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  sniffing out contraband

  Dogs are a profoundly effective tool in finding products inmates are not supposed to have. They can find tobacco, drugs and cell phones.

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  Tennessee Brings back electric chair

  Tennessee has decided how it will respond to a nationwide scarcity of lethal injection drugs for death-row inmates: with the electric chair.

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  Brutal Death Behind Bars

  Mentally ill inmates at Dade Correctional Institution have been tormented and abused for years, according to three former employees at the psychiatric unit, one of whom filed a complaint last month

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  Ten Economic Facts about Crime and Incarceration in the United States

  by the Hamilton Project

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  U.S. Should Significantly Reduce Rate of Incarceration;

  Unprecedented Rise in Prison Population ‘Not Serving the Country Well,’ Says New Report

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  Why one inmate costs taxpayers more than $400,00 a year

  Every week, Jamie Hein receives two drug infusions to combat spontaneous swelling in her hands, face, feet, genitals, abdomen or throat. And every week, Nevada taxpayers pick up the roughly $4,000 cost of each infusion for the Nevada Department of Corrections inmate.

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  Juvenile facility called better for suspects

  Five years ago Alex Hribal almost certainly would have gone straight to an adult jail following his arrest on charges that he stabbed more than 20 people inside Franklin Regional Senior High School.

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  U.S. Sentencing Commission takes steps to depopulate federal prisons

  In a bid to reduce the federal prison population, the U.S. Sentencing Commission set in motion a change of formula to determine the sentencing of low-level, nonviolent federal drug law offenders.

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  California's Medical Prison beset by Waste and Mismanagement

  California's $840-million medical prison -- the largest in the nation -- was built to provide care to more than 1,800 inmates. When fully operational, it was supposed to help the state's prison system emerge from a decade of federal oversight brought on by the persistent neglect and poor medical treatment of inmates.

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  Enforcing Prison Rape Elimination Standards Proves Tricky

  "Sexual victimization while somebody is in confinement is totally unacceptable," says Mary Lou Leary, a principal deputy assistant attorney general at the Justice Department. "It is in and of itself a crime, and it has to stop."

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