7/5 Prisons

Tuesday July 5th, 6:30pm
MU Student Center 2200

Workings of the U.S. Prison System:

The United States Prison System

http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/00342/The%20Prison%20System.html

Summary of the Findings by the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America’s Prisons

http://prisoncommission.org/pdfs/prison_commission_summary.pdf

Solitary Confinement and its Effects

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/30/090330fa_fact_gawande

Masked Racism

http://colorlines.com/archives/1998/09/masked_racism_reflections_on_the_prison_industrial_complex.html

Disproportionate Incarceration of Young Black Women

http://ethnoblog.newamericamedia.org/2011/03/in-post-racial-america-prisons-feast-on-black-girls-1.php

SCOTUS Ruling on Overcrowding in CA Prisons

http://abovethelaw.com/2011/05/supreme-court-upholds-order-requiring-release-of-thousands-of-prisoners/

America’s Addiction to Incarceration

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sam-slovick/addicted-to-incarceration_b_868473.html

Conditions Vary between Lifers and Death Row Inmates

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11179/1156707-53.stm

Alternatives:

Problem-Solving Courts:

http://www.nadcp.org/learn/what-are-drug-courts/models/problem-solving-courts

Drug Courts:

http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/campaign/166311-drug-courts-save-lives-tax-dollars

10 Alternatives:

http://www.forbes.com/2006/04/15/prison-justice-alternatives_cx_rd_06slate_0418alter.html

Norwegian Prison System

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1986002,00.html

Flogging?

http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2011/06/20/flogging_interview

Prison Vouchers

http://volokh.com/2011/05/31/prison-vouchers/