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- Prison Nation
  Posted by Jeff from New York Times
  Nationwide, the prison population hovers at almost 1.6 million, which surpasses all other countries for which there are reliable figures. The 50 states last year spent about $44 billion in tax dollars on corrections, up from nearly $11 billion in 1987. Vermont, Connecticut, Delaware, Michigan and Oregon devote as much money or more to corrections as they do to higher education.
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- CIA confirms rendition flights to Brits
  Posted by theangryindian from Yahoo News!
  WASHINGTON - CIA Director Michael Hayden acknowledged Thursday that two rendition flights carrying terror suspects refueled on British territory, despite earlier U.S. assurances that none of the secret flights since the Sept. 11 attacks had used British airspace or soil.
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- The Province: Babies being used to smuggle drugs into B.C. prisons, warns guard
  Posted by Jwgardner from Canada
  Children are increasingly being used as tiny drug mules as they accompany parents on jail visits, according to the Union of Canadian Correctional Officers.
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- Prisons Purging Books on Faith From Libraries
  Posted by theangryindian from New York Times
  Behind the walls of federal prisons nationwide, chaplains have been quietly carrying out a systematic purge of religious books and materials that were once available to prisoners in chapel libraries.
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- Torturers in Camouflage: The U.S. Military, Ethical Hellhole
  Posted by ptristam from Pierre Tristam
  Almost half of American soldiers in Iraq think torture should be allowed to save the life of another soldier, and 39 percent of Marines and 36 percent of Army soldiers think it should be allowed merely to gather information on insurgents. Barely a third of Marines think civilians should be treated with dignity. That’s your military, America--by the Pentagon’s own accounting. And the mass media buried it or left it unreported.
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- 83 convicted felons freed as state exceeds jail limit
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  Overextended in Iraq, this is what happens at home - albeit unrelated: All of the felons were freed from the jails before an administrative-hearing officer could rule on how they should be punished for violating terms of their earlier release. The DOC ordered the releases without its usual consultation with the community corrections officers who supervise the felons and know their criminal patterns and backgrounds the best, said a representative of the union that represents the officers.
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- Panel Suggests Using Inmates in Drug Trials
  Posted by Jon from New York Times
  Very disturbing.
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83 convicted felons freed as state exceeds jail limit

Last I checked conservatives don’t like to pay for taxes for building enough prisons…

But part of the problem is that conservatives want to lock up everyone even for minor drug crimes that could be better treated in specialized treatment programs. What a waste of taxpayer money.

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