Full Coverage: Prisons
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News Stories
- Increase in inmates opens door to private prisons at The Los Angeles Times (reg. req'd) - Fri, Aug 24, 2007
- Reports of Squalid Conditions at New Orleans Prison at NPR - Mon, Aug 20, 2007
- Acting prison chief stricken 1st day on job at Boston Globe - Thu, May 03, 2007
- Two hurt in New Castle prison riot at Indianapolis Star - Tue, Apr 24, 2007
- Two prison staffers injured in riot at New Castle facility at Muncie Star Press - Tue, Apr 24, 2007
Feature Articles
- States rethink trying juveniles as adults at Christian Science Monitor - Wed, Mar 21, 2007
- California's model rehab centre at BBC - Mon, Feb 12, 2007
- Illiteracy reinforces prisoners' captivity at San Francisco Chronicle - Wed, Dec 27, 2006
- The Single Hardest Day Of the Year at The Washington Post (reg. req'd) - Tue, Dec 26, 2006
- Beatings reveal O.C. jail policy leaving sex suspects vulnerable at The Los Angeles Times (reg. req'd) - Wed, Nov 15, 2006
- As Release Nears, These Inmates Are All Business at The Washington Post (reg. req'd) - Fri, Nov 03, 2006
Opinion & Editorials
- Prisons break at The Los Angeles Times (reg. req'd) - Mon, Aug 06, 2007
- Zero in on prison suicides at Boston Globe - Thu, Mar 15, 2007
- Prison a wasteland for mentally ill at Boston Globe - Thu, Mar 01, 2007
- Blaming the judge at San Francisco Chronicle - Wed, Feb 21, 2007
- Prison crisis and public safety at San Francisco Chronicle - Tue, Jan 30, 2007
- Prison break at The Los Angeles Times (reg. req'd) - Wed, Jan 17, 2007
Related Web Sites
- Federal Bureau of Prisons
- Includes a weekly prison population report, inmate information, a facility locator, and more.
- National Institute of Corrections
- Provides assistance to Federal, State, and local corrections agencies working with adult offenders.
- Vera Institute of Justice: Sentencing and Corrections
- working to to reform sentencing and corrections policies in the United States.
- PrisonPenPals.com
- helping prisoners find pen pals.
- Jailing the Mentally Ill
- special report that includes audio of interviews, statistics, and a photo essay; highlights the insanity defense, and looks at the choice of jail or treatment. From American RadioWorks, July 2000.
- Prison Activist Resource Center
- Volunteer organization dedicated to challenging institutionalized racism in the criminal justice system. Find information about political prisoners, POWs, women in prison, the death penalty, legal activism, and other issues.