Piper Kerman presents 3-point plan for prison reform

It can be fortunate for the world when a middle-class person with a social conscience gets hauled off to prison. After spending a year in a ...

Orange is the New Black -- Read the book!

Taylor Schilling plays Piper Kerman in the TV series Hollywood prison scenes are so revolting. Most revolting are the depictions of women’s ...

California prisons careening closer to cliff

For a minute there, it looked like California's prisons were on the verge of positive reforms. But the current situation in the state...

Forensnips aplenty, forensnips galore

Everybody knows that the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich ...

Summer reading, and more

My regrets for the dearth of blog posts as of late. I am feverishly working to prepare all of my upcoming seminars and trainings (while keep...

A tale of two prison systems: Whither the future?

Group therapy, San Quentin Prison, California California's beleaguered prison system got more bad headlines today for suppressing a rep...

Iran hostage takes on California prison SHU's

"Free country" throwing thousands in hole for their beliefs Shane Bauer spent 26 months in Iran's Evin Prison, four of them i...

Amnesty issues scathing report on prolonged solitary confinement

Critique follows lawsuit alleging psychological torture at infamous Pelican Bay   Tucked away in a remote corner of Northern California is o...

Prisoner "reentry": Paradigm shift or empty rhetoric?

  Vindictive "imagined public" a barricade to real reintegration    For many who have broken the law, the real punishment begins n...