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 Too often prison activists use statistics that are out of date, provided without citation or simply wrong.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.
January 2005
Most disturbing criminal justice stories of 2004
January 1, 2005
Here are our 8 picks for 2004:
Jails eye a potential cash cow By Mark Peters, Portland Press Herald (Maine) January 18, 2004
Still Seeking a Fair Florida Vote op-ed by President Jimmy Carter, Washington Post, September 27, 2004
Menacing the Legislature by Jill Stewart, San Francisco Chronicle, April 21, 2004 (about the power of the prison guard's union over state policy)
Prison stocks: a secure pick?by Andrew Stein, CNN/Money, April 30, 2004.
Two Empty Bottles with Different Labels: John Kerry on Criminal Justice Issuesby Paul Wright, Counterpunch October 2-3, 2004.
Cheney and Edwards flub debate's domestic AIDS question: It's the prisons, stupid. by Prisonsucks.com, October 6, 2004.
Corrections Corporation of America big Republican Donor by Matt Gouras, Associated Press, October 25, 2004
Despite Drop In Crime, An Increase In Inmates By Fox Butterfield, The New York Times, November 8, 2004.
Incarceration Clock
As of --:--:-- -.-. today, there are an estimated -,---,---, people in U.S. prisons and jails. Source.
Stay informed
Keep informed of new reports & factsheets added to PrisonSucks.com by signing up to receive new links by email. The list will be kept confidential.
What's new on the research page:
See older items.
What's new on the factsheets page:
See older items.
Other site features:
- Syndicate our research links. (Put them on your webpage.) It can be as simple as copying this code into your webpage.
- Instructions on how to put the incarceration clock on your website.
- Download our software mods for controlling a links database.
Electronic books:
- Instead of Prisons: A Handbook for Prison Abolitionists, 1976
- Limits to Pain by Nils Christie, 1981
Other resource lists:
Like the site? Love the book!
Written by the editor of this site and co-published with the Western
Prison Project, The Prison Index: Taking the Pulse of the Crime Control
Industry is the first index of statistics about our nation's criminal
justice system ever published. Containing 611 facts and 17 graphs and
charts, this 48-page volume presents, in black-and-white, the state of
crime control in America. Read more and order online.