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Recent Posts

  • Pardons Board Case Hearings Postponed to August 5
  • Third Circuit Court Remands Prison Society's Pardons Board Case
  • Prison Overcrowding: by William DiMascio
  • Care for Parolees in Michigan
  • U.S. Supreme Court to Consider Constitutionality of Lethal Injection Procedures
  • Human Rights Watch Report on Sex Offenders
  • For-profit prisons
  • Guards behaving badly: Graterford
  • Tuesday's International: No high times in Japan
  • Tuesday's International: Nigeria needs reform

Archives

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Blogs We Like

  • "In the News" by Karen Franklin, Ph.D.
  • Amnesty's Death Penalty Blog
  • Criminal Justice Online
  • CrimProf Blog
  • Grits for Breakfast
  • Habeas Corpus Review
  • Lives in Focus
  • prisonlawinsideout
  • Real Cost of Prisons
  • Sentencing Law and Policy

Websites We Like

  • American Friends Service Committee
  • Bureau of Justice Statistics
  • Criminal Justice/Mental Health Consensus Project
  • Death Penalty Information Center
  • Families Against Mandatory Minimums
  • Human Rights Watch: Prisons
  • Innocent in Prison Project International
  • Justice and Mercy
  • Juvenile Law Center
  • National Legal Aid and Defender Association
  • PA ACLU
  • PA Commission on Crime and Delinquency
  • PA Commission on Sentencing
  • PA Dept. of Corrections
  • PA General Assembly
  • PA Prison Society
  • Pew Public Safety Performance Project
  • Philadelphia Prison System
  • Public Agenda's Crime Fact File
  • Re-Entry Policy Council

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Movies and Books We Like

  • Jeffrey Ian Ross: Behind Bars: Surviving Prison

    Jeffrey Ian Ross: Behind Bars: Surviving Prison

  • Paul Haggis: Crash

    Paul Haggis: Crash

  • Howard Zehr and Barb Toews: Critical Issues in Restorative Justice

    Howard Zehr and Barb Toews: Critical Issues in Restorative Justice

  • T. J. Parsell: Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison

    T. J. Parsell: Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison

  • Norman Johnston: Forms of Constraint: A HISTORY OF PRISON ARCHITECTURE

    Norman Johnston: Forms of Constraint: A HISTORY OF PRISON ARCHITECTURE

  • Robin Casarjian: Houses of Healing : A Prisoner's Guide to Inner Power and Freedom

    Robin Casarjian: Houses of Healing : A Prisoner's Guide to Inner Power and Freedom

  • : Imprisoning America: The Social Effects of Mass Incarceration

    Imprisoning America: The Social Effects of Mass Incarceration

  • Fritz Lang: M - Criterion Collection

    Fritz Lang: M - Criterion Collection
    (An early talkie in German with English subtitles)

  • : Prisoners Once Removed: The Impact of Incarceration and Reentry on Children, Families, and Communities

    Prisoners Once Removed: The Impact of Incarceration and Reentry on Children, Families, and Communities

  • Jean Trounstine: Shakespeare Behind Bars: One Teacher's Story of the Power of Drama in a Women's Prison

    Jean Trounstine: Shakespeare Behind Bars: One Teacher's Story of the Power of Drama in a Women's Prison

  • Frank Darabont: The Green Mile

    Frank Darabont: The Green Mile

  • Joel Dyer: The Perpetual Prisoner Machine: How America Profits from Crime

    Joel Dyer: The Perpetual Prisoner Machine: How America Profits from Crime

  • Frank Darabont: The Shawshank Redemption

    Frank Darabont: The Shawshank Redemption

  • James Gilligan: Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic

    James Gilligan: Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic

  • Demico Boothe: Why Are So Many Black Men in Prison?

    Demico Boothe: Why Are So Many Black Men in Prison?