NEWSBRIEFS	TOPICS Prisons
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• September - October 1998
  • Record 1.7 Million Persons Incarcerated in America
  • CALIFORNIA: Students Protest State Spending MoreMoney on Prisons Than on Schools

• February 1998
  • Nation's Inmate Population Reaches Record 1.7 Million
  • Texas Group Works to Help Inmates' Families

• January 1998
  • Addiction Treatment in Prison Will Reduce Crime, Save Billions of Taxdollars, Says CASA Report
  • Clinton Offers Proposals to Cut Drug Use in Prisons
  • Jails and Prisons Offer Acupuncture Treatment for Drug Addicted Inmates
  • Canada Giving Methadone to Heroin-Addicted Prisoners
  • Despite Lesser Roles in Drug Crimes, Many Women Receive Longer Sentences Than Men, Children Victimized, Says Minneapolis Star Tribune Report
    
    
• November - December 1997
  • California Governor Wilson Vetoes Inmate Interviews
  • Maryland Prisons Use High-Tech Drug Detection System on Visitors and Workers to Prevent Smuggling
     
• September - October 1997
  • 5.5 Million U.S. Adults Under Correctional Supervision
  • Half of Young Black Men in Nation's Capital In or Being Pursued by Criminal Justice System
  • Inmates in Nation's Largest Prison for Women Shooting Heroin with Potentially Tainted Needles
     
• July 1997
  • Prison Population Growth Rate Slows, Number Reaches Record High
     
• March - April 1997
  • State Budgets Are Funding Prisons at the Expense of Higher Education, Says Justice Policy Institute Report

• January 1996
  • October Federal Prison "Disturbances" Blamed on Crack Law Unfairness
     
• December 1995
  • New Report Finds 1 in 3 Young Black Men Under Correctional Supervision
  • CURE Founders Honored With "Nobel Prize for Goodness"
     
• May 1995
  • More Drug Offenders Creating Largest-Ever Jail Population
  • New Compilation of Data on Correctional Populations
     
• January 1995
  • Survey Finds Wardens Want Crime Prevention Programs and Prison Alternatives -- Not Just Increased Incarceration
     
• September-October 1994
  • Judge Refuses to Follow "Three Strikes" Law
  • New Survey Charts Drug Offenders in Federal and State Prisons

• July 1993
  • Evidence Grows That Prison Boom Is Failing to Slow Crime Rate

• June 1993
  • Atlanta-Area Police Theft Ring Recruited Officers by Promising to Rob Drug Dealers, Participant Says
  • Two District of Columbia Police Officers Arrested in Crack Sale
  • Former Winston-Salem Police Officer Convicted on Cocaine Charges
  • Two Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputies Charged for Selling Inmates Drugs
  • Miami Money Launderer Lives Good Life After Deal With U.S. Attorney
  • Rise in Drug Inmates Boosted 1992 U.S. Prison Population to New High
  • State by State, Prison Crowding Spurred by Mandatory Drug Sentences Becomes National Issue
  • Executing Felons More Costly Than Imprisonment, Study Shows

• April 1993
  • Overcrowded Prisons of Forty States Under Court Orders, ACLU National Prison Project Reports
  • State Felony Drug Convictions Soared From 1986 to 1990, BJS Report Shows

• March 1993
  • Drug War Has Texas Criminal Justice System Near 'Meltdown,' Says Senate Committee Chair
  • Oklahoma Prisons Approach Crisis, Fueling Early Release Legislation
  • Whites Favored Over Blacks for Probation and Parole

• January 1993
  • Most Texans Favor Alternatives to Prison for Non-Violent Offenders
  • State Prison Commission Finds Longer Sentences Don't Reduce Crime
  • Prison Crowding Spurs Hawaii to Consider Cutting Pot Penalties