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Publication

Filed under: Magazines, ACLU National Prison Project Journal

problems, and could, because of sheer numbers, go on endlessly," says Bronstein. "Much of what we have learned in the twelve years of the National Prison Project can be successfully replicated in the jail ...

Ppv Publication Just Out Early Lessons From the Ready 4 Work Prisoner Reentry Initiative 02 2005

Publication

Filed under: Prisoner Privileges, Release and Reentry

to fulﬁll all of these roles well. This situation is not unusual as new programs evolve: It often takes time to fully identify what is involved in speciﬁc staff roles. As the Ready4Work initiative took shape ...

The Prison Industry, Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, 2010

Publication • July 26, 2016

Filed under: Work, Prison Industries, Prison Labor

in the country. The increases have also created what many have called a “prison industrial complex” that is as problematic as the “military industrial complex” (Shelden, 2010, chapter 2). The Prison Industrial ...

Pro Se 16-2

Publication

Filed under: Magazines, Pro Se Magazine

a Closed World: What Constitutes Effective Prison Oversight?” The conference brought together a distinguished group of prison advocates, prison officials, and political and academic professionals from all ...

Known Unknowns Unconventional Strategic Shocks in Defense Strategy Devel Strategic Studies Inst 2008

Publication

Filed under: Military

to current convention. These are artifacts of defense conservatism, finite resources, and Bureaucracy 101. Senior defense and military leadership naturally err on the side of what is known and practiced ...

Vera Institute of Justice - Preventing suicide and self-harm in jail, 2019

Publication • July 1, 2019

Filed under: Eighth Amendment, Jail Specific, Suicides, Failure to Protect (Staff), 42 U.S. Code § 1983, civil action for deprivation of rights

lack direction on what Preventing Suicide and Self-Harm in Jail: A Sentinel Events Approach 7 robust practice looks like. Vera’s policy review and interviews revealed, for example, that the jails did ...

In Re Prisoners Ma Corr Inst Ma Am and First Supp Admin Agency Prisoner Phone Rates 2010

Brief • 2010

Filed under: Telephones

, attached as Exhibit A-5, ~ 6. When the telephone monitoring system detects what it interprets as an attempt to add a third party, a recording comes on telling the parties that the call is being discOlmected ...

Denver Police Department Discipline Handbook Conduct Principle and Disciplinary Guidelines 2008

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Filed under: Police, Police Department Manuals

in determining whether a violation should be sustained and, if so, what the appropriate penalty should be. 6.3 Similarly, the imposition of disciplinary sanctions may also have an impact on future status ...

Ma Prisoner Phone Rates Amendment 1 to Petition Against Gtl Evercom With Affidavits 2010

Publication

Filed under: Telephones

DiGirolamo, attached as Exhibit A -5, ~ 6. When the telephone monitoring system detects what it interprets as an attempt to add a third party, a recording comes on telling the parties that the call is being ...

Lessons Not Learned Ny Innocence Report 2007

Publication

Filed under: Sentencing, Wrongful Conviction

are brief summaries of what four of the most recent exonerees lost, and how they are trying to rebuild their lives: Alan Newton, exonerated in 2006 In 1984, Bronx native Alan Newton was on trial for a rape ...

Dell-Orfano v. Romano-962 F.2d 199 (2nd Cir. 1992)

Case • 1992

, in a letter dated August 11, 1988, Dell'Orfano, appearing pro se, initiated what he termed a "Show Cause" action in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Suffolk County ("New York Supreme Court ...

Miller v. Schoenen-75 F.3d 1305 (8th Cir. 1996)

Case • 1996

in a qualified-immunity appeal does not mean that we have jurisdiction to review all of the points addressed in the summary-judgment motion. Only those issues that concern what the official knew at the time ...

Hendricks v. Coughlin-114 F.3d 390 (2nd Cir. 1997)

Case • 1997

to pursue the litigation in an orderly way. At the end of the day, of course, we continue to adhere to what we said in Cooper's careful spelling out of both the relevant considerations and their appropriate ...

McBride v. Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice-964 S.W.2d 18 (Tex.App.-Tyler 1997)

Case • 1997

S.W.2d 374, 380 (Tex. 1993). Summary judgment must be affirmed if any of the theories advanced are meritorious Id. In the instant case, the trial court did not specify upon what basis it granted ...

Smith v. District of Columbia-182 F.3d 25 (DC cir. 1999)

Case • 1999

by the district court on December 11, 1997. Amicus argues that we cannot determine whether the appeals from the three earlier dismissals were timely because it is not apparent from the record on what date Smith ...

Davis v. Kelly-160 F.3d 917 (2nd Cir. 1998)

Case • 1998

] Vacated and remanded for further proceedings. [12] This appeal by a prisoner challenging what he alleges is a retaliatory transfer primarily concerns the appropriate Disposition of a complaint ...

Chavez v. Cady-207 F.3d 901(7th Cir. 2000)

Case • 2000

that the next shift would know what was going on. During this period, Chavez says that his stomach hurt so badly that he was curled up in a ball on the floor. He continued to vomit and later to have dry heaves ...

Billman v. Indiana Department of Corrections-56 F.3d 785 (7th Cir. 1995)

Case • 1995

prevented him from preparing what may well be a meritorious complaint. [24] Our discussion to this point has mainly concerned Billman's cell assignment. There is the further claim that guards failed to stop ...

Perez v. Wisconsin DOC-182 F3d 532 (7th Cir. 1999)

Case • 1999

of exercise, physical therapy, and basic pain control medicine such as Ibuprofen. Now back in Wisconsin's prisons, Perez filed this suit under 42 U.S.C. sec.1983, seeking damages for what he describes as cruel ...

Reynolds v. Green-184 F.3d 589 (6th Cir. 1999)

Case • 1999

objected, stating as follows: [H]e agreed to this verdict form, and he is trying to change the rules in the middle of the game. It's not fair to myself or my client. We agreed to this. This is clear what ...