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The Day After The Escape: Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Response to the Two Escapes at MCC Chicago Shows Just How Backward American Correctional Thinking Is

In the first week of January 2013, at the federal prison in which I live, a couple of dozen guards and other staff members — teachers, mostly — stomped into my housing unit and appeared intent on doing a vigorous “shakedown” of our cells and the common areas.  There were no guns or drug-sniffing dogs,

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Federal Inmates Allowed To Utilize MP3 Player Service

In an innovative move by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), federal inmates are now allowed to purchase MP3 players from their institution’s commissary and individual MP3 files through their housing unit’s Trust Fund Limited Inmate Communication System (TRULINCS) computers.  This system is offered via a federal contract with Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) and has

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