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Incarceration
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Sentencing Law and Policy
ACLU brings novel lawsuit against Kansas DA for failing to disclose diversion options to defendants
Main June 8, 2018ACLU brings novel lawsuit against Kansas DA for failing to disclose diversion options to defendantsLate last year, the ACLU of Kansas last year produced this report titled…
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Prison Policy Initiative reports on “States of Incarceration: The Global Context 2018” and “States of Women’s Incarceration: The Global Context 2018”
Main June 5, 2018Prison Policy Initiative reports on "States of Incarceration: The Global Context 2018" and "States of Women’s Incarceration: The Global Context 2018"A pair of new reports from the…
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“The Company Store: A Deeper Look at Prison Commissaries”
Main May 24, 2018"The Company Store: A Deeper Look at Prison Commissaries"The title of this post is the title of this notable new report from the folks at the Prison…
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Vera Institute of Justice reports on “People in Prison 2017”
Main May 20, 2018Vera Institute of Justice reports on "People in Prison 2017"Via this web page and this document, the Vera institute of Justice has now providing a valuable new…
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Updated accounting of America’s aging prison population
Main May 17, 2018Updated accounting of America's aging prison populationIn this post four years ago, I spotlighted a notable white paper from The Osborne Association titled ""The High Costs of…
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Mother’s Day review of moms in incarceration nation
Main May 13, 2018Mother's Day review of moms in incarceration nationGrowing awareness and concern with incarceration levels in the US are reflected in the significant number of articles I have…
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Sentencing Project reports on “Incarcerated Women and Girls, 1980-2016”
Main May 10, 2018Sentencing Project reports on "Incarcerated Women and Girls, 1980-2016"The Sentencing Project has this notable new fact sheet with details on modern trends in the incarceration of women…
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Spotlighting modern tendency to invest more in prisons than in schools
Main May 2, 2018Spotlighting modern tendency to invest more in prisons than in schoolsMarc Schindler has this new commentary at The Hill headlined "Taxing our kids to fund prisons." Here…
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“Is There Such a Thing as ‘Good’ Prison Design?”
Main April 30, 2018"Is There Such a Thing as 'Good' Prison Design?"The question in the title of this post got me to thinking about the famous Panopticon building conceived by…
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Bureau of Justice Statistics reports 2016 declines in number incarcerated and subject to community supervision in United States
Main April 26, 2018Bureau of Justice Statistics reports 2016 declines in number incarcerated and subject to community supervision in United States This press release from the Bureau of Justice Statistics…