Detention Ministry News: opinion

Showing posts with label opinion. Show all posts

Showing posts with label opinion. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Opinon: 5/15/2007

Imprisonment of Juveniles: Harsh and Ineffective (Georgian Repbublic) - Nino Gelashvili and Mariam Khotenashvili, Daily Georgian News
California Prisons, Post-Partisanship, and the Death of Democracy - Laura Magnani, California Progress Report

Sunday, May 13, 2007

Opinion: 5/13/2007 (Weekend)

Leaders Face Tough Choice With California Prison Overcrowding, Flunk The Test - Rich McKone, NewsBlaze
So many jailed, and the key of compassion thrown away (Australia) - Peter Jensen, Sydney Morning Herald
Too many people in state prisons (Alabama) - Ronald Fraser, Huntsville Times
Better policies, not bigger prisons (Massachusetts) - editorial, MetroWest

Friday, May 11, 2007

Opinion: 5/11/2007

Taking care of our own (California) - editorial, San Francisco Chronicle
Curb HIV infection rates in Texas prisons - Joe Amon and Megan McLemore, Human Rights Watch, Austin American-Statesman
What the US can learn from others (China) - editorial, People's Daily Online
Juvenile Injustice (New York) - editorial, New York Times

Monday, May 7, 2007

Opinion: 5/7/2007

Mental health system failing (Indiana) - Kathleen Bayes, Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Coming to a neighborhood near you (California) - editorial, Orange County Register
Preventing the Ministry of Justice causing injustice (UK) - David Pannick, Times Online
Don't let Utah's jails evolve into discount motel (Utah) - Jay Evenson, Deseret News
State panel says drug courts work (New Jersey) - Lawrence Aaron, NorthJersey.com
Hearing for AB 1539 - Sick and Dying Prisoners Needs a Crowd (California) - B. Cayenne Bird, American Chronicle
America should believe in a second chance (Louisiana) - Congressman Danny K. Davis (D-Ill.), Louisiana Weekly

Friday, May 4, 2007

Opinon: 5/4/2007

As We See It: Prison deal only a start (California) - editorial, Santa Cruz Sentinel
Stealth giveaway (Florida) - editorial, Bradenton Herald
GATHERING PLACE (Hawaii)
Shut Down Juvenile Centers (California) Tommi Avicolli Mecca, BeyondChron
Who is Keeping Tabs on Bushite Profiteering Prison Corporations? - Pete Bagnolo, OpEdNews

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Opinion

Prison deal won't do the job (California) - editorial, North County Times
Will Schwarzenegger's new death chamber actually help inmates? (California) - Sara Cantania, Salon
Housing, job limits can’t keep predatory sex offenders away (Alabama) - editorial, Tuscaloosa News

Saturday, April 28, 2007

Opinion: 4/28/2007 (Weekend)

Spending more cash on California prisons not enough - editorial, San Jose Mercury News
SJ will take no prisoners (California) - Michael Fitzgerald, Stockton Record
Roundup on Prison Deal (California) - Capitol Basement
Prisons: a costly growth industry (Arizona) - editorial, Tuscon Citizen
Prisons and privatization (Indiana) - editorial, Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
It's only fair: Az inmates should be in Az prisons - editorial, Tuscon Citizen

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Opinion: 4/26/2007

New Castle prison fracas holds lesson (Indiana) - editorial, Richmond Palladium-Item
Behind Prison Riots - Kansas City InfoZine
'But he's still my brother' (South Carolina) - Isaac Bailey, Myrtle Beach Sun News
Today's Opinions in No. 05-11284, Abdul-Kabir v. Quarterman, and No. 05-11287, Brewer v. Quarterman - Amy Howe, SCOTUSBLOG
Convicting innocent people a 'badge of honor' under old mentality, says Dallas DA (Texas) - Scott Henson, Grits for Breakfast

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Opinion: 4/25/2007

Sex offenders’ restrictions should depend on offenses (Oklahoma) - editorial, Enid News & Eagle

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Opinion: 4/24/2007

NY Gov. Spitzer as the true sentencing action hero - Douglas Berman, Sentencing Law and Policy
Prison costs shackling Oregon -- The Real Costs of Prison Weblog
Where to turn? Out of prison, he’s desperate for job, place to live (Indiana) - Kevin Leininger, Fort Wayne News-Sentinel
Is US Attorney General Protecting Private Prisons? - Jay Johnston-Castro, Texas Civil Rights Review

Monday, April 23, 2007

Opinion: 4/23/2007

Solution to inmate overcrowding is more prisons, not fewer prisoners (California) - Assemblyman Tom Berryhill, Modesto Bee
Sex offender e-mail rule would waste police time (California) - editorial, San Jose Mercury News
A Technocorrections Fable (Virginia) - Michael Connelly, Corrections Sentencing

Friday, April 20, 2007

Opinion: 4/20/2007

California behind bars: overcrowding, unionization and other prison problems - David DeVoss, Weekly Standard
Reformative justice: the challenge for the new CJ (Ghana) - editorial, The Statesman

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Opinion

Who is in control inside prisons? It's negotiable (California) - Daniel Weintraub, Sacramento Bee
Transforming crisis into reform (Maine) - editorial, Kennebec Journal
Close the box (New York) - editorial, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Some misconceptions about corrections (Canada) - Paul Bradbury, Kamloops This Week

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Opinion: 4/18/2007

Don't kill prison reform (California) - editorial, San Francisco Chronicle
Capital times at SCOTUS - Douglas A. Berman, Sentencing Law and Policy
Our View: Safety comes first inside jails (California)

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Opinion: 4/17/2007

Oh, You Mean Those Prisons (Texas) - Patrick Michels, The Texas Observer
Open prisons are a waste of our money (Australia) - The Argus

Monday, April 16, 2007

Opinion: 4/16/2007

Death no more: It's time to end capital punishment (Texas) - editorial, Dallas Morning News
A death penalty slowdown, but not in Texas (Texas) - editorial, Dallas Morning News
Capital punishment should continue (Texas) - Mike Hashimoto, Dallas Morning News
A Thrill Killing Ten Years Later (New Jersey) - Ben Barlyn, Corrections Sentencing
Supreme Court Preview: The Death Penalty in Texas - analysis from Ana M. Otero, Associate Professor of Law, Texas Southern University on ACS Blog
Make way for the prison inmates (California) Todd Spitzer, Orange County Register

Tip o' the hat to Grits for Breakfast and Sentencing Law and Policy for some of the links above.

Friday, April 13, 2007

Opinion: 4/13/2007

Black Market In Tobacco Makes Prisons More Violent (California) - commentary by inmate
Youth Offenders (Texas) - Lufkin Daily News
Holding the state hostage (California) - Monterey County Herald
CPPP tells a tale of two prison budgets (Texas) - Grits for Breakfast
Disenfranchising Ex-Felons (Florida)
Without rehab for prisoners, what goes in comes back out (Austraia) - Sydney Morning Herald

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Opinion: 4/12/2007

As prisons fill up, justice pays price (UK)
Our View - Jails in Orange County are no picnic (California)
A life-saver of an idea (Maryland)

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