A report on a Nebraska prison inmate rehabilitation program found that social support is more important to living a crime-free life than programs focused on changing one’s behavior.
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Boudin, a member of the radical Weather Underground, was imprisoned for 22 years for her role in the fatal 1981 holdup of a Brink’s armored truck. The mother of current San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin, she had worked in programs helping ex-incarcerees reenter civilian life after her release on parole.
Data on prisons, jails. probation, and parole populations since the pandemic show that change is possible under pressure, reports the Prison Policy Initiative. But can it be sustained?
A Michigan committee seeking to restore “good time” prison credits has stopped its effort challenging the state’s signature collection threshold after realizing it had far fewer signatures than it originally reported.
Alex Friedmann, former managing editor of Prison Legal News, is facing a federal charge after allegedly hiding pistols and escape tools in a detention center under construction in Nashville.
Bill Lapinskas spent 26 years working at Alaska’s only maximum-security prison, the last three as its superintendent. He quit after receiving orders to roll back a program designed to prepare prisoners for release.
In a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) and state civil rights groups described the Mississippi prison system as being in a “state of acute and undeniable crisis.” How will a new governor and conservative state legislature respond?
A University of Georgia theatrical performance, “By Our Hands,” aims to spark a dialogue about incarceration and prison reform through art. Among the writers, composers, and choreographers are young incarcerated students.
“The people in Oklahoma are not more criminogenic than the people in other states, and yet we have the highest incarceration rates,” said Kris Steele of Oklahomans for Criminal Justice Reform. The state legislature largely failed to act on the issue this year.
As Democratic presidential contenders squared off last week, a TCR columnist said “reimagining” the US prison system was among the few issues that had potential for winning bipartisan support.