Between the Bars/Links

Prisoner blogs

 * http://jonsjailjournal.blogspot.com/
 * http://prisonpete.blogspot.com/
 * http://supportdaniel.org/blog/

I spoke to Jon of Jons Jail Journal on the phone. He's free now, but is posting letters from people he met in prison.

More

 * http://ccadp.proboards40.com/index.cgi
 * http://www.prisontalk.com/

writing prisoners advice:


 * http://www.anarchistblackcross.org/support/writing.html
 * http://www.humanwrites.org/contact-us.php

global blogs for people who don't have easy access:


 * http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/

Access and the law


 * http://www.ojr.org/ojr/law/1082592378.php (!!!!!!)
 * http://www.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/ctt/col1196.html

Penpal services:


 * http://www.prisonpenpals.com/
 * http://www.outlawsonline.com/
 * http://www.writeaprisoner.com/
 * http://www.conpals.com/
 * http://www.juju.cc/

political support services:


 * http://www.ccadp.org/
 * http://www.spr.org/ (http://www.spr.org/en/survivorstories/main.asp)
 * http://www.aclu.org/prison/index.html
 * http://prisoners.com/

General prison info
"2,299,116 prisoners were held in federal or state prisons or in local jails."

"At midyear 2007 there were 4,618 black male sentenced prisoners per 100,000 black males in the United States, compared to 1,747 Hispanic male sentenced prisoners per 100,000 Hispanic males and 773 white male sentenced prisoners per 100,000 white males."

"In 2004 there were an estimated 633,700 State prisoners serving time for a violent offense. State prisons also held an estimated 265,600 property offenders and 249,400 drug offenders."


 * http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/prisons.htm
 * http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/pim07.pdf

At yearend 2005, an estimated 18,953 males and 1,935 females in State prisons were HIV-infected or had confirmed AIDS


 * An estimated 60,500 inmates (or 4.5% of all State and Federal inmates) experienced one or more incidents of sexual victimization involving other inmates or staff.
 * Nationwide, about 2.1% of inmates reported an incident involving another inmate and 2.9% reported an incident involving staff.
 * Among the 146 prison facilities in the 2007 NIS, 6 had no reports of sexual victimization from the sampled inmates; 10 had an overall victimization rate of at least 9.3%.
 * Among the 10 facilities with the highest overall prevalence rates, 3 had prevalence rates of staff sexual misconduct that exceeded 10%.

positional stats:


 * http://www.drugwarfacts.org/racepris.htm

On felony disenfranchisement: JK1846.M26 2006 (Dewey stacks)

Gelony disenfranchisement: ref/prison/Uggen_*

Legal precedent for prisoner internet access:


 * http://www.ojr.org/ojr/law/1082592378.php --