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State by state graphical report on incarceration statistics regarding time served, money spent and the average cost per inmate.Offenders released in a particular year here refers only to first releases in the year. First releases are offenders released from their original sentence, as opposed to ...

June 2012 - Read the entire 65-page report Executive Summary Over the past four decades, criminal justice policy in the United States was guided largely by a central premise: the best way to protect the public was to put more people in prison. A corollary was that offenders ...

March 2009 - Read the 48-page report hereExecutive SummaryStates face the worst fiscal crisis in a generation. Shrinking budgets are forcing governors and legislators to examine all areas of public spending for possible savings, even those thathave been off limits.  Corrections is a prime target ...

Understanding Cultures, Subcultures and Customs Carl Toers Bijns,Yahoo! Contributor NetworkMar 4, 2011 Working inside the southwest prisons of New Mexico and Arizona has exposed me to types of customs that are easily misunderstood, misused or abused thus leading me to bring to the conclusion th...

Jason B. Johnson, Chronicle Staff Writer Monday, December 30, 2002 Antaun Williams has spent half of his 34 years in prison, including a five-year stint for carjacking and kidnapping. Two months ago, he was released for the fifth -- and he hopes last -- time. And this time, he's asked for th...

Tuesday, April 19, 2011 One of the things I did not consider when I went to prison was that I would no longer get coffee. Of course, this was the least of my worries as I was readying myself to surrender, but having had significant amounts of coffee every morning for my entire adult life--the ...

By Ben Paynter  - January 31, 2011 · Wired February 2011 Nothing makes you more powerful inside the joint than a strong grounding in currency arbitrage. Inmates in federal penitentiaries aren’t allowed to have actual money; family members can load up prison commissary accounts, which usually...

Courtney Comstock  -  June 21, 2010 The latest update about Bernie Madoff's life in prison has reports of Madoff's allegedly having a hidden stash of $9 billion, collapsing because of prescription drugs, and much more. Today the NYPost, has an inmate talking about Madoff's friends, hobbies, and...

By Miranda S. Spivack  -  February 17, 2012  After years in a successful career, first as a prosecutor and then as the leader of the nation’s most affluent, majority-black county, Jack Johnson’s life is about to come down to this: Early morning wake-up.Breakfast in the mess hall with fellow conv...