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Audio Resources

• California Proposes Selling San Quentin Prison
• Roundtable: Lebanon Cease-Fire, Prison Guinea Pigs
• The Ethics of Torture, Explored in a Painful Fable
   
• Supreme Court weighs life sentences for juveniles
  Retribution versus the possibility of redemption were at the core of Supreme Court arguments Monday in two cases testing whether it is unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment to sentence a juvenile to life in prison without parole — for a crime that does not involve a death.  Florida leads the nation in sentencing juveniles to life in prison without parole for non-homicide crimes. Nationally, of 111 such cases, 77 are in the Sunshine State.   So it is fitting that the cases both came from Florida. One involves a 13-year-old convicted of rape; the other, a 16-year-old convicted of armed robbery.
   
• New Approaches to Discipline Strive to Keep Kids Out of Jail
  School's out for the summer. For young people in New York City, if last summer was any guide, that may mean they're less likely to be arrested.  The connection between young people, especially poor boys of color, getting into trouble in school and getting into trouble with the law is known as the "school-to-prison pipeline."

Video Resources

• USA Reality – Jason Ng’s Death, August 6^th, 2008
  This 10:02 clip is about a thirty-four-year-old Chinese computer engineer, Hiu Lui Ng, who overstayed his visa, and died in a Rhode Island immigration detention center. He had cancer in his liver, lung and bones, and a fractured spine. Despite repeated complaints of severe pain, Mr. Ng was refused independent medical evaluation by immigration officials. Before Mr. Ng died on August 6th, he told his sister that the nurses at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Center in Rhode Island had told him to "stop faking" his illness. Jason Ng's story is the latest in a series of similar cases of neglect and abuse at the hands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE.
   
• FFV Doc: The Stanford Prison Experiment
  This 29:01 video explores the renowned Stanford Prison Experiment. The Stanford prison experiment was a study of the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or prison guard. The experiment was conducted from August 14th to 20th, 1971 by a team of researchers led by Psychology professor Philip Zimbardo at Stanford University. Twenty-four students were selected out of 75 to play the prisoners and live in a mock prison in the basement of the Stanford psychology building.
   
• Guards vs. Inmates
  In this 3:52 clip, prison guards must stun inmates into submission in order to maintain control.  Some argue that the force used is excessive.

Web Resources

• American Civil Liberties Union National Prison Project
• Amnesty International Women in Prison
• Amnesty International Women’s Human Rights
• Correctional Association of New York
• The Corrections Connection
• Corrections Officers Codes of Ethics
• Family and Corrections Network
• Human Rights Watch: Prisons
• International Center for Prison Studies
• National Institute of Corrections (NIC)
• National Prison Rape Elimination Commission
• Penal Reform International
• Prison Reform Advocacy Center
• Rightsforall-usa.org
• Stop Prisoner Rape
• United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (UNAFEI)
• Vera Justice Institute
• Women Coping in Prison

   

• The Evolution of Electronic Monitoring Devices (article)
  Nearly 50 years since it was first designed by social psychology students at Harvard, the electronic monitoring device has become a significant part of the criminal justice system. More popularly associated with law-breaking celebrities like Paris Hilton or Martha Stewart, the electronic ankle bracelet has been used to track hundreds of thousands of sex offenders, DUI offenders, people free on bail and others.
   
• New Report Sheds Light on Life in Solitary Confinement (article)
  A year-long study released today is providing insight into the effects of solitary confinement in New York state prisons. The American Civil Liberties Union of New York talked to more than 100 people who spent time in "extreme isolation." In many cases, they received letters from those people. As The New York Times reports, the men described the experience of losing their minds in "flawed but poignant language."