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Recent News from the RCPP Weblog

IL: Marchers on 3-day, 31-mile walk to protest immigration prison

TX: County, private lockups sit empty, drain money as Texas prisoners dwindle

Virginia plans changes in prisoner isolation process. Harold W. Clarke, director of the Department of Corrections-“There is no such thing as solitary confinement — nowhere in the country,” he said. “That went out the window a long time ago.”"

MA: More Suicides in Solitary Plague Massachusetts Prisons

MA-H2853/S.677 A Bill To Tackle Racial Profiling and Stand Your Ground in MA and---The Good and The Bad

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The Real Cost of Prisons Project brings together prison/justice policy activists with political economists to create popular education workshops and materials which explore both the immediate and long-term costs of incarceration on the individual, her/his family, community and the nation. The goals of the Real Cost of Prisons Project are to strengthen and deepen the organizing capacity of grassroots prison/justice activists and to broaden the public's understanding of the economic and social consequences of mass incarceration.

Real Cost of Prisons Project: An Activity of The Sentencing Project, a Washington, DC based non-profit organization dedicated to reducing over-reliance on incarceration. The Real Cost of Prisons Project is supported by a grant from the Community Advocacy Project of the Open Society Institute.

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