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Jeffrey A. Walker, a Connecticut state prisoner, sued various defendants under 42 U.S.C. §1983 claiming that they conspired to fabricate and distort evidence against him in a state criminal proceeding
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. Attempts to portray officers as villains rather than victims distorts analysis of the prison world and deflects criticisms of prisons themselves.
The article also goes on to describe a study of 40
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California Prisoner Who Broke Already Damaged Jail Cell Door is Not Liable for Full Cost of Replacement
by
The California Court of Appeal, District 5, reversed a Kings County, California
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to unethical experimentation by researchers, Facebook users found the ad offensive, disturbed by the distortion of prisoners’ mental illness as a job benefit for those needed to treat them.
The ad
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Montana Becomes 13th State to End Prison Gerrymandering
by Chuck Sharman
by Chuck Sharman
On February 14, 2023, Montana joined a dozen other states to end prison gerrymandering
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"Super Max" prisons and focused on alleged "gangs" and "gang leaders" in prison. Ohio has gone so far as to manufacture gang members.
The DORC's latest tactic has been to target political activists
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, and our part in the Freedom Struggle, in an ugly and distorted light. Our fellow prisoners need to understand that the government does not give up its torture game. If they think you have information
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and the other prisoners, each serving indeterminate life terms for murder, sought habeas relief.
After discovery and an extensive evidentiary hearing, the Superior Court granted the prisoners' habeas petitions
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the stipulations in a private settlement agreement between the Indiana Department of Corrections (DOC) and a class of prisoners subject to restrictions on incoming mail. The DOC agreed to photocopy non-legal mail
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Complaint in
MacNamara (as filed) at ~~ 2, 70 et ~., 91, 224-26. It is that causal link between Cohen's
alleged fabrication and distortion of intelligence information and the violation of plaintiffs' rights
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,
Incarcerated People and the Census: Painting a Distorted Picture of Virginia (Brennan Center for Justice,
New York, N.Y.) (2005).
“Home” in 2010
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I. Defining “Home” for People in Prison
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Texas Death Machine Faces Renewed Criticism
by
A report released October 16, 2000 by the Texas Defender Service, a nonprofit group that represents death row prisoners, concludes
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The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class and Criminal Justice
by Daniel Burton-Rose
Jeffrey Reiman's book is an excellent antidote to The Real War on Crime and The Tough
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mentioned negatively the DOC's failure to seek reimbursement of costs of incarceration from prisoners as authorized by state statute while noting that the DOC continues to be overcrowded, housing an average
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Meriden, Connecticut Police Officer Remains in Prison as Appeal Denied
by Derek Gilna
In May, 2010, Evan Cossette, a former Meriden police officer, pushed a handcuffed and helpless prisoner
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Former Michigan Prisoner Awarded $1.27 Million for False Arrest and Malicious Prosecution
by
A Michigan federal jury awarded a former prisoner $1.27 million in a malicious prosecution
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to end the use of solitary confinement in America’s prisons, jails, and detention
facilities. As an independent organization that uses medicine and science to stop severe human
rights human violations, PHR
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Prison Town Legislators Represent Prisoners' Interests? Not Quite
by Peter Wagner
On June 7, 2004, talks between the New York State Senate and the Assembly on how to best reform
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Insane Prisoner Cannot Be Executed
by
The United States Supreme Court held the Eighth Amendment prohibits the
state from inflicting the penalty of death upon a prisoner who is insane
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Georgia Ends Contact Visits for Death Row Prisoners
by David Reutter
by David M. Reutter
Three non-execution deaths on Georgia’s death row in as many months, including two suicides, resulted
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