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Shouldn’t Innocence Matter? by David C Fathi By David Fathi On August 17, the US Supreme Court ordered a lower federal court in Georgia to conduct a hearing in the case of Troy Anthony Davis. Davis has been on Georgia’s death row for 18 years, sentenced to death for the …
Article • September 15, 2009
Behind Coleman v. Schwarzenegger - Profile of Prison Law Office attorney Donald Specter by Michael Hamden Behind Coleman v. Schwarzenegger September 30, 2009 Corrections Policy Examiner Michael Hamden (www.HamdenConsulting.com) Donald Specter: attorney in the public interest As many know, California’s prison system is grossly overcrowded and there have been repeated …
Article • August 15, 2009 • from PLN August, 2009
Study Shows Few Texas Prisoners Transition Well to Community HIV Treatment by by Matt Clarke On February 25, 2009, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published an article which reported what percentage of Texas prisoners who were receiving Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) for HIV while in prison accessed ART …
Article • August 15, 2009 • from PLN August, 2009
Audit Report Finds Michigan Prisoner Transportation System Wasteful by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Michigan’s Auditor General has issued a report that criticizes the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) prison transport system as inefficient and wasteful of taxpayer money. The report notes that MDOC has failed to implement recommendations …
Article • August 15, 2009 • from PLN August, 2009
Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. The U.S.A., by Mumia Abu-Jamal, Published by City Lights Publishers, ISBN 978-0-8728646-9-6; 286 Pages; $16.95 by Gary Hunter Prisoners helping prisoners with legal issues would not seem strange to most people. But the idea of prisoners protecting the U.S. constitution is a notion not …
Article • August 15, 2009 • from PLN August, 2009
From the Editor by Paul Wright The cover story and a number of other articles in this issue of PLN focus on misconduct by judges. As this article goes to press the anointment hearings of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the US Supreme Court are taking place in the US senate. …
Article • July 15, 2009 • from PLN July, 2009
From the Editor by Paul Wright The past few months have been very busy at PLN. In addition to publishing our first book, the Prisoners Guerrilla Handbook Guide to Correspondence Programs in the US and Canada, we have also been making significant administrative changes. We have changed the name of …
University of Arizona Releases Report on Women Immigration Prisoners by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In January 2009, the Southwest Institute for Research on Women (SWIRW) and the Bacon Immigration Law and Policy Program of the University of Arizona published a report on women held in Arizona immigration prisons. It …
Article • July 15, 2009 • from PLN July, 2009
Sentencing Project Releases Report on Sentencing Policy and Practice by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In February 2009, The Sentencing Project released a report on developments in sentencing policies and practices in 2008. The report notes that, with 2.3 million prisoners, 5 million citizens on parole or probation and a …
Positive Correlation between Mental Illness and Prison Victimization by Jimmy Franks In September 2008, the Center for Behavioral Health Services & Criminal Justice Research (the Center) published its Policy Brief regarding a recent survey conducted to determine the quality of life for prisoners in New Jersey’s Department of Corrections (DOC). …
Bureau of Justice Publishes Report on Sexual Misconduct at Juvenile Facilities by The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) released a report on the prevalence of sexual misconduct and violence at juvenile residential facilities. The report, entitled Sexual Violence Reported by Juvenile Correctional Authorities 2005-06, is in accordance with the Prison …
Article • July 15, 2009 • from PLN July, 2009
Survivor Manual, compiled and edited by Bonnie Kerness, illustrated by Todd Tarselli and other talented artists, 90 pgs. by Sundiata Acoli Book review by Sundiata Acoli This is a Survivor Manual by survivors—so it can’t get much more real than that. Most of its contributors have spent many years in …
An unfair prison litigation system by David C Fathi By David Fathi | August 25, 2009 IN 2004, a teenage girl incarcerated at the Illinois Youth Center in Warrenville was sexually abused by a male employee at the facility. The abuse consisted of repeated acts of oral sex and sexual …
Article • June 15, 2009 • from PLN June, 2009
From the Editor by Paul Wright Our cover story this month examines the travails of Geo Corporation, the second largest private prison company in the world in the state of Texas. We recently noted their pullout from the state of Pennsylvania. Also in this issue of PLN is the Texas …
Article • June 15, 2009 • from PLN June, 2009
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Protecting Your Health & Safety by Brandon Sample Book review by Brandon Sample The murky waters of prisoner self-representation just got a little easier to navigate with the arrival of the second edition of Protecting Your Health & Safety, A Litigation Guide For Inmates. Published by the Southern Poverty Law …
Article • May 15, 2009 • from PLN May, 2009
From the Editor by Paul Wright On March 20, 2009, the National Council on Crime and Delinquency gave Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration, the third PLN anthology on mass imprisonment its respected PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Award. The purpose of the award is to honor …
Article • May 15, 2009 • from PLN May, 2009
Unlock the Box: Documenting the Struggle to Shut Down Prison Control Units, Reel Soldier Productions / MIM (www.abolishcontrolunits.org) 2008, 2:00 hours by David Preston Unlock the Box: Documenting the Struggle to Shut Down Prison Control Units, Reel Soldier Productions / MIM (www.abolishcontrolunits.org) 2008, 2:00 hours Reviewed by David Preston (DP_Editor@comcast.net) …
Texas Increasingly out of Step on Death Penalty by David C Fathi By David Fathi Copyright 2009 Houston Chronicle May 23, 2009, 3:44PM Barring unexpected events, in the next few weeks Gov. Rick Perry of Texas will oversee his 200th execution since taking office in 2000. Perry has already allowed …
Article • April 15, 2009
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
Operationalizing Deterrence: Claims Management (In Hospitals, a Large Retailer, and Jails and Prisons) by Margo Schlanger Margo Schlanger, Washington University School of Law Abstract The theory that the prospect of liability for damages deters risky behavior has been developed in countless articles and books. The literature is far sparser, however, …
Article • April 15, 2009
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
National Prison Reform Commission Begins Work by Margo Schlanger Correctional Law Reporter, Volume 17, No. 1: June/July 2005, at 1 National Prison Reform Commission Begins Work by Margo Schlanger Editor’s Note: Margo Schlanger is Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis, and a member of the Commission on Safety …
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