CA Divests from Private Prisons: Realistic? A Good Thing?
Hailed, and partly for good reasons, as a positive development, the Guardian today announces: The private prison industry is set to be upended after California lawmakers passed a bill on
The Ninth Circuit: The Feds are Responsible for the Health of Inmates in Privately-Managed Prison
Petitioner Richard Nuwintore with his attorneys,Ian Wallach and Jason Feldman, after their Ninth Circuit victory Today the Ninth Circuit decided Edison and Nuwintore v. U.S.–two cases involving the government’s responsibility
From Reproductive Crimes to the Prison Industrial Complex
This coming October, the Hastings Women’s Law Journal will hold a special symposium on family and reproduction in prison, which is incredibly timely. Several important stories from the last few years
TODAY! Assembly Select Committee on Justice Reinvestment Hearing Live!
Humonetarianism and cost-centered criminal justice policies in action: In half an hour, the Assembly Select Committee on Justice Reinvestment will hold a hearing, which you can watch live by clicking
California Prison Overcrowding: State of the State, October 2013
And now, this is how things stood: the cat was sitting on one branch, the bird on another… not too close to the cat… and the wolf walked around and
CCA-Backed Legislation in Arizona Mowed Down by 4th Circuit
Last brief item of news for today: The Fourth Circuit has determined that police officers in Arizona cannot harass people for immigration papers based solely on their appearance. The Washington
Moving Away from the CCA! For Financial Reasons
The state of Kentucky is opting out of private incarceration. For the first time in 30 years, no Kentucky inmates will do time in private facilities. The reason? Savings. The
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
The New Correctional Discourse of Scarcity: Executive Summary
This morning I gave a talk about my upcoming book at the Western Society of Criminology Annual Meeting. Here is the gist of my comments. *** The New York Times
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