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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 10, 2014

Today’s Themes: Gallows Humor and Vodka

A round-up of what I've been reading. "Missouri Considers Lifting Lifetime Food Stamp Ban for...

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...

November 2013

November 13, 2013

“Why Should Thousands of Prisoners Die Behind Bars for Nonviolent Crimes?”: Liliana Segura

at The Nation: This past August, the Lafayette-based IND Monthly published a story about a...

October 2013

October 11, 2013

“The Shame of Our Prisons”

hard but necessary reading: As recently as five years ago, American corrections officials almost uniformly...

October 07, 2013

Working-Class Trust, Monetized Mug Shots, The Bible and Other Children’s Books

What I'm reading. First off, this post from David Lapp is relevant to my review...

August 2013

August 15, 2013

“Jesus Dropped the Charges”

I realize this particular hard-workin' metaphor doesn't work for everybody, but it pretty much always...

July 2013

July 27, 2013

Two Very Different Links About Prison

First of all, America's prison population is finally falling. Via Jesse Walker, I think. Second,...

July 18, 2013

“Will the Great US Penal Reform Tip the Balance for Addicts?”: The Fix

feature: ...Now, after decades of runaway incarceration fueled greatly by the War on Drugs, California...

July 09, 2013

“Heeding Cries for Help from Discarded, Disconnected Young Men”: LA Times

feature--and do read to the end: ...Fifteen years ago, Ruett and Rhonda Foster were grieving...

July 02, 2013

It’s the Feast of the Jailers of Sts Peter and Paul

St Processus and St Martinian, who converted under the influence of their prisoners; they're the...

June 2013

June 11, 2013

Years of Solitary Confinement. Lightless Cells with Plastic Bags Instead of Toilets.

Rats sold as pets? The grim tabloid conditions of "One of the Darkest Periods in...

May 2013

May 14, 2013

“Crime and Punishment: Juvenile Offenders Study Russian Literature”: Washington Post

via Ratty, I think: Kaufman thinks Russian literature is — unexpectedly — a particularly good...

May 14, 2013

“Collateral Costs of Incarceration”: Pew Charitable Trusts

report: Incarceration reduces former inmates’ earnings by 40 percent and limits their future economic mobility,...

April 2013

April 26, 2013

How much of the prison population explosion in the USA is due to the war on drugs?

PrawfsBlawg (a law blog) looks at some numbers: ...Consider the following thought experiment. What would...

March 2013

March 28, 2013

LA County juvenile detainees’ letters to Pope Francis

We welcome their voices and publish the letters that will be read at a service...

March 28, 2013

“Cardinal Dolan Visits Maximum-Security Prison”

NYT: As Roman Catholics worldwide commemorate Holy Week, Cardinal Dolan chose Wednesday morning to visit...

March 11, 2013

“The Party of Prison Reform”: The Weekly Standard

Michael Hough—a second-term Republican state legislator from Frederick County, Md.—is about as conservative as blue-state...

March 06, 2013

“The Conservative Case Against More Prisons”

AmCon strikes again! Although for more on drug courts you could see here.

February 2013

February 22, 2013

“Big Labor’s Lock ‘Em Up Mentality”: Mother Jones

feature: ...Yet whether prisons are public or private, preserving jobs generally means locking away as...

February 19, 2013

“Prison and the Poverty Trap”: John Tierney

in the NYT: ...The shift to tougher penal policies three decades ago was originally credited...

February 08, 2013

“Prisons and the Body of Christ”: Jason Byassee

review of several books; from 2009, but still very much worth your time: I bailed...

January 2013

January 29, 2013

“Bounce a Check? Go to Jail.”

More Reason: The Dallas Observer published a feature this week on folks who inadvertently bounce...

January 29, 2013

“Johnny Cash and His Prison Reform Campaign”

On 26 July 1972, three grizzled-looking men dressed uneasily in suits gave evidence at a...

December 2012

December 24, 2012

“Wait a while, eternity!”

Mountain Goats cover "Christmas in Prison."

November 2012

November 23, 2012

“Solitary Confinement Is Topic for Humanities Institute”

NYT: Mr. Bauer, however, answered carefully when asked if he’d rather be in solitary in...

October 2012

October 29, 2012

“Ancient Prescriptions for New Prisons”

This article is heavily filtered through multiple stages of observation and interpretation. And it's hard...

October 16, 2012

“Criminal Justice, Civil Liberties Issues Missing from 2012 Campaign”

Radley Balko with a must-read roundup post. Balko is such a hero.