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PRISONERS’ RIGHTS: A REVIEW OF 35 YEARS OF FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2009
By Michael E. Deutsch and Jan Susler [The authors, lawyers with the People’s Law Office in Chicago, have a long history of work on behalf of prisoner rights and political prisoners]
Filed under:
Transfers,
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Political Prisoners,
Prison Rebellion,
Failure to Treat,
Malpractice,
Disciplinary Litigation,
Liberty Interests,
Witnesses (Disciplinary Hearings),
Notice of Charges,
Sanctions (Disciplinary Hearings),
Notice of Hearing,
Written Findings,
Disciplinary Appeals,
Confrontation,
Counsel,
Totality of Conditions,
Failure to Protect (General),
Eighth Amendment,
Lockdowns,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Prisoner Privileges,
Prisoner Legal Assistance,
Legal Property,
Legal Materials,
Law Library Access/Adequacy,
Eleventh Amendment Immunity,
Qualified Immunity,
Supervisory Liability,
Sovereign Immunity,
Mail Regulations,
Due Process,
Legal Mail,
Ad-Seg Hearings,
Mental Health,
Required Religious Programming,
Denial of Religious Services.
Location:
United States of America.
In 1969 there were less than 300,000 people in federal and state prisons and county jails in the U.S.---about ...
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