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For years now, officials at the Department of Public Safety (DPS) have raised concerns about overcrowding in Hawaii’s correctional facilities, and new figures show that this predicament is only getting worse. Photo Credit: Flickr/Edmund Garman
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Hawaii Struggles as Overcrowding in Corrections Worsens

Correctional News

For years now, officials at the Department of Public Safety (DPS) have raised concerns about overcrowding in Hawaii’s correctional facilities, and new figures show that this predicament is only getting worse.

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Writer and civil rights advocate Michelle Alexander’s book, “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” has been banned in New Jersey's correctional institutions. Photo Credit: WikiCommons
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Banned Books Raise Inmate Rights Issues in the Northeast

Correctional News

The words of Oscar Wilde and other famous authors soon won’t be available to some inmates in New York and New Jersey whose reading choices are being decided — and some say denied — by the states in which they’re incarcerated.

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