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New York Allows Same-Sex Conjugal Visits in State Prisons
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsNew York inmates who are in same-sex marriages or civil unions are being allowed conjugal visits with their spouses or partners. The state officially announced the change in policy last week, making New York one of the few states to grant the private visits for gay and lesbian inmates in legally recognized same-sex partnerships. Although the policy will directly affect a relatively small number of people, advocates for same-sex marriage say it's an important step toward full equality for gay and lesbian couples. "This is a recognition of same-sex couples as families," Molly McKay of Marriage ...
Opinion: An Intricate Part of the Whole
By not in system - AOL NewsSay how ya doing Outside world? Do you remember me? I'm that intricate part Missing from the whole The one y'all decided to forget ... Coties Perry wrote these words 25 years ago at San Quentin. For more than three decades, I've shared poetry in public schools and state prisons, and because the youngsters and prisoners I've worked with are most often unheard and excluded, I cherish Coties' poem. Who do we (those of us with some power) forget when we talk about history, public policy and what it means to be human? Which children do we nurture? Which do we shun? These questions led me to ...
What Now for Prisoners at Guantanamo Bay?
By not in system - AOL NewsWhen Congress passed the latest defense appropriations bill Wednesday, it also may have ended any chance that there will be a federal criminal trial soon for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Thirteen months after U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the key 9/11 planner would be tried for terrorism, murder and conspiracy in Lower Manhattan, Congress formally banned any such trial for the confessed al-Qaeda chief or any of the other prisoners currently held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. ...
San Diego Man Gives Prisoners a Second Chance
By David Moye - AOL NewsScott Silverman believes in giving people a second chance, especially those who some might think ruined their first chance: prisoners. Silverman, 56, is the executive director and founder of Second Chance, a human services agency that is committed to breaking the cycle of unemployment, poverty and homelessness by offering job training, employment placement assistance, mental health counseling and affordable housing to people who want to change their lives. Over the past 15 years, Second Chance has assisted more than 24,000 economically disadvantaged and homeless people in San Diego ...
Iowa Prisoners May Roll Their Own Toilet Paper
By Hugh Collins - AOL News(Dec. 3) -- Inmates at an Iowa state prison may start making their own toilet paper next year, as the prison system tries to cut costs. Prisoners at Fort Dodge prison may begin processing the paper as soon as January, according to The Des Moines Register. Inmates at Anamosa and Mitchellville prisons are testing out a single-ply paper produced at the Cross Roads Correctional Center at Cameron, Mo. So far there have been no complaints, according to Iowa Prison Industries Director Roger Baysden. The state's almost 8,900 inmates and 2,800 prison staff use about 900,000 rolls of toilet paper ...
Dead Stimulus Walking: Feds Mailed Millions in Checks to the Deceased, Jailed
By David Knowles - AOL News(Oct. 7) -- Who says you can't take it with you? According to a new report from the Office of the Inspector General, $18 million worth of stimulus checks were mailed out to people who were no longer among the living. Here is how the report broke the news: Our review disclosed that 71,688 beneficiaries who were deceased before the payment certification date received an ERP. This included 63,481 beneficiaries whose deaths had been reported to SSA and 8,207 Prouty beneficiaries whose deaths were generally not reported to SSA. As a result, we estimate SSA issued about $18 million in ERPs to ...
Inside the Guantanamo Detention Facility: A Slideshow Look
By Graydon Gordian - Politics DailyGUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba -- Today, 181 prisoners remain at Guantanamo Bay detention camp, despite the Obama administration's initial pledge to close the facility by this past January. The administration plans to move some detainees to the Thomson Correctional Center in northern Illinois. The rest have either received a recommendation for release from the Department of Justice or would be transferred overseas. But the planning process has been slowed by the need to get congressional funding for the purchase of the new facility and by complaints from human rights groups. They argue that relocation ...
Schwarzenegger: Ship Calif. Prisoners to Mexico
By David Knowles - AOL News(Jan. 26) -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says California should consider paying Mexico to build facilities to house some of his state's illegal immigrant prisoners. "We can do so much better in the prison system alone if we can go and take inmates, for instance 20,000 inmates that are illegal immigrants that are here, and get them to Mexico," Schwarzenegger said Monday. "Think about it." The governor added, "We pay them to build the prisons down in Mexico. ... Half the costs to build the prisons and half the costs to run the prisons. That is money -- $1 billion right there -- that could go ...
Prison Forecast: Getting Gray and Overcrowded
By Robert W. Stock - AOL News(Dec. 26) -- A Manhattan judge sentenced Anthony D. Marshall to one to three years in prison Monday for stealing millions of dollars from his mother, the late philanthropist and grande dame of New York society, Brooke Astor. Marshall, an 85-year-old ex-diplomat and ex-Marine, underwent quadruple bypass surgery last year; his lawyer says he had a mini-stroke last summer. Theodore Sypnier, a 100-year-old retired telephone company worker in excellent health, is about to be paroled after 10 years serving his third prison term in New York State for child molestation. His daughter has asked the ...
U.S. Prison Population in Decline for First Time in Decades
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThanks to a falling crime rate and the tightening of law enforcement budgets, the number of people in U.S. prisons could decline in 2009 for the first time in almost four decades, the Associated Press reports. The American crime rate has risen steadily every year since 1972, but the 0.8 percent increase in inmate population in 2009 is the smallest annual increase of the decade. During the 1990s, inmate population grew by 6.5 percent each year. The decline in prison population is largely the result of the harsh economic climate, which has states re-evaluating how many prisoners they're willing ...
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