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• Justice Links: Prisons.
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• As well as information about membership, publications, mailing lists and the journal 'Corrections Today', the site contains details of the ACA's accreditation scheme for standards in prisons. ...   Correctional HIV Consortium Non-profit US organisation providing services about HIV, AIDS and TB in prisons. ... site provides information about the organisation and its work   Families Against Mandatory Minimums US organisation advocating policies that give judges discretion in sentencing   Federal Bureau of Prisons A wealth of useful information and statistics about the US prison population, including: statistical breakdowns, weekly population figures, policy statements, inmate information, and employment information reports as well as reports, articles and other documents   Group4 Since 1992 Group 4 Securitas have been involved in the running of private prisons (including the first privatised prison) and prison escort services. ...   Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons for Scotland HM Inspectorate of Prisons for Scotland is responsible for visiting and reporting on the conditions in every establishment and legalised police cell in Scotland. ...   IQRA Trust Prisoners WelfareOrganisation working to promote a better understanding of the needs of Muslim inmates in British prisons. ... ICPS seeks to assist governments and other relevant agencies to develop appropriate policies on prisons and the use of imprisonment. The site was launched on September 11 1998 by the Prisons Minister, Lord Williams of Mostyn. ...   The IQRA trust The IQRA Trust Prisoners Welfare works to promote a better understanding of the needs of Muslim inmates in British prisons. ... Includes downloadable publications and information about intergovernmental partnerships   Northern Ireland Board of Visitors/Visiting Committee Provides information about the role and responsibilities of the board/committee, and reports from visits to Northern Ireland prisons. ...   Prison News Prison News is updated weekly with all major news stories relating to prisons in the UK. They also provide a summary of the prison population, links to Parliamentary business relevant to prisons, coverage of recent reports from prison inspectorates, and news from the voluntary sector.
• Alcatraz Island Learn about the history and take a virtual tour (complete with sounds) of America's most infamous prison, now a National Park   CSA Facilities Photographs and background information about over 20 facilities run by one of the largest operators of privatised prisons in the US   Folsom State Prison Simple page giving information about the Folsom Prison Museum on the site of one of America's most famous prisons   Gates Correctional Facility Information and images of this Minimum Custody Prison, located in northeastern North Carolina, USA   The Internet Virtual Prison This light-hearted site allows you to nominate someone to go to prison with the knowledge that justice will certainly not prevail. ...
• Correctional Education Connections Site dedicated to reducing recidivism by building an awareness of the relationships between: correctional education and chemical dependency treatment; prisons, families, culture, and communities; and prisons, news media, politicians, and the legal system. A mixture of a resource guide and essays   Correctional HIV Consortium Non-profit US organisation providing services about HIV, AIDS and TB in prisons. ... It offers information on children of prisoners, parenting programs for prisoners, prison visiting, incarcerated fathers and mothers, hospitality programs, prison marriage etc   Federal Bureau of Prisons Library Information about the periodicals collection and using the library as well as the ability to search the library acrhives   Federal Bureau of Prisons Office of Research and Evaluation Information about current and past research as well as advice on carrying out research and useful links   Geese Theatre Company Imaginative Web Site from the Geese Theater Company who provide drama therapy in prisons, for correctional staff, sexual offenders, violent offenders, juvenile and adult, international and national web Page. ... These include: inmate's homepages, classified adds, a writers corner and a front desk and prison issues section for topical discussion   Japanese PrisonsPage dealing with the 'Japanese Prison Industry from the International Point of View', written by a member of the Department of Justice   JusticeNet's Prison Issues Desk Massive source for progressive and radical information and resources on prisons and the criminal prosecution system. ... Links to virtually every state corrections department in the US on the web   The Other Side of the Wall Combination of a Journal and a resource on prisons and prison law. As well as articles, the site contains prison writing, links, a prison 'primer', reading lists, archived articles, courtroom matters and a 'prisoners dictionary'   The Penal Lexicon Outstanding site covering Prisons in the UK and beyond, maintained by Steve Robinson-Grindey. ... Useful US prison information and statistics   Prison Law Page Legal news and writings concerning California state prisoners   Prisons Over Two Centuries A History of Prisons in England and Wales by Amy Edwards and Richard Hurley extracted from 'Home Office 1782-1982' written to commemorate the Bicentenary of the Home Office in 1982   Prison Zone Photography, art, and writing form prison. Site includes an internet bookshop   The Prisons Handbook Internet site of the definitive guide to Prisons in the UK. This site has online examples of the content in the latest 2000 edition, edited by Mark Leech   Security Categorisation in Prisons Ambitious site developed by David Price, a PhD Student at the Cambridge Institute of Criminology   YAHOO! Correction and Rehabilitation The world famous internet directory's prison links Statistics.

• Prisoners on Prisons.
• The Journal of Prisoners on Prisons (JPP) is a prisoner- written, academically-oriented journal based on the tradition of the Penal Press. ... Contemporary research is helping us to understand the function of prisons in modern society; however, this research requires the insight and analysis of people for whom imprisonment is or has been the reality of their daily existence. The Journal of Prisoners on Prisons (JPP) is a prisoner written, academically-oriented journal based on the tradition of the Penal Press. ... Contemporary research is helping us to understand the function of prisons in modern society; however, this research requires the insight and analysis of people for whom imprisonment is or has been the reality of their daily existence. ...
• The Journal of Prisoners on Prisons attempts to make the accounts, experiences and analyses of the criminalized heard and discussed by providing an educational forum in which women and men can participate directly in the development of research which concerns them directly. Readers of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons are prisoners and former prisoners, their relatives and friends, faculty and students in colleges and universities, political activists, prison and community program workers. ...
• This page is maintained by the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. ...

• Prisons and Kurdistan.
• "Torture and Prisons in Turkey" - A report by members of the Turkish Parliament .

• Meet the Distinguished Board of the Prisons Foundation .
• Welcome to The Prisons Foundation .
• The Prisons Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting education and the arts behind bars and alternatives to incarceration.
• Prisons Help Sourcebook and Prisons Almanac 2004 available at specially discounted prices.
• Representative Danny Davis listens to Dennis Sobin of the Prisons Foundation (l) and Dorsey Nunn of Legal Services for Prisoners With Children at the recent Congressional Black Caucus Legislative Conference, Washington, DC.
• Prisons Foundation.
• Notice: The Internal Revenue Service has determined that the Prisons Foundation is a publicly-supported 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization and that, in view of its official nonprofit status, contributions made to the Prisons Foundation are deductible to the fullest extent of the law.

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• Prisons have become the nation’s primary mental health facilities. ...
• With scant public attention to the topic in most countries, correspondingly little progress is made in rectifying the abuses routinely inflicted in prisons and other places of detention. ...
• Our experience has repeatedly shown that a number of democratic countries that are rarely the focus of human rights scrutiny are in fact guilty of serious human rights violations within their prisons.
• prisons, Human Rights Watch charged in a report released today.
• Isolation in Turkish Prisons Continues.
• (New York, May 11, 2001) Recent changes in Turkey's Anti-Terror Law have not ended the isolation regime in Turkey's new prisons, Human Rights Watch said today. ...
• Prisons .
• Prisons, charges that state authorities are responsible for widespread prisoner-on-prisoner sexual abuse in U. ... men's prisons. ...
• (New York, April 5, 2001) The Turkish government must bring an end to the isolation regime in the new high security prisons and investigate reports of torture and other abuses by gendarmes during the December transfer, Human Rights Watch said in a memorandum released today. ...
• Turkey: Isolation and Beatings in New Prisons Must Stop Now .
• The prisoners were protesting inmate transfers to a new type of high-security prisons. ...
• Rights Group Sounds Alarm on Turkish Prisons .
• Prisons and Offenders with Mental Illness, October 2003.
• Prisons, April 2001 .

• TB in Prisons.
• Tuberculosis in Prisons.
• Prisons .
• Tuberculosis in Prisons .
• Multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in prisons .
• Why is TB in prisons important? .
• Some further articles on TB in prisons.
• Prisons.
• On any day, it is estimated that the world's prisons hold 8-10 million prisoners. However 4-6 times this number pass through prisons each year, because of the high turnover of the population.
• Tuberculosis in prisons.
• The level of TB in prisons has been reported to be up to 100 times higher than that of the civilian population.
• Cases of TB in prisons may account for up to 25% of a country's burden of TB.
• HIV infection and other pathology more common in prisons (e. ...
• Multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in prisons.
• High levels of MDR-TB have been reported from some prisons with up to 24% of TB cases suffering from MDR forms of the disease.

• Weight lifting in prisons & correctional recreation.
• Weight Lifting in Prisons: Issues & Laws.
• Laws Banning Lifting in Prisons .
• If you are interested in weightlifting, weight lifting, weight training, powerlifting, power lifting, the issue of banning weight lifting in prisons and correctional institutions, laws banning lifting, the NCRA, National Correctional Recreation Association, correctional recreation, prison recreation, weightlifting photographs, Lee Haney, powerlifting meets, and related materials - this is the place for you !! .
• First: provide information to those involved in making decisions regarding the banning of weight lifting in prisons. ...
• Correctional Recreation, Weight Lifting in Prisons: Laws and Issues and Strength Tech.
• pertaining to the issue of weight lifting in prisons for the purpose of increasing the knowledge of others about this issue as long as full credit is given to Strength Tech, Inc. ...

• Note there is no contradiction between the facts that prisons are both hugely expensive and very profitable. ...
• Turning schools into prisons in Dallas.

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• Alliance of Incarcerated Canadians in American Prisons is a member of theGlobal Governance Webring .
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• Oberlin Action Against Prisons.
• Oberlin Action Against Prisons’ day of prison awareness workshops.
• Oberlin Action Against Prisons is a group that continues to have ties to various communities in and around Ohio. ...
• For the past seven years, Oberlin Action Against Prisons has hosted the Ohio Prison Activist Conference. ...

• ERRI SPECIAL REPORT: HOW STREET GANGS CONTROL PRISONS - PART 1 .
• In the bizarre world of Illinois prisons, Gino Colon is said to be a model prisoner. ...
• It is believed by many law enforcement officials and gang experts that Colon controls all manner of illegal activity that is perpetrated by the Latin Kings throughout the 26 adult prisons in the State of Illinois -- including the ordering the murder of a prison guard in 1989 and running a major drug trafficking ring. ...
• What he will acknowledge, however, is that he represents a very powerful reality about state prisons -- the central role that street gangs play in them. ...
• In order to understand how the Department of Corrections can take back the prisons from the gangs requires an understanding of how deeply entrenched streets gangs are inside the prison system. Experts say that very little has been done in recent years to wrestle control of the prisons from the gangs. ...
• Many cells in Illinois state prisons are adorned with gang insignia, such as crowns, five-pointed stars and pitchforks.
• Most violence in prisons is linked to gangs. ... In the last ten years, 37 inmates have been murdered in Illinois prisons -- most were linked to gangs.
• ERRI SPECIAL REPORT: HOW STREET GANGS CONTROL PRISONS - PART 2 .
• The Illinois Department of Corrections dispute this version of how prisons are run. ...
• Gang leaders do, seemingly, accumulate the best comforts and privledges that prisons have to offer. ...
• However, the cell-house resturant business is nickels and dimes compared to the money that gangs can make by trafficking in drugs in the prisons. Inmates say that for many years, marijuana, heroin, cocaine and LSD flooded into Stateville, Menard and Pontiac prisons. ...
• Most often, drugs are smuggled into the prisons by women working for the gangs. ...

•      Home  >  Bulletins  >  Tax Payers Underwrite Private Prisons .
• Tax Payers Underwrite Private Prisons.
• As States Struggle with Budget Crises, Governments Spend Large Sums on Economic Development Subsidies for Private Prisons.
• WASHINGTON, DC (October 22, 2001) -- The nation's state and county governments, reeling from budget problems brought on by a weakening economy and the war on terrorism, have been spending large sums of taxpayer money providing economic development subsidies to private prisons. ...
• The report -- entitled "Jail Breaks: Economic Development Subsidies Given to Private Prisons" -- is the first such analysis ever performed on private prisons.
• The study finds that 73% of the big privately-built and operated prisons have received subsidies such as tax-advantaged financing, property tax reductions or other tax cuts, infrastructure assistance and training grants/tax credits. The study covers 60 prisons with 500 beds or more each. These prisons, located in 19 states, comprise half the private-prison market. ...
• A total of $628 million in tax-free bonds and other government-issued securities were used to finance 37% of the prisons studied.
• Not one of the dozens of economic development officials interviewed -- covering 83% of the facilities, often with multiple sources -- could cite any formal economic impact study or cost-benefit analysis related to the prisons.
• "Whatever the perceived development or contracting benefits of private prisons, they must now be balanced with a full accounting of their costs," said Greg LeRoy, director of Good Jobs First. ...

• Private Prisons for Dummies: The Wild Ride of the Corrections Corporation of America.
• The Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) is the industry leader in private prisons. ...
• It's no wonder private prisons don't save money, even though 73% of the private prisons in a recent study received a 'development incentive' totaling $628 million in tax free bonds, low cost construction financing, property tax abatements - which means less money for local schools - and infrastructure subsidies (water, sewer, utility hookups or access roads). See Ch 3 <pdf> of Jail Breaks: Economic Development Subsidies Given to Private Prisons. ...
• Yes, that's the Marriott as in hotels and food service because private prisons work on an occupancy rate basis (higher vacancies, less profit) and they have thousands of people who require regular feeding. The campus movement pressured Sodexho-Mariott to divest itself of CCA, but they have retained an operating interest in British & Australian private prisons. ...
• Private Prisons Face Political, Financial Pressure (Reuters/theStreet. ...
• Resources: Websites about private prisons .
• Conflict of Interest: Charles Thomas - on the Board of Trustees for Prison Realty, founder of the Private Prison Institute at the University of Florida, holder of a government post involving the regulation of private prisons and author of research claiming a lower recidivism rate for private prisons. ...
• This page is created to counteract the public relations money spent not just by private prisons but the larger criminal justice-industrial complex.  The US has more inmates per capita than any other nation and we do not need prisons here so badly that we should put up with companies like CCA and Prison Realty Trust. ...
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• The American Correctional Association is an association of providers of services to prisons in the United States. It holds an annual trade show where products used in prisons are shown to prospective purchasers. An allied organization is the American Legislative Exchange Council, ALEC, which conducts an active lobbying program in state legislatures advocating prison programs such as Truth in Sentencing, mandatory sentences, or support for private prisons. ...

• Private Prisons: Profits of Crime.
• Private prisons are a symptom, a response by private capital.
• Welcome to one of America's growth industries- private sector, for-profit prisons. ...
• Prisons for Profit.
• Surprisingly, private prisons are nothing new in U. ... These institutions became models for entire sections of the nation where privatized prisons were the norm later in the century. These prisons were supposed to turn a profit for the state, or at least pay for themselves. ... A series of investigations of state prisons confirmed the tales of horror and produced public outrage. ... By the turn of the century, concerted opposition from labor, business, and reformers forced the state to take direct responsibility for prisons, thus bringing the first era of private prisons to an end.
• Proponents of privatized prisons put forward a simple case: The private sector can do it cheaper and more efficiently. ...
• In human terms, the number of people in jails and prisons on any given day tops 1. ...
• Adding to the overpopulation these putative measures wrought, the War on Drugs-which aimed its frenzy at the inner city-stuffed the nation's already over crowded prisons with a large crop of mostly African-American and Latino nonviolent offenders. ... The huge costs associated with the choice to deal with social problems by mass imprisonment are a fundamental part of the drift toward private prisons. ... faced such an influx of prisoners was after the Civil War when freed blacks, who were previously punished and controlled within the slave system, were sent to formerly all-white prisons. ...
• Private ownership and/or operation of prisons, while an increasingly significant part of the corrections system, represents only a fraction of the "prison-industrial complex. ... This figure does not address existing overcrowding, which is pandemic from city jails to federal prisons. ...

• Leavenworth and Fort Leavenworth have four prisons located in the area. ...
• The majority of those incarcerated in this facility are federal prisoners from the Midwest, awaiting trial, and once sentenced, awaiting transfer to a Bureau of Prisons institution. ...
• State - Leavenworth: 913-727-3235 (click for phone numbers to other Kansas and state prisons).
• Leavenworth Prison Facts Information on the four prisons in the Greater Leavenworth Area including prison population, payroll, budgets, and jobs. ...

• The Privatization of Prisons".
• Our show today: The privatization of prisons. Prisons, of course, used to be run entirely by governments— state, local, and federal— but in recent years companies have formed to run private prisons, acting in effect as subcontractors to government penal systems. How do private prisons operate? Well, in many ways they're not all that different from hotels (rings a bell). Like hotels, private prisons offer beds, meals, television, and, as in hotels, in private prisons the difference between running at a profit and running in the red comes down to this: occupancy rates. In private prisons, in other words, as in hotels the management wants to fill all its space and keep it filled. ... How do private prisons compete for high occupancy rates? That is the issue. ...
• He argues that private prisons compete by offering safe, well-run prisons at a lower cost than their government counterparts. Lance Corcoran, Vice President of California's Correctional Peace Officers Association, argues instead that private prisons compete by staffing up with cheap, unqualified guards and administrators. And Eric Schlosser, a correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly, argues that private prisons will too often be tempted to compete by manipulating the political system; in other words, by engaging in corruption. ...
• About ninety- thousand of those, or about five percent, are behind private bars: they're in prisons that are privately owned or managed. ...
• SCHLOSSER In prisons, close to zero. ... But prisons: zero. ...
• Mike, the notion of private prisons is relatively new. ...
• SCHLOSSER Well, this summer the Justice Department released a study of private prisons that showed there really is no strong evidence that they are less expensive than public prisons. And I think it's very important to say at the outset that private prisons are not a new phenomenon. Corrections Corporation of America in the early 1980s is the first modern private prison, but throughout the nineteenth century in this country we did have private prisons. ...

• Privatizing Prisons Overview .
• Privatizing Prisons.
• The number of prisoners in private prisons grew more than 2,000 percent between 1987-96, soaring from 3,122 to 78,000. 1 By 2002, nearly 94,000 inmates were housed in private prisons. ...
• The industry argues that privatizing prisons cuts costs, but little evidence supports this claim. ...
• CCA advertises that privately-managed prisons can save states up to 20 percent on the cost of incarceration. ... â �3 In fact, some research has concluded that for-profit prisons cost more than public prisons. ... In Texas, for example, private prisons will not accept inmates with serious or chronic health problems. ...
• Corporate-owned prisons need a steady flow of inmates to maintain profits. ... Lobbyists for private prisons support tough-on-crime legislation that ensures the continued need for prison space, including mandatory minimum sentences, life terms for â œthree strikes,â � and sentencing juveniles as adults. ...
• States have used a variety of approaches to halt the privatization of prisons. ...
• Louisiana enacted a moratorium on private prisons in 2001. In 2000, Illinois and New York enacted laws banning the privatization of prisons, correctional facilities, and any services related to their operation. ...
• For-profit prison companies have built new prisons before they were awarded privatization contracts, in order to lure state contract approval. ...
• Requiring standards comparable to state prisons:.
• New Mexico enacted legislation that transfers supervision of private prisons to the state Secretary of Corrections, ensuring that private prisons meet the same standards as public facilities. In 2001, Nebraska legislation requiring private prisons to meet public prison standards was overwhelmingly approved by the legislature, but pocket-vetoed by the Governor. ...

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• Prisons.
• Between these two prisons is the former wardens house, now a museum.
• Other prisons in the vicinity of Kingston include the Millhaven Institution (maximum security) and Bath Institution (medium security) to the west, and the Joyceville Institution (minimum-medium security) and Pittsburgh Institution (minimum security) to the north-east.

• On September 30, 2001, the date of the latest available data in the Federal Justice Statistics Program, Federal prisons held 78,501 sentenced drug offenders, compared to 52,782 in 1995. ...
• 4% of all adults serving time in State prisons - 246,100 out of 1,208,700 State prison inmates.
• "As a result of increased prosecutions and longer time served in prison, the number of drug offenders in Federal prisons increased more than 12% annually, on average, from 14,976 during 1986 to 68,360 during 1999. ...
• 525 Billion by the Bureau of Prisons, and $429. ...
• Federal and State Prisons 1,361,258 (which excludes State and Federal prisoners in local jails.
• Territorial Prisons 16,206.
• "Since 1995 the sentenced inmate population in State prisons has grown 27% (table 4). ...
• In 1990, of the 739,960 sentenced prisoners in Federal and State prisons, 370,400 were African-American. ...
• In 1997, there were 216,254 drug offenders in state prisons (out of a total State prison population of 1,046,706 that year). ...
• In 1997, there were 55,069 drug offenders in federal prisons (out of a total Federal prison population of 88,018 that year). ...
• Since the enactment of mandatory minimum sentencing for drug users, the Federal Bureau of Prisons budget has increased by 1,954%. ...
• Overall, State prisons were operating at between 1% over their highest capacity and 16% above their lowest capacity (table 9). ...
• From 1984 to 1996, California built 21 new prisons, and only one new university.
• California state government expenditures on prisons increased 30% from 1987 to 1995, while spending on higher education decreased by 18%.

• Bureau of Prisons.
• The mission of the Bureau of Prisons is to provide overall administrative support for Delaware's five state prisons. ...
• Historically the BOP has focused much attention on tight security of prisons i. ... These functions fall under the broad umbrella of incarcerating offenders – and are still a top priority of the Bureau of Prisons. ...
• Facts & Figures: In Fiscal Year 2002 (July 1, 2001-June 30, 2002), the Bureau of Prisons received and released over 33,592 detentioners. ...
• Prison Construction: In calendar year 2001, the Bureau of Prisons completed the largest prison construction project in Delaware’s history. ...
• Security Enhancements: The Bureau of Prisons continues to upgrade security and Correctional Emergency Response Team (CERT) operations. ... Additionally, the Bureau of Prisons randomly tests employees and offenders for drugs. ...
• Correctional Emergency Response Team (CERT): These operations fall under the auspices of the Bureau of Prisons. ...
• Escapee Recovery Teams (ERTs) provide the Bureau of Prisons with personnel trained to manage and complete escapee - erroneous release recovery operations within the community. ...
• K-9 Unit: These 28 units provide the Bureau of Prisons with enhanced institutional security and a drug interdiction capability. ...
• Bureau of Prisons.

• Prisons in the United States.
• Control unit prisons may differ from each other in some details but all share certain defining features:.
• In the fourth section, we broaden the analysis to look at imprisonment in the United States as a whole, and we draw conclusions as to the true purpose of prisons. The fifth section describes the state of public opinion on issues regarding prisons, and the role of the media in shaping and maintaining that opinion. ...
• It has thus been inadequate for the task of implementing the even tighter control of prisoners which Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Director, J. ...
• The Marion replacement is one of a complex of four federal prisons being built just south of Florence. ...
• Florence is in Fremont County where more than one in ten of the work force is employed by the Colorado Department of Corrections in the nine prisons clustered around Canon City (ibid. ...
• Many of these prisons feature their own innovations in controlling and dehumanizing prisoners. ...
• Other state control unit prisons are at Ionia, Michiga; Southport, New York; McAlester, Oklahoma; Baltimore, Maryland; Florence, Arizona (Jacobson 1991); Starke, Florida; Walla Walla, Washington; Westville, Indiana (Associated Press 1991a); and Trenton, New Jersey (Page 1991). ... Colorado (Lemons 1991) and Connecticut (Cardaropoli 1991) have control unit prisons under construction, and Indiana is building a second control unit prison at Sullivan.
• Control units contain the most violent prisoners, the ‘worst of the worst,’ who have proved too violent to be held at other prisons. ...
• Control units reduce violence at other prisons by isolating the most violent prisoners. ...
• The reduction of violence allows security at these other prisons to be relaxed. ...
• Federal prisons used to be given a security rating from 1 through 6, 1 being the least secure and 6 being the most secure. ...
• In addition, among the many political prisoners who have been in Marion, American Indian Movement leader, Leonard Peltier; Sekou Odinga, member of the Black Liberation Army; Alan Berkman, Tim Blunk, and Ray Levasseur were sent directly to Marion from court (Can’t Jail The Spirit 1989; O’Keefe 1991) thereby disproving the claim that prisoners at Marion have been violent at other prisons.
• In fact, BOP rules for determining who gets sent to Marion are far broader than the ‘violent at other prisons’ line given to the media. ...

• Tihar Prisons .
• Tihar Jail in New Delhi is, today, a complex of five prisons. ... There are about 50,000 new admissions to these prisons every year. ... Approximately fifteen drug-dependent prisoners are admitted to Tihar Prisons everyday. ...
• In May 1993, Dr Kiran Bedi, the dynamic chief of prisons started the Prisons Reform Programme. ... 's and Individuals) into the Prisons, (b)creating a Community within the Prison and (c)Participatory management. ... The next chief of prisons, Mr R S Gupta, has strengthened, multiplied and consolidated the Prisons' efforts in this area. ...
• This has been replicated over time with the result that four such communities now exist in Tihar Prisons. ... This comprises over seven per cent of the total population of Tihar Prisons. ...
• , Prisons deserves credit for making this possible. ...
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• Prisons ebooks (e-books) links with ebook (e-book) references to the subject of prisons. ...
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• Andersonville: A Story of Southern Rebel Prisons.
• Prisons.
• "The Soldier's Story of His Captivity at Andersonville, Belle Isle, and Other Rebel Prisons".
• "During the Civil War tens of thousands of soldiers died in prisons. ... In The Soldier's Story Goss, a member of the 2nd Massachusetts Regiment of Heavy Artillery during the war, writes of his captivity at Andersonville and Belle Isle prisons. ... His experience in these prisons was of a kind that few endure and live to write about. Although he attempts to relate the tale of horrors experienced in these prisons without exaggeration, he realizes that it is hard to comprehend that men can live through some of the cruelties of which he writes, to understand man's inhumanity to man. ...
• Renowned as one of the worst prisons of the Civil War, the Andersonville pen spread over only 11 acres, with a 12-foot wall surrounding over 33,000 Union soldiers. ...
• "Written by Anthony Keiley, a confederate soldier from Virginia, In Vinculis or The Prisoner of War tells the story of his experiences in two federal prisons during the Civil War. ...
• After being captured at the battle of Shiloh, Geer was tried on the most frivolous charges and subsequently chained with slaves' chains and cast into military prisons and common jails. ...
• "No More Prisons: A Hitchhiker's Guide to Community Organizing, Urban Life, Home-Schooling, Hip-Hop Leadership, the Cool Rich Kids Movement, and Why Philanthropy Is the Greatest Art Form of the 21st C.
• Prisons ebooks (e-books) links with ebook (e-book) references to the subject of prisons. ...

• Prisons.
• HIV Transmission and Prevention in Prisons.
• HIV Transmission in Prisons .
• Prisons .
• 5 million people were released from jails and prisons to communities in the United States. ...
• The AIDS rate is six times higher in state and federal prisons than in the general U. ... (5) No precise count is available of HIV cases in prisons and jails; brief incarceration, limited access to health care, and inadequate health services prevent identification and diagnosis of inmates with HIV infection. ...
• (3) State prisons in New York, Texas, Florida, and California reported more than half of the confirmed AIDS cases in all 50 state prisons. ...
• HIV seroprevalence reported by the 50 state prison systems and the federal prisons in 1999 was 2. ...
• Through March 1994, 93% of CDC-defined AIDS patients in New York's prisons were inmates with histories of injection drug use. ...
• A report from Maryland of 888 AIDS cases identified in the state's prisons noted that 91% were African American, versus 75% statewide. ...
• HIV seroprevalence in state prisons nationwide has dropped slightly from 4. ...
• inmates known to be HIV infected were in New York State's prisons. ...
• Prisons in other nations first reported AIDS cases several years after the United States. ...
• HIV Transmission in Prisons.
• Sexual activity between male inmates is not uncommon in prisons and jails. A Federal Bureau of Prisons study in 1982 reported that 30% of federal prison inmates engaged in homosexual activity while incarcerated. ...

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