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Settlement Prohibits Lengthy Segregation of Mentally-Ill Massachusetts Prisoners, Awards $1,250,000 in Attorney Fees by Matthew Clarke On April 12, 2012, a Massachusetts federal court entered an order approving a private settlement agreement between the Massachusetts Department of Correction (DOC) and the Boston-based Disability Law Center (DLC) which prohibits lengthy segregation …
Twelve Killed as Eighty-One Escape From Iraqi Prison by During the evening of September 27, 2012, prisoners at an Iraqi prison in Tikrit, the hometown of Saddam Hussein which is about 80 miles north of Baghdad, broke into a storeroom where weapons are kept. They seized the weapons and engaged …
Family of Dead Registered Sex Offender Still Receiving Registry Letters by Matthew Clarke When 17-year-old Justin Fawcett admitted to having consensual sex with a 14-year-old student at the same West Bloomfield, Michigan high school he attended he probably never thought that he would die for his crime, but he did. …
Article • August 25, 2016
Vermont Prisoners Riot in Massachusetts County Jail by Derek Gilna Eleven prisoners from Vermont were the principal participants in a recent disturbance at the Franklin County, Masschusetts county jail, according to Vermont Corrections Commissioner Andy Pallito. Three other prisoners from Massachusetts also took part in the incident, which resulted in …
Article • August 25, 2016
Florida Supreme Court Upholds Speedy Death Penalty Law by On June 12, 2014, the Supreme Court of Florida held for the state in a constitutional challenge of the state's Timely Justice Act (the Act) of 2013, weighed by death row prisoners. Seeking to expand Allen v. Butterworth, 756 So. 2d …
Article • August 24, 2016
California: Trendsetter... as Always by Item: California's 33 state prisons are operating at 190 percent of capacity. On January 10, 2002, Governor Gray Davis responded to this crisis by proposing to close five prisons with 1,400 beds. Item: California is facing a $20 billion budget shortfall. It costs $70 per …
Article • August 23, 2016
Filed under: Voting
Florida’s Felon Disenfranchisement “Mess” by David Reutter Since George W. Bush won the 2000 presidential election by prevailing in Florida by a razor-thin margin of 537 votes, intense scrutiny has been focused on Florida’s election laws and procedures.  Civil rights activist have kept the focus on the disenfranchisement of felons, …
Article • August 23, 2016
Report On Arizona Hostage Crisis May Never Be Released by Michael Rigby A report on the 2004 hostage crisis at the Arizona Prison Complex-Lewis took hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars and more than three months to produce. But thanks to partisan politics and bureaucratic infighting, the report may never …
Article • August 23, 2016
Veterans' Programs, Services Cropping Up in Courts and Prisons by Certain offenders with addictions or mental illnesses across the U.S. increasingly find themselves in treatment programs and on community supervision instead of behind bars. And of those incarcerated, they're sent to sparkling new prison units and jails where they can …
Article • August 23, 2016
Hurricane Sandy Facilitates Mass Escape from New Jersey's Logan Hall by Matthew Clarke Hurricane Sandy and a lack of preparation or training for unusual weather helped prisoners at the notorious Logan Hall halfway house to run rampant, including a mass escape of fifteen prisoners. Although designated a "halfway house," Logan …
Article • August 23, 2016
Ohio: Hunger Striker Represents Himself, Beats Attempted Murder Charges by An Ohio supermax prisoner, representing himself while on a month-long hunger strike, won his acquittal in February of attempted murder charges stemming from fights with prison guards. Cornelius Harris, a 27-year-old prisoner serving a 97-year sentence for robbery and kidnapping …
Article • August 23, 2016
Report: 17 States Reduce Recidivism, Save Billions By Reinvesting Wisely by A blueprint for better public safety, long-endorsed by reform advocates and scoffed at by tough-on-crimers, has emerged in 17 states that have managed to reduce recidivism since 2007: Stop building new prisons and reinvest the savings in cost-effective programs …
Publication • August 23, 2016
State and Local Human Rights Agencies - Recommendations, Columbia Law, 2003 State and Local Human Rights Agencies: Recommendations for Advancing Opportunity and Equality Through an International Human Rights Framework Columbia Law School, Human Rights Institute International Association of Official Human Rights Agencies under the auspices of The Campaign for a …
Publication • August 23, 2016
Filed under: Advocacy, Media
Talking Human Rights in the United States - A Communications Toolkit, Opportunity Agenda, 2009 Building the National Will to Expand Opportunity in America Talking Human Rights in the United States A Communications Toolkit Tips, tools, and techniques for building public support to uphold human rights at home. About The Opportunity …
Publication • August 23, 2016
Something Inside So Strong, USHRN, 2003 Labi Siffre, Something Inside So Strong This report is distributed by the U.S. Human Rights Network. To order additional copies or to download the report, visit the network website at: www.ushrnetwork.org SOMETHING INSIDE SO STRONG A R E S O U R C E …
Article • August 22, 2016
Department of Justice Expands Definition of Rape to "Ensure Justice" by Derek Gilna The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has broadened the definition of rape, first established in 1927, to include "penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration …
Article • August 19, 2016
Filed under: Hunger Strikes, Food
Connecticut May Force Feed Prisoners on Hunger Strike by  The state of Connecticut has the right to force feed a prisoner engaged in a hunger strike, Jarres T. Graham, Superior Court Judge, so held.             William Coleman, a Connecticut prisoner, went on hunger strike to protest his sexual assault conviction …
Publication • August 18, 2016
Racial Origins of Doctrines Limiting Prisoner Protest Speech, Armstrong.pdf Racial Origins of Doctrines Limiting Prisoner Protest Speech Andrea C. Armstrong* ABSTRACT This article examines the racial origins of two foundational cases governing prisoner protest speech to better understand their impact in light of the Black Lives Matter movement. Two Supreme …
Publication • August 12, 2016
Filed under: Advocacy, Prison Reform
The Trump Memos - ACLU’s Constitutional Analysis of the Public Statements and Policy Proposals of Donald Trump, ACLU, 2016 THE TRUMP MEMOS The ACLU’s Constitutional Analysis of the Public Statements and Policy Proposals of Donald Trump CONTENTS Trump on Immigration...........................................................................................................3 Trump on Surveillance of Muslims and the Creation of a …
Publication • August 12, 2016
Pretrial Practice - Building a National Research Agenda for the Front End of the Criminal Justice System, CUNY JJC, 2015 Pretrial Practice: Building a National Research Agenda for the Front End of the Criminal Justice System A Report on the Roundtable to Develop a National Pretrial Research Agenda October 26-27, …
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