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State Prison Numbers Drop For 1st Time Since 1972; from Associated Press (US), 3/17/10
The Rainmakers: Banking On Private Prisons In The
Fleecing Of Small-Town America;
from In These Times (US), 3/5/10
Part 3: Bondsman Lobby Targets Pretrial Release
Programs; from NPR (US),
1/22/10
Part 2: Inmates Who Can't Make Bail Face Stark
Options; from NPR (US),
1/22/10
Part 1: Bail Burden Keeps U.S. Jails Stuffed With
Inmates; from NPR (US),
1/21/10
International Legal Precedent: No Private Prisons
In Israel; from Haaretz
(Israel), 11/23/09
Candidate Pete Holmes Spreads 'No New Jail' Message
In West Seattle; frrom West
Seattle Herald (WA), 10/12/09
Ex-Judges
Indicted In Kids-For-Cash Prison Scheme;
from MSNBC.com (US), 9/10/09
Doing
Borrowed Time: The High Cost Of Back-Door Prison Finance; from Justice Strategies (NY), 1/1/07
America's
Jail Crisis; from Forbes
Magazine (US), 7/13/09
Coalition
Pushes For Alternatives To More Prisons;
from Bradenton Herald (FL), 6/24/09
Michigan
Shuts 8 Prisons To Save $120M;
from CNNMoney.com, 6/5/09
WA:
Prison To Shrink By Half; from
Spokesman-Review (WA), 6/3/09
Netherlands To Close Prisons For Lack Of Criminals; from NRC Handelsblad (NL), 5/25/09
Prison Plan Opposition Grows; from Arizona Star (AZ), 5/18/09
Why
We Must Fix Our Prisons, by Sen. Jim Webb, from Parade Magazine (US), 3/29/09
The
Shame Of The Prisons; from
TIME Magazine (US), 1/18/71
Wash.
Activist Fights Immigrant Detention Center; from Seattle Post-Intelligencer (WA),
2/23/09
US Expands Prison In Afghanistan; from Al Jazeera (Middle East), 2/20/09
Business
Lobby: Don't Build Prisons, Release Inmates Instead; from Miami Herald (FL), 2/19/09
Prisons
Director Demands Reforms; from
Columbus Dispatch (OH), 2/13/09
Judges to Serve More Than Seven Years in Prison
After Pleading Guilty in Prison Kickbacks Probe; from Law.com (US), 1/29/09
States Ponder Early Release For Some Prisoners; from MSNBC (US), 1/10/09
Ohio
Bill Seeks To Ease Prison Crowding;
from Akron Beacon Journal (OH), 12/19/08
Editorial:
Early Treatment Of Mentally Ill Can Reduce Inmates; from Spokesman-Review (WA), 10/28/08
State Hopes New Prisons, Early Release Cut Crowding; from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA), 10/27/08
Activists Protest Immigrant Prisons in Georgia; from Atlanta Progressive News (GA), 10/18/08
Jail
Junkies; from Willamette
Week (OR), 10/1/08
Minorities
Overrepresented Among Felony Convictions; from Spokesman-Review (WA), 9/28/08
Commentary:
About That Jail; from The
Inlander (WA), 8/13/08
[Spokane]
County Pushes Back Jail Vote Until 2009;
from Spokesman-Review (WA), 7/23/08
Editorial
-- Our View: Jail Should Wait;
from Spokesman-Review (WA), 7/20/08
"Expanding
Prisons Mean More Jobs";
from Fayetteville Observer (NC), 7/20/08
New
Jail Could Cost $245 Million;
from Spokesman-Review (WA), 7/10/08
No
New Prisons Despite Stricter Laws;
from National Post (CAN), 6/23/08
Gallatin
County Sheriff Won't Send Inmates To Hardin Jail; from Billings Gazette (MT), 6/17/08
Fiscal
Pressures Lead Some States to Free Inmates Early; from Washington Post (DC), 5/5/08
OpEd:
Looking At Negatives Of A N. County Jail; from Santa Maria Times (CA), 3/31/08
Editorial:
Addicted To Jail; from Spokesman-Review
(WA), 3/2/08
Life
on the Block; from The Inlander
(WA), 2/27/08
Walk
To Stop ICE Detention Facility;
from Colorado Criminal Justice
Reform Coalition (CO), 2/27/08
Group
Says Prisoners Skew Political Clout;
from Associated Press (US), 2/21/08
Misunderstanding
Leaves Hardin Prison Standing Empty;
from Helena Independent Record (MT), 2/13/08
Editorial:
Let's Work At Not Building Prisons;
from Des Moines Register (IA), 2/10/08
"We
Cannot Build Prisons Fast Enough";
from Washblog
(WA), 1/30/08
Prison
Drinking Water and Wastewater Pollution Threaten Environmental
Safety Nationwide; from Prison
Legal News (US), 1/17/08
Education
Versus Incarceration; from
WireTap
Magazine (US), 11/16/07
Jail
Estimate Surprises County;
from Spokesman-Review (WA), 9/26/07
US:
Stars and Bars; from The
Nation (US), August 2007
[FL]
Budget May Cut Prisoners' Hard Time;
from The Ledger (FL), 8/24/07
LTE:
Watson Should Sort Own Garbage;
from Spokesman-Review (WA), 8/10/07
Mayor
Larkin Surprised By Jail Plan;
from Spokesman-Review (WA), 8/10/07
Jail
Recycle Center Proposed; from
Spokesman-Review (WA), 8/9/07
Column:
No More Prisons! from Pasadena
Weekly (CA), 5/30/07
Senate
OKs Bill To Reduce Prison Need;
from Dallas Morning News (TX), 5/28/07
Outside
View: Action On Offenders;
from Spokesman-Review (WA), 5/23/07
Shortage
Of Corrections Officers Ends Jail-Space Deal; from Seattle Times (WA), 5/22/07
Release:
Books Not Bars Moves Closer To Closing CA Youth Prisons; from The Ella Baker Center (CA), 5/1/07
The
Census' Prisoner Miscount Distorts Democracy; from Prison Policy Initiative (US), 4/10/07
Among
Architects, a Prison Design Boycott Gains Steam; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 4/6/07
Eastern
WA State: An Overview of Prison Expansion News, posted 2/15/07
Study
Predicts Rise In Inmate Populations;
from Pew Charitable Trusts (US), 2/14/07
Aiming
For Course Corrections On Prison Priorities; from Denver Post (CO), 2/14/07
OpEd:
Think Outside The Cell; from
Houston Chronicle (TX), 2/11/07
Community
Builds Momentum Against Prison Expansion in San Diego; from Drug Policy Alliance (US), 2/6/07
Open
Mind On Inmate Release; from
Mlive.com (MI), 2/6/07
Resources:
Instead Of Prisons: A Handbook
For Abolitionists; from Prison Policy
Initiative. Many prison reformists yearn for the end
of imprisonment but find themselves confronted by questions which
seem difficult to answer. This online Handbook (also avalable
in hard copy) seeks to answer those questions. We perceive the
abolition of prisons as a long range goal, which, like justice,
is an ever continuing struggle.
Incarceration:
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