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Recent 2005 Articles

• After 2 Cases in Florida, Crackdown on Molesters.pdf
• CAIs Joining Shift on Prisons.pdf
• Congress Rekindles Battle on Mandatory Sentences .pdf
• Fortune_society.pdf
• Governor Aims to Rehabilitate Prison System.pdf
• Inmates Who Follow Satanism and Wicca.pdf
• Justices Tighten Review of California Prison segregation.pdf
• Keeping tabs on ex-convicts to get harder.pdf
• Reshaping Capital Punishmen.pdf
• Rikers Suicide.pdf
• Texas Accuses Bush of Trampling Its Autonomy in Death Penalty.pdf
• texas.pdf
• The Blessing of Lono.pdf
• Uncaptive Minds.pdf
• When Rapists Walk Free.pdf
• Where is a sex offender to live.pdf

New Week of June 14, 2004

• Appealing a Death Sentence Based on Future Danger
• Madness in Maximum Security
• Torture Incarnate, and Propped on a Pedestal
• Killing of Officer Stirs Death Penalty Debate
• Offering Ministry, and Early Release, to Prisoners
• Whistle blown on crime bill
• The Voice: On the Outside, Looking in
• Throwing Away the Key
• Death row criticism fills book by inmate
• America's Abu Ghraibs
• 1 of Every 75 U.S. Men in Prison
• Shift in prison philosophy / After 30 years of stressing punishment, rehabilitation is back
• Abuse of Captives More Widespread, Says Army Survey
• Union Keeps Tight Rein on Prisons
• Jail fees increase inmates' debt to society
• Mentally ill relegated to jail cells
• Florida Intends to Mark Death Penalty Return
• Regarding the Torture of Others
• Lawyers protest sharp cut in pay
• Federal investigators probe tribal prison deaths
• Geneva Conventions: Justice Memos Explained How to Skip Prisoner Rights
• In some US prisons, echoes of Abu Ghraib
• Mexico celebrates Oklahoma decision to commute death sentence for Mexican prisoner
• The Dark Side of America
• Saving Private England
• Prison Guard Calls Abuse Routine and Sometimes Amusing
• Stakes Are High in Jail's Game of Chance
• Religious studies credited with cutting prison violence
• Suspect in Witness' Death Roamed Jail for Hours
• Prisons review results from 'get-tough' era
   

Week of May 3rd, 2004

• A Beaten Path Back to Prison
• Army Punishes 7 With Reprimands for Prison Abuse
• From a Picture of Pride to a Symbol of Abuse in Iraq
• Lesser Evils
• Massachusetts Offers Plan for Death Penalty
• Mistreatment of Prisoners Is Called Routine in U.S.
• My Life as a Guard
• Purge felon voters on list
• Report Warns of Infiltration by Al Qaeda in U.S. Prisons
• Study offers new take on sex offenders
• The Military Archipelago
• In Abuse, a Portrayal of Ill-Prepared, Overwhelmed G.I.'s
• The move to high-tech tracking of inmates
• With Longer Sentences, Cost of Fighting Crime Is Higher
   

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• ’Life on the Outside’: The Other Lockup
• 15 days of anguish
• A Catch-22 for Ex-Offenders
• Agency Blasted in Abuse Probe
• An Infusion of Religious Funds In Fla. Prisons
• Court Hears Case on U.S. Detainees
• Court Tells U.S. to Review Death Sentences
• Death sentences by judges: Should they be thrown out?
• Ex-hostage goes public, wins praise
• Fairness for Ex-Offenders
• Justice Dept. Urges Changes at Federal Jail
• Oiling the Revolving Door
• Parole denied for kids who get life
• Prison Held Gang Members in Lockdown for Almost 2 Years
• Prison standoff cost $3.6 mil
• Prisoners in the Virtual Classroom
• Seeking not-so-hard time
• Va. Seeks New Role Against Illegals
• When California got tough on crime
• Young offenders at risk in FL

Look for articles like these for the second half of the course assignments. You can use one or two of these to get you started.

There are a number of ways to collect news stories about prisons:

The organization of Criminal Justice Journalists sends a daily email of major criminal justice stories written by their members, and appearing in national newspapers. Criminal Justice Journalists (CJJ) provides a summary of the nation's top crime and justice news stories with Internet links, if any. If you are interested in receiving their news report, Crime & Justice News, please use their registration form. You can also go to their News Center site to search all archived CJN stories.

 

A site that specifically sends out information on international criminal justice news stories, including corrections in the U/S. and other countries, is WJIN: The World Justice Information Network. You will need to enroll with WJIN first, then sign up for the news clipping service.

News bots can help you be selective by searching the websites of newspapers, magazines, and e-zines to find new articles that are of specific interest to you. You can request that all stories on prisons, punishment, the death penalty, probation, etc. be tracked by using any of these as keywords.

News Bots are reviewed here.
http://www.botspot.com/dailybot/newsbot.html

Other suggestions for services that will send stories to you via email include the New York Times (use their news tracker service to create personal daily news clippings).

Google now has a news search feature as well.

In order to track current news stories one can build an online, updateable newspaper/magazine page or set up a news clipping service. Crayon assists you in building a customized newspaper choosing from the specific sections of thousands of online newspapers and other media sources. As these newspaper sections are updated daily, your personal Crayon newspaper continues to provide up to date news.

You may locate other ways to track such stories. Please share these with the class via email. If you locate other good news clipping services, please let the class know about them.

As an FSU student you can use the Lexis-Nexis news service, too. It's directly linked from the FSU Library databases page under L.