Tag Archives: Prison Rehabilitation

The Economist: ‘Jailhouse Nation’

“WITH less than 5% of the world’s population, the United States holds roughly a quarter of its prisoners: more than 2.3m people, including 1.6m in state and federal prisons and over 700,000 in local jails and immigration pens. Per head, … Continue reading

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Prison Reform Movement: Rina Palta: ACLU: Counties Opting For Incarceration, Not Rehabilitation

Source:The FreeState California has so many people in their corrections system as far as inmates. And so many inmates that they are now under a court order to reduce the size of their inmate population. Not by accident because they … 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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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

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VOA News: Judy Taboh- ‘Prison Work Farm Rehabs Inmates, Horses’

Source:VOA News– an ex-inmate at this prison who now works there as a freeman. Source:The New Democrat “An innovative program in the United States is giving man and beast a second chance at life. VOA’s Julie Taboh takes us to … 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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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

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