Washington Post: The painful price of aging in prison
“Even as harsh sentences are reconsidered, the financial — and human — tolls mount.” “Twenty-one years into his nearly 50-year sentence, the graying man steps inside his stark cell in the largest federal prison complex in America. He wears special ...
Daily Kos: Record 346 inmates die, dozens of guards fired ...
shaunking | Full Story at Daily Kos >>> “The United States has a prison crisis of epic proportions. With just five percent of the world population, but 25 percent of the world’s prisoners, the United States has, far and away, ...
Boston Globe: What are your chances of going to prison?
By Evan Horowitz | Globe Staff March 19, 2015 “There was some high drama at this week’s “Second Annual Massachusetts Criminal Justice Reform Coalition Summit,” hosted by MassINC. As an opener, the state’s top judge, Ralph Gants, offered a full-throated ...