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Prison Systems

What can be done to improve upon our current corrections systems to make them function more as true correctional systems?

Each of the following sites provide perspective on a different portion of America's prison system.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons
http://www.bop.gov/

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice
http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/

The North Carolina Prison System
http://www.doc.state.nc.us/dop/

The California prison system.
http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/

The Florida prison system.
http://www.dc.state.fl.us/

The New York prison system.
http://www.scoc.state.ny.us/

A study of female jail inmates.
http://www.co.pinellas.fl.us/bcc/juscoord/jailcover.htm (women)

Conjugal Visits

A page with numerous links to prisoner family programs.
http://www.fcnetwork.org/

Falling Crime

Right data - declining crime rates - Editorial
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n2_v49/ai_19100526

Bureau of Justice Statistics
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/

California Drug Report Under Fire
http://news.findlaw.com/apbnews/s/20001012/apbreport.html






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