The private prison industry is on the march. In recent months the industry moved to take over 24 state prisons in southern Florida and buy five prisons in Ohio. Now it’s making moves in Michigan.
But the industry doesn’t always win. Resistance isn’t futile. more »
As educators close out this school year and go into planning mode for the next, what many of them truly dread is the fiscal nightmarebeing handed to them by miserly state governments who've decided to balance their budgets on the backs of helpless school children. more »
In the wake of the 2010 Census, Maryland passed a law yesterday that fixes a major problem. Maryland will now count people in prison where they actually live, not where they are confined. This first-in-the-nation law will improve the fairness and accuracy of Census data used to draw legislative boundaries. more »
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