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Governor Pat Quinn To End Controversial Early Prisoners Release Program

newsblogs.chicagotribune.com | Posted 12.30.2009 | Chicago

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Gov. Pat Quinn announced today that he is ending a controversial prisons policy that accelerated good behavior credit for new inmates and led to some ...

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Reading In Prison: Ten Books; No Hard Covers

Kenneth Hartman | Posted 12.30.2009 | Books

Read More: Hardcover Books, Prison, Prisoners' Rights, Prison Education, Books, Prisoners, Criminal Justice, Reading in Prison, Shakespeare, Reading, Books News
Kenneth Hartman

In an atmosphere as poisoned as the criminal justice world, the restrictions that made any sense at all ran out fast. Somewhere along the way, hardcover books were deemed potentially dangerous.

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Iran Admits Protesters Beaten To Death By Jailers

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 12.20.2009 | World

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TEHRAN, Iran — After months of denials, Iran acknowledged Saturday that at least three people detained in the country's postelection turmoil wer...

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William McCaffrey's Exoneration Highlights Plight Of Wrongly Convicted Prisoners

reuters.com | Edith Honan | Posted 12.14.2009 | New York

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A recent spate of exonerations in New York state has put renewed focus on the plight of the wrongly convicted, with advocates saying it is not as easy...

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Beyond Guantanamo: Torture Thrives in Connecticut

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Medical Ethics, Law, Rape, Arthur Caplan, Physicians, Crime, American Medical Associaton, Prisoners, Civil Rights, William Coleman, Guantanamo, Connecticut, Edward Blanchette, World Medical Association, Human Rights, Health, Doctors, Prisons, Medicine, Bioethics, Torture, Politics News
Jacob M. Appel

In the case of Coleman v. Lantz, Connecticut has argued for the right to force feed a hunger-striking inmate in an excruciatingly painful manner.

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Escaping Your Inner Mental Prison

Alex Pattakos | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Detect the Meaning of Life's Moments, Prisoners of Our Thoughts, Prison, Alex Pattakos, Prisoners, Viktor Frankl, Meaning, The Inner Life, Living News
Alex Pattakos

Although we are not always aware of it, meaning is present in every moment, even in what may be viewed as the darkest hours of our lives.

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Congress To Keep Detainee Abuse Photos Hidden

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Aclu, Abuse, Detainee Photos, Afghanistan, Prisoner Abuse, Prisoners, Freedom of Information Act, Detainee Abuse, Iraq, Afghanistan War, Abu Ghraib, Detainees, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Congress is set to allow the Pentagon to keep new pictures of foreign detainees abused by their U.S. captors from the public, a mov...

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A Job Nobody Wants: In Defense of (Gasp!) Drug Dealers

Mark Olmsted | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Poverty, Terrorists, Criminal Justice System, Drug Dealing, Prisoners, Inmates, Cure, Dehumanization, Changing Perception, Jim Webb, Politics News
Mark Olmsted

The man at the gas station who hands over Marlboro Lights is never called the scum of the earth. The makers of Oxycontin, Valium, and Vicodin -- the biggest drug dealers in the word -- spend no time in prison cells.

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Prisoners Collect Thousands Of Dollars In Unemployment Benefits

AP | Posted 09.11.2009 | New York

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- New York auditors have identified 11 state prison inmates who collected about $30,000 in unemployment insurance benefits they wer...

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Prisons ban inmates from having pen pal ads

AP | JESSICA GRESKO | Posted 08.31.2009 | Living

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MIAMI — In her online profile, Paula Jones says she is 42, "nonjudgmental" and likes fishing, gardening and cuddling. There's a catch, though. J...

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Members of Congress Join National Effort to Restore Voting Rights to Millions of Americans

Erika Wood | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Criminal Disenfranchisement Law, Criminal Justice, Prisoners, Democracy Restoration Act of 2009, Voting Rights, Voting, Politics News
Erika Wood

Four million Americans with past criminal convictions are out of prison and living in the community -- working, paying taxes and raising families. 35 states continue to disenfranchise people who are not in prison, often for decades and sometimes for life.

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Getting Serious About Prison Rape

Pat Nolan | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rape, Prison, Prisoners, Prison Rape, Prison Rape Elimination Act, Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Prison Rape Elimination Commission, Politics News
Pat Nolan

Prison rape has long been a staple of jokes on late night TV, but otherwise it has been ignored as an unseemly but intractable problem of our prisons.

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The Value of Service

Pat Hardy | Posted 08.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Alternatives to Violence Project, Community Service, Volunteering, Prison, Prisoners, Service, Living News
Pat Hardy

From the time I was a Girl Scout, helping out seemed to be what one did as part of being a responsible citizen in society.

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Time to Forgive, Forget, and Find a Little Jubilee

Randall Amster | Posted 07.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Debt, Jubilee Act, Bailout, Credit Card Debt, Forgiveness, Student Loans, Stimulus, Jubilee, Prisoners, Prisons, Decriminalization, Third World Debt, Business News
Randall Amster

Money is the means to everything from food to sex, so it's no surprise what people are willing to do to obtain it, from criminal activities to simply ignoring the rising tide.

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Supreme Court Says Convicts Have No Right To Test DNA

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Dna, Dna Testing, Prisoners, Convicts, Convicts DNA Testing, Criminal Rights, Criminals, Justice John Roberts, Justice Stevens, William Osborne, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Thursday that a convicted rapist has no constitutional right to test biological evidence used at his trial i...

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Striking Out Fear

Richard Klass | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics

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Richard Klass

As a kid I was a Red Sox fan. Still am. I was not quite 12 years old in 1952 when Jimmy Piersall broke in as a rookie outfielder. One of the more ...

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Palestinians Angry About Portrayal of Prisoners' Wife by Palestinian Filmmaker

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 05.04.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Arts, Movie, Richard Gere, Sundance, Prisoners, Palestinians, Berlin Festival, Filmmaker, Palestine, Entertainment News
Daoud Kuttab

Pomegranates and Myrrh is a sensitive film by one Palestinian filmmaker about one Palestinian point of view. However, some in the Arab world are calling for the movie to be banned.

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The Beginning of the End?

Gabriel London | Posted 03.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mental Illness, Prison, Bush Administration Torture, Mental Health, California, Obama Torture, Prisoners, Torture, Politics News
Gabriel London

With prisons running at just under double capacity for the last decade, judges have ruled that California has been unable to meet the health and mental care needs of its whopping 157,000 inmates.

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The Price of Justice: Time to Invest in Criminal Justice Reforms

Ginny Sloan | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Exoneration, Wrongful Conviction, Criminal Justice, Dna, Ginny Sloan, Jon Gould, Lawyers, Criminal Justice System, Prisoners, Legislation, Politics News
Ginny Sloan

It is easy -- but wrong -- to say that we can save money by slashing government funding for lawyers for defendants who cannot afford to hire their own.

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A Modest Proposal, or How to Use Wasted Resources...Like the Elderly!

Jilly Gagnon | Posted 03.07.2009 | Style

Read More: Elderly, Taxes, Infants, Children, Humor, Prisoners, Satire, Homeless, A Modest Proposal, Fees, Style News
Jilly Gagnon

You will never escape the fact that the nurses are stealing tic-tacs out of Grandma's purse when she isn't paying attention. Shouldn't you get something for it?

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An Open Letter To Jeh Johnson/General Counsel, Department of Defense

H. Candace Gorman | Posted 03.05.2009 | World

Read More: Guantanamo, Obama Guantanamo, Closing Guantanamo, Letters, Letter to the President, Criminal Justice System, Prisoners, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo Bay, Obama Gitmo, Criminal Justice, Gitmo Detainees, Gitmo, World News
H. Candace Gorman

As the rest of the world is standing by waiting to see us take responsibility for Gitmo, we should release the Uighur detainees into the United States and grant them provisional asylum.

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North Korean Prison Camp Escapee Recalls The Torture -- And Escape

Elisabeth Braw | Posted 03.01.2009 | World

Read More: North Korea Prison Camp, North Korean Escapes From Prison Camp, Kim Jong Il Stroke, Kim Jong Il Surgery, Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong-Il, North Korea, Children, Prisoners, Torture, World News
Elisabeth Braw

Elisabeth Braw wrote this article for ...

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How the Huffington Post Helped Save a Life

Matthew and Peter Slutsky | Posted 02.28.2009 | Media

Read More: The Internet, Journalists, Newspapers, Turkey, Sabri Bogday, Citizen Journalism, Bloggers, Prisoners, Computers, Web, Websites, United States, Journalism, Internet, Istanbul Turkey, Istanbul, Religion, Saudi Arabia, New Media, Los Angeles Times, Turkish Coalition of America, Huffington Post, Blogging, Citizen Journalists, Media News
Matthew and Peter Slutsky

In March 2008, I asked readers of HuffPost to reach out to reporters and bloggers to help tell the story of Turk Sabri Bogday, who at the time faced unjust execution in Saudi Arabia.

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Guantanamo Issue Threatens To Split EU

The Guardian | Peter Walker, Mark Tran | Posted 02.27.2009 | World

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EU countries could be willing to help the US close down Guantánamo Bay by taking in released detainees despite the doubts of some member states, the ...

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President Obama Must Free Leonard Peltier

Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Prison Industry, Native Americans, Leonard Peltier, Obama, Justice, Prison Inmates, Imprisonment, Crime, Prisoners, Fbi, Amnesty International, Criminal Justice, Unfair Sentencing, Criminal Justice System, Political Prisoners, Jail, Prisons, 1970s, Politics News
Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman

Imprisoned in the late 1970s for allegedly murdering two FBI agents, Leonard Peltier has never been given a fair trial.

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