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Intro -- PRISON GROWTH ANDECONOMIC IMPACT -- PRISON GROWTH ANDECONOMIC IMPACT -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF PRISON GROWTH -- SUMMARY -- CORRECTIONS A RISING CONCERN -- Corrections Sector -- U.S. CORRECTIONS SYSTEM -- PRISONER BOOM -- Incarceration Trends -- PRISON EMPLOYMENT -- Unions -- PRISON CONSTRUCTION -- Rural Prisons -- Cost and Overcrowding -- Financing -- PRIVATE SECTOR -- Private Prison Companies -- The Private Prison Industry -- Corrections Corporation of America -- Geo Group -- Cornell Companies -- Other Private Firms -- Phone Service -- ECONOMIC IMPACT -- Prisons as Drivers of Economic Development -- Shelby, MT -- Hardin, MT -- CHALLENGES FOR POLICYMAKERS -- End Notes -- Chapter 2 PRISONERS IN 2008: BUREAU OF JUSTICE STATISTICS -- HIGHLIGHTS -- SLOWER GROWTH IN THE STATE PRISON POPULATION ASSOCIATED WITH FEWER NEW COURT COMMITMENTS -- NUMBER AND RATE OF PRISON RELEASES INCREASED IN 2008 -- SLOWER GROWTH IN THE PRISON POPULATION SINCE 2000 WAS ASSOCIATED WITH A DECLINE IN THE NUMBER OF SENTENCED BLACK PRISONERS -- FEWER BLACKS IMPRISONED FOR DRUG OFFENSES ACCOUNTED FOR MOST OF THE DECLINE IN THE NUMBER OF SENTENCED BLACKS IN STATE PRISON -- THE U.S. IMPRISONMENT RATE DECREASED FOR THE SECOND TIME SINCE YEAREND 2000 -- MEN AGES 30 TO 34 AND WOMEN AGES 35 TO 39 HAD THE HIGHEST IMPRISONMENT RATES -- STATE PRISON CAPACITIES WERE HIGHER IN 2008 THAN IN 2000 -- PERCENT OF CAPACITY OCCUPIED DECREASED IN 2008 -- METHODOLOGY -- National Prisoner Statistics -- Military Corrections Statistics -- Other Inmate Counts -- Estimating Changes in Admissions and Releases -- Estimating Age-Specific Incarceration Rates -- DEFINITIONS -- End Notes -- Chapter 3 PRISON CONSTRUCTION: CLEAR COMMUNICATION ON THE ACCURACY OF COST ESTIMATES AND PROJECT CHANGES IS NEEDED -- WHY GAO DID THIS STUDY -- WHAT GAO RECOMMENDS -- WHAT GAO FOUND

President Obama has signaled a sharp break from many Bush Administration policies, but he remains committed to federal support for religious social service providers. Like George W. Bush's faith-based initiative, though, Obama's version of the policy has generated loud criticism-from both sides of the aisle-even as the communities that stand to benefit suffer through an ailing economy. God's Economy reveals that virtually all of the critics, as well as many supporters, have long misunderstood both the true implications of faith-based partnerships and their unique potential for advancing social

The growing threat of cyber crime has prompted a global call for countries to enact domestic cyber crime legislations as the first step in the fight against the vice. The predominantly transnational nature of cyber crime requires that domestic legislation must be harmonized in order to eliminate cyber crime safe havens and facilitate effective international cooperation. Simultaneously, it is imperative that such legislation must be diversified in order to address and incorporate country-specific challenges and needs. Balancing the competing needs for harmonization and diversification is, therefore, one of the major challenges when enacting domestic cyber crime legislations. This three-part article investigates whether, and to what extent, the legislations of three select countries of the Southern African Development Community (i.e., Botswana's Cyber crime and Computer Related Crimes Act, Tanzania's Cyber crimes Act and Malawi's Electronic Transactions and Cyber security Act) are balancing the two needs. This article examines the substantive law provisions of the three legislations, particularly the cyber crime offences against the confidentiality, integrity and availability of computers systems and data.

John M. Maki, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, died December 7, 2006, at age
97. His wife, Mary, "an ideal wife," partner in an "ideally happy
marriage," died in 1990. (Quotations are drawn from his
autobiography, Voyage through the Twentieth Century
[2004].) Two sons, John A. and James P., survive him. So, too, his
good reputation.