bail at houston
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- Published on Saturday, 27 October 2012 07:54
Bail: Reforming Policies to Address Overcrowded Jails, the Impact of Race on Detention, and Community Revival in Harris County, Texas
Johnson, Marcia and Johnson, Luckett Anthony, Bail: Reforming Policies
to Address Overcrowded Jails, the Impact of Race on Detention, and Community Revival in Harris County, Texas (January 17, 2012). Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy, Volume 7, Issue 1, Winter 2012. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2163144
California cruelest prisons
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- Published on Tuesday, 23 October 2012 05:49
Solitary confinement is wrong, whether it's in here or in Iran.
By Shane Bauer
LA Times October 18, 2012 http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-bauer-solitary-cofinement-20121018%2C0%2C1194601.story
The edge of endurance
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- Published on Thursday, 11 October 2012 07:52
Prison conditions in California's Security Housing Units
AMR 51/060/2012
Isolation Units in California’s Prisons – Facts and Figures
AMR 51/079/2012
boxed in
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Boxed In The True Cost of Extreme Isolation in New York's Prisons (2012)
http://www.nyclu.org/publications/report-boxed-true-cost-of-extreme-isolation-new-yorks-prisons-2012
http://www.nyclu.org/files/publications/nyclu_boxedin_FINAL.pdf
Drug rehab called key to avoid 3rd strike
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SF Gate September 29, 2012
http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Drug-rehab-called-key-to-avoid-3rd-strike-3906024.php
Convicts imprisoned under California's
"three strikes" law are no more predisposed to "high-risk
criminal thinking" than other inmates, but are far more likely to be
addicted to drugs and alcohol, according to data from the state prisons
department.
The state-compiled psychological, substance
abuse and education
profiles of thousands of inmates - obtained and analyzed by The Chronicle and California
Watch - reveal that the vast majority of three-strikes inmates, including
those whose final felony was a nonviolent crime, had substance-abuse problems
when they entered prison. Some independent experts who examined the data said
California could reduce the number of people serving long stretches in state
prisons by providing more drug-treatment programs to criminals before they
chalk up their third strike.