Friday Tweets: Texting Behind Bars

by Matt Kelley · 2009-06-05 12:46:00 UTC
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The federal prison system is thinking of jamming cell phones in prisons, the phone companies don't like that plan.

California confiscated 2,800 cell phones in state prisons last year.

Mike Farrell (of MASH fame) in a Q&A on DailyKos: "We should investigate and institute more alternatives to incarceration."

Farrell on prison rape at HuffPo (last year): "You may know that our prisons are appalling. If you don't, you should; you're responsible."

A great episode of PBS' Religion & Ethics focused on the missing pieces when 10 percent of an urban community goes to prison.

Addiction is on the rise in Mexico as drugs bound for the U.S. are consumed domestically instead.

Former Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper says if we don't like our drug laws, we should do something about it. Great video here via Reason Magazine.

A new book from Japan tells the previously-secret stories of the people sitting on the country's death row. It's called "Please Don't Extinguish the Spark of Life."

And the retweets of the week:

@bnewmiller RT @TomokoHosaka: http://bit.ly/xr0Y7. Wrongful conviction case dominates headlines in Japan. DNA evidence frees man after 17 years.

@ToddinNMpls RT @act4humanrights: "Take Action: Photojournalism in Brazil: Legal Rights and Criminal Justice http://tinyurl.com/qr5hlc "

@jubilantjudy CT Senate votes for abolition of the death penalty. Come on Jodi Rell - surprise us!

Matt Kelley is the Online Communications Manager at the Innocence Project and a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Follow him on Twitter @mattjkelley.
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