Blogs Posts on "Prisons"

Swiss privacy watchdog to sue Google Street View by Take A Plunge on Nov 14, 2009Google is facing a problem here with its drive to map and photograph the world. It is facing a hard time from Switzerland’s strict tradition of personal privacy. According to the announcement by Switzerland’s privacy watchdog, it is going...

by Everything is better on a stick on Nov 13, 2009A waste of time and money?This is going back, sort of, to my earlier post about consequences but here I am going to show you what has happened because of the lack of consequences.By the end of 2006 roughly 1 in every 31 adults in the United States wa...

Comply with Pelois Healthcare Plan or Go to Jail by ARRA News Service on Nov 8, 2009H/T Boot Berry - by Publius, BigGovernment.com: Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual...

Reviewed Elsewhere [Vol. 2, #43] by The Englewood Review of Books on Nov 6, 2009tweetmeme_url = "http://erb.kingdomnow.org/reviewed-elsewhere-vol-2-43/"; tweetmeme_source = "tweetmeme"; The NY Review of Books Reviews Three Recent Books on Prisons http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23382 1. With approximately 2.3 million peo...

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT by Socialist Unity on Nov 5, 2009Louise over at the Harpy Marx blog can be relied upon to consistently champion the poor and disadvantaged, and although it is unfashionable on the left nowadays she is very dogged in her commitment to those who suffer in the criminal justice system.

Goddamned Denver Marathon organizers design the greatest mousetrap in goddamned traffic history by Scholars & Rogues on Oct 18, 2009You know how every once in awhile somebody will plow a car into a crowd of people? I think I now understand why. Every Sunday morning we go to brunch in Denver. There are lots of great spots and we sort of rotate between them. Today we were going to...

More veterans in justice system than soldiers serving in Afghanistan by Fitaloon at Microshaft on Sep 24, 2009Guardian reports on the fact that over 20,000 veterans are in the criminal justice systems with almost 8,5000 behind bars, almost one in 10 of the prison population and about the same number as are currently serving in Afghanistan. The proportion of...

Cell Dectection to Stop Illicit Cells in Prison Demoed, CTIA Pleased by The Mobile Fun Blog on Sep 5, 2009CTIA-The Wireless Association, President and CEO Steve Largent issued astatement in response to the State of Maryland’s demonstration of cell detection and managed access technology to end contraband cell phone use in prisons.

California Can Cut Corrections Spending Without Releasing Inmates by The Policy Report on Aug 21, 2009Yesterday the California State Senate, considered the more contentious house of the California State government, narrowly passed a proposal by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to release 27,000 inmate from prisons at a cost savings of $1.2 m...

Prisoners Hiding Stuff on their Bodies by Planck's Constant on Aug 16, 2009I have at least three stories to tell about prisoners hiding contraband upon their persons but never ran across a news item I could segue from. Finally last week I read a story about an obese Texas inmate who sneaked in a gun hidden within the fatty...