More From Jerry: Federal Prison Oversight a Waste of Money?
Photo credit Randall Benton for the Sac Bee. After Governor Brown’s public comments about attorney’s fees for inmate rights’ litigators – on which we had plenty to say here and on
Book Review: Prison Profiteers, Edited by Tara Herivel and Paul Wright
Many books and articles decrying mass imprisonment use the term “prison industrial complex”, and many of us know that it refers to the financial aspects of incarcerating a population of
What’s Cheaper: Litigating or Realigning?
Today brings with it an interesting financial gripe: Governor Brown’s concern with the money made by private law firms representing inmates in prison conditions litigation. ABC News Report: A tally
Book Review: Golden Gulag by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
So many great books have come out in the 21st century examining the genesis of mass incarceration; we’ve discussed many of them here. While many of these books look at
Inside the Belly of the Beast: Correctional Corporation of America and the Recession
Much of what we’ve written about this year has to do with the scaling back of the punitive project because it has become financially unsustainable. We have come to call
CCC Endorsements 2012: YES on 34. NO on 35. YES on 36.
In two weeks, California voters will be offered the opportunity to vote on three criminal justice initiatives: Prop 34, which would replace the death penalty with life without parole; Prop
Bringing Out-Of-State Inmates Home
A story published this summer on the California Watch examined the possibility of bringing back 9,500 California inmates currently serving their term in private institutions run by Correctional Corporation of America
“Smart on Crime”: Retreating from Punitive Discourse Citing Financial Prudence
In the decades prior to the financial crisis, as Jonathan Simon writes in Governing Through Crime, no politician, regardless of party affiliation, could afford to sound “soft on crime.” Propositions running
Sending the Incarceration Bill to Inmates
Image courtesy http://inmade.deviantart.com. The most marked feature of the fiscal crisis on the correctional landscape has been a decline in the overall punitive discourse, policies, and technologies. States are giving
Private Prison Management Offers to Buy Prisons in Exchange for Occupancy Rates
Our four-year foray into the changes in correctional policies since the fiscal crisis has taught us that various states are scaling back their correctional apparatus to respond to money difficulties.