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Click here: Why are so many Americans in prison? Click here: Celebrities and People of Notoriety Opposed to the Death Penalty ... Click here: Welcome to the home of Phenix, Sonoma County's best rock, blues and R&B band! Click here: Children who survive urban warfare suffer from PTSD, too Click here: Free Kenneth Foster - Help us save him! Click here: Latino children in California have it tough Parents' depression can weigh on children Click here: Bureau of Justice Statistics Prison Statistics Click here: At state prison in Corona, inmates can build careers - Los Angeles Times Click here: Docuticker Children in Immigrant Families: A California Data Brief Analysis rips 66 prison deaths By Andy Furillo - Bee Capitol Bureau - Published 12:00 am PDT Thursday, September 20, 2007 Story appeared in MAIN NEWS section, Page A4 Addicted to Prisons On July 23, two U.S. District Court judges ordered the convening of a three-judge panel to consider releasing prisoners from California 's alarmingly overcrowded state prison system. The judges' move raises the possibility that a specific cap on the state's prison population will come into place within the next few weeks or months. Mentally ill need treatment, not prison time California 's prison population is bursting with more than 170,000 inmates crammed into facilities designed for 100,000. Recently, the Legislature passed and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a construction program to help alleviate this concern. However, this is a temporary fix. California needs to focus on prison reform instead of prison expansion. In order to begin repairing the system, many problems need to be addressed, including providing help to individuals with mental disorders before they become incarcerated. State Sen. Darrell Steinberg's bill, SB 851, does just that. Children may be better off in troubled families than foster care California Responsible For 1 out of 5 New Inmates in the U.S. in Prison Last Year By Jason Ziedenberg Executive Director Justice Policy Institute - After six years of slowing growth prison and jail populations, new A intriguing report on a faith-based prison Prison Crowding Makes States Look to Rehabilitation More family contact would prevent deaths - Eighteen-year-old Joseph Maldonado died by suicide in a Stockton youth prison on Aug. 31, 2005. He had been in solitary confinement for two months. Even before the system's specious decision to put the entire facility population on "lockdown" without classes, exercise or family contact, the Maldonado family had been denied visits for four months because of a bureaucratic technicality. Prison Crowding Makes States Look to Rehabilitation The view: Children in need "Teach Your Children Well"....Or Else! Sanders wants guaranteed health care for all children Media can and should do more to protect children Study: Children Often Meeting Online Friends Prisons' budget to trump colleges No other big state spends as much to incarcerate compared with higher education funding... 800000 California Children Rely on Healthy Families Program
YubaNet - Nevada City,CA,USA This month, Congress will consider reauthorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), which provides funding for California's Healthy ... Let Children Be Children Inmates at Chowchilla women's prison are reunited with their children Mother's Day. Click here for information Ghana: Female Prisoners With Their Children in Prison - The Human ...
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