New documentary showcases life inside nation's first prison high school

May 1, 2015 No Comments

We are excited to share news about an upcoming feature-length documentary that delves inside the first-ever high school built inside an adult prison in the United States. Filmmakers Richard O’Connell and Annelise Wunderlich have just completed principal photography on The Corridor, a true-to-life depiction of the world inside Five Keys charter school at San Francisco County Jail. The

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State Inmates to Peddle Artistic Works at Second Annual Crafts Fair

May 1, 2015 No Comments

By Margaret Wright A flurry of preparations in a cavernous warehouse on N.M. 14 just south of Santa Fe resembles those for any other fine arts and craftsmanship exposition. There’s the scent of fresh paint and sawdust from workers repairing sections of walls where goods will be displayed. Another crew unpacks boxes of painstakingly fashioned

Some GPS Devices Capable of Audio Recording

May 1, 2015 No Comments

Civil libertarians and prisoner advocacy groups have expressed shock and outrage at the discovery that some Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking devices, used to monitor the movement and whereabouts of many pre-trial defendants, parolees, sex offenders, and other persons, function like cell phones and are capable of recording conversations without the knowledge or consent of

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DAs Agree: Pay for Pre-K Education Now, or Prison Later

Apr 30, 2015 No Comments

By Dan Clark Spending money on pre-kindergarten programs now will inevitably save the taxpayers of Pennsylvania money in the long run when they are not paying as much to lock up criminals, according to a report by Fight Crime: Invest in Kids. To drive that point home on Wednesday, District Attorneys Risa Ferman, Montgomery County,

California: Authorized Possession of Legal Materials Cannot Serve as Basis for Gang Validation

Apr 30, 2015 No Comments

By Prison Legal News The California Court of Appeal has held that documents in the possession of a prisoner who is providing legal assistance to another prisoner cannot be used to validate the first prisoner as an associate of a prison gang. In February 2009, California prisoner Robert Villa was placed in administrative segregation (ad

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Apr 29, 2015 No Comments

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Former Virginia Executioner Now an Anti-Death Penalty Activist

Apr 29, 2015 No Comments

Once Virginia’s chief executioner, Jerry Givens, put 62 people to death over 17 years from 1982 to 1999. Then he had an epiphany that pushed him to use his experience to advocate against the death penalty. Givens, 60, supported capital punishment at an early age. While attending a house party when he was 14, he

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Critics Say New York Prisons Should Educate, Rehabilitate, Even Inspire

Apr 28, 2015 No Comments

By Brian Mann Every year, tens of thousands of inmates cycle through state and federal correctional facilities in the North Country. Almost all of those men will eventually get out of prison. They’ll go home, back to communities and neighborhoods. This morning, we’re looking at the debate over whether our prisons are doing the right

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Should We Let More Prisoners Take College Classes?

Apr 27, 2015 No Comments

By Andrea Brody Earlier this month, an editorial was published in the New York Times from an unusual source. The writer was John J. Lennon, an inmate at Attica Correctional Facility in New York, who’s currently serving 28 years to life sentence for drug dealing and murder he committed in 2001. He is one of 23

UI's Ginsburg Honored

Apr 24, 2015 No Comments

By Noelle McGee She’s always had a passion for helping the disenfranchised and those marginalized by society. That passion took Rebecca Ginsburg abroad for several years, where she was involved in human rights and anti-apartheid efforts. Then — somewhat unexpectedly, she admits — it took her into the California prison system, where she was exposed

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New documentary showcases life inside nation's first prison high school

State Inmates to Peddle Artistic Works at Second Annual Crafts Fair

Some GPS Devices Capable of Audio Recording

DAs Agree: Pay for Pre-K Education Now, or Prison Later

California: Authorized Possession of Legal Materials Cannot Serve as Basis for Gang Validation

Number of Prisoners Per State

Former Virginia Executioner Now an Anti-Death Penalty Activist

Critics Say New York Prisons Should Educate, Rehabilitate, Even Inspire

Should We Let More Prisoners Take College Classes?

UI's Ginsburg Honored

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