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...state to reduce its incarcerated population by up to 40 percent within a two- to three-year period in order to relieve severe overcrowding. The court stated that overcrowding was the primary reason for what it called “unconstitutional conditions” in California’s prisons??conditions that judges said were so poor that prisoners regularly commit suicide or die from lack of adequate health care...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Prison Nation | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

...that, sure, the rulers of North Korea are kinda, sorta nasty, but they get an unduly bad rap in the American press and, in any case, our own leaders are no better. We, after all, have a “never-ending gulag full of black men in our prisons??—so who are we to judge...

Author: By Duncan M. Currie, | Title: The Scariest Place on Earth | 2/25/2004 | See Source »

...obvious step Massachusetts must take to prevent the most egregious incidents, such as Geoghan’s murder and predictable rapes, is to have separate prisons??or at least separate cell blocks and common areas—for the most vulnerable prisoners. Wardens and correctional system officials know the types of criminals and the individuals who are most at risk in the prison system and can simply sort them...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Crime Behind the Bars | 9/12/2003 | See Source »

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