Articles by Daniel A. Rosen | Prison Legal News

ICE Detainees Pepper-Sprayed Over Hunger Strike

Loaded on Nov. 1, 2020 by Daniel A. Rosen published in Prison Legal News November, 2020, page 46

Filed under: Hunger Strikes, Pepper Spray/Tear Gas. Location: New Mexico.

by Daniel A. Rosen

Migrants in ICE custody in New Mexico were attacked with pepper spray on May 14, 2020, to end a days-long hunger strike. The detainees, housed at Torrance County Detention Facility, privately run by CoreCivic, were protesting the food quality and lack of protection from …

Prison Postcard: Life in the Time of COVID, Correctional Center, Virginia

Loaded on Oct. 1, 2020 by Daniel A. Rosen published in Prison Legal News October, 2020, page 22

Filed under: COVID-19, Conditions of Confinement. Location: Virginia.

by Daniel Rosen

I’m here at the Greensville Correctional Center in southern Virginia. This place holds up to 3,000 inmates. On August 7, we went on lockdown for the second time in four months. There were just too many virus cases and too few staff for this place …

Former Prisoners Are Running for Office In 2020

Loaded on Aug. 1, 2020 by Daniel A. Rosen published in Prison Legal News August, 2020, page 58

Filed under: Prison Reform, Restrictions, discrimination, Voting Rights. Locations: Alabama, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Tennessee, Washington, West Virginia.

by Daniel A. Rosen

When those who have been incarcerated run for office, they can speak with authority about prison reform. They bring credibility that others simply can’t. In 2020, more ex-inmates than ever are coming out of the shadows and running for office, viewing their time behind …