Prison Books Ban: The Censorship Scandal Inside America's Jails
2012-12-23
When Mark Melvin asked his friend to order him a Pulitzer Prize-winning history book, he didn't expect to have to file a lawsuit in order to read it.But Melvin is currently in jail, and the book in question, "Slavery By Another Name" by Douglas A Blackmon, was returned to its sender by ...
ACLU Lawsuit Charges That Jail Policy Banning Books And Magazines Is Unc...
2012-12-23
October 6,
2010
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CHARLESTON, SC – The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a lawsuit
challenging an unconstitutional policy at the Berkeley County Detention Center
in Moncks Corner, S.C. barring all books, magazines and newspa...
'Mother California: A Story of Redemption Behind Bars' by Kenneth Hartman
2012-12-23
BOOK REVIEW
February 21, 2010
When Kenneth Hartman was 19, he came across a drifter
in a Long Beach park and, for no particular reason, beat him to death. For that
1980 murder, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of
parole. There, Hartman proved himself to be the kind o...
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A California Pelican Bay Prison Story Series
2012-12-23
Series on Amazon Kindle by Glenn Langohr
Grapples with the Current Prison Hunger Strike
Monday, January 30, 2012
Having spent 10 years in
prison on drug charges himself, Glenn Langohr published 5 books after his release to bring awareness to some of
the flaws within the criminal justice sys...
Rough justice in America - Too many laws, too many prisoners - The Econo...
2012-12-23
Rough
justice in America
Never in the civilized world have so
many been locked up for so little
July 22, 2010 | SPRING,
TEXAS
THREE pickup trucks pulled up outside George Norris’s home in
Spring, Texas. Six armed police in flak jackets jumped out. Thinking they must
have come to the wron...
The GOP Eases Up on Prisons
2012-12-24
By Margaret Newkirk -
March 01, 2012
In September 2009, Georgia police stopped Charles Canion
for driving erratically and found a bag in his car containing traces of
methamphetamine. Arrested and convicted a third time for drug possession,
Canion was locked up for two years at an average cost ...
Second Chance Act Funding Under Consideration in the House and Senate
2012-12-24
Appropriations Update
Second
Chance Act Funding Under Consideration in the House and Senate
On
April 17, 2012 the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Commerce,
Justice, and Science released their fiscal year 2013 justice funding bills. In
the House, appropriators proposed $70 milli...
Federal Crack Cocaine Prisoners Start Coming Home
2012-12-24
by Phillip
Smith, November 02, 2011 -
Hundreds of federal crack
cocaine prisoners began walking out prison Tuesday, the first beneficiaries of
a US Sentencing Commission decision to apply retroactive sentencing reductions
to people already serving time on federal crack charges. As many as 1,...