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Passin' Gas by Clark Stuhr Here at the Washington State Penitentiary's Intensive Management Unit (IMU) there is no end to the mental and physical torture being inflicted upon the inmates. The latest of which are the new use of force tactics being used by IMU staff since the placing of …
Article • September 15, 1991 • from PLN September, 1991
Resistance at Pelican Bay Gulag by Resistance At Pelican Bay Gulag Greetings from the Control Unit in California's Pelican Bay state prison. I am litigating a civil rights act lawsuit 42 U.S.C. sec. 1983, due to being forcibly double celled here. The case is Fetters v. Marshall, N.D. Cal. Case …
Still Not the Hilton by Still Not The Hilton From: Out Of Time 2/91 The Bureau of Prison's (BOP) 'mission' to isolate, hide and break the spirit of women political prisoners (a la Lexington High Security Unit, Lexington, KY 198688) continues at Federal Correctional Institute (FCI) Marianna in Florida. The …
Prisoner Victims of Guard Assault Win Damages by Prisoner Victims Of Guard Assault Win Damages Ten prisoners in the D.C. jail learned they were being transferred to another facility. A number of the inmates passively resisted the transfer. They alleged that after the transfer, they were beaten by correctional officers. …
Article • March 15, 1991 • from PLN March, 1991
The New and Improved Marion by Paul Wright By Paul Wright As we were preparing this issue of PLN we received several articles describing the horrible conditions of control units in Florida, New Jersey and Marion, Illinois. Most Washington prisoners are familiar with the local version of this phenomenon: the …
Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
Prison's Water Contaminated by Ray Luc Levasseur By Ray L. Levasseur Prisoners at the U.S. Penitentiary, Marion, Illinois, have said for years that the government is poisoning us with contaminated water. The government has categorically denied these accusations. On September 28, 1990, a report issued by the Agency for Toxic …
Mental Cases Warehoused in IMU by Mark LaRue Mental Cases Warehoused In IMU By Mark LaRue You would not believe how they are running the Intensive Management Unit (IMU) here at Walla Walla. The tier I am on is filled with nuts who loud talk day and night. Mental health …
Article • June 15, 1990 • from PLN June, 1990
Marion Prison to be Replaced by Marion Prison To Be Replaced It's gonna get worse, fellas. A March 30th report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons says the BOP is going to replace the federal prison at Marion, Illinois, with a new maximum-security penitentiary in Florence, Colorado. Marion was …
Colorado Doc Study of Psychological Effects of Ad Seg 2010 i 2010 One Year Longitudinal Study of the Psychological Effects of Administrative Segregation By: Maureen L. O’Keefe, M.A. Colorado Department of Corrections 2862 South Circle Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80906 (719) 226‐4364 Kelli J. Klebe, Ph.D. Alysha Stucker, B.A. Kristin …
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Aclu Statement on Closing Tamms Corr Ctr Il 2012 WRITTEN STATEMENT OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION Hearing on the Proposed Closure of Tamms Correctional Center Submitted to the Illinois Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability April 2, 2012 ACLU National Prison Project David Fathi, Director ACLU of Illinois Mary …
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Fred Cohen Solitary Confinement Statement Congressional Hearing 2012 STATEMENT OF FRED COHEN, LL.B., LL.M Reassessing Solitary Confinement: The Human Rights, Fiscal and Public Safety Consequences Hearing Before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution Civil Rights, and Human Rights Chairman: The Honorable Dick Durbin My name is Fred Cohen and …
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Lockdown-new-york-1 LOCKDOWN NEW YORK: DISC IPLIN ARY CONFINEMEN T IN NEW YORK S TATE PRISONS A Report by the Correctional Association of New York October 2003 The Correctional Association October 2003 TABLE OF CONTENTS I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2 II. INTRODUCTION 6 III. ` BACKGROUND Overview of Disciplinary Lockdown in New …
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Lockdown-new-york-2 LOCKDOWN NEW YORK: Disciplinary Confinement in New York State Prisons A report by the Correctional Association of New York EXECUTIVE SUMMARY MAJOR FINDINGS The findings from Correctional Association visits to nearly every disciplinary housing unit in New York – 49 visits to 26 lockdown units – reveal a disturbing …
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Correctional Association of New York Testimony Before Senate Judiciary on Solitary Confinement 2012 Testimony Before the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights Correctional Association of New York Reassessing Solitary Confinement – June 19, 2012 Testimony by The Correctional Association of New York Before the …
Lowell Wa Supermax Prisoner Recidivism Pilot Study April 2004 Felony and Violent Recidivism Among Supermax Prison Inmates in Washington State: A Pilot Study David Lovell, Research Associate Professor Clark Johnson, Research Associate Professor Department of Psychosocial & Community Health University of Washington This research was funded by a grant from …
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Nami Testimonies on Proposal to Close Tamms Corr Ctr 2012 Comments of Ron Honberg, J.D., Director of Policy and Legal Affairs, and Ken Duckworth, M.D., Medical Director, National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), to the April 2, 2012 hearing of the Illinois Legislature’s Committee on Government Forecasting and Accountability, regarding …
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Demott Citizens for Prison Reform Testimony Before Senate Judiciary Committee on Solitary Confinement 2012 Lois DeMott 3938 Hunters Ridge Drive Lansing, MI 48911 269-986-2437 Co-Founder, Citizens for Prison Reform P.O. Box 80414 Lansing, MI 48909 Association for Children’s Mental Health, Administrative Assistant June 15, 2012 Dear Chairman Durbin and Ranking …
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Az Law Review Vol 47-461 Bishop Research Paper Re Supermax Prisons 2005 SUPERMAX PRISONS: INCREASING SECURITY OR PERMITTING PERSECUTION? Maximilienne Bishop∗ INTRODUCTION It is one thing to place persons under greater security because they have escape histories and pose special risks to our correctional institutions. But consigning anyone to a …
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Univ Pittsburgh Law Prolonged Solitary Confinement and the Constitution Lobel 2009 PITT LAW UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Legal Studies Research Paper Series Working Paper No. 2009-19 July 2009 Prolonged Solitary Confinement and the Constitution Jules Lobel University of Pittsburgh School of Law 3900 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260-6900 www.law.pitt.edu 412-648-1490 E-mail: …
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Prisoner Testimonies on Il Tamms Supermax 2012 BRIAN NELSON 351 Daniel Street • Wauconda, Illinois 60084 • brian_uplc@comcast.net June 12,2012 Dear Honorable Senators, I come before you with the hope that my mere words can express the terrible ordeal I survived. Yet to say I survived does not adequately express …
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