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The New Asylum: Supermax as Warehouse for the Mentally Ill

Loaded on July 15, 2007 by David C Fathi published in Prison Legal News July, 2007, page 1
Filed under: Mental Health, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides. Location: United States of America.
by David C. Fathi1

The prison industry, like any other, has its fashions. And in the 1990s, "supermax" prisons were a raging fad. According to Chase Riveland, former secretary of corrections in Washington and Colorado, [t]hey have become political symbols of how "tough" a jurisdiction has become. In some places, …

 

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  1. The New Asylum: Supermax as Warehouse for the Mentally Ill, by David C Fathi
  2. $27,500 Settlement for Rape of Four Women Prisoners in Pittsburgh Jail
  3. From the Editor, by Paul Wright
  4. Delaware Forced to Clean-up Medical Care by DOJ Settlement, by David Reutter
  5. Delaware DOC Still Defends Abysmal Medical Care, Prisoners Still Die From Medical Neglect
  6. Florida Boot Camp Death Results in Manslaughter Charges Against 7 Guards and Nurse; Civil Claims Settled for $7,425,000
  7. Colorado Settles Class Action Prison Disability Discrimination Suit For Over $3 Million
  8. BOP Settles “Terrorism” Classification Privacy Act Suit for $3,000
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  10. $13,655,940 Award For False Massachusetts Rape Conviction, by Matthew Clarke
  11. Seminole County Jail Settles Strip Search Suits; Judge Removed From Bench
  12. Arkansas Ups Work-Release Fees to Pay for Guard-Drivers
  13. North Carolina Women Prisoners Work Call/Bulk Mail Centers For Slave Wages
  14. Prison Skin-Art Pared From Canadian Budget, by Gary Hunter
  15. Texas County Jail Settles Sex Assault Suits For Undisclosed Sum
  16. California Ban On Hardcover Books Held Unconstitutional, by John Dannenberg
  17. Florida Newspaper Revokes Permission to Post Article Critical of Judge
  18. Florida Eliminates DNA Testing Deadline
  19. Prisoner’s Death Following Failure To Give Intake Medical Examination Settled By Los Angeles County For $700,000, by John Dannenberg
  20. Texas Prison Chief Escapes Sex Charges, Convicted of Lesser Offenses, by Gary Hunter
  21. $5 Million Jury Award Against Doctor in Death of Michigan Prisoner
  22. MTC Stiffs Guards and Other Employees $169,105
  23. California Lifers’ Parole Reversals Tossed by Two State Appellate Courts, by Marvin Mentor
  24. Move From Texas Legislator To Lobbyist Poses Ethical Question, by Gary Hunter
  25. Drunk PA DOC Attorney Charged in Hit-and-Run
  26. Satellite Surveillance Approved For Wisconsin Sex Offenders, by Gary Hunter
  27. Tennessee DOC’s Double Standard, by G.A. Bowers
  28. Louisville, Kentucky, Settles with Wrongly Imprisoned Man for $3.9 Million
  29. Temporary Restraining Order Suspends California’s Sex Offenders’ Housing Banishment Law, by John Dannenberg
  30. More Settlements and Verdicts in New Hampshire False Disciplinary Charge Case
  31. $9,063,000 Jury Award For Illinois False Rape Conviction, by Matthew Clarke
  32. Arizona Enacts Three Strikes Law, Again
  33. Federal Court Continues To Enforce Decade-Old California Prison Guards’ “Code-Of-Silence” Ruling
  34. San Francisco Civil Grand Jury Cites Continuing Jail Deficiencies, by John Dannenberg
  35. New York City Settles With Stabbed Riker’s Prisoner For $40,000
  36. Los Angeles County Pays Informant $80,000 For Failed Witness Protection
  37. Three Failures To Segregate Vulnerable Jail Prisoner Costs Los Angeles County $44,000
  38. $30,000 Settlement For Woman Raped By Missouri Jail Prisoner
  39. Governor’s Task Force Recommends Changes in Florida’s Prison System Mission
  40. $90,000 Awarded for Broken Hand During NY Prison Job Assignment, by David Reutter
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  42. Michigan Prisoner Boycotts Rape Trial, Still Acquitted
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