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"To put these figures in context, we have slightly more jails and prisons in the U.S. -- 5,000 plus -- than we do degree-granting colleges and universities. In many parts of America, particularly the South, there are more people living in prisons than on college campuses."

wow this is crazy can't believe there are more jails than colleges wow

This is probably why we have overcrowded jails, because people go to jail more than college. That's crazy to me, what has this world come too. >:(

"California approved a major shift against mass incarceration on Tuesday in a vote that could lead to the release of thousands of state prisoners. Nonviolent felonies like shoplifting and drug possession will be downgraded to misdemeanors under the ballot measure, Proposition 47. As many as 10,000 people could be eligible for early release from state prisons, and it's expected that courts will annually dispense around 40,000 fewer felony convictions."

Today, the ACLU announced that it is filing a federal lawsuit on behalf of prisoners at the East Mississippi Correctional Facility, a private prison in Meridian, Mississippi. The suit alleges that EMCF is "hyper-violent, grotesquely filthy and dangerous." One example of the jail's dangers: this handwritten letter from an inmate describing his own rape.

"A 50-year-old Indian woman has been released from prison, 19 years after she was granted bail. Vijay Kumari was unable to post the necessary amount of about $180 (£120) to secure her release - so she stayed in prison until the son, who she gave birth to while in jail, got her out."

"Still reeling from terrorist attacks, Belgium's prison system has become "apocalyptic.""

"Washington prison inmates will no longer be called "offenders." The Secretary of Corrections made that announcement in an all-staff message Tuesday."

"Pay, safety cited as concerns in Nebraska prison study"

In a precedent-setting decision, a federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled Thursday that random body searches of clothed women prisoners--including of their breast and genital areas--by male guards at a Washington prison violated the Constitution's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. The U.S.

T.J. Lane, who was serving life sentences for a notorious high school shooting spreed, escaped tonight from an Ohio prison, officials said. Lane, who is now 19, broke out of the Allen Correctional Facility along with another prisoner, Clifford Opperud, 45.

"Woman who livestreamed rape of teen gets 9 months in prison"

El Paso County, Colorado (CNN) -- Colorado investigators are in Decatur, Texas, Friday morning eager to examine evidence found in a black Cadillac whose driver might have been involved in Tuesday's slaying of Colorado's prison system chief. The driver, shot at the end of a high-speed chase that followed the wounding of a deputy, died Thursday evening.

"The state imprisons more people per capita than any other state or country in the world, with one out of every 86 adults behind bars. Its rate of incarceration is three times higher than Iran's and 10 times higher than Germany's."

Two Iraqi men, who were living in Kentucky, were slapped with long prison sentences this week after being convicted of a series of charges involving a plot to help al Qaeda.

Posted: 03/10/2014 06:35:50 AM PDT Updated: 03/10/2014 06:47:36 AM PDT SACRAMENTO -- California counties are confounding the state's court-ordered efforts to sharply reduce its inmate population by sending state prisons far more convicts than anticipated, including a record number of people with second felony convictions.