News Coverage of the Commission's Report,
Confronting Confinement
Significant national coverage is highlighted below. See the most recent and other coverage further down the page.
Commission warns of harm isolation can do to prisoners
Kevin Johnson, USA Today (06.08.2006)
EDITORIAL | Rising prison problems begin to trickle into society
USA Today (06.11.2006)
OP-ED | Corrections: 'You ought to thank us'
James A. Gondles Jr., Executive director of the American Correctional Association
USA Today (06.11.2006)
LETTER TO THE EDITOR | Oversight in Prisons
Michele Deitch, J.D.
USA Today (06.15.2006)
US Prison Study Faults System and the Public
Peter Slevin, Washington Post (06.08.2006)
OPINION | Striking Down Hope for Inmates
Mark L. Earley, president of Prison Fellowship and former attorney general of Virginia
Washington Post (06.30.2006)
Prison Report May Renew Push To Cut Recidivism
Gary Fields, Wall Street Journal (06.08.2006)
Group: Prisons should focus more on rehab
Pete Yost, Associated Press (06.08.2006)
Panel's Report Seeks Changes in Prison Policy
Laura Sullivan, NPR Morning Edition (06.08.2006)
Can the American Prison System Be Fixed?
NPR Talk of the Nation (06.13.2006)
Prison Violence Can Heighten Public Danger
Dan Harris, ABC News Good Morning America (06.06.2006)
High Cost of Prisons Not Paying Off, Report Finds
Jenifer Warren, Los Angeles Times (06.08.2006)
Prisoners, Public at Health Risk
Jerry Seper, Washington Times (06.08.2006)
EDITORIAL | Snapshots Behind Bars
Washington Times (06.08.2006)
Latest Coverage
OPINION | Reliance on prison fails as crime control
William DiMascio
Harrisburg Patriot-News (09.24.2006)
OPINION | 35 Years After Attica, Prisons Are Still A Crime (2nd appearance)
David A. Love
Hartford Courant (09.13.2006)
OPINION | Abuse still a problem in prisons
David A. Love
Anniston Star (09.07.2006)
OPINION | 'Sordid Reminders of Failure': What Works behind Bars?
Mark Earley
Christian Post (08.30.2006)
State seeing drop in suits by convicts since ’96 law
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (08.26.2006)
OPINION | Prisons as agents of change
R.K. Raghavan
Frontline Magazine / The Hindu (08.12.2006)
On the Inside: Survey on prison oversight by professor, students could help lead to reform in nation's correctional system
University of Texas at Austin (08.07.2006)
Activists Call for Real Remedies to Prisoner Rape
The New Standard (08.03.2006)
OPINION | Virginia needs alternatives to lock-'em-up, toss-the-key approach
Ronald Fraser, DKT Liberty Project
Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star (08.02.2006)
OPINION | Bad Judgment: Ruling imperils faith-based programs around the country.
Charles Colson with Anne Morse
Christianity Today (08.01.2006)
Acting Up and Out
Backstage (07.31.2006)
Ailing, Aging Inmates Put Strain on Arkansas' Prison System
Arkansas Democrat Gazette (07.30.2006)
Breaking the cycle of drug addiction and crime
Peter Aldhous
New Scientist (07.29.2006)
Prison health care system ailing
Ontario (CA) Daily Bulletin (07.25.2006)
Years of indifference turned Chino prison dream into nightmare
Ontario (CA) Daily Bulletin (07.23.2006)
OPINION | A remedy is possible for Hawaii prison woes
Ronald Fraser, DKT Liberty Project
Honolulu Star-Bulletin (07.20.2006)
OPINION | Needed: a plan to uncrowd New York's prisons
Ronald Fraser, DKT Liberty Project
Albany Times-Union (07.17.2006)
From solitary to the streets
Salem Statesman Journal, Oregon (07.16.2006)
Jail offers programs to help inmates
Hernando Today, Florida (07.16.2006)
Sheriff's Dept. cited as model
Springfield Republican (07.16.2006)
OPINION | Society Should be Concerned about Prisoners' Health
Gail C. Christopher, Joint Center Health Policy Institute
Louisiana Weekly (07.10.2006)
also in Black News.com
OPINION | Lock 'em up culture keeps prison expenses high
Ronald Fraser, DKT Liberty Project
Asbury Park Press (07.09.2006)
This op-ed also appeared in The Anniston Star (07.16.2006)
OPINION | Abusive Conditions Reported From Prisons
Joel Freedman, Judicial Process Commission, Rochester, NY
Newark (NY) Courier Gazette (07.07.2006)
EDITORIAL | Improving Prisons Benefits All
Detroit Free Press (07.05.2006)
This editorial also appeared in The Cincinnati Enquirer (07.16.2006)
A Brutal Ending: Questions of protocol, training linger after man's death in jail
Winston-Salem Journal (07.03.2006)
PRESS RELEASE | Joint Center HPI Says America's Jails and Prisons Are 'Devastating' for Many African American Males
U.S. Newswire / Joint Center Health Policy Institute (HPI) (06.28.2006)
COLUMN | In sore need of an outbreak of sanity on corrections
Neal Pierce, syndicated columnist, in the Houston Chronicle (06.25.2006)
This syndicated column also appears in the Seattle Times, 06.26.06
Scandal dogs Sheriff's office
Kenya Woodward, Daytona Beach News-Journal (06.25.2006)
American Prison Culture: Producing Hardened Criminals?
Marc Morial, President, National Urban League
Maximsnews (06.25.2006)
also in East Texas Review (07.13.2006)
Jail guards still under fire
Dan Christenson, Miami Herald (06.25.2006)
University of Iowa student aids prison report
Daily Iowan (06.20.2006)
OPINION | County prisons should promote rehabilitation
Robert A. Freedberg, president judge, Northampton County, PA
Allentown Morning Call (06.19.2006)
EDITORIAL | Improve safety at county hospital
Contra Costa Times (06.18.2006)
Prison Violence, a discussion with Nicholas Katzenbach and John Gibbons
"Due Process," New Jersey Network (06.18.2006 and 06.20.2006)
Plan to build jail annex panned
Julian Pecquet, Tallahassee Democrat (06.17.2006)
Confronting Confinement: Bi-Partisan Commission Criticizes Size, Conditions and Racial Make-Up of U.S. Prison System
Interview with Michael Jacobson
Democracy Now! (06.13.2006)
A Commission's Idea on Correcting Corrections
"The recommendations of the Commission provides performance-based standards that can improve corrections nationwide."
Sarah Etter, Corrections.com (06.12.2006)
EDITORIAL | Solitary Refinement
Council Bluffs (IA) Daily Nonpareil (06.12.2006)
California's Crisis In Prison Systems A Threat to Public
John Pomfret, Washington Post (06.11.2006), reprinted as 'The 800 Pound Gorilla' in the National Weekly Edition (06/21/2006)
OPINION | When rehabilitation exits, brutality and crime enter
Gregory Stanford, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel (06.10.2006)
Officials: Safety at Pa. prisons improved
Rich Cholodofsky, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (06.10.2006)
Senate Subcommittee Examines Prison Safety
Women's Policy (06.09.2006)
Confronting Confinement
Michael Jacobson, Director of the Vera Institute of Justice, discussed the Commission's report on the Friday, June 9th edition of WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show.
Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC Radio (06.09.2006)
Violent Crime and Overcrowded Prisons
To the Point, KCRW Radio, Santa Monica, CA (national audience) (06.15.2006)
N.Y. jail bigs rip report on inmate abuse
Robert F. Moore, New York Daily News (06.09.2006)
Prison Doesn't Pay, Report Finds
Tampa Bay Tribune (06.08.2006)
Report explores violence in prisons
Karen Voyles, Gainesville Sun (06.08.2006)
Working off their debt?
Karen Voyles, Gainesville Sun (06.19.2006)
National prison report highlights problems long known in Texas
Mike Ward, Austin American-Statesman (06.08.2006)
Commission: Prison abuse out of control
Don Thompson, Associated Press (California) (06.08.2006)
New Report on U.S. Prisons Highlights Need for Reforms
Lillian Kwon, Christian Post (06.09.2006)
Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons Releases Report of Findings and Recommendations
New Jersey Reentry Digest (06.12.2006)
U.S. prisons called risk to lives
Greg Garland, Baltimore Sun (06.08.2006)
Report finds nation's prisons need swift, sweeping reform
Kate Coscarelli, Newark Star-Ledger (06.08.2006)
OPINION | Our Prisons, Ourselves
Ellis Cose
Newark Star-Ledger (06.18.2006)
OPINION | New push aims to get better results from prisons (same as above)
Ellis Cose
St. Paul Pioneer Press (06.20.2006)
EDITORIAL | Rehabilitation key, but tackling root of problems is critical
Huron Daily Tribune (06.08.2006)
Nation/World Briefs: Commission emphasizes prison rehab
Detroit News (06.08.2006)
Commission Releases Report on U.S. Correctional Facilities
Correctional News (06.08.2006)
Major report on prison failings
Doug Berman, Sentencing Law and Policy blog
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