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Original Technorati articles tagged “prisons”

• 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”

 

• Kanye West’s “New Slaves” Is Right On Prisons And Consumer Culture, But Weird On Women

  
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  Kanye West’s debuted a new song, “New Slaves,” for a mass audience on Saturday Night Live this weekend, and as an art project last Friday, projecting a video for the song on buildings in London , Chicago, New York, and Sydney. Among those locations was the Prada store Fifth Avenue: It’s a fitting choice ...
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• Nick Clegg promises prison rehabilitation revolution - video

  
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  Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg promises a radical approach to the way prisoners are rehabilitated to cut re-offending        
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• The Texas Tribune: With Consensus and Money, State Takes on Mental Health Care

  
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  As Republicans and Democrats in Texas House and Senate hash out the details of the state’s 2014-15 budget, one issue they are not arguing about is support for mental health.        
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• Maze Prison’s Future Stirs Up Ghosts of Its Past

  
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  With a peace center planned for Maze prison, home of an I.R.A. hunger strike, some in Northern Ireland are revisiting the complex story of the Troubles.        
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• Should Chris Huhne be able to resume his life in politics?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Chris Huhne, former Liberal Democrat MP and minister, has been released from prison. Should he be allowed to start again where he left off? Sir Edward Garnier QC, Conservative MP for Harborough and solicitor general 2010-12 In Chris Huhnes case, his career in the House of Commons is finished. That is not to say that ...
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• Prisoners Onstage

  
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  At a Prison Volterra in Tuscany, Italy, inmates become actors.        
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• Exposures: Prisoners Onstage

  
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  Inmates in Italy find redemption in acting.        
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• Juvenile Inmates Found to Be at No Greater Risk for Prison Rape

  
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  A government survey of prison and jail inmates challenged the notion that minors in adult facilities face a higher risk of sexual abuse than other prisoners.        
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• Prison Realignment Works. Prison Realignment Doesnt Work.

  
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  Abel Maldonado Wildly Misses Mark in His Criticism of the Prison Realignment Policy by Brian Leubitz By any estimation, Governor Brown is in a tough spot politically and managerially with the issues surrounding the prisons. As Attorney General, he fought the federal courts on capacity and healthcare ...
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• 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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• 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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