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The State Worker: California Prison Industry Authority: Agency business costs hurt bottom line
February 07, 2012

Editorial: State must grapple with aging prisoners
February 01, 2012

Editorial: Progress in reducing prison overcrowding
January 20, 2012

Psychologist who allegedly faked robbery, rape fired from state prison system
December 28, 2011

Psychologist who allegedly faked robbery, rape fired from state prison system
December 29, 2011

Psychologist accused of faking robbery, rape still working for prison system, officials say
December 10, 2011

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Prison System Videos

State Prisons Lock Down in Gang Probe
January 25, 2012 | KMSP FOX 9 Minneapolis

Feds Investigating Alabama's Prison System
November 24, 2011 | WHNT CBS19 Huntsville, AL

Prison Programs Let Offenders Get Out Early
November 04, 2011 | WCVB ABC 5 Boston MA

Prison System Wikipedia Information

A prison, penitentiary, or correctional facility is a place in which individuals are physically confined or interned and usually deprived of a range of personal freedoms. Prisons are conventionally institutions which form part of the criminal justice system of a country, such that ...

Sacramento Connect

Layoffs Hit California Prison System
January 27, 2012
Layoff notices have been sent to 545 California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation employees, according to CDCR spokesman Jeffrey Callison.

Hunger strike at Pelican Bay brings to light conditions in California’s prisons
July 24, 2011
The focus in recent months has been on reducing the costs in the prison system. But part of what underlined the US Supreme Court decision was the actual...

18 Counties Take Outsized Share of Prison Spending
July 19, 2011
Not every county uses the state penal system equally. When comparing the number of offenders being sent into packed cell blocks, by similar sized counties, great...

Legislation Would Ban the Death Penalty and Convert All Sentences to Life Without Parole
July 05, 2011
Last week State Senator Loni Hancock introduced legislation to replace the death penalty in California with permanent imprisonment and to convert death penalty...

Governor Brown Signs Honest, Balanced and On-Time Budget
June 30, 2011
SACRAMENTO June 30, 2011 – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today signed the 2011-12 California State Budget (SB 87), dropping General Fund spending to the lowest...

Other local news reports

Our View: Prison fight part of flawed budget debate
June 12, 2011 | AppealDemocrat
Any Californian who wants to know what, fundamentally, is wrong with the way our state is governed need only look at the ongoing brouhaha over the state's overcrowded prison system ...

From around the web

Do not Phone Home From America's Prisons
February 09, 2012 | MetaFilter
Most of this is due to kickbacks received by the prison system from providers. This has led to a marked increase in the use of contraband cell phones. Government recently...

Pig Stickers
February 03, 2012 | MetaFilter
Someone in the Vermont prison system has been hiding a pig in the decals that inmates make for the state's police cars. After only a few years, the cops just caught on. [...

More inmates, fewer workers - are Iowa prisons safe?
December 18, 2011 | DesMoinesRegister.com
There have been no riots or other major disturbances in the state prison system ... Throughout Iowa's prison system, assaults and other incidents are part of the environment...

Hope for reform of California's prison system?
May 24, 2011 | Los Angeles Times
The Supreme Court ruling will force the state to address the issue. It's a start. California worked at it, worked at it, worked at it, and finally, we did it. ...

Community sites could alleviate staffing woes
December 18, 2011 | DesMoinesRegister.com
There are certainly populations within the prison system that have served substantial time and... '' WORK-RELEASE WAITING LIST Iowa's prison system currently has a waiting list...

Latest chapter in saga of dysfunctional prison system
October 05, 2011 | Los Angeles Times
Transfer of prisoners to local lockups was inevitable because voters want stiff sentences but wo not pay for them. The boring, bureaucratic word'' realignment'' masks the truly...

Prison System on twitter

	#SlaveryByAnotherName this is happening right now ! The prison system is a legacy #whoknew Twitter: @kindredthewife
	RT @Patricialicious: Hope ppl take away the fact that our economy,prison system, & politics are rooted in so much of what they are showing #SlaveryByAnotherName Twitter: @unholyglee
	Hope ppl take away the fact that our economy,prison system, & politics are rooted in so much of what they are showing #SlaveryByAnotherName Twitter: @Patricialicious
	@BennyHundreds @Sharlie_Sheen I watched a documentary and it just depicted the prison system as a way of keeping black people enslaved. Twitter: @IamHelina
	Do ppl know that the federal government purchases materials made by the prison system as a way to cut cost & to teach convicts skills? Twitter: @Miss_MRJ
	Sounds like the prison system today is just as racist as it was in 1890. Twitter: @missmarilynruka