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July 22, 2008
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Mother Jones prison coverage:
Bad Investment
Take it from a businessman: The war on drugs is just money down the drain.
Born Into Cellblocks
In the penitentiary of Nuevo Laredo, children do time with their mothers—and the cartels. A photo essay by Penny De Los Santos.
Breeding Violence
Locking people up is supposed to make our streets safer, but it may be doing the opposite.
Convicting California
How not to run a prison system, as demonstrated by Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Golden State.
Death Row Vigil
Photos, audio, and thoughts from the execution of Tookie Williams.
Debt to Society: The Real Price of Prisons
A Mother Jones special report.
First Person: Excerpts from The Beat Within
Personal essays from prostitutes, gang members, and other incarcerated teenagers.
A Glossary of Prison Slang
From "Buck Rogers time" (a sentence with a far-future parole date) to "the monster" (HIV).
Great Balls of Fire
Dozens of prisoners had their testicles bombarded with radiation in the name of science back in the '60s and '70s. Now, they're getting some long-delayed payback.
How We Got to Two Million
How did the Land of the Free become the world's leading jailer?
Immigration Detention Boomtowns
Forget oil and gold. In the Lone Star state, the boomtown business is locking up immigrants.
Incarceration Atlas
A state-by-state guide to who's getting locked up—and at what price.
Incubating Disease
Prisons are rife with infectious illnesses—and threaten to spread them to the public.
Jailhouse Talk
Ray Hill uses his weekly Prison Show to reach out to inmates and expose corrupt prison officials.
Jails for Jesus
President Bush wants faith-based programs to take over social services. But what happens when evangelical Christians try their hand at running prisons?
The Kansas Redemption
In Kansas, ex-cons build lake cabins, weld snowmobiles—and stay out of prison. What's the matter with the rest of the country?
Kindergarten Handcuffs
Five-year-olds in handcuffs, eighth-graders detained for doodling: The prison boom comes to the schools.
Last Suppers
A photo essay by Celia A. Shapiro with text by Clara Jeffery and Emilie Raguso.
Left Behind
Tens of thousands of children have a parent behind bars. What are the social costs of their loss?
Liberty and Justice for Some
Mass incarceration comes at a moral cost to every American.
Cartoon: Lock and Load
We're number one! Number one in lock ups, that is.
Meet The Wonder Twins Of Rikers Island
For identical prison guards Sukari Barnes and Tajiri Swindell, corrections is a family affair.
MoJo Interview: The Angola 3
Meet the Black Panther Party members who spent 36 years of solitude in a Louisiana state pen—and who a federal magistrate now says should be freed.
The MoJo Prison Guide
Everything you wanted to know about prison but were afraid to ask.
MoJo Blog: MoJo Prison Issue Banned From Prisons
We must be more street-smart than we thought. Our list of cellblock slang in the July/August 2008 issue was too realistic for actual prison censors.
The Parent Trap
Caught between the war on drugs and federal adoption law, growing numbers of women prisoners are facing the permanent loss of their children.
Parole Reversal
A surprisingly simple fix for our dysfunctional prison system.
Politically Correct Punishment
San Francisco County Jails No. 7 and No. 8—where top administrators are ex-cons and the prisoners are referred to as "clients"—is turning the common wisdom about punishment and crime on its head.
Prisoners of the Census
Record numbers of urban people of color are now in prisons in rural areas—and the census counts them as residents. Result? A hog-share of federal funds goes to their keepers' hometowns
Prison Guards Go Soft
Even California's powerful prison guards' union thinks more prisons are a bad idea.
Prison Song Playlist
The MoJo staff compiled some of our favorite prison songs by the Bobby Fuller Four, ACDC, Sam Cooke, Thin Lizzy, Johnny Cash, Ice Cube, and more.
Probation Profiteers
In Georgia's outsourced justice system, a traffic ticket can land you deep in the hole.
The Road to Redemption
A prisoner on death row finds that social change comes in small, painful increments, starting with the self.
San Quentin's Field of Dreams
Squaring off against the San Quentin Giants, a baseball team that only plays home games.
Shadow Figures: A Portrait of Life on Texas Death Row
Robert Wallace West was executed the day this article ran. What follows is an unprecedented look into life on the Row.
Slammed: Welcome to the Age of Incarceration
What happens when you lock up 1 in every 100 American adults?
The Unforgiven
Shelley Hendrickson killed her abusive husband and went to jail. Then an old friend began a campaign to set her free—along with 10 other women.
Video: When Your Mother Is Deported
The Corrections Corporation of America operates a complex of concrete buildings in Texas where illegal immigrants are locked up until they agree to leave the country.
What's the Alternative?
Society has to respond to lawbreakers, but it doesn't always have to lock them up.
Why Prisons Banned This Magazine
What did—and didn't—get past Texas prison mail room censors last year.
Prison Resources:
Bureau of Justice
Criminal Offenders Statistics
Bureau of Prisons
A list of quick facts.
California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice
Report and recommendations on the administration of the death penalty in California.
California Prison Industry Authority
An online product catalog.
California Prison Reform
Assessing the CCPOA's political influence and its impact on efforts to reform the California corrections system.
Criminalizing the Classroom: The Over-Policing of New York City Schools
Death Row USA
A report on death row and execution data for all states and federal jurisdictions as of January 1, 2008
Families Against Mandatory Minimums
A campaign to promote fair sentencing laws.
Institutional Conditions and Prison Suicide: Conditional Effects of Deprivation and Overcrowding
A paper by University of Georgia professors Meredith Huey and Thomas McNulty.
Investing in Prison Reform Pays in Safety
An Op-Ed by former California Secretary of the Department of Corrections James Tilton.
A Kansas Case Study
A report by the Pew Center on the States.
National Conference of State Legislatures
A state-by-state comparison of corrections budgets.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Justice and substance abuse information.
One in 100: Behind Bars in America 2008
A report by the Pew Center on the States.
Safe Harbor Prison Dogs
Inmates are trained to handle dogs rescued from high-kill animal shelters across the Midwest.
The Prison Law Office
A nonprofit public interest law firm that represents individual prisoners, engages in class action and other impact-litigation, and educates the public about prison conditions.
Prison Legal News
An independent 48-page monthly magazine that provides review and analysis of prisoner rights, court rulings and news about prison issues.
Prison Policy Initiative
Research and statistics about crime control.
Public Safety Performance Initiative
A project of the Pew Center on the States.
The Real Cost of Prisons Project
Prison news, commentary, and analysis.
School to Prison Pipeline
New York Civil Liberties Union's nationwide system of local,
state and federal education and public safety policies.
The Sentencing Project
Incarceration statistics by state, and sentencing law reform.
The Sentencing Project
The State of Sentencing 2007: Developments in Policy and Practice.
Texas Legislative Board
Statewide criminal justice recidivism and revocation rates.
Three Strikes and You're Out
Provides updates pertaining to Three Strikes law and sentencing.
US Department of Justice
Bureau of Justice Statistics' information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government.
US Federal Bureau of Prisons
The regional offices and a central office provide administrative oversight and support to Bureau facilities and community corrections offices.
US Sentencing Commission
An online resource for sentencing guidelines, resources, and documents.
The Wages of Prison Overcrowding: Harmful Psychological Consequences and Dysfunctional Correctional Reactions
A paper written by University of California-Santa Cruz professor Craig Haney.
World Prison Population List
A report compiled by the International Centre for Prison Studies at the School of Law at King's College London.
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