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It Costs Too Much and It Does Not Work
It Costs Too Much And It Does Not Work
By Ed Mead
We need to prove it!
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), during the period between the end of 1988 and the end of 1989, there was a 12.1 percent increase in the number of state and ...
By Ed Mead
We need to prove it!
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), during the period between the end of 1988 and the end of 1989, there was a 12.1 percent increase in the number of state and ...
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- Mission of SOC To Change
- Walls Gets "Special Needs Unit", by Mark LaRue
- Clallam Bay Gets Computer Phones
- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
- Use of Jailhouse Informants Faulted
- Prisoners Can't Be Punished for Refusing to Perform Unconstitutional Assignment
- Government Spending for Civil, Criminal Justice Reached $61 Billion in 1988
- Police Torture in Ohio
- Free Tim Anderson
- The Ultimate Hunt
- Private Gulags in England, by Mike Vukasinovic
- Death Row Abolished, by Mark LaRue
- It Costs Too Much and It Does Not Work, by Ed Mead
- Letters From Readers
- Russian Prisoners Revolting
- What's Wrong With This Picture?
- Judicial Highpoints
- Prisoners on Purpose
- Women in Prison
- Prison Resources, by Paul Wright
- Expression, by V Martinez
- Wetmore v. Gardner
- BOP Hotline
More from Ed Mead:
- Class Differences in Crime Control, Feb. 15, 1994
- Law of Medical Treatment Explained, Jan. 15, 1994
- Editorial, Jan. 15, 1994
- Gender Based Treatment Disparity Violates Equal Protection, Dec. 15, 1993
- Editorial, Nov. 15, 1993
- The Politics of Imprisonment, Nov. 15, 1993
- Prison Slavery Upheld, Again, Oct. 15, 1993
- Prisoners as Workers: Court Defines Applicability of FLSA, Sept. 15, 1993
- Prisoners as Workers in Washington State: New Law Will Increase Exploitation, Sept. 15, 1993
- Editorial, Sept. 15, 1993
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