Internet Resources

• Sex Offenders: Sex Offender Residency Restrictions -- an LLRX.com guide
• Debt to Society: The Real Price of Prisons There are more people behind bars in the United States today than ever before. Since 1980, the inmate population has more than quadrupled to two million -- an unprecedented explosion that is incurring unprecedented costs to all Americans. A MotherJones.com Special Report.
• The Execution Tapes is an hour-long public radio special featuring excerpts of recordings made in Georgia's death house during state electrocutions. The program features audio of an execution that had to be "reinitiated" -- that is, an execution in which the inmate is still alive after being electrocuted for two minutes, requiring that he be electrocuted again. There is also a selection of inmates' final statements, recorded immediately before their execution.
• The Sentencing Project- The Sentencing Project Website is designed to provide resources and information for the news media and a public concerned with criminal justice and sentencing issues. This site also includes news and information about the National Association of Sentencing Advocates (NASA), which The Sentencing Project sponsors, and professional information of use to its members. They also provide information about the Campaign for an Effective Crime Policy. The Sentencing Project has helped promote defense- based alternative sentencing programs and services nationwide.
• United States -- Punishment & Prejudice Racial Disparities in the War on Drugs. - Human Rights Watch Report, May 2000. This report shows that blacks comprise 62.7 percent and whites 36.7 percent of all drug offenders admitted to state prison, even though federal surveys and other data detailed in this report show clearly that this racial disparity bears scant relation to racial differences in drug offending. Even worse racial disparities appear in individual states. In seven states, for example, blacks constitute between 80 and 90 percent of all drug offenders sent to prison.
• A Broken System: Error Rates in Capital Cases, 1973-1995- by James S. Liebman, Jeffrey Fagan & Valerie West. June 12, 2000. Columbia Law School.
• The Corrections Connection - a large online resource for news & information in corrections. Includes a listserv, links to many topical pages, and links to many professional associations.
• New England Journal on Civil and Criminal Confinement. - Scholarly journal promoting the advancement of new ideas in the fields of criminal, juvenile, and civil confinement law.
• Institute for Law & Justice - this page reflects activities in corrections. Generally, it does not repeat the materials that can be found in listings for the Office of Justice Programs (DOJ) agencies.
• New England Law Library Criminal Justice Resources.