Prison Reform Has Become A Conservative Initiative

Liberals have often cited the need for criminal justice reform. However, it is conservatives that appear to making more ...
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Local advocates push for prison reform bills to protect inmates and reduce sentences

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – A local grassroots organization, Center for Community Alternatives, is advocating for the passage of three prison reform bills aimed at protecting inmates. “The first bill is the ...
The Hill

Prison contracts should reward results, not occupancy rates

Across the country, states are taking back prisons once run by private companies. Oklahoma just bought the Lawton facility for $312 million, ending its last private prison contract. New Mexico is ...
Law

Prison Guard Murder Conviction Highlights Need for Large-Scale Reform

In response to the Oct. 20 verdict finding a state corrections officer guilty of murder and other related incidents, trial attorney Eric Subin discusses the need for changes in the prison system and ...
Argus Leader

Prison reform group will hear public comment and plans for seminary program, drug treatment

Members of a Correctional Rehabilitation Task Force plan to talk through South Dakota’s options for a prison seminary program, learn more about behavioral health at a soon-to-open Rapid City women’s ...
Dayton Daily News

Hundreds of Ohio prisoners could lose access to education under House-passed prison reform bill

Several hundred inmates in Ohio’s high security prisons would lose access to Sinclair Community College’s educational offerings if a GOP prison reform bill makes it way into law, and many more of the ...