Obama DOJ Also to Back Mandatory Minimum Reform Bill "Similar" to Rand Paul's
Senate Judiciary Chair Patrick Leahy and Republican Rand Paul already introduced a bill to reform mandatory minimum sentencing
Prisons
Eric Holder to Announce Phasing Out of Mandatory Minimum Sentences for Non-Violent Drug Offenders
Because prison overcrowding
Analysis: Calif. Gov. Brown's Prison Problem of His Own Making
Encouraged mass incarceration during his first terms as governor
Researchers to Exhume Bodies at Troubled Fla. Boys Reform School
Try to identify remains at school where accusations flew of physical and sexual abuse
New Orleans Mayor Says City Too Broke To Pay For Mandated Prison Reform, Still Has $50 Million in FEMA Money
FEMA money specifically allocated to rebuild prisons
Amnesty International Blasts Calif. Prison Conditions
Calls them an "affront to human rights"
Two Guantanamo Prisoners to Be Sent to Algeria
President will be meeting with Yemeni leader to maybe send some guys back there
The Case for Prison Reform
It's time to fix what's wrong with America's criminal justice system.
CA Prison Officials Meet With Hunger-Striking Inmates
Strikers are angry about solitary confinement
Al Qaeda Claims Responsibility for Recent Jail Breaks in Iraq
Hundreds of prisoners were freed
Private Trust Offers Alternative to Miami's Scheme To Jail Homeless
Voluntary donations and programs
CA Governor Wants Supreme Court To Block Releases From Overcrowded Prisons
They're good enough, he says
Solitary Calif. Prisoners Turn to Hunger Strikes to Demand Reform
So far 30,000 inmates have begun refusing meals
Prison Guards Fired in Connection with Officer's Death Ordered Reinstated
Accused of falsifying documents and lying to investigators
Prison Ordered to Hire Back Guards Fired over an Officer's Murder Because Everybody Else Was Awful, Too
Incompetence is not a firing offense when you work for the government. Even when it kills a co-worker.
CA Women Inmates Coerced Into Unapproved Sterilizations
Doctors targeted those considered likely to return to prison
66-Year-Old Brooklyn Man Suing NYC For Wrongful Imprisonment
Seeks $16 million for spending a year in jail for a robbery he didn't commit
Feds Order Calif. to Start Releasing Prisoners Early
Under court orders to reduce overcrowding
Lawsuit Claims Texas Jailers Ran Rape Camp
Forced women to sodomize guards, each other
Inmates Rat Out Drug Dealing Corrections Officers at Riker's Island
Investigation took DEA two years
Venue Owner Heads to Federal Prison over On-Site Drug Use
Not convicted of using or selling any himself
GOP Congressmen Attempt to Block Efforts to Close Guantanamo
Restrictions on transferring prisoners elsewhere
