Tag Archives: American Corrections System

Youth Justice NC: North Carolina’s School to Prison Pipeline

Source:The FreeState If you look at our current prison inmate population, you’ll see a lot of prison inmates who didn’t finish high school before they came to prison, or barely finished high school. If you look at a lot of … Continue reading

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The Daily Caller: Opinion: Molly Gill: Before Creating Any More New Crimes, Congress Should Reform the Penalties it Made Decades Ago

U.S. Senator Rand Paul Speaking Out Against Over Criminalization The Daily Caller: Opinion: Molly Gill: Before Creating Any New Crimes, Congress Should Reform Penalties it Made Decades Ago This post was originally posted at The New Democrat on BloggerOver criminalization … Continue reading

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Sheldon Richman: Crime & Punishment in a Free Society

Source:The New Democrat  Before you talk about crime and punishment in a free society you should first talk about what exactly is crime and punishment and what is a free society. If you are currently confined in prison as a … Continue reading

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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

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Reason: Hit & Run: Jacob Sullum: New Clemency Policy Could Free Hundreds or Thousands of Drug War Prisoners: A Better Approach in Dealing With Narcotics

Attorney General Eric Holder Speech on Criminal Justice Reform Reason: Hit & Run: Jacob Sullum: New Clemency Policy Could Free Hundreds or Thousands of Drug War Prisoners Ederik Schneider on Google+ The New Democrat on Facebook The New Democrat on … Continue reading

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Slate Magazine: Helen Vera: Against Solitary Confinement: State are Finding it’s Impractical as well as Immoral

Source:The New Democrat  The current use of the process of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons is deplorable.  There are no guidelines relating the length of confinement to severity of offense.  The process is used at the discretion of onsite officials. … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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