Archive for November 26th, 2011

Beyond Scared Straight -Juvenile Justice Reform: Turkish teen back in court next month over double murder

Via Scoop.itJuvenile Defendants

THE TEENAGER CHARGED with murdering two Irish women who were holidaying in his home country of Turkey last summer is to appear in court next month to determine if he should be tried as a juvenile or adult, BBC reports today.
Via juveniledefendants.blogspot.com

Inmate charged $142 per night for incarceration | Politics

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Riverside County has a new policy that will require inmates to pay for their incarceration. The new policy will start in January, just at the right time to make all the people who get DUIs to pay for their jail time.
Via politics.netsimpler.com

Amazon.com: The Prisoners’ World: Portraits of Convicts Caught in the Incarceration Binge (Issues in Crime & Justice) eBook: William Tregea: Kindle Store

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Amazon.com: The Prisoners’ World: Portraits of Convicts Caught in the Incarceration Binge (Issues in Crime & Justice) eBook: William Tregea: Kindle Store (The Prisoners’ World: Portraits of Convicts Caught in the Incarceration Binge: The Prisoners’…
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The Real Prison Industry

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I’ve long thought the notion of a prison-industrial complex to be laughable left-wing nonsense peddled by Marxist goofballs and other passengers in the clown car of academic identity politics.
Via townhall.com

Michelle Alexander’s ‘The New Jim Crow’

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In an excerpt from her new book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander argues that prison has become the tool to minimize black political power.
Via www.theroot.com

Daily Kos: The USA Is Not a Police State, IMO

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Daily Kos: http://t.co/JGZhZEbT via @dailykos highest incarceration in world,GOP in bedroom?
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Amazon.com: Handbook of Juvenile Justice: Theory and Practice (Public Administration and Public Policy) eBook: Barbara Sims, Pamela Preston: Kindle Store

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Amazon.com: Handbook of Juvenile Justice: Theory and Practice (Public Administration and Public Policy) eBook: Barbara Sims, Pamela Preston: Kindle Store (Handbook of Juvenile Justice: Theory and Practice: Too often professionals in public policy …
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Program That Gifts Electronics To Juvenile Offenders Who Successfully Complete Probation To End

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A Camden County program offering computers, iPods or other gifts to juvenile offenders who finish probation came under fire from county officials.
Via philadelphia.cbslocal.com

Georgia lawmakers poised to consider substantial changes to criminal justice system | The Republic

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ATLANTA – Lawmakers are poised to consider substantial changes to the state’s criminal justice system that could reshape the way Georgia courts are run, overhaul the state’s expensive prison system and even transform the way offenders are sentenced.
Via www.therepublic.com

Inmate found dead in cell at Sterling prison, prisoner arrested – The Denver Post

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Prison officials at Sterling Correctional Facility are holding an inmate for investigation in the suspicious death of another inmate.
Via www.denverpost.com