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Publication • December 1, 2016
Filed under: Organizing, Voting
Breaking the Barriers to the Ballot Box - A Campaign to End Felon Disfranchisement, ACLU, 2008 BREAKING BARRIERS TO THE BALLOT BOX Felon Enfranchisement Toolkit Right to Vote: A Campaign to End Felony Disfranchisement www.aclu.org/righttovote Dear Friends, Right to Vote: A Campaign to End Felony Disfranchisement (Right to Vote) is …
Publication • December 1, 2016
Filed under: Organizing, Voting
Voting Law Changes in 2012, Brennan Center for Justice, 2012 brennan center for justice Voting L aw Changes in 2012 Wendy R. Weiser and Lawrence Norden Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law about the brennan center for justice The Brennan Center for Justice at New …
Publication • December 1, 2016
Filed under: Organizing, Voting
Purged - How a patchwork of flawed and inconsistent voting systems could deprive millions of Americans of the Right to Vote, ACLU, 2004 How a patchwork of flawed and inconsistent voting systems could deprive millions of Americans of the right to vote STATE REPORT CARDS Rating States On Each Purge …
Publication • December 1, 2016
Filed under: Organizing, Voting
De Facto Disenfranchisement, ACLU & NYU Law, 2008 De faCTo DIsenfRanChIsemenT Erika Wood and Rachel Bloom American Civil Liberties Union and Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law about the american civil liberties union The American Civil Liberties Union is the nation’s premier guardian of liberty, …
Publication • November 30, 2016
When I Die, They'll Send Me Home - Youth Sentenced to LWOP in CA, HRW, 2008 United States When I Die, They’ll Send Me Home Youth Sentenced to Life without Parole in California H U M A N R I G H T S W A T C H January …
Brief • November 29, 2016
Lilly v. City of New York, NY, Rothman Declaration in Support of Attorney's Fees, 2016 Case 1:16-cv-00322-ER Document 27 Filed 11/29/16 Page 1 of 20 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ---------------------------------------------------------------X KAYHEEM LILLY, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) -against) ) THE CITY OF NEW YORK; NYPD …
Extended Sentence by The formerly incarcerated are facing crippling prison debt when they get out, and it needs to stop. By Larry Schwartztol and Abby Shafroth, Slate When David Silva returned in 2006 from serving 38 months in New Jersey state prison for offenses related to his substance abuse, he faced more than …
"The System Abuses Us by Locking Us Up Forever": Aging Survivors Behind Bars by Victoria Law By Victoria Law, Truthout On October 6, 2016, 15-year-old Bresha Meadows will appear in an Ohio family court for the death of her abusive father. Meadows had spent a lifetime watching her father hit, …
Mass Incarceration In Rural Communities: Out of Sight, Out of Mind by By David Gutierrez, Harvard Political Review When the local economy of Susanville, California stagnated, the town tried to use a newly constructed prison as a recovery tool. Opened in the late 1990s, High Desert State Prison cost $272 million to build. High Desert, …
Indiana Woman Spared Death Penalty and Eventually Released Takes Own Life by Derek Gilna Paula Cooper, convicted for participating in a murder of an elderly grandmother in Indiana in 1984, when she was 15, was sentenced to death before eventually having her sentence  commuted  in 1989 to 60 years in …
Article • November 15, 2016
Sentencing Commission Report Finds Crack Convictions Halved by Fair Sentencing Act by Derek Gilna When Congress Passed the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 (FSA), it reduced the 100 to 1 disparity for crack cocaine offenses compared to cocaine offenses to 18 to 1.  The intent was to reduce sentences and, …
Cuomo, New York Fail to "Raise the Age" As to Juveniles Tried As Adults by Christopher Zoukis Sixteen and seventeen-year-olds charged with crimes in New York courts will continue to be tried as adults, as Governor Andrew Cuomo and the legislature ended the 2015 lawmaking session without a law to …
A Primer on Prisoners’ Constitutional Rights by Alex Friedmann Prison Legal News (PLN) regularly reports on prison and jail-related court decisions involving violations of prisoners’ constitutional rights. Those who are new to the arena of civil rights litigation and unfamiliar with prisoners’ few remaining rights may need a basic introduction …
When Prison is Not Enough: The Rise (and Perhaps the Fall) of the Supermax Prison by by Keramet Reiter In 1986, the Security Management Unit opened in Florence, Arizona. It was a new kind of prison designed for long-term, total isolation, for prisoners whom prison officials said simply could not …
Article • November 8, 2016 • from PLN November, 2016
Company Offers Educational Tablets to Prisoners, with Mixed Results by Matthew Clarke A new educational product offered by a private company is being provided to prisoners in an increasing number of the nation’s jails – computer tablets supplied by Chicago-based Edovo (a name derived from “Education Over Obstacles”). Edovo tablets …
CDCR Drug-sniffing Dog Trainer Resigns Over Switch to “Passive” Dogs by Joe Watson After resigning from his position, an expert dog trainer and veteran of California’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) for more than 25 years has criticized a new program to reduce prison drug smuggling. Wayne Conrad, 61, …
Canadian Solitary Confinement Deaths Result in Rare Lawsuits, Eventual Reforms by Mark Wilson Deaths in Canadian federal prisons associated with the prolonged placement of prisoners in solitary confinement, as well as challenges to the use of segregation in provincial jails, have resulted in some limited reforms. Ashley Smith was sentenced …
Justice Policy Institute Report Challenges Reformers to Focus on Violent Crimes by Derek Gilna There is bipartisan consensus on both the state and federal levels that the number of incarcerated non-violent offenders should be reduced, and that process has slowly begun to build momentum. As the U.S. prison population has …
Article • November 8, 2016 • from PLN November, 2016
Arkansas Secretary of State Issues Faulty Felon Data, Thousands Purged from Electoral Rolls by It will be up to county clerks in Arkansas to fix a grand-scale mistake by Secretary of State Mark Martin’s office, and the ability of thousands of people to vote in November’s general election is in …
Wisconsin: Prison Hunger Strike Reaches Crisis Point by According to an August 22, 2016 report from Workers World, an ongoing hunger strike at the Waupun Correctional Institution in Wisconsin has reached a crisis point. A group of at least eight prisoners at Waupun and the Columbia Correctional Institution began refusing …
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