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Pennsylvania, with its long history of solitary confinement, is at the center of a new conflict. Once again, the limits of human endurance are the crucial issue. The Nation reports on a Justice Department investigation into the damaging effects of long-term isolation on inmates suffering from mental illness: "The investigation into SCI Cresson could have important implications beyond Pennsylvania. In addition to determining whether it “provided inadequate mental health care to prisoners who have mental illness [and] failed to adequately protect such prisoners from harm,” according to the DOJ’s official release , investigators will also consider the practice of subjecting mentally ill prisoners to “excessively prolonged periods of isolation, in violation of the Eighth Amendment,” with its ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Even if the particular abuse leveled at McClellan is found to be an aberration, holding mentally unstable prisoners in solitary confinement is a common practi...

Inmates rioted in Mississippi's Adams County Correctional Center, a prison operated by the for-profit Corrections Corporation of America. The Huffington Post reports on the uprising "Sunday's riot is not the first time CCA prisons have seen violence. The high level of violence at a CCA-run prison in Idaho has prompted federal lawsuits, public scrutiny and increased state oversight. In 2010, Vermont inmates being held at a CCA prison in Tennessee were subdued with chemical grenades after refusing to return to their cells." CCA's management of prisons is also the subject of Mark Dow's recent letter to the editor of the Leavenworth Times. "Democracy and prison privatization," Dow writes, "are natural enemies."

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In the federal prison system of early 2019, a huge disconnect exists between administrative platitudes and the policies by which prisoners must live. Often, those discrepancies hinder individuals who are striving to prepare for law-abiding lives upon release. Prison reforms could and should bring the expressed concern for rehabilitation into harmony with the rules that govern prison life. In so doing, such reforms would make a gigantic advancement toward lowering recidivism rates.

At the order of the Commonwealth Court, this information will not be available until we have the approval of the Supreme Court. We have the complete listing of every employee of the Department of Corrections ("DOC") along with where they live and what they are paid. This is the official list required by Pennsylvania law, 72 PS 234, called section 614 of the Administrative Code of 1929. The law requires it to be "public information." It's very enlightening. We citizens can see who works (or at least who's paid) for us in the prison system, where they live and how much we pay them

We in no way endorse or support anything about the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections ("DOC") or anything it does. We do, however, recognize that many persons are trying to find family members, loved ones and friends who have been lost in the deluge of prisoners.