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 Too often prison activists use statistics that are out of date, provided without citation or simply wrong.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.
February 2002
Prison author Jack Henry Abbott is dead.
February 14, 2002
According to the New York State Department of Correction, Jack Henry Abbott committed suicide on February 10, 2002.
Abbott spent all but 8 years of his life in prison. He wrote In The Belly of the Beast: Letters from Prison and My Return. Abbott was 58.