Prison Place

LOS ANGELES—Responding to the explosive growth of the U.S. prison population, WB executives announced Monday that the network will soon launch a new sitcom targeting the nation's approximately 1.8 million incarcerated TV viewers. "America is fast becoming the most jailed nation on Earth, with...

Lock the door, throw away the key A mother grapples with the hidden heartbreak of California’s ‘three-strikes’ law By Rhonda Erwin More stories by this author... Ramona Rivera’s son, Robert, has spent many days in rooms like this. “If I didn’t know God, I couldn’t be alive,” Ramona Rivera. “I couldn...

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Mailing a Letter Will Cost a Penny More Starting in May WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mailing a letter will soon cost a penny more. The cost of a first-class stamp will rise to 42 cents starting May 12, the U.S. Postal Service said Monday. The price of the Forever stamp will go up at the same time, meaning those...

Redemption and rehabilitation San Francisco Chronicle: Editorial January 18, 2008 Three years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the death penalty for minors as cruel and unusual punishment, citing medical and social-science evidence that teens lack the maturity to be held accountable to the same...

“Accelerated Release: A Literature Review” by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency is our site of the day The National Council on Crime and Delinquency has released a report earlier this month, “Accelerated Release: A Literature Review” that couldn't be more timely, given the proposal by...

Lethal injection is the wrong debate Ray Krone Monday, January 14, 2008 The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments last week in Baze vs. Rees, which challenges the constitutionality of execution by lethal injection. While the court wrestles with technical issues concerning the Eighth Amendment's...

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...

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...

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...