Friday, March 19, 2010

R.I. Legislator Seeks to Restore Equity in Districting

Periodically the issue gets raised that prison populations skew census results and subsequently political districting and allocation of government resources. The issue seldom merits more than a passing mention, but one Rhode Island legislator proposes to address the inequity, even if only on principle.

Monday, March 8, 2010

More from NYR on preventing prison rape

In their first article, David Kaiser and Lovisa Stannow of Just Detention International diagnosed the problem of prison rape; in this piece they discuss strategies for prevention.