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Deadly Nostalgia: The Politics of Boot Camps by Christian Parenti The short, stout eighth grader Gina Score, was never much of an athlete. But that didn't matter to the staff at South Dakota's Plankinton boot camp for girls, where militarystyle discipline and calisthenics were the modus operandi and, as staff …
Article • February 15, 2001 • from PLN February, 2001
Yeskey Dismissed on Remand by In the September, 1998 issue of PLN we reported Pennsylvania DOC v. Yeskey, 118 S.Ct. 1952 (1998) in which the United States supreme court held that prisons and jails are included in the coverage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, (ADA) 42 UJ.S.C. S 12131-12165. …
New Jersey Jail Settles Chemical Burn Suit for $900,000 by On April 20, 1999, Atlantic County, New Jersey, paid $900,000 to settle a lawsuit involving extensive chemical burns suffered by a prisoner forced to do calisthenics in a pit filled with caustic chemicals. David Zamot was a non violent offender …
Article • March 15, 1999 • from PLN March, 1999
Book Review: Sensible Justice: Alternatives to Prison by Daniel Burton-Rose David C. Anderson The New Press, 182 pgs., $25.00 The programs David C. Anderson lauds in Sensible Justice are everything that alternatives to prison should not be. They stress the punitive over what could reintegrate an offender into society; the …
U.S. Supreme Court Rules That ADA Applies to Prisoners by Paul Wright By Paul Wright On June 15, 1998, a unanimous United States supreme court held that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. § 12132, applies to prisoners. In doing so the court resolved a split between the …
Fact Dispute Bars Qualified Immunity Appeal by The court of appeals for the fifth circuit held that it lacked jurisdiction to hear an interlocutory appeal on the denial of qualified immunity to prison officials where the lower court denied qualified immunity due to disputed facts. Two Louisiana state prisoners sued …
Article • April 15, 1998 • from PLN April, 1998
Third Circuit Applies ADA to Prisoners; Supreme Court Grants Review by The court of appeals for the third circuit held that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. § 12101, applies to state prisoners. The supreme court later granted review to decide whether the ADA applies to state prisoners. …
WA Passes Record Anti-Prisoner/Defendant Legislation by Paul Wright By Paul Wright In the March, 1995, issue of PLN I gave a rundown on most of the anti-prisoner and defendant legislation then pending in the legislature. After we had gone to press for that issue Ida Ballasiotes, the rabid chair of …
Article • September 15, 1994 • from PLN September, 1994
VA "Men Only" Boot Camp Illegal by In 1990 the Virginia legislature created a Boot Camp Incarceration Program (BCIP) which became effective on January 1, 1991. Those entering the BCIP usually spend 90 days in it followed by a year's probation. Those unable to enter the program, including all women, …
Article • January 15, 1994 • from PLN January, 1994
WA State DOC "Work Ethic" Program: Capitalist Training Camp, or Liberal Rehabilitation Scheme? by PLG WA State DOC "Work Ethic" Program: Capitalist Training Camp, or Liberal Rehabilitation Scheme? By P. L. G. During the last session of the Washington State legislature, there was a bill passed mandating that DOC implement …
Article • October 15, 1992 • from PLN October, 1992
Five Boot Camp Guards Fired by Houston, Texas- Five Harris County, Texas, deputies were fired June 9 upon being indicted on felony charges for abusing inmates at the county's boot camp for first time offenders. Those charged are Darryl Coleman, Benny Galindez, Alfonso Giraldo, W.E. Jones and Joe Saenz. They …
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Us Gao Prison Boot Camps 1993 GAO United States General Accounting OfTice Washington, D.C. 20648 General Government Division B-249092 April 29,1993 The Honorable William J. Hughes Chairman, Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and Judicial Administration Committee on the Judiciary House of Representatives Dear Mr. Hughes: In response to your request, this …
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