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October 2014

October 09, 2014

Families of Miss. Inmates Pay Protection Money to Gangs and Guards to Keep Their Relatives Safe: Clarion-Ledger

reports: Families have paid thousands of dollars in "protection money" to inmates, gangs and guards...

October 08, 2014

Corrections Corporation of America Wants to Get into the Post-Prison World: ACLU

blog: ...Currently, post-prison reentry programs, such as halfway houses and day reporting centers, are largely...

September 2014

September 27, 2014

“The Hidden History of Black Women Criminal Legal Reformers”: PrisonCulture

posts: ...All of these accomplishments are impressive and don’t even begin to cover her contributions...

September 17, 2014

In Which I Am the Last Person to Read Radley Balko’s Epic Report on St. Louis Co. Policing as Profiting from Poverty

and I'm posting it here just in case I'm actually second-to-last. ...The officer found that...

September 12, 2014

“Doctors Say Arizona Prisons Mocked Sick Inmates, Left Stroke Victims in Soiled Diapers for Weeks”

I post these now and then but keep in mind that this is like the...

September 06, 2014

“Mom Arrested for (Maybe) Hanging Up on Cop While Her Missing Daughter Plays at Church”: Reason

gives this story a much different headline from many mainstream media outlets. Let's find out...

August 2014

August 22, 2014

Friday Link Round-Up: The Road to Ferguson, And Some Paths Away

Hey it's my birthday, let's have some fun! This is a very, very scattershot link...

August 20, 2014

“Another Mom Thrown in Jail for Letting Kids Play in Park”: Reason

I know I say this all the time, but what really gets to me is...

August 14, 2014

“Journalists, Radio Hosts, Addicts, The Imprisoned, And the Pro-Life Movement”

an incomplete list of people St Maximilian Kolbe is the patron of. Whoa. His feast...

August 08, 2014

“Civil Rights Group Blasts San Diego County Over Pepper Spray in Juvenile Halls”

actually way worse than that headline makes it sound! The girl sat on the bunk...

August 08, 2014

“Get Out of Jail, Inc.”

The New Yorker: On a cold November afternoon, Harriet Cleveland, a forty-nine-year-old mother of three,...

August 06, 2014

“The New York Times’s Coverage of Other Drugs Still Doesn’t Cut It”: Maia Szalavitz

at Substance.com: ...Schwarz goes on to describe how deputy/pharmacist Logan sometimes actually jumps over the...

July 2014

July 15, 2014

“The Violence of Prison Searches”

What really stands out is the contempt and dehumanization. Which is how the violence happens,...

July 14, 2014

“The Criminalization of Parenthood”: Radley Balko

again some more: A couple of themes we explore here at The Watch are the increasing criminalization...

July 12, 2014

The Era of Personal Redemption: Sens Booker and Paul Take Very Small Step Forward on Criminal Justice Reform

this is simultaneously heartening, and depressing--every increment paid for with so much suffering.

July 12, 2014

Tenn. Mother Charged with Assault for Drug Use While Pregnant: ThinkProgress

uses an unnecessarily tendentious headline, but these laws really are a bad idea, as I...

July 10, 2014

“Daniel Chong Is the Entirely Predictable Result of Dehumanizing Drug Offenders”: Radley Balko

writes: The Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General has just released part of its...

July 08, 2014

Massachusetts Sued for Imprisoning Addicted Women Who Haven’t Committed* Crimes

*should be "haven't been convicted of any crimes," sorry; also I fixed the link: “As...

July 03, 2014

“Ten Ways Addiction Is Different in America”: The Invaluable Maia Szalavitz

at Substance: We Americans like to think of ourselves as exceptional, the land of the...

July 02, 2014

“California Female Inmates Sterilized Illegally”

through at least 2010: ..."The audit shows systemic failures by the federal receiver in the...

June 2014

June 18, 2014

Prison Resources: From My Readers

In response to this question (and you can find a couple more links in that...

June 17, 2014

“Criminal or Prisoner?”: I’m at Aleteia

on the differences between the two roles in Christian life: What do homicide and stealing...

May 2014

May 31, 2014

“10 Photography Projects on Prisons… Recently Added to the Web”

Via PrisonCulture: ...Mae Ryan‘s series on the Community Prisoner Mother Program in Pomona, California was one...

May 30, 2014

“The Criminalization of Poverty”: Radley Balko

writes: ...NPR found that in the vast majority of America, defendants can be charged for...

May 30, 2014

“Way Too Early to Declare Victory in War Against Mass Incarceration”

from the Brennan Center, possibly via Radley Balko or PrisonCulture: It is far too early,...

April 2014

April 27, 2014

Transported in Time: Hyde Park Barracks in Sydney

So I'm in Sydney, and it's amazing. Beautiful weather (and what I'm gonna call sublime...

April 09, 2014

“Muppets Take Siberia”: I’m in AmSpec

reviewing an actual movie which exists: The new Muppet movie, Muppets Most Wanted, is basically...

March 2014

March 21, 2014

“Parenting from Prison: The Collateral Damage of Harsh Mandatory Sentences”

from the Deseret News: ...Stephanie and her kids were on the edge of an incarceration...

March 19, 2014

“He Turned 16 in Solitary Confinement”

No words: ...In 2009, I and my colleagues at Juvenile Law Center were asked to...

January 2014

January 30, 2014

If Addiction Is Continuing a Behavior Which Hurts You and Others Because You Can’t Imagine Any Alternative…

what's the Drug War? Radley Balko has a must-read roundup of the knee-jerk and the...