Here is the abstract: California’s Criminal Justice Realignment Act passed in 2011 shifted vast discretion for managing lower-level offenders from the state to the county, allocated over $2 billion in the ...
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• Corrections should honor Tom Clements’ legacy by continuing his work

  
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  By Rebecca T. Wallace Guest Commentary In the days following Colorado Department of Corrections Director Tom Clements’ death, his family, his colleagues and Gov. John Hickenlooper expressed admiration for his compassion and his fundamental belief that all people could be redeemed. With new interim director ...
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• WATCH: Would Putting Me in Prison Serve the Common Good?

  
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  The United States has the  highest incarceration rate in the world  — about 1.6 million people in 2010. Mass incarceration in our country is a problem, one that too often serves to line the pockets of  for-profit prisons   while tearing families apart and targeting people of color disproportionately.  ...
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• Santa Ana Police Department: taking payoffs to jail the innocent

  
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  Ruth Hull In Santa Ana, real criminals never need fear arrest as police get $ to arrest law-abiding fathers, brothers, sisters, and children who have committed no crime except for failing to have their proof of citizenship. Do you have yours? In Santa Ana, crime victims are rarely able to obtain assistance from ...
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• Graylings statement on rehabilitation reform:: Politics live blog

  
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  Andrew Sparrow s rolling coverage of all the days political developments as they happen, including Nick Cleggs phone-in on LBC and the row about childcare, and Chris Graylings statement about prisoner rehabilitation Andrew Sparrow Elizabeth Truss
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• Prisoners Are Stirred, Reviews of Aramark Food Is Mixed, But Company Not Beaten

  
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  Some working for a contractor that provides food to prisons may be eating their own food one of these days. Aramark serves meals for 45,000 state prisoners in Michigan. The company is accused there of skimping on food and overbilling in other states, according to audit reports. Florida fired Aramark five years ago ...
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• Americas 10 Worst Prisons: Julia Tutwiler

  
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  Killing time in a Tutwiler prison dormitory. Robin Nelson/ZumaPress.com   #1: ADX (federal supermax) #2: Allan B. Polunsky Unit (Texas) ...
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• All prisoners face a year of supervision upon release – Daily Telegraph

  
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  “Low-level criminals who spend a few weeks or months in prison will be supervised for a year in the community after their release in an attempt to cut ‘shameful levels’ of reoffending, the Justice Secretary will announce.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 9th May 2013 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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