Evolving justice-Wordpress Studies and Articles

More articles/studies on our wordpress blogs
most are PDF studies

http://prisonworldviews.wordpress.com/

evolving justice

• ONE IN 100 behind BARS: PEW Study
• Unlocking America- a study for all
• Prison Industrial Complex in Full Flower
• Supreme Court mandates effective counsel for plea bargains
• Life without parole
• What America Owes to Blacks
• sensible sentencing/ june 24 letters to NYT editor
• New Jim Crow

SECOND CHANCE FOR JUVENILES
http://kidsinprison.wordpress.com/

Recent Posts

• Amnesty International’s pleadings before the supreme court in support of Juveniles
• Democracy NOW with amy goodman on the hearings
• no more mandatory life sentences for juvenile offenders -two articles
• Pathway to Freedom by DarRen Morris
• Pathway to Freedom Proposal by Ivy Carter

Wisconsin efforts

• Finding a pathway to freedom for juvenile lifers
  • Pathway to Freedom by DarRen Morris
  • Pathway to Freedom Proposal by Ivy Carter
  • Pathway to freedom proposal by Bridges and Rogers

Court rulings, News, Studies

• Supreme Court rules no more mandatory Life Sentences for juveniles
  • no more mandatory life sentences for juvenile offenders -two articles
  • transcript of Supreme Court decision banning mandatory life for juvies on word
  • Democracy Now on Supreme court ruling on Juveniles
  • 3 articles leading up to 6 25 12 SC decision
  • Democracy Now on Supreme court ruling on Juveniles
• PDF studies excellent
  • THE Prison Industry by Center on Juvenile and criminal justice
  • THE LIVES OF JUVENILE LIFERS by survey by sentencing project
  
  
  REPORTS ON AND FROM SEGHELL
  http://studiesonsolitary.wordpress.com/
  
  
  • Introduction
  • Solitary confinement should be banned in most cases, UN expert says
  • First ever legislative hearing on solitary confinement
    • Talk of the Nation on NPR/ Supermax truths
    • some quotes from Solitary confinement hearings
  • ADX lawsuit /monster factory? two articles-prison legal news and Denver post and links to lawsuit transcript
    • solitarywatch.com looks at lawsuit/conditions
    • 2011 CO bill tried to stop solitary maddness
  • Center for Constitutional rights files suit /Pelican Bay lawsuit article and transcript of complaint
  • Model stop solitary act from ACLU

  pages

  • ADX lawsuit /monster factory? two articles-prison legal news and Denver post and links to lawsuit transcript
  • Center for Constitutional rights files suit /Pelican Bay lawsuit article and transcript of complaint
  • Democracy NOW ON Historic Solitary Confinement hearings
  • First ever legislative hearing on solitary confinement
  • PDF Studies on solitary

  
  

  • toward fair release of the elderly

    • ELDERLY RELEASE BILL: a work in progress
    • understanding the issues
      • 2012 ACLU report At America’s Risk:the Mass Incarceration of the Elderly
      • Old Behind Bars BY Human Rights Watch
      • Helen Strupp Dignity denied?study
      • Search for a cost-effective and socially acceptable solution to the aging prison population
      • The budget starts people thinking about doing what is right
      • Dementia Behind Bars/A Broader Right to Counsel
      • Criminal behavior declines with age and what is “old” in the prison world?
        • ELDERLY SENTENCE MODIFICATION: isn’t it time?
        • Crime Decreases with Age:DOJ
    • Models for all states
      • POPS project for older prisoners
    • What other states have tried
      • another old try:FL Bill would allow some older inmates out of prison
      • old try:Illinois legislature 2007 elderly sentence adjustment act-a Model?
    • National Institute of Corrections Addressing needs of older prisoners