... an educational degree program to inmates at a correctional facility. Some of these inmates will be in prison for decades, others a few years - one even has a father who is a college admissions advisor. The ... this elite program. President Obama has a full plate, but he has committed to doing something about prison reform - much-needed, ever since Bill Clinton took away Pell Grants from prisoners ...

... A little bit of religion could help solve Florida's prison system crisis. A group called smart justice wants ... is a statistical fluke, getting married and having a job," He said prison that focus on these goals have much low recidivism rates and keep ... have proven results and lead to safer communities while keeping the prison system affordable. "We will bankrupt the state of Florida ...

Black Agenda Report - Georgia's Green Party. . . will announce that its major focus for the coming two years, including the 2010 election cycle, will be making a political issue out of black mass incarceration. The Green Party of GA intends to do this by running candidates for the state legislature and for district attorney and sheriff, not just in metro Atlanta, but in Augusta, Macon, ...

... self-interested case as well. In the age of Obama, in a country that will be majority-minority in a few short decades, the Republican Party needs to do something to alter its image with non-white voters. And championing criminal justice reform seems like a much more plausible way of changing how blacks think about the G.O.P. than all the “hip-hop” Republicanism that Michael Steele can muster.

... NM I attended my first International Drug Policy Reform Conference (I'm in my sixth month as a member ... diversity of the conference participants, there were times when the inequities within the reform movement became very clear. As in every progressive movement, there is discrimination ... ending the drug war would be a primary goal of the prison reform movement and an essential step toward achieving ...

... have created over 20,000 additional places, and the Prison Reform Trust agrees, noting in this year’ ... the past two years. Labour deny this has anything to do with easing prison pressure. But the facts speak for themselves. Last year, 11, ... cells. Surely if weekends out were meant to ease prison pressure there would have been more let out back in 2006 when it was much more desperately needed. ...

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U.S. to announce transfer of detainees to Ill. prison CHICAGO — Dozens of terrorism suspects being ... at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will be moved to a little-used Illinois state prison that will be acquired and upgraded by the federal government, an Obama administration ... insurance safety net in their push for health-care reform, as they attempted to close ranks around a bill they hoped would ...

... ? Will counties have the resources to accommodate changes? Is there any way to realize some savings in prison expenses? Prison cost reduction is one of the main reasons the commission was ... State lawmakers need to quickly get their arms around the financial implications of sentencing reform because anything with a significant price tag is going to be a waste of their time given the budget ...

... Act passed earlier this month that - get this - where you will get five years in prison for not buying government approved insurance. Nothing could be further from the truth, ... fact is that the penalty under the House health care reform bill for failure to purchase insurance is a tax, ... Section 501 of the House health care reform bill provides that an individual must be "covered by acceptable ...

... : Life sentence removes hope for juvenile reform." The question before the U.S. Supreme Court is: Do we believe juveniles sentenced to life in prison can reform? Last week, the justices faced this question in ... tough sentences for their crimes. And: The age of a person sentenced to prison for serious crimes must be considered. There is no mold that every criminal convicted of ...

... that deny people health care for having acne. Has the Republican opposition to health reform really fallen to this point? Where it becomes acceptable discourse to equate going to the doctor with going to a prison camp? I don't have much faith in our junior Senator, but even for John Cornyn this is really terrible. I ...

... (2009). Health care and the war in Afghanistan seem to have taken all his energy. Immigration reform has been passed over. It seems than congress does not have the time, or the will to tackle immigration reform at this ... administrative burden and expense in holding aliens for little reason. It would also free up prison space for those aliens who but for this law would be held. 3.Exceptional and ...

In the NYT today, Wesleyan teaching classes at a prison in CT. I know a few of you out there were part of the organizing starting the push (2004 or so?) to make this happen. ... for making it happen. In comments on the article, someone writes: It comes down to philosophy - are prisons to reform or exact revenge. If it is reform, this is a way to go. If it is revenge, make them take organic chemestry.

... place a system which charges families of state prison inmates exorbitant rates to talk with family ... half, making New York State a leader in reform in this area. (Which isn't saying much.) Every state in the union unfortunately has steep ... Treating them with measured and sensible compassion could benefit greatly some prison inmates who will be returning to society. Despite the economic difficulties ...