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...said James H. Sidanius, a psychology and African American studies professor whose area of study includes institutional discrimination and group conflict. "These things happen all too often, where African Americans are disproportionally stopped by police more than others, disproportionally detained for arrest, and disproportionately found guilty and sentenced to prison...
Bernie Madoff's crimes spawned a global financial meltdown, a wave of populist outrage, books, movies, souvenirs and, now - perhaps - an overhaul of New York's prison system. On July 20, Republican Assemblyman James Tedisco introduced a so-called "Madoff bill" in New York's legislature that, if passed, would require wealthy inmates to be billed for the cost of their prison stays - estimated at $90 per inmate per day. TIME spoke with Tedisco about the legislation's nickname, the "party palace" in a Manhattan jail that helped spark the proposed law and why lawmakers might want to let prisoners...
...decide to christen your proposal "the Madoff bill" now that federal authorities have seized Madoff's assets. The bill itself does not relate directly to Mr. Madoff because he'll be in a federal prison. [Tedisco's version only covers local and state prisons.] But it refers to the fact that right now, he's a poster person for somebody who has gained monetarily by breaking the law - and is going to continue to victimize taxpayers by being in prison for the rest of his life and getting three square meals a day. There are enough wealthy people who have...
...also cited a recent scandal involving taxpayer money and a lavish bar mitzvah staged by a convict in a Manhattan lockdown known as the Tombs. Yeah, that was a situation where a prison was being used as a party palace. Some of the inmates there were pretty wealthy, and officials were bringing special food in for special parties. I think that attitude adds insult to injury as far as how the taxpayers feel about the high cost of incarceration...
...Read "California's Growing Prison Crisis...