"Confronting Confinement:"
Bi-Partisan Commission Criticizes Size, Conditions and Racial Make-Up of U.S. Prison System
The Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons argues the country's prison system has fallen victim to overcrowding, overzealous incarceration, abuse, unaccountability, and inadequate health care. Among its
recommendations are to dramatically reduce the use of physical force and prisoner segregation. It also calls on expanding prisoner access to Medicare and Medicaid.
Listen/Watch/Read at the website below.
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| Issues | Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Prison Reform |
| Homepage | www.democracynow.org |
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Posted on June 15, 2006 in News Elsewhere by outreach
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