Prison Nation – HidingFromGoro – July 11 (1/2)

• CA: Inmate hunger strike expands to at least 11 prisons, is latest challenge to brutal CA prison system
• GA: The return of the convict lease
• US: Private prison companies boost incarceration for profit
• US: Defense contractors use prison labor to build high-tech weapon systems
• US: Think before you plea: Collateral damage in the juvenile prison system, a 50-state guide
• OR: citizens will spend $1.3 billion on prisons- and it won’t be enough
• AZ: State to privatize prison health care
• IL: Underwear shortage is latest sign of financial woes
• AZ: Wal-Mart/Martori Farms Use & Abuse of Women at Perryville Prison
• US: Gaming the System- How the Political Strategies of Private Prison Companies Promote Ineffective Incarceration Policies
• AZ: Five thousand new for-profit cages
• CA: Jewish inmates denied court-ordered Kosher food
• NY: The risks of using criminal background checks in college admissions; and here’s the full report (pdf)
• CA: The struggle to abolish JLWOP (Juvenile Life Without the Possibility of Parole)
• US: Physicians call for new approach to address national ‘epidemic of mass incarceration.’
• CA: Prison edict backlash reveals racial bias
• US: Profit motive influences immigration detention policy
• US: In prison reform, money trumps civil rights
• US: DOJ approves counting prisoners in their hometowns- not in prisons- for purposes of redistricting
• NV: Bill prohibiting shackling inmates during childbirth unanimously passes both Houses.
• WI: Senate repeals early-release provisions passed in 2009
• NH: Parents show support for state prison, because privatization will complicate visits
• GSW: First closure of a prison in the history of the state The prison was 102 years old
• KY: Editorial- shutting down a prison
• AZ: For-profit prisons offer little in savings
• NV: Door to finally clang shut on ancient (1862) prison
• IN: Prison plans to continue college degree program
• GSW: A growing burden as state officials struggle to pay medical costs of elderly inmates
• MA: Lawsuit filed after another medical-neglect death of immigration detainee
• CA: Female inmates face sexual abuse, lack of medical care, and unsanitary conditions.
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  One woman had liver disease, with eyes “yellow as a warning sign” and two tampons stuck up her nose to stem the bleeding that poured from every orifice. Henry brought her to the prison’s clinic where, she said, the two were told to return to work. Within a week, the woman was dead.“I watched 17 women die in one year,” said Henry, now 62

• US: Black Women Perceived as “Being More White” Receive Judicial Leniency.
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  Black women who were perceived as possessing a light skin tone received considerably more lenient sentences, and spent considerably less time in prison, than other black women. Other possible mitigating factors considered in the study cannot explain these results in their entirely, and a statistical analysis suggests that data outliers didn’t alter the fundamental results.

^^ these are all from within the past couple months