Governor Pat Quinn To End Controversial Early Prisoners Release Program
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 ...
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 ...
AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 12.08.2009 | New York
WASHINGTON — The U.S. prison population edged up slightly last year, though the number of total inmates dropped in 20 states, including New York...
Charles Shaw | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
Beyond histrionics about a wave of jihad descending upon Chicago, the truth of the matter is far closer to the desire of Republicans to keep the extralegal limbo at Guantanamo going full steam.
Jacob M. Appel | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
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.
Posted 11.17.2009 | Living
In a new report, Al Jazeera English takes a look at just why people with mental health problems make up half the population of U.S. jails and prisons....
Washington Post | Carrie Johnson | Posted 11.10.2009 | Home
Reports of sexual misconduct by prison staff members with federal inmates doubled over the past eight years, and government watchdogs called Thursday ...
Los Angeles Times | Nicholas Riccardi | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
After decades of pursuing lock-'em-up policies, states are scrambling to reduce their prison populations in the face of tight budgets, making fundamen...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
To produce education reform that is reform in more than name only, we need to look past our own political backyards at what might lie on the other side of the mountain. What I see on that other side is a single-payer education system. It's simple, sensible and, above all, just. READ MORE
Has Obama's Handling of the Bank Bailout Undermined Health Care Reform? One of the consequences of the one-sided bailout of Wall Street is the way it has undermined public trust in government. Much of the health care anger is a proxy for bailout anger. If we don't learn from the botched bailout, we are in danger of getting the same reform-in-name-only outcome on health care. READ MORE
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AP | GILLIAN WONG | Posted 09.26.2009 | World
BEIJING — China has launched a national organ donation system to try to reduce its dependence on body parts harvested from executed prisoners, w...
AP | JESSICA GRESKO | Posted 08.31.2009 | Living
MIAMI — In her online profile, Paula Jones says she is 42, "nonjudgmental" and likes fishing, gardening and cuddling. There's a catch, though. J...
Disgrasian | Posted 08.26.2009 | Entertainment
The prisoners at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center make incarceration look really awesome with another Michael Jackson dance video, this time to "Dangerous."
ABC News | ASHER HAWKINS | Posted 08.18.2009 | Home
It's looking like a lifetime sentence at one of the nation's cushiest prisons for world-class fraudster Bernard Madoff. The record-setting scammer is ...
Anthony Papa | Posted 08.15.2009 | Entertainment
I swore to myself I would never return. But over a decade later, here I was, back at the maximum security prison where I served a 15 years for a non-violent drug crime under the Rockefeller Drug Laws.
Daniel Krotz | Posted 08.14.2009 | Living
Letters offers an opportunity to witness a man in an unusual, if not unique, situation as he fine-tunes his craft and his understanding of the human condition.
Randall Amster | Posted 07.26.2009 | Business
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.
Warren Holstein | Posted 06.26.2009 | Comedy
Yup, that's right, the self-same prison system that has held Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer and the Son of Sam is apparently no match for a bunch of unarmed, sensory-deprived foreigners.
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics
At a time when the government claims there just isn't enough money for every citizen to have healthcare, getting rid of the failed War on Drugs could fund numerous national programs.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics
Phish's floppy-haired frontman is sporting a sharp, navy blue suit, which can only mean one of two things. And he isn't in a courtroom, so he must be ...
J. Richard Cohen | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics
As a society, we are facing a crucial decision: We can continue to criminalize our children and groom them for adult prisons. Or, we can invest in programs that help rather than harm them.
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 05.18.2009 | Politics
The American two-tier justice system must end, and a good start would be for the Obama administration to recognize that a little torture is never okay, no matter who is doing it.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics
Though Lovelle Mixon's killing spree is a horrible aberration, his plight as an unemployed, ex-felon isn't. There are tens of thousands like him on America's streets.
Philip Slater | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics
We Americans seem to be incapable of learning from past mistakes. We learned nothing from the debacle of 1929. We learned nothing from Vietnam. And...
Donald Cohen | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics
The real problem is that the structure of private detention and prison contracting creates incentives and behaviors that poison our system of criminal justice.
cnn.com | Posted 03.04.2009 | Politics
Thousands of inmates rioted at the Reeves County Detention Center in Texas on Saturday, the second disturbance at the prison facility in the last two...
Christopher Brauchli | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics
The list of prisoners who have been or are presently at Supermax is quite distinguished as prison rosters go; it includes Ted Kaczynski, the "Unabomber," and Richard Reid, the "shoe bomber."
newsblogs.chicagotribune.com | Posted 12.30.2009 | Chicago