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- "Age of Offenders"
- "Alternative sentencing gaining acceptance"
- "Keeping locked-up kids and their families connected"
- "New cost-benefit website for criminal justice"
- "There's No Place Like Home: The Vera Institute of Justice Guardianship Project"
- ''Governor Richardson's Task Force on Prison Reform''
- (Philadelphia) City Paper, ''Pennsylvania Spends Half Billion Dollars More on Prisons than Previously Reported''
- 1010Wins, "Serious problems found at youth prisons"
- AARP Inside E Street, "Aging inmates: How can states come up with innovative ways to house or release sick and older inmates?"
- ABA Journal, "Project aimed at eliminating prosecutor race bias shows promising results"
- AP, "Aging inmates straining prison systems"
- Advocates want free NY prison visitor bus back
- Alexandria Town Talk: "Louisiana is poised to improve its justice system"
- AlterNet.org, "Why does popular culture treat prison rape as a joke?"
- American Press (Lake Charles, LA), "Nearly 1,100 at-risk children visit resource center in first year"
- Appleton Post-Crescent, "Appleton police undergo training on serving immigrant crime victims"
- Associate Press, "Fla. program diverts troubled kids from court"
- Associated Press, "Analysis: Changes help push NY's prison rolls down"
- Associated Press, "Priorities clash as states move people out of prison while cutting programs to keep them out"
- Associated Press, "Surge in Child Immigrants Stresses Support Network"
- Associated Press, "W. Va. takes steps to reduce prison population"
- Associated Press, ''Prison Dilemma: Surging Numbers of Older Inmates''
- Attorney General Eric Holder Honors Common Justice
- Austin American-Statesman, ''New Study: Texas Spends 23 Percent More on Prisons''
- BET, ''New Orleans Offers Options for Addicts''
- Barron's, "Arresting developments"
- Best of New Orleans, "Last group of inmates leaves House of Detention"
- Bloomberg.com, "How Prisoner Release Could Benefit California" by Michael Jacobson
- Boulderweekly.com: "Tangles in the ties that bind"
- Brian Lehrer Show, "Charting a new course for juvenile justice"
- C-SPAN Washington Journal, "America by the Numbers: U.S. Prison Population" with Michael Jacobson and James Lynch
- C-SPAN Washington Journal, "State Prison Funding" with Michael Jacobson
- CBS 6 WRGB, "Report finds crisis at NYS youth prisons"
- CBS New York, "NY study says punishment doesn't solve absenteeism"
- CBS News Sunday Morning "Incarceration Nation"
- CNN, "Detained immigrant children face legal maze in U.S."
- CNNMoney.com, "Spending on prisons in rare drop"
- COPS Dispatch, "New from COPS: Bridging the Language Divide: Promising Practices for Law Enforcement"
- Capitol Ideas, "Long-times become old-times in prison"
- Cincinnati Enquirer, "Prison crowding budget issue"
- Cincinnati Enquirer, "Time for a calm, fair look at justice and race"
- City Journal, "The Jail Inferno"
- City Limits, "Some Young Migrants Face Deportation With No Lawyer"
- City Limits, "The Long Road of a Creative Civil Servant"
- Corrections Today, "Green Job Training in Prisons Benefits Everyone"
- Corrections Today, ''Asking about family can enhance reentry''
- CounterPunch, "The incarceration capital of the US"
- CrimeReport.org, "A call for reforming the nation's costly pretrial detention system"
- Daily Kos, "Prison Rape Victims Deserve Ways to Seek Justice and Accountability"
- Bureau of Justice Assistance Profiles Vera's Performance Incentive Funding Project
- DelawareOnline, "State to target high-risk offenders in reforms"
- Governing.com, Can 'Talent Injection' Remake Social Services?
- KCAU-TV, Storm Lake Police Gets National Recognition
- L.A. Times, L.A. County computer screening could produce get-out-of-jail card
- SFWeekly.com, Barred From Freedom: The Manhattan Bail Project and the History of Pretrial Risk Assessment
- The Brian Lehrer TV Show, "Hi-Priced Cell Calls"
- The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com, Jailed without conviction: Behind bars for lack of money
- The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com, New Orleans tries reform of pretrial detention and bail
- The Daily Beast, "When Kids Do Adult Time"
- The Los Angeles Times, "Prison's revolving door"
- The New York Times' Room for Debate, "Improve Care for Its Own Sake, Not for Safety"
- The New York Times, "Prison Population Can Shrink When Police Crowd Streets"
- The New York Times, City’s Incarceration Rate Plummets as Nation’s Climbs
- The New York Times: Preventing Youth Violence: The Chicago Study
- The Seattle Times, "State prisons rethink solitary confinement"
- The Wall Street Journal, "State Prisons Die Hard"
- Waste & Recycling News, Ohio State's diversion efforts reach 98%
- DelawareOnline, "Study suggests Del. should focus on repeat offenders"
- Democrat and Chronicle, "Why are more Monroe County kids in the juvenile justice system?"
- Education Week, "Unaccompanied Minors Face Uncertainty in U.S. System"
- El Diario, "Informe niega muertes infantiles" Jan. 29, 2009
- Elder and Special Needs Law Journal, "Institutional guardianship: a team approach paves the way home for some"
- Executive Office of the Mayor of the District of Columbia, "Fenty Names Justice Grants Administration and Office of Ex-Offender"
- Fox 8 News, "New program aims to put arrestees back on the right track"
- Fox 8 News, "Orleans Parish sheriff moves forward with 400 new jail beds"
- Fox 8 News, "Orleans Parish sheriff threatens to take city to court"
- Fox 8, "Judges vote in favor of vertical prosecution"
- Fox8TV, "Wheels of justice turning faster"
- Gainesville Sun, "Measure would allow some older inmates out of prison"
- GovMonitor, "Louisiana to reform state criminal justice system"
- Governing, "States struggle to regulate the bond industry"
- Grits for Breakfast, "Corrections Second Behind Medicaid in Sources of State Budget Growth"
- Grits for Breakfast, "Light reading: various corrections topics"
- Grits for Breakfast, "States seek to slash prison spending to stem budget shortfalls"
- Grits for Breakfast, "Texas' medical parole process praised: recommendations are timely, but parole board fails to act"
- Hartford Courant, "State's can't afford prison system boom"
- Huffington Post, "Punishing parents won't solve chronic absenteeism"
- Huffington Post, "Should parents be punished for teenage truancy?"
- Idealist.org, "Office traditions: putting the 'team' in teatime"
- Illinois Department of Corrections, "Segregation issues are tackled at IDOC"
- Inside Corrections, ''Oklahoma Department of Corrections selected for the Family Justice initiative''
- Journal News, "A juvenile justice system in crisis"
- Journal Sentinel, "Chisholm touts racial disparity improvements at Capitol Hill briefing"
- Journalists Resource, "Cost-Benefit Analysis of Raising the Age of Juvenile Jurisdiction in North Carolina"
- Jurist, "US Commission proposes prison rape elimination guidelines"
- Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, "Nonprofits Leverage Goldman Sachs for Detention Programs"
- Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, "UK Advocates Turning to NYC as Model for 'Saner' Criminal Justice System"
- LA Daily News, "Malibu-Lost Hills sheriff's station gets top ranking"
- LoHud.com, "Police Reach Out to Illegal Immigrants"
- Los Angeles Times, "New Orleans police go easier on 'squares'"
- Los Angeles Times, ''L.A. County's Broken Jails: What's the Fix?''
- Louisiana Weekly, "OPP adopts pre-trial program to screen for risk"
- Maryland Gazette, "County correction department a focus of life-after-jail study"
- Maryland Gazette.net, "Jail review welcomed by county officials, residents"
- NBC New York, "Paterson admin. to judges: stop sending kids to state facilities"
- NBC New York, "Punishing parents doesn't solve NYC absenteeism: study"
- NCCPR Child Welfare Blog, "Child abuse and foster care in Florida: a call for more screening from a surprising source"
- NCCPR Child Welfare Blog, "Child welfare's back alley: educational neglect"
- NY1 Inside City Hall, "Former Correction Commissioner Talks Prison Costs"
- NY1, "State's juvenile justice system slammed in new report"
- New Mexico Independent, "New Mexico ain't alone in cutting prison spending"
- New Orleans City Business, "Bail system puts court costs on back of poor"
- New Orleans CityBusiness, "The price of justice"
- New Orleans Times-Picayune, "Drug-case plan focuses on pace"
- New York Daily News, "The triple outrage of youth jails"
- New York Daily News, "Thinking outside the cell"
- New York Nonprofit Press, "Negron New Director of Vera's Guardianship Project"
- New York Nonprofit Press, "Vera Institute of Justice the Mothership for Nonprofit Human Services"
- New York Nonprofit Press, "Vera launches Center on Victimization and Safety"
- New York Review of Books, "The rape of American prisoners"
- New York Times, "Alternatives to jailing children"
- New York Times, "As crime rate drops, New York’s jail population falls to lowest level in 24 years"
- New York Times, "Barriers to lawyers persist, immigrant advocates ponder solutions"
- New York Times, "Budget cuts imperil guardian program for elderly and disabled" February 5, 2009
- New York Times, "City signals intent to send fewer teenagers to jail"
- New York Times, "Daniel J. Freed dies at 82; shaped sentencing in U.S."
- New York Times, "Enlisting prison labor to close budget gaps"
- New York Times, "For Detained Youths, No Mental Health Overseer"
- New York Times, "Getting smart on crime"
- New York Times, "Juvenile injustice"
- New York Times, "New York finds extreme crisis in youth prisons''
- New York Times, "Official hopes prison crisis spurs change"
- New York Times, "Panel to Issue Standards to Reduce Prison Rape"
- New York Times, "Removing the roadblocks from rehabilitation"
- New York Times, "Sheriff wants a big jail in New Orleans, but city balks"
- New York Times, "States prosecute fewer teenagers in adult courts"
- New York Times, "Steady decline in major crime baffles experts"
- New York Times, "Study Refutes Claims on AIDS Drug Trials"
- New York Times, "US police departments seeking more bilingual cops"
- New York Times: "Juvenile offenders"
- Newsweek, "How the recession hurts private prisons"
- Newsworks-WHYY, "Top to bottom review will focus on Delaware's system of criminal justice and corrections"
- Next American City, "FEDS TO NEW ORLEANS POLICE: TIME FOR AN OVERHAUL"
- Nightly Business Report, "Ponzi Schemer Bernie Madoff's Reverse Non-Profit Robin Hood"
- Omaha World-Herald, "Uniting to help disabled who are sexually assaulted"
- PRI's To the Point, "Will Broken State Budgets Mean Prison Reform?"
- Palm Beach Post, "Fla. program diverts troubled kids from court"
- Pew Charitable Trusts, "Behind the rise and fall of Philadelphia's prison population"
- Philadelphia Daily News, "Panel ponders Pew paper on prisons"
- Philadelphia Inquirer, "Analyzing Phila. crime numbers is right thing"
- Pierce County Herald, "Most states are reducing their prison budgets, but Wisconsin is not among them"
- Presentation to the New Orleans City Council Criminal Justice Committee
- Presentation to the New Orleans City Council regarding the expedited charging initiative
- Prison Law Blog, "Web resources: see what your state spends on corrections with the Vera Institute’s new tool"
- PrisonMed, "MD: Justice institute to study Pr. George’s jail"
- Providence Journal, "R.I. truants who offend magistrates are sent straight to jail"
- Queens Chronicle, "Keep young offenders near home?"
- Randolph County Herald Tribune, "IDOC looking to reduce segregation"
- Right on Crime, "States grapple with the costs of juvenile courts"
- Sacramento Bee, "Other states already trimming prison costs"
- Salisburypost.com, " 'Raise the age' bill gains support"
- Sentencing Law and Policy, "Aging prisoners, increasing costs, and geriatric release"
- Sentencing Law and Policy, "Effective new Vera report on decade of sentencing policy trends"
- Sentencing Law and Policy, "Fitting account of Dan Freed's sentencing contributions in NY Times"
- Sentencing Law and Policy, "Great new Vera Institute report on how states are trying to balance tight budget and public safety"
- Sentencing Law and Policy, "The Fiscal Crisis in Corrections: Rethinking Policies and Practices"
- Sioux City Journal, "Storm Lake police receive well-deserved recognition"
- Sioux City Journal, "Storm Lake program provides national model"
- Southern California Public Radio, KPCC, 89.3, Jail violence experts say that Sheriff Lee Baca should relinquish control of jails
- StarNewsOnline.com, "NC, NY only states where 16-year-olds considered adults by criminal justice system"
- Stateline, "Prison spending drops across 44 states"
- Stateline, ''L.A. County jails are a costly resource, study says''
- Stateline.org, "At least 23 states spend less on prisons"
- Stateline.org, "Should Drug Court Be Mandatory?"
- Supreme Court of Alabama, "Chief Justice Cobb convened judges from around the state for sentencing and corrections conference"
- Syracuse Post Standard, "It is time to fix New York's awful juvenile detention system"
- Syracuse.com, "NY study says punishment doensn't solve absenteeism"
- Tallahassee Democrat, "Our opinion: investment advice"
- The Acorn (Ventura County, CA), "Lost Hills Station earns top police award"
- The Birmingham News, "Alabama prison bills may save state $106 million over 5 years"
- The Connecticut Mirror, "State seeking nursing home to take sick, disabled prisoners"
- The Crime Report, "Continued Reduction in State Corrections Budgets, Study Finds"
- The Crime Report, "Elder abuse: the (almost) invisible crime"
- The Crime Report, "From the battlefield to prison: troubled soldiers and the U.S. justice system"
- The Crime Report, "IACP, Vera among 11 justice innovation grant winners"
- The Crime Report, "Project to cut prosecution race bias claims 'tremendous promise'"
- The Crime Report, "Reforming New Orleans' Notorious Criminal Justice System"
- The Crime Report, "States Cutting Corrections Costs"
- The Crime Report, "States more willing to repeal mandatory minimums for drugs"
- The Crime Report, "The High Cost of Prisons: Using Scarce Resources Wisely"
- The Crime Report, "Vera urges states to ponder freeing 'elderly' inmates as early as 55"
- The Daily Record of Rochester, "Report: New York prison costs are higher than budget"
- The Financial Times, "US counts the cost of keeping elderly in jail"
- The Huffington Post, "Lebanon School District sued over excessive truancy fines"
- The Informant, "How states are tackling sentencing reform"
- The Lens (New Orleans), Crime chief proposing more money for pretrial screening
- The Lens, "City Council may downgrade pot possession, other charges"
- The Lens, "Committee to reconsider downgrading some crimes"
- The Link, "Integrated family-focused approaches in juvenile justice reform"
- The Louisiana Weekly, Orleans Parish pre-trial services reports success
- The Nation, "A Re-entry Model?"
- The Nation, "Is Occupy Wall Street Responsible for a New York Crime Wave?"
- The New York Times, "Fees for Inmate Visits''
- The New York Times, "Prisons Rethink Isolation, Saving Money, Lives and Sanity"
- The New York World, "The freedom test"
- The News Journal (DelawareOnline.com) editorial, "Justice system review holds promise for state"
- The News Journal (DelawareOnline.com), "Task force to study criminal justice system"
- The News Tribune, "Isolating prisoners less common in Washington than most places"
- The Oklahoman, "Letters to the editor"
- The Oregonian, ''Portland police want to install video cameras in all patrol cars''
- The Star-Ledger, "N.J.'s inmate population declines, officials credit less crime, prisoner re-entry programs"
- The Takeaway, "Building Trust Between Community and Police In New Orleans"
- The Tennessean, "Witness visas are carefully, individually screened"
- The Texas Tribune, "Few Texas inmates get released on medical parole"
- The Times-Picayune, "Bail-bond system changes greeted with cautious optimism in New Orleans"
- The Times-Picayune, "Detox center urged instead of arrests for public intoxication"
- The Times-Picayune, "Number of New Orleans arrests is dropping, jail expert says"
- The Times-Picayune, ''Detox center, instead of jail, available for public drunkenness in New Orleans''
- The Times-Picayune, Pretrial services working and should be expanded, New Orleans court officials say
- The Valley Advocate, "A Failure to Communicate: tackling language barriers between Springfield's police and residents"
- The Washington Post, "Don't Throw Away the Key"
- The Washington Post, "Letters to the editor"
- Thomson Reuters, "Lower sentences cut costs without raising crime, ACLU says"
- Times Picayune, "Justice system creeps toward improvement after Hurricane Katrina"
- Times Union, "NY court fails youth"
- Times-Picayune, "Civil rights probes into New Orleans police shows strong federal investement in city's future"
- Times-Picayune, "Court efficiency strategy has support of adversary lawyers, but not judges"
- Times-Picayune, "Does New Orleans need a larger prison?"
- Times-Picayune, "Find ways to keep chronic offenders in line, out of jail, New Orleans inspector general says"
- Times-Picayune, "N.O. urged to overhaul bail"
- Times-Picayune, "New Orleans City Council action on new jail in doubt after sheriff's criticism"
- Times-Picayune, "New Orleans City Council members pledge to work together and with new mayor"
- Times-Picayune, "New Orleans criminal justice powwow full of good feelings"
- Times-Picayune, "New Orleans investigating replacement of bail bond system for defendants"
- Times-Picayune, "New prison complex plan approved by New Orleans City Council"
- Times-Picayune, "Orleans judges scrap new allotment system after three months"
- Times-Picayune, "Report on NOPD shows decline in minor arrests"
- Times-Picayune, "Top lawyers grouse about Orleans Parish Criminal District Court judges"
- Times-Union, "Krokoff's moment"
- USA Today, "Some states rethink felony property crimes"
- USA Today, "States change laws, send fewer juveniles to adult court"
- Ventura County Star, "A medical parole classification could save state money"
- WAMC, "Prison Costs: Higher than State Corrections Budgets Reflect"
- WAMC, ''Report: New York Spends 22 Percent More on Prisons''
- WDEL, "New task force to study criminal justice system"
- WGMD.com, "Gov. Markell Announces Bipartisan Effort to Improve Public Safety Efficiency & Effectiveness"
- WGNO-ABC (New Orleans), "NOPD Offers New Option for Alcoholics and Addicts"
- WJBC, ''Study Finds True Costs of Illinois' Prisons''
- WNYC Brian Lehrer Show, "Foster Children and AIDS Drug Trials," Jan. 28, 2009
- WNYC, "Cleaning (the Big) House: Corrections Shake-Up Part of Image, Mission Overhaul"
- WNYC, "Report finds problems plague state-run juvenile detention centers"
- WNYC.org, "City to Take Custody of Local Juveniles from Upstate Facilities"
- WWL-TV, "Group suggests city remove non-violent offenders from jails"
- WWLTV.com, "Group updates N.O. council on efforts to expedite minor cases"
- Wall Street Journal, "Lights out at the penitentiary"
- Wall Street Journal, "NY study says punishment doesn't solve absenteeism"
- Wall Street Journal, "New York can do better by juvenile offenders"
- Wall Street Journal, "States seek prison breaks"
- Wall Street Journal, "U.S. commission to assess mandatory sentences"
- Washington Examiner, "Md. jail partners with firm to improve oversight"
- Washington Post, "Panel Sets Guidelines for Fighting Prison Rape"
- Wisconsin Public Radio, "Compassionate release of aging prisoners considered"
- World-Herald (Omaha.com), Warren Buffett letter is refined by intrepid editor
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