State
- Meeting for the first time this week, the state's redistricting panel said it would not follow the new law requiring that inmates be counted in their home districts, rather than where they are incarcerated, until the court case on the matter has been settled.
- As word of more layoff notices surfaced this week, Governor Cuomo called on unions to make concessions that would achieve $450 million in workforce savings.
National
- In the latest news from California's prisons -- which the the United States Supreme Court ruled in May were unconstitutionally overcrowded -- thousands of inmates have begun a hunger strike to protest prolonged isolation.
- Citing pressing problems in the system, the Los Angeles Times editorial board called on President Obama to appoint a leader for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
- Pennsylvania faces a recidivism crisis, officials say, citing new Department of Corrections data showing that 55 percent of the state's inmates wound up back behind bars within five years of being released.
- States’ legislative sessions were full of criminal justice reforms, with lawmakers in Kentucky, Ohio and Oklahoma agreeing on major changes in prison policy.
- With a focus on the federal deficit, House GOP leaders have proposed $1 billion in cuts to Justice Department budget that would damage community policing and juvenile justice programs across the country.
- Amid the debate over funding for Medicaid, a new study by the National Bureau of Economic Research shows that when poor people are given medical insurance, they not only see doctors more often but they also feel better, are less depressed and are better able to maintain financial stability.
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