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Starvation of prisoners is not justice
Starvation is not justice. Neglect is not discipline. The executive, legislature, the judiciary, and other stakeholders must ...
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The rise and decline of NY prisons, and how closures impact the North Country
New York’s prison system has been under intense scrutiny in recent months. Corrections officers at a prison near Utica were charged with murdering an inmate in December. In March, an inmate at ...
The Fresno Bee12d
A major roadblock stands in California’s way to a transformed prison system
Norway’s overhauling of its prison system helped the country reach a recidivism rate of roughly 20%. Former inmates in California reenter the criminal justice system at nearly twice that rate.
The Brown Daily Herald22d
Award-winning sociologist details racial oppression, violence within US prison system during book talk
Published in January, her book, titled “Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons,” explores the methods employed by the California Department of Corrections ... South during ...
Trump’s new director of federal prison system led a troubled state agency
West Virginia’s top corrections official led a troubled state agency and will now head a federal bureaucracy plagued with ...
Sacramento Bee on MSN12d
A major roadblock stands in California’s way to a transformed prison system
Norway’s overhauling of its prison system helped the country reach a recidivism rate of roughly 20%. Former inmates in California reenter the criminal justice system at nearly twice that rate. Under ...