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Reading Room

• 50 Ways to Reduce the Number of People in Prison in California

• Act Now to Stop the Fastest Growing Prison Program in the U.S.

• Alcohol Prohibition Was a Failure

• Americans Abandon "Punishment Only" Attitudes in Effort to Reduce Crime. National survey by Zogby International reveals "striking support" for rehabilitation both in and after prison

• Bill for a 5-Year Moratorium on Jail and Prison Construction in MA, House Docket #3931

  See SHaRC's HD 3931 Fact Sheet

  On Sunday, January 21, 2007, two members of SHaRC were interviewed about the pending bill. You can listen to the interview by Somerville's own Linda Pinkow on What's Left, WMBR (88.1 FM)—30 minutes of thoughtful, reasoned and articulate conversation about halting the Prison Industrial Complex in MA. Click here to listen.

• Construction crews level women's jail site 'park' by Pamela Metaxas

• Despite Fewer Lockups, NYC Has Seen Big Drop in Crime

• Disablement, Prison, and Historical Segregation by Marta Russell and Jean Stewart

• DRCNet Interview: Former Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper on drug policy

• Drug Courts and Treatment as an Alternative to Incarceration

• Hard Choices, Hard Time by Eileen Mcnamara

• How Incarceration Violates Human Rights Including The Rights of Women and Their Families

• ICE apprehends more than 2,100 immigrants in nationwide Interior enforcement operation

• Immigration and Incarceration: Part 1 and Part 2

• In the Shadows of the War on Terror: Persistent Police Brutality and Abuse in the United States

• Is It Time to Close the Prisons? American Gulag by Jerome G. Miller

• MA Prisoner Voting Information

• Open Letter from Martha Stewart

• Post Incarceration Syndrome and Relapse by Terence T. Gorski

• Prisons at center of damning report on U.S. human rights by Haider Rizvi. 12 July 2006

• Rethinking Justice in Massachusetts: Public Attitudes Toward Crime and Punishment. A pubic opinion study by the Crime and Justice Institute and Doble Research Associates, 3 November 2005

• Sheriff wants new prisons, activists want moratorium. The Bridge. 25 May 2006

• Sisters Inside: Prisons and Social Control. Vancouver Commission on the Status of Women, June 1987

• Solitary Confinement Torture in the U.S. by Bonnie Kerness

• Torture In America, a Special Report by Deborah Davies

• What Causes Overcrowding in Jails and Prisons?