Research on the crime control industry
Prisonsucks.com is a clearinghouse for useful, verifiable statistics about the crime control industry. Too often prison activists use statistics that are out of date, provided without citation or simply wrong. One of these days the public will start listening to prison activists, so let's be prepared to win without being sidetracked by arguments over defective statistics. In some cases, the numbers we need don't exist. In others, the facts exist but activists don't know where to find them. Now you do.
March 2005
Fiscal conservative blasts prisons in An Expensive Way to Make Bad People Worse
March 30, 2005
When Virginia lifer Jens Soering released his second book, An Expensive Way to Make Bad People Worse: An Essay On Prison Reform from an Insider's Perspective he fired a warning shot across the bow of the prison industrial complex. An Expensive Way to Make Bad People Worse is the best short, readable, fact-drive summation of why prisons don't work, but what makes the book so powerful is that it is written by a conservative Christian addressed to other fiscal conservatives.... Read our review.
Rogue state no longer -- juvenile death penalty declared unconstitutional
March 1, 2005
The Supreme Court today declared the juvenile death penalty to be unconstitutional. See the article on Civilrights.org.
With great pleasure, we've removed our map of counties that execute juveniles from the front page of this site.