February 18, 2013
A formerly incarcerated woman describes the suicide path of a 16-yr-old girl who bounced into and out of a New York prison. “Get out of prison, […]
February 18, 2013
A terrific writer at Texas Tribune, Maurice Chammah, describes an innovative in-prison program designed to help develop inmates into entrepreneurs. First they are taught and encouraged: […]
February 17, 2013
So California is closing prisons and shifting inmates–into already crowded prisons. Victoria Law, of Truthout, is doing the new math: “In December 2011, on the heels […]
February 16, 2013
Bradley Schwartz, once lawyer, then once inmate, is detailing his experiences in a continuing blog, Prisonpath.com. Terrific insider info! One suggestion I’m passing along because it […]
February 15, 2013
We seem to forget that the forefathers left England in part to escape the spectre of Debtors’ Prisons. In the new Colonies, debtors perhaps went into […]
February 14, 2013
The Texas legislature cut 20% of law school’s clinic budgets last time around. Texas does not fund a state-wide Innocence Program, as some other states do. […]
February 12, 2013
Tex. Senator John Whitmire, chair of the Senate Criminal Justice Committee, wants to close a private pre-parole transfer facility and a state jail, both run by […]
February 10, 2013
Super Bowl means more to the captive audiences behind bars than it means to most free-world households. Sports Illustrated recently ran an essay from an exonoree, […]
February 6, 2013
One year ago, Ohio’s Lake Erie Correctional Facility was taken over by the the Corrections Corporation of America‘s (CCA). “CCA’s track record over the last year at […]
February 3, 2013
An internal union dispute and shifting state oversight has resulted in confused and contradictory reporting on inmate attacks on staff and on vacancies/forced overtime. Someone needs […]