Prison System

Northern Correctional Institution Inmate Slits Guard's Throat

AP | STEPHANIE REITZ | Posted 12.23.2009 | New York

Read More: Prison Violence, Prison System, Connecticut, Inmate, Guard Attack, Northern Correctional Institution, Guard Slashed, Somers, New York News

HARTFORD, Conn. — An inmate at the state's highest security prison slashed a guard's throat with a homemade blade during a routine security chec...

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Prison Population Drops In New York, Grows To 1.6 Million Across US

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 12.08.2009 | New York

Read More: Prison Population, Jails, Prisons, Inmates, 1.6 Million Prisoners, Justice Department, Prison System, New York News

WASHINGTON — The U.S. prison population edged up slightly last year, though the number of total inmates dropped in 20 states, including New York...

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How Leonard Peltier Could Leave Prison by August 18

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Native Americans, Leonard-Peltier, Federal Parole Commission, Justice, Prison System, Fbi, Politics News
Harvey Wasserman

For a formidable and growing global community of supporters, the prospect of Native American activist Leonard Peltier finally leaving prison inspires a longing that cuts to the depths of the soul.

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What If Released Inmates Stopped Committing Crimes?: Prison Reform That's Already Working -- Like Nothing You've Seen Before

Pamela Gerloff | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Prison Reform, Non-Violent Crime, Criminal-Justice-System, Crime, Prison Violence, Recidivism, Prison System, Prison, Senator Webb, Senator Jim Webb, Violent Crime, Violence, Criminal Justice, Inmates, Jim Webb, Prison Inmates, Politics News
Pamela Gerloff

Let's start changing our lock-up facilities into places that actually cause inmates to change their behavior -- so that when they leave them they never go back.

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State Prisons Look To Cut Medical Costs With Telephone Doctors

Quad-City Times | Kurt Erickson | Posted 05.25.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Illinois Prisons, Telemedicine, Prison System, Health, Illinois Prison Health, Prison Health Care, Chicago News

Hoping to combat rising medical costs, Illinois prison officials have quietly begun investigating a new way to treat inmates....

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A Month of Killing, More on the Way?

Norm Stamper | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Capital Punishment, Prison System, Prison, Corrections, Somalian Pirates, Death Penalty, Pirates, Somalia, Jail, Politics News
Norm Stamper

Shooting an armed, hostage-holding assailant can be a life-saving act of heroism. But there's something fundamentally wrong with taking the life of someone in the state's custody.

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"The Jim Crow Laws of the 21st Century": Will New York Change?

Odile Weissenborn | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rockefeller Drug Laws, California Prison System, Drug Sentencing, Governor Paterson, Prison System, Economy, Prison Legal News, Drugs, Solomon Moore, War on Drugs, DOJ Prosecutor, Deficit, Death Penalty Information Center, Alternative to Incarceration, Low-Level Drug Offenders, Partnership for Responsible Drug Information, Paul Butler, Taxpayer Money, Bernard Madoff, Budget Deficit, Prison Reform, Prison Population, Drug Treatment, Incarceration, Crime, Budget, Incarceration Rates, Paul Wright, George Washington University Law School, Punishment, Sentencing, Jim Crow, New York Senate, Prison, California Commission on Fair Administration of Justice, Drug Offenders, New York Times, New York Budget, Nelson Rockefeller, Death Penalty, New York State Assembly, Richard Deiter, Madoff Jail, Errol Louis, Alternative Treatment Drug Offenders, Palladia, Politics News
Odile Weissenborn

In New York, the 36-year-old Rockefeller Drug Laws may be massively overhauled.

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The Devastating Consequences of Prosecutorial Misconduct

John Terzano | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wrongful Conviction, Exculpatory Evidence, The Justice Project, Post-Conviction Dna, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Murder, Us Prison System, Prison System, Prison, Crime, Criminal Justice System, Prisoners, Criminal Justice, Criminal Law, Politics News
John Terzano

Tim Masters was fifteen years old at the time of his alleged crime, and was not convicted until 12 years later. He languished in prison for almost ten years, and spent half his life trying to prove his innocence.

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Drug Czar of My Dreams

Matt Elrod | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Judge Jim P. Gray, Non-Violent Crime, Drug Policy Alliance, Prison System, Marijuana, Czar of My Dreams, Ron Paul, Medical Marijuana, President Elect Obama Drug Policy, Office of National Drug Control Policy, The Drug War, Dr. Ethan Nadelmann, Us Prison System, Jim P. Gray, Low-Level Drug Offenders, Prison, Dennis Kucinich, Drug Offenders, Drug Czar, Christian Science Moniter, Drug Policy, Legalize Marijuana, Alternative Treatment Drug Offenders, Politics News
Matt Elrod

A significant reallocation of scarce resources from criminal justice to public health solutions is long overdue, but drug policy is multi-disciplinary and international in scope.

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DeFriest: Mental Illness Behind Bars

Gabriel London | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mental Illness, Prison System, Prison, Florida Prison, Florida Prison System, Mark DeFriest, Politics News
Gabriel London

DeFriest is one of 200,000 mentally ill prisoners behind bars in America. Like many of them, he has never received treatment, has rarely been medicated and is consistently punished for his symptoms.

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