http://www.laprogressive.com/law-and-the-justice-system/black-men-prison-system/
― timbo slice (D-40), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 05:48 (thirteen years ago) link
health, wealth and happiness
http://www.nonijuice.us/
― Fail Deslongchamps (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 06:02 (thirteen years ago) link
harbl bait
― bamcquern, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Or she might yawn and be all btdt
lol
― Secrets will not Block Justice (harbl), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 20:50 (thirteen years ago) link
harbl i have srs qs about this stuff & want to learn more should i just read the book mentioned in the article or do u have some pro tips or
― timbo slice (D-40), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 21:44 (thirteen years ago) link
i read the book, seemed like a pretty good intro and prob has more stuff recommended in bibliographythere is this book i read 6 years ago called "prison nation: the warehousing of america's poor" that iirc was good, it was like an anthology so you could pick and choose anyway. should be in library though i can't see the paperback on amazon anymore.
― Secrets will not Block Justice (harbl), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
bookmarked
― FUN FUN FUN FUN (gbx), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 21:55 (thirteen years ago) link
gbx you started this thread before and i gave you books to read but i don't know where it is, please find it
― Secrets will not Block Justice (harbl), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 21:57 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.amazon.com/Prison-Nation-Warehousing-Americas-Poor/dp/0415935385 - paperback is $33. Hardback is nuts - must be used as a textbook or something?
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 22:02 (thirteen years ago) link
thread of prison and the american justice system
― buzza, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 22:11 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i don't know why it's $33, could be because there's a lot of reprints from journals/magazines. i got it from public library.
― Secrets will not Block Justice (harbl), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 22:15 (thirteen years ago) link
is harbl a warden
― ℳℴℯ ❤\(◕‿◕✿ (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 31 March 2011 06:38 (thirteen years ago) link
ny book review has put up at least a couple pretty informative (for me, a fairly uninformed person in this field or whatever) articles about prison rape this year, probably all still free through their website
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 31 March 2011 07:05 (thirteen years ago) link
x-post - no, she's a lawyer
I'm going to get the books H recommended. This is really interesting to me because of the kids I worked with last year. All of the males had either been in prison before or talked about it as if it was nbd and almost inevitable that they'd wind up there at some point.
― ENBB, Thursday, 31 March 2011 10:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Which, in many cases, is probably was.
― ENBB, Thursday, 31 March 2011 10:51 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2012/05/louisiana_is_the_worlds_prison.html
― s.clover, Monday, 4 June 2012 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1049248.ece
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Monday, 4 June 2012 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
http://jacobinmag.com/spring-2012/against-law-for-order/
― flopson, Monday, 4 June 2012 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
― ℳℴℯ ❤\(◕‿◕✿ (Princess TamTam), Thursday, March 31, 2011 2:38 AM
― shit_ebooks (am0n), Monday, 4 June 2012 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
i'm a game warden
― kneel aurmstrong (harbl), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 00:21 (eleven years ago) link
By 1983, Beasley was convinced that the application of a few simple business practices could transform the corrections system from an inefficient bureaucracy into a profitable enterprise. He recruited his former West Point roommate, Doctor ("Doc") Crants, as well as Terrell Don Hutto to help bring the concept into being. The troika's talents and experience melded excellently. Beasley had vital political connections. Crants brought an M.B.A. and a law degree, both earned at Harvard, to the table. Hutto possessed sterling corrections credentials, having not only directed two state prison systems, but also served as president of the American Correctional Association.
The threesome presented their prison privatization concept to Massey Burch Investment Group, a venture capital firm, on February 14, 1983. The investment company (which had also backed Kentucky Fried Chicken and Hospital Corp. of America) floated the partners $500,000 after a mere 15-minute presentation. The founders and their financial sponsors envisioned a "market" ripe for growth: though the crime rate had actually been declining, the U.S. inmate population doubled from 1975 to 1984 and tough new sentencing laws promised ever-greater volume. "We're on the ground floor of a multibillion-dollar industry," Beasley gushed to Financial World in 1985.
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Friday, 22 June 2012 07:54 (eleven years ago) link
Any recommended reading about CCA?
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Friday, 22 June 2012 13:29 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.salon.com/2013/09/25/what_prisoners_in_solitary_want_to_see/
― Mordy , Wednesday, 25 September 2013 23:35 (ten years ago) link
Johnny asked for a photo of a very specific Jennifer Lopez music video—the one with her ex-boyfriend Ben Affleck on a boat, with her butt showing
feel like this is only one step away from asking for a skyrim screenshot
― ogmor, Thursday, 26 September 2013 00:02 (ten years ago) link
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/02/private-prison-racket-103893.html#.UwwF2_247wI
In October, when California Governor Jerry Brown signed a new contract with Corrections Corporation of America, a Nashville-based private prison behemoth, to open a prison in the desert 100 miles north of Los Angeles, onlookers might’ve wondered if he’d been following the news.The same could be asked of Wall Street in general. Over the last five years, CCA’s stock price has increased by more than 200 percent and earlier this month Jim Cramer’s investment website The Street praised the company’s “strengths” on Wall Street, enthusiastically rating its stock a “buy.”As inmate populations have soared over the last 30 years, private prisons have emerged as an appealing solution to cash-starved states. Privately run prisons are cheaper and can be set up much faster than those run by the government. Nearly a tenth of all U.S. prisoners are housed in private prisons, as are almost two-thirds of immigrants in detention centers—and the companies that run them have cashed in. CCA, the oldest and largest modern private prison company, took over its first facility in 1983. Now it’s a Wall Street darling with a market cap of nearly $3.8 billion. Similarly, GEO Group, the second largest private-prison operator, last week reported $1.52 billion in revenue for 2013, its most ever and more than a hundredfold increase since the company went public ten years ago.But while privatizing prisons may appear at first glance like yet another example of how the free market beats the public sector, one need only look at CCA’s record in Idaho—which recently cancelled its contract with CCA—to wonder whether outsourcing this particular government function is such a good idea.
No, not a good idea.
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 02:56 (ten years ago) link
suede denim privatized secret police
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 03:12 (ten years ago) link
So gross!!
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 03:40 (ten years ago) link
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/13/emails-reveal-mi-prisoners-assaulted-by-food-service-contractors-served-maggot-laden-food/
― 龜, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 14:08 (nine years ago) link
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Monday, February 24, 2014 9:40 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 14:15 (nine years ago) link
A tough cell: US to defend solitary confinement use before UN
On Nov. 12 and 13, the practice of holding incarcerated people in prolonged isolation will come under international scrutiny when the U.S. government goes before the United Nations Committee Against Torture in Geneva, part of a periodic review to assess the country’s compliance with the Convention Against Torture and the first U.S. review under Barack Obama’s administration.This year the 10-person U.N. committee has repeated its concerns about imposing prolonged isolation on prisoners. In a list of issues to be addressed with the U.S. — including the use of secret detention facilities, Guantánamo Bay and the use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” — the committee has asked the government to “describe steps taken to improve the extremely harsh regime imposed on detainees in ‘Supermax security prisons,’ in particular the practice of prolonged isolation.”
This year the 10-person U.N. committee has repeated its concerns about imposing prolonged isolation on prisoners. In a list of issues to be addressed with the U.S. — including the use of secret detention facilities, Guantánamo Bay and the use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” — the committee has asked the government to “describe steps taken to improve the extremely harsh regime imposed on detainees in ‘Supermax security prisons,’ in particular the practice of prolonged isolation.”
― Walter MIDI (Crabbits), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 16:47 (nine years ago) link
Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside America's Prisons.
― Walter MIDI (Crabbits), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 16:48 (nine years ago) link
Pa. Judge Sentenced To 28 Years In Massive Juvenile Justice Bribery Scandal
― sleeve, Sunday, 30 August 2015 06:11 (eight years ago) link
2011?
― computer champion (harbl), Sunday, 30 August 2015 12:23 (eight years ago) link
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/department-justice-plans-end-private-prison
― Silence, followed by unintelligible stammering. (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 18 August 2016 17:26 (seven years ago) link
yeah I bumped another thread but this seems like the better thread in which to discuss. Good news. Hope states follow suit.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Thursday, 18 August 2016 17:33 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CqJyB2NW8AEsKf9.jpg
― how's life, Thursday, 18 August 2016 19:24 (seven years ago) link
didn't know where else to post this
http://www.gq.com/story/buried-alive-solitary-confinement
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, 3 March 2017 22:01 (seven years ago) link
this is of course an idea that seems like generations away from being seriously considered in this country, if at all, but it's something worth starting a conversation about
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/2/12/18184070/maximum-prison-sentence-cap-mass-incarceration
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 12 February 2019 22:50 (five years ago) link
i agree. there is not enough talk about penalties for violent crimes. people get offended, because there is also not enough knowledge about what a violent crime means. some of them are quite petty ime. some of them are very horrible. they are not all the same.
anyway i clicked that and read it sort of but i was imagining something like a salary cap. like each prosecutor's office must cap the number of years all people are sentenced to in a given time period. what an idea!
― forensic plumber (harbl), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 23:42 (five years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/magazine/prison-abolition-ruth-wilson-gilmore.html
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 15:44 (five years ago) link
and on another note, good thread here:
Malcolm Rifkind in @FT, "Private Prisons have been a serious moral mistake". Ends with this "Incarceration should be administered by servants of the state & not by private companies in Britain or elsewhere, regardless of efficiency or cost effectiveness": https://t.co/x5ZDuTOKBh— Sanjay G Reddy (@sanjaygreddy) April 17, 2019
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 15:46 (five years ago) link
“The Special Report notes that the number of people held in solitary confinement in the United States ballooned to an estimated 300,000 people in April, as compared to an estimated 60,000 people held in solitary confinement each day prior to the outbreak.” https://t.co/JT08MY4sIp— Marking Time (@MarkingTime6) June 15, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 21 June 2020 21:09 (three years ago) link
Really good piece.
https://newrepublic.com/article/165112/sirhan-gavin-newsom-prison-release
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 12 February 2022 17:24 (two years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/21/new-york-jail-chinatown-rikers-island
― rob, Monday, 21 August 2023 15:03 (eight months ago) link
Is it, as opponents say, an ugly symbol of mass incarceration – or, as planners believe, a sign of a city slowly but surely righting its criminal justice ills?
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quality journalism
― budo jeru, Monday, 21 August 2023 15:12 (eight months ago) link