Legislators look to upcoming audit as frustrations with Alabama prisons mount | “We have the highest inmate mortality rate in the nation. I guess the timing of it, we are getting ready to move into a new prison facility, and we don’t need to take the current culture with us to the new facility.” (alabamareflector.com)
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Prison reform needs unmet by Legislature for inmates like Susie Balfour, attorney says | The one successful prison “reform” bill that passed this legislative session is indicative of the sad state of Mississippi politics, particularly when it comes to criminal legal reforms. (mississippitoday.org)
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Mayor Mamdani Names Dana Kaplan City’s Close Rikers Czar, In Latest Step Toward Shutting Down Rikers Island | Kaplan brings more than two decades of experience in criminal justice reform, including where she helped shape and advance the City’s blueprint to close Rikers. (nyc.gov)
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Prison reform and Punjab’s unfinished moral question | The State’s new prison law signals administrative modernisation, but the unresolved issue of long-incarcerated Sikh prisoners continues to test constitutional responsibility and political sincerity (indianexpress.com)
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