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...case of the Israeli soldier Shalit, however, it is Hamas' own military wing that holds the captive. It released an audio recording on its website today of Shalit, in which a voice identified as belonging to the 20-year-old soldier says in Hebrew: "I've been in prison one year. My situation is deteriorating. I need an extended period in hospital." The voice adds: "I am sorry that the Israeli government has not shown more interest. It should meet the demands of my kidnappers so I can be released." Shalit's only previous communication had been a handwritten letter...
...over whether to close the controversial facility. Neo-conservative hard-liners, clustered around Vice President Dick Cheney, would like to keep the camp open, while more pragmatic officials, such as Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Secretary of State Condeleezza Rice, have indicated they would like to see the prison camp shuttered...
...more good money after bad? The legislature used to pass bill after bill giving the department of corrections more and more money and it never tied the increased funding to performance measures showing whether they were involving inmates in programs or preparing them for release. Under this law, the prisons department is only allowed to build all of the new proposed beds in phases over the next decade. Officials can't get more money from the legislature for future prison building projects until they reach identified benchmarks showing they have accomplished implementing some rehabilitation, education and parole reform programs...
What other solutions do you favor? We need three things: sentencing reform, better prison rehabilitation programming, and parole reform. Part of our problem is structural. Under our current sentencing law, we can send people back to prison for technical parole infractions. [Some other states only order jail time or community punishments for technical parole violations.] So, parole violators just keep churning in and out of our prison system, serving very short terms. We should change that practice and handle very low-risk, non-serious, non-violent parole violators in the community. California could reduce its prison population by adopting this...
...Ravenel, the state treasurer of South Carolina, has been charged with cocaine possession and distribution - a felony punishable by up to 20 years in federal prison. Neither he nor his attorney has made any statement...