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NATIONAL Local Democracy on ICE: Why State and Local Governments Have No Business in Federal Immigration Law Enforcement
NATIONAL Washington Post on Gangs and Public Safety
NATIONAL Star.com: U.S. gang crackdowns called a 'tragic failure'
NATIONAL Gang Wars: The Failure of Enforcement Tactics and the Need for Effective Public Safety Strategies
NATIONAL NY Times: The Wrong Approach to Gangs
NATIONAL Doing borrowed time: The high cost of back-door prison finance
MARYLAND Progress and Challenges: An analysis of drug treatment and imprisonment in Maryland
ALABAMA Alabama's crisis continues
NATIONAL Hard Hit: The Growth in the Imprisonment of Women, 1977-2004
NATIONAL Mountain States Imprisoning More Women
OHIO Number of women prisoners climbs in Ohio, bucking downward trend among men
OREGON Oregon women hard-hit by prison population growth
CONNECTICUT Supporters Urge Change to Laws on Drug-free School Zones (CT)
NEW JERSEY Study Concludes Drug-free Zones Not Protecting Children (NJ)
NATIONAL Disparity by Design: How drug-free zone laws impact racial disparity – and fail to protect youth
NEW JERSEY New Jersey drug-free zone laws produce "devastating" disparity, no deterrence
CONNECTICUT Connecticut drug-free zone laws blanket minority neighborhoods but fail to deter drug activity
MASSACHUSETTS Massachusetts drug-free zone law ineffective, not evenly enforced
NATIONAL Drug-Free School Zone Laws Questioned
WISCONSIN Treatment Instead of Prisons: A Roadmap for Sentencing and Correctional Policy in Wisconsin
OHIO Ohio combines sentencing reform and community corrections to rein in prison budget
ALABAMA Groups say prison not addicts' place (AL)
ALABAMA Alabama Prison Crisis
MARYLAND Unfinished Business: How Sentencing Guidelines Reform Can Further Efforts to Reduce Substance Abuse in Maryland
ARIZONA Report: No reliable data on private prison savings (AZ)
ARIZONA Cost-Saving or Cost-Shifting: The Fiscal Impact of Prison Privatization in Arizona
NATIONAL From Abu Ghraib to America
OREGON Did Oregon's Measure 11 work? Other States Achieve Greater Crime Reductions at Lower Cost
NATIONAL The Three-Ring Bond Circus: How bond deals work
ARIZONA Arizona lawmakers join call for sentencing reform
ARIZONA Arizona Prison Crisis: A Call for Smart On Crime Solutions

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