J Journal: New Writing on Justice

J Journal: New Writing on Justice examines its subject through creative work, directly and tangentially.  Housed at CUNY’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice, one of the nation’s premier criminal justice institutions, J Journal’s contributors have included established and new writers, professionals in the law enforcement field, lawyers, professors in the humanities and social sciences, and prison inmates. Unlike other CJ publications, J Journal, which comes out twice a year, is the country’s first to present its analyses of contemporary justice issues through creative, not scholarly work.  The short stories, poems, and personal narratives in each volume expand reflection on the question:  What is justice? 

http://johnjay.jjay.cuny.edu/

Just Detention International

Resources from Just Detention International articles and links:

Valerie Jenness, et al., Violence in California Correctional Facilities: An Empirical Examination of Sexual Assault, Center for Evidence-Based Corrections, University of California-Irvine (2007).

Cindy Struckman-Johnson and David Struckman-Johnson,Comparison of Sexual Coercion Experiences Reported by Men and Women in Prison, 21 Journal of Interpersonal Violence 1591 (2006).

Human Rights Watch Report: No Escape, Human Rights Watch, 2001.

All Too Familiar: Sexual Abuse of Women in U.S. State Prisons, Human Rights Watch, December 1996.

Confronting Confinement: A Report of the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons, 2006.

The Department of Justice's Efforts to Prevent Staff Sexual Abuse of Federal Inmates, Office of the Inspector General, 2009

Prison Rape: A Critical Review of the Literature, National Institute of Justice, 2004.

Prison Rape Elimination Act

Links to:
National Prison Rape Elimination Commission Report
Standards for the Prevention, Detection, Response, and Monitoring of Sexual Abuse in
    Adult Prisons and Jails
    Juvenile Facilities
    Lockups
    Community Corrections
An End to Silence: NIC/WCL Project on Addressing Prison Rape
Bureau of Justice Statistics, Sexual Violence in Correctional Facilities
National Institute of Corrections PREA Library
Amnesty International: Abuse of Women in Custody

Ten Years After Decriminalization, Portugal Drug Use Down By Half

Interesting article about decriminalization and the impact on drug use. Can the US "War On Drugs" policy take a lesson from Portugal?

Health experts in Portugal said Friday that Portugal’s decision 10 years ago to decriminalise drug use and treat addicts rather than punishing them is an experiment that has worked.

“There is no doubt that the phenomenon of addiction is in decline in Portugal,” said Joao Goulao, President of the Institute of Drugs and Drugs Addiction, a press conference to mark the 10th anniversary of the law.

The number of addicts considered “problematic” — those who repeatedly use “hard” drugs and intravenous users — had fallen by half since the early 1990s, when the figure was estimated at around 100,000 people, Goulao said.

Other factors had also played their part however, Goulao, a medical doctor added.

“This development can not only be attributed to decriminalisation but to a confluence of treatment and risk reduction policies.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/07/05/ten-years-after-decriminalization-drug-abuse-down-by-half-in-portugal/

Record Numbers of Incarcerated Mothers Bad News for Women, Children, Communities

Record Numbers of Incarcerated Mothers Bad News for Women, Children, Communities

Reading through the whole sentence

Great article on a book to prisoners program in Seattle.

http://dailyuw.com/news/2012/jul/10/reading-through-whole-sentence/

Postmarked 2012

Postmarked 2012 • Call for Mail Art
It is time to get out those envelopes and get creative! Send your mail art entries for our annual mail art exhibition and PLP fundraiser! Learn more and see this year’s submissions at postmarked2012.blogspot.com

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Postmarked 2012
Prison Library Project
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Updated Ways & Means Blog

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