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Caddo jail population drops
Shreveport Times
CCC houses about 20 percent of the Department of Correction's prisoners, and the state pays a per diem of about $24 a day to hold them.

Connecting with Prisoners and Their World Harvard Magazine Seeking to bridge this gap, Western and others are bringing Harvard students and scholars face to face with inmates and into the disadvantaged neighborhoods that feed their residents into...

"Smart Justice" Reform Proposal Unveiled
WFSU
But, under a new proposal, lawmakers are aiming to change that for eligible non-violent offenders serving the last few years of their sentence. Essentially ...

KJZZ
Glendale mental health court aims to send defendants to treatment, not prison
KJZZ
Our main goal here is to get them stable. We know there are going to be relapses, we also know ...

Program aims to break cycle of recidivism, offer hope for female inmates Helena Independent Record Called the Montana Mentoring Project, the pilot program, which began in November, aims to shut the prison's revolving door by providing support to...

Criminal crush: Increasing number of inmates puts county jail in a bind Montana Standard When the $10 million jail opened in 1987, it replaced one at the Yellowstone County Courthouse — which could house 62 inmates — and was intended to meet the...

Former prisoners need doors to open
Monroe News Star
Pearl Wise works as a supervisor with the Louisiana Department of Corrections' Monroe division of Probation and Parole. She said Okora is ...

Mental health fix affordable
Toronto Star
For a start, a review of the records of every prisoner —especially prisoners of the New Brunswick Youth Center. Then maybe we should demand that prison ...

Escapist Landscape Art From America's Prisons The Atlantic Instead, she joined prisoner pen-pal sites, and asked inmates to send her pictures of themselves posed in front of their prison's backdrops, eventually assembling several hundred photos and...

NPR
The Drug Laws That Changed How We Punish
NPR
In a little town in northern New York called Ray Brook, an old hospital and a complex for athletes who competed in the Winter Olympics in nearby Lake Placid now house inmates.

The Prison Problem
Harvard Magazine
Tracking this group, though complicated, is essential to Western's goal of understanding what challenges prisoners encounter in reintegrating into communities.

The missing victims in a capital punishment story Washington Post While it may be well and good that Jerry Givens, Virginia's chief executioner for 17 years, “evolved” to personally oppose capital punishment [“In Va., an executioner's change of...

Colorado prison hospice program helps inmates die with dignity Longmont Daily Times-Call In the first state prison hospice program in the nation, inmates of the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility in Cañon City are trained to care for fellow...

Federal Judge Rules Mentally Ill Prisoners Should Not Be Subjected to Solitary ...
Firedoglake
However, IDOC had the inmate put back into solitary confinement.

kypost.com COMMENTARY: Common sense reforms can cut the criminal justice budget kypost.com In fact, we have left very few areas of our criminal law untouched by a philosophy devoted almost exclusively to harsher punishment of offenders.” Professor...

Cresson gets its chance to be heard
The Tribune-Democrat
The Department of Corrections confirmed Tuesday that inmates from Cresson's mental health unit have been moved other state prisons. Spokeswoman Susan ...

Study offers incarcerations rate solution spiritofjefferson (blog) Earl Ray Tomblin to ask the nonprofit Council of State Governments for help to conduct a thorough review of the state's jails and prisons via its Justice Reinvestment Initiative — a...