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Category Archives: Crime & Punishment
Prison Reform Movement’s Weblog: Yuram Abdullah Welier: Profit From Prisoners: How UNICOR Capitalizes on Inmate Labor
“An inmate sews pieces of a Maryland flag together for the Maryland Correctional Enterprises in Jessup, Md. Operating under the trade name of UNICOR with over 100 factories at 75 locations across the continental United States, Federal Prison Industries (FPI) … Continue reading
Los Angeles Times: A New Way to Attack Social Programs: Pay For Performance Projects
Source:The New Democrat Here’s an area where the public sector can work with the private sector and it is in the area of self-improvement for convicted inmates. So they can build up their lives and have a real shot at … Continue reading
Posted in Crime & Punishment, The New Democrat
Tagged 2014, America, California, Ex-Inmates, Ex-Offenders, Halfway Houses, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times Editorial, Non Profit Sector, Non Profits, Prison Reform, Prison Rehabilitation, Public Sector, Public.Private Partnerships, United States
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University of Chicago: Video: George E. Kent Lecture: Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow
. This post was originally posted at The New Democrat on Blogger I do not agree with everything that Professor Michelle Alexander says about the American prison system. And the broader race relations in America, but I agree with her … Continue reading
Posted in Crime & Punishment
Tagged African-American Community, African-Americans, American Corrections System, American Prison System, American Prisons, Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice System, George E. Kent Lecture, Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander, Prison Reform, The New Jim Crow, University of Chicago
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TSFF: Insight Prison Project
Prison education is essential if we want inmates to be able to be successful on the outside. And not commit any further crimes and not hurt any further any innocent people because now they know. There’s no successful future for … Continue reading
America’s Chain Gang: Fifty-Six Minute Documentary
Chain gangs look like cruel and unusual punishment to me. And I’m all in favor of putting inmates to work so they earn their keep literally so taxpayers no longer have to pay for that. Because inmates earn everything they … Continue reading
National Geographic: Prison Economy
Inmates doing what they can to survive and to a certain extent at least learning how to make money. Legitimately through trading even if it is illegal in prison. So they can live as comfortably as possible while in prison. … Continue reading
National Geographic: Prison Nation
Prisons can be a hell hole especially when you have inmates that come from rival gangs. And you house them together rather than trying to separate them and make sure you are working with. Them so they use their time … Continue reading
Solitary Watch: Pat Nolan on Prison Fellowships
. Source:FreeState Now Former Nixon White House Counsel Chuck Colson, after he got out of prison in I believe the mid 1970s due to Watergate, started a prison fellowship program to prepare prison inmates for life on the outside. Both … Continue reading
Los Angeles Times: ‘Life Without Parole is Too Harsh For Young Killers’
Source:FreeState Now When we are talking about juvenile offenders, especially violent juvenile offenders, juveniles who’ve murdered, committed manslaughter. assault and battery, leaving their victims with indefinite damage, raped people and other horrible crimes, a couple of questions have to be … Continue reading
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