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Jul 15, 2012

Library Dumps Prison Labor After Inmates Walks Away

A Western Kentucky public library is dropping its use of a community service program after an inmate walked away and has yet to be found. The Hopkins County-Madisonville Public Library cited the escape among several factors in its decision to drop the program used by the Hopkins County Jail. Board member Gwendal “Fay” McCaskill told [...]

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Jun 14, 2012

ACLU: U.S. is paying dearly for elderly inmates

On Wednesday, the ACLU released “At America’s Expense: The Mass Incarceration of the Elderly,” a report examining the mushrooming number of prisoners in the U.S. over 50 and the resultant stresses exerted on the corrections system and on our society as a whole. The civil rights group said that states on average could save $66,000 [...]

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