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States Hesitate to Lead Change on Executions NEW YORK TIMES By ADAM LIPTAK When a state panel recommended last April that Tennessee abandon the three chemicals used in executions across the nation in favor of the single drug usually used in animal euthanasia, the state¹s corrections commissioner said...
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California's broken parole system The Sacramento Bee reports that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is looking to save money by cutting the corrections budget, perhaps by releasing as many as a third of the inmates in California prisons because they're non-violent and no danger to anyone...
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Editorial: Early release of prisoners has to be considered Prison costs are a big part of fiscal crisis; controlling them is part of the solution Published 12:00 am PST Thursday, December 27, 2007 Story appeared in EDITORIALS section, Page B6 Print | E-Mail | Comments (6)| Digg it | del.icio.us With...
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As the Prison Budget Goes, So Goes the Budget Deficit By: Brian Leubitz Wed Dec 26, 2007 at 10:13:43 AM PST And both are skyrocketing. That we are unable to control our prison spending will lead to just one more in a laundry list of budget disasters in the coming years, but nothing in our budget has...
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2008 looms as year of reckoning on California's prison crowding By: DON THOMPSON - Associated Press SACRAMENTO -- The crisis-fueled momentum that produced a nearly $8 billion prison-spending plan earlier this year has lost some of its steam, leaving the state vulnerable to federal judges ordering...
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December 11, 2007 New Jersey Nears Repeal of Death Penalty NEW YORK TIMES By JEREMY W. PETERS TRENTON, — The New Jersey <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/national/usstatesterritoriesandpossessions/newjersey/index.html?inline=nyt-geo> Senate voted Monday to make the state the first in the country...
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Adult System Worsens Juvenile Recidivism, Report Says By Robert E. Pierre Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, November 30, 2007; A14 Youths tried as adults and housed in adult prisons commit more crimes, often more violent ones, than minors who remain in the juvenile justice system, a panel of experts...
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Finding the freedom within A Stillwater prison prayer program strives to give inmates a new outlook on what it means to be free. By Jeff Strickler, Star Tribune Last update: November 19, 2007 – 3:00 PM Sister Mary White is on a mission to set every inmate in the Stillwater prison free. She's not...
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New Report Calls for Major Reforms to Reduce America's Soaring Prison Population Leading criminologists recommend shorter length of stay in prison and elimination of prison time for technical parole and probation violations _Read the Report_ ( http://www.jfa- associates. com/publications /srs/UnlockingAm...
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Prison System a Costly and Harmful Failure: Report By Randall Mikkelsen WASHINGTON - The number of Americans in prison has risen eight-fold since 1970, with little impact on crime but at great cost to taxpayers and society, researchers said in a report calling for a major justice-system overhaul. The...