Add Virtual Jail Visits but Preserve Face-to-Face

Published November 23, 2013

Add virtual jail visits but preserve face-to-face
Coconino County has begun to go down this road for low-level, nonviolent offenders with diversion programs through DUI/Drug Court. The city has a Homeless Court. There is also a specialty court to divert veterans from jail. The jail offers a drug and … Read more on Arizona Daily Sun

Condemned man's request to donate organs raises troubling ethical, medical …
FILE – This undated file photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows Ronald Phillips. Ronald Phillips, 40, was scheduled to be put to death Thursday Nov. 14, 2013 with a lethal injection of a two-drug combination not … Read more on Victoria Times Colonist

10 Ways To Reduce Prison Overcrowding And Save Taxpayers Millions
Carl Hart, an associate professor of neuroscience at Columbia University and an expert on illegal drugs, writes that “there are no pharmacological differences between crack and powder cocaine to justify their differential treatment under the law.” The … Read more on Huffington Post