Charging for Prison Visits is Bad Business
We thought we’d heard it all when it came to the crazy ways corrections departments try to save money. That is, until we learned today that the Arizona Department of Corrections is charging people money to visit their loved ones in prison. Acco...
Categories: Arizona, budget, David Fathi, prisoners' rights, visitation Tags:
Charging for Prison Visits is Bad Business
We thought we’d heard it all when it came to the crazy ways corrections departments try to save money. That is, until we learned today that the Arizona Department of Corrections is charging people money to visit their loved ones in prison. Acco...
Categories: Arizona, budget, David Fathi, prisoners' rights, visitation Tags:
Charging for Prison Visits is Bad Business
We thought we’d heard it all when it came to the crazy ways corrections departments try to save money. That is, until we learned today that the Arizona Department of Corrections is charging people money to visit their loved ones in prison. Acco...
Categories: Arizona, budget, prisoners' rights, visitation Tags:
The ACLU’s 12-Step Plan to End California’s Addiction to Incarceration
The Golden State has a problem. An addiction problem. California is addicted to incarceration. We've hit rock bottom, and it's time for an intervention. To help the state break the addiction, yesterday the ACLU of California sent a 12-step...
Categories: A.B. 109, Brown v. Plata, budget, California, criminal justice, Jerry Brown, overincarceration, sentencing reform Tags:
Is the Debt Ceiling a Civil Liberties Issue?
Even if the debt ceiling is raised, hard decisions will be made about which federal programs will continue and which ones won’t. The civil liberties consequences of those choices are not entirely predictable, but some are. We can already se...
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