Wednesday, February 27, 2013

The Limits of Savings: Cutting Prisons but Not Populations

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Inmate working on a flag at the Prison Industries Autority at CCWF. Image from story on struggle to maintain vocational programs in priso...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Ninth Circuit Revives Inmate Lawsuit for Pagan Chaplaincy

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A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit has acknowledged, apriori, that Pagan inmates complaining about the lack of a paid chaplain might h...
Monday, February 25, 2013

Today: Solitary Confinement Hearing in Sacramento

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Today marks the beginning of a new wave of protest and action against the overuse of solitary confinement in California. Protesters meet f...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

Book Review: Prison Profiteers, Edited by Tara Herivel and Paul Wright

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Many books and articles decrying mass imprisonment use the term "prison industrial complex", and many of us know that it refers ...
Saturday, February 16, 2013

Film Review: West of Memphis

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I have just returned from watching West of Memphis , the latest film in the West Memphis Three saga. This is a case I care about a great ...
Thursday, February 14, 2013

Starving the Messenger

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It strikes me that  yesterday's post about  Governor Brown's gripe against the Prison Law Office and Rosen, Bien, ...
Monday, February 11, 2013

What's Cheaper: Litigating or Realigning?

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Today brings with it an interesting financial gripe: Governor Brown's concern with the money made by private law firms representing inma...