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City of Refuge
Everyone has heard about alternative sentencing. What about alternative incarceration? The debate should be expanded to encompass this issue too.
When people get put in prison the great majority become distrustful, angry and radicalized. It is a symptom of theseemingly arbitrary and unfair nature of the environment. This is clearly …
When people get put in prison the great majority become distrustful, angry and radicalized. It is a symptom of theseemingly arbitrary and unfair nature of the environment. This is clearly …
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- Law Librarian Liable for Access Violations
- Choice Between Exercise and Access Struck Down
- Officer's Family Awarded $120,000 for Contracting TB
- Service Complete When Delivered to Prison Officials
- Non-Stenographic Depositions, by Paul Wright
- Federal Tort Claims Act Requires Exhaustion
- No Waiver of Witness Fees for IFP Litigants
- No Cause of Action for Defamation
- Opening Legal Mail States Claim
- Some Evidence Standard Meets Due Process
- Rules for Appointment of Counsel Clarified
- Disobeying State Court Order Basis for Section 1983 Liability
- Texas Studies Housing Prisoners in Foreign Countries, by F Lee Weiss
- Sanctions Against Pro Se Litigant Reversed
- Ad-Seg WACs Do Not Create Liberty Interest
- Section 1988 Attorney Fee Awards Explained
- Texas Proposes to Build State "Jails"
- California Visitor Search Ruling Modified
- The Federal SRA: A Social Experiment Gone Astray, by Lee Alphonso Moore
- No Right to Cross Dress
- Increasing Parole Review Time is Ex Post Facto
- Shackling Plainitff Violates Right to Fair Trial
- Money Damages Available for Consent Decree Violations
- US Marshals Liable for Beating
- Probation Officers Only Entitled to Qualified Immunity
- 9th Circuit Announces New Qualified Immunity Rule
- Dismissal Error for Failing to Obey Local Rules
- Ad Seg Right to Eyeglasses and Toilet Paper
- WA Repeals Cons Tolling Statute
- Retaliatory Transfer States Claim
- Default Appropriate for Obstructing Discovery
- Overcrowding Emergency Measures Get Old
- California Prisons Grow
- Court Reporters Entitled to Only Qualified Immunity
- Prisoners Retain Right of Bodily Privacy
- Disciplinary Isolation Triggers Due Process
- Florida Conditions Lawsuit Settled After 21 years
- Periodical Reviews
- City of Refuge, by David Finney
More from David Finney:
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