Search Results for Issues : 225 Records retrieved
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Title: 11pln08.indd
November 2008 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 19 No. 11 November 2008 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights Doing Borrowed Time: The High Cost of Back-Door Prison Finance by Kevin Pranis Much public attention has been devoted in recent years to the ?industrial? s
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October 2008 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 19 No. 10 October 2008 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights Gay and Lesbian Prisoners: Recent Developments and a Call for More Research by Zachary Wolfe, Esq.1 This is an interesting time in the changing legal landsca
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Title: 09pln08.indd
September 2008 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 19 No. 9 September 2008 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights Massachusetts? Mental Health Treatment Policies Prove Deadly for Public, Prisoners by David M. Reutter As America?s prisons continue their transformation
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August 2008 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 19 No. 8 August 2008 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights Oregon DOC Food Manager Takes Over $1 Million in Bribes, Feeds Prisoners ?Distressed? Food by Mark Wilson During a 2002 interview, Oregon Department of Correcti
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Title: 07pln08.indd
July 2008 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 19 No. 7 July 2008 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights Not the Usual Suspects: The Politics of the Prison Boom by Marie Gottschalk Throughout American history, politicians and public officials have exploited public anxi
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Title: 06pln08.indd
June 2008 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 19 No. 6 June 2008 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights Sex Offenders Set Up Camp in Miami Florida: The Julia Tuttle Causeway Becomes a Colony. Politicians Pass the Buck. by Isaiah Thompson Another one showed up last nig
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Title: 05pln08.indd
May 2008 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 19 No. 5 May 2008 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights Washington Jail Prisoners Suffer from Overcrowding, Abusive Guards, Inadequate Health Care and Indifferent Politicians by Roger Smith Since the mid-1990s, Washington
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April 2008 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 19 No. 4 April 2008 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights Making the ?Bad Guy? Pay: Growing Use of Cost Shifting as an Economic Sanction by Kirsten D. Levingston1 ?At some point, we have to be able to say to people who h
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Title: 03pln08.indd
March 2008 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 19 No. 3 March 2008 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights Cheaper than Chimpanzees: Expanding the Use of Prisoners in Medical Experiments by Gregory Dober ?It is the duty of the doctor to remain the protector of the life
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Title: 02pln08.indd
February 2008 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 19 No. 2 February 2008 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights Scandal Rocks Texas Youth Commission; Youths Molested by School Supervisors by Gary Hunter During the 2006 elections, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott ran
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Title: 01pln08.indd
January 2008 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 19 No. 1 January 2008 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights The Poisoned Pen of Fort Lyon Prison Bought by the state for a dollar, Fort Lyon is rich in history, asbestos, sick prisoners and trouble by Alan Prendergast
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Title: 12pln07.indd
December 2007 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 18 No. 12 December 2007 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights Pennsylvania County Jail System Overcrowded, Under-Regulated by David M. Reutter Almost everyone with experience on the incarceration side of America?s cri
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Title: 11pln07.indd
November 2007 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 18 No. 11 November 2007 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights Prison Drinking Water and Wastewater Pollution Threaten Environmental Safety Nationwide by John E. Dannenberg Aging infrastructure concerns are not limited
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Title: 10pln07.indd
October 2007 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 18 No. 10 October 2007 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights Little State, Big Problems: Maine?s Prison Crisis Continues Unabated by Lance Tapley Only big prison systems mistreat prisoners, right? Only prison systems w
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Title: 09pln07.indd
September 2007 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 18 No. 9 September 2007 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights Management & Training Corp. Struggles to Maintain Market Share by Gary Hunter For-profit private prison operator Management & Training Corporattio (MTC) h
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Title: 08pln07.indd
August 2007 1 Prison Legal News I n s i d e VOL. 18 No. 8 August 2007 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights Prisons as Incubators and Spreaders of Disease and Illness by John E. Dannenberg America?s lockups are turning from prisoner dumping grounds into infectiou
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Title: 07pln07.indd
July 2007 1 Prison Legal News I n s i d e VOL. 18 No. 7 July 2007 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights The New Asylum: Supermax as Warehouse for the Mentally Ill by David C. Fathi1 The prison industry, like any other, has its fashions. And in the 1990s, ?superma
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Title: 06pln07.indd
June 2007 1 Prison Legal News I n s i d e VOL. 18 No. 6 June 2007 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights The Political Economy of Prison and Jail Litigation by Margo Schlanger* This article explores the practical effects of the prisoner civil rights docket on cond
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Title: 04pln07.indd
April 2007 1 Prison Legal News I n s i d e VOL. 18 No. 4 April 2007 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights Reflections on Katrina?s First Year: The Story of Chaos and Continuing Abuse in One of America?s Worst Justice Systems by Bob Williams As America reflected o
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Title: 05pln07.indd
May 2007 1 Prison Legal News I n s i d e VOL. 18 No. 5 May 2007 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights Michigan Prisons: Another CMS Failure in Privatized Prisoner Health Care by David M. Reutter Another state prison system that subjected itself to the experimeen
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Title: 03pln07.indd
March 2007 1 Prison Legal News I n s i d e VOL. 18 No. 3 March 2007 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights ?To Get Stuff and Sell It for As Much As We Can Get? Federal Prison Industries and Electronics Recycling by Aaron Shuman In recent months, UNICOR Recycclin h
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Title: 01pln07.indd
January 2007 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 18 No. 1 January 2007 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights Ex-Communication: Competition and Collusion in the U.S. Prison Telephone Industry by Steven J. Jackson The prison communication industtrie occupy a large and
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Title: 02pln07.indd
February 2007 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 18 No. 2 February 2007 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights Still More Murder and Mayhem in Maryland by Michael Rigby ?Lock them up and throw away the key. Like the rest of the nation, this overriding penal philosoph
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Title: 10pln06.indd
October 2006 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 17 No. 10 October 2006 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights Taser?The ?Less Lethal? Weapon with a Fatal Attraction to Prisoners by John E. Dannenberg ?Extensive medical evidence strongly supports the Taser devices wil
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Title: 11pln06.indd
November 2006 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 17 No. 11 November 2006 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights PHS Redux: Sued In A Dozen States, Contract Losses, Stock Plummets, Business Continues by John E. Dannenberg Prison Health Services (PHS) a subsidiary of A
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Title: 12pln06.indd
December 2006 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 17 No. 12 December 2006 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights Florida?s Department of Corruption by David M. Reutter An underlying principle of our penal system is to instill respect for the laws and rules that govern
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Title: 07pln06.indd
July 2006 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 17 No. 7 July 2006 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights CCA Florida Jail Operations: An Experiment in Mismanagement by David M. Reutter After being in business for twentythhre years, one would think that Corrections Corp
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Title: 08pln06.indd
August 2006 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 17 No. 8 August 2006 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights Guards Rape of Prisoners Rampant, No Solution in Sight by Gary Hunter Psychologists will quickly tell you that rape is not about sex. It?s about power. It?s abo
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Title: 09pln06.indd
September 2006 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 17 No. 9 September 2006 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights For-Profit Transportation Companies: Taking Prisoners, and the Public, for a Ride by Alex Friedmann According to the latest report from the U.S. Departmen
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Title: 04pln06.indd
April 2006 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 17 No. 4 April 2006 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights Georgia Prisons: A Blight On The Peach State by Michael Rigby During the Civil War, General William Tecumseh Sherman?s devastating march through the South was a b
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Title: 05pln06.indd
May 2006 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 17 No. 5 May 2006 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights Scandal, Suicides, Corruption and Abuse Abound at New York City?s Rikers Island Jail by Gary Hunter When Rikers Island was purchaase in 1884 it was only 87 acres. The
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Title: 06pln06.indd
June 2006 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 17 No. 6 June 2006 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights Torture in Maine?s Prison by Lance Tapley ?The mission of the Maine State Prison is to provide a safe, secure, and humane correctional environment for the incarcera
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Title: 01pln06.indd
January 2006 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 17 No. 1 January 2006 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights Texas Jails Troubled by Deaths, Negligence and Failed Inspections by Gary Hunter For decades Texas jails have been cesspool?s of misery, medical negleect brut
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Title: 02pln06.indd
February 2006 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 17 No. 2 February 2006 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights Incompetence, Brutality and Scandal Infest Tennessee Prisons and Jails by Michael Rigby Tennessee isn?t known for its huge prison system, like Texas or Cali
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Title: 03pln06.indd
March 2006 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 17 No. 3 March 2006 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights Federal Court Seizes California Prisons? Medical Care; Appoints Receiver With Unprecedented Powers by Marvin Mentor The California Department of Corrections and R
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Title: 11pln05.indd
November 2005 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 16 No. 11 November 2005 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights Prison Design Boycott?a Challenge to the Professional Business of Incarceration by Raphael Sperry, ADPSR National President, and the Prison Design Boycott
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Title: 12pln05.indd
December 2005 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 16 No. 12 December 2005 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights Privatized Medical Services in Delaware Kill and Maim by David M. Reutter Anthony Pierce was serving a 14 month sentence for parole violatiio of a burglary
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Title: 09pln05-ver1.indd
September 2005 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 16 No. 9 September 2005 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights Inside the American Correctional Association by Silja J.A. Talvi [Ed. note: Prison Legal News goes underccove at the American Correctional Association?s 2
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Title: 10pln05.indd
October 2005 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 16 No. 10 October 2005 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights Modern Slavery In North Carolina: Another Peculiar Institution by Michael Rigby Jean Valjean went to prison for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister?s
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Title: 08pln05.indd
August 2005 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 16 No. 8 August 2005 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights Prison Health Services: As Health Care in Jails Goes Private, 10 Days Can Be a Death Sentence by Paul Von Zielbauer; Joseph Plambeck contributed reporting for t
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Title: 05pln05.indd
May 2005 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 16 No. 5 May 2005 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights In May 1990, the fi rst issue of Prisonerrs Legal News (PLN) was published. It was hand typed, photocopied and ten pages long. The fi rst issue was mailed to 75 potent
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Title: 06pln05.indd
June 2005 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 16 No. 6 June 2005 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights High-powered tasers are the new fad in law enforcement. They are becoming ever more prevalent even as their safety is increasingly in question. The proliferation of
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Title: 07pln05.indd
July 2005 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 16 No. 7 July 2005 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights Fatal Justice: The New Maryland by Michael Rigby It?s a state already steeped in heritage-birthplace of The Star Spangled Banner, home to the U.S. Naval Academy in
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Title: 01pln05.pmd
January 2005 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 16 No. 1 January 2005 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights As early as 1980, drugstore mogul Jack Eckerd was convinced a privaat company could provide higher profits to Florida if it ran the state?s Prison Industriies
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Title: 02pln05.PMD
February 2005 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 16 No. 2 February 2005 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights Overcrowded, rundown, dangerous, and dirty, conditions at Indian prisoon in the U.S. rival those found in ?third-world countries, according to a blistering
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Title: 03pln05.pdf
March 2005 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 16 No. 3 March 2005 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights Culminating a multi-year crescendo of criticism leveled at Californiia? Corrections system from frustrated legislative, judicial and executive leaderrs the Correc
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Title: 04pln05.indd
April 2005 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 16 No. 4 April 2005 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights This article examines the relationship of military medical personnel to abuses of detainees at Abu Ghraib and other detention centers in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Gu
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Title: 12pln04.pmd
December 2004 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 15 No. 12 December 2004 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights By now, millions of people have viewed the images: a hooded and robed figure strung with electrical wire; a dog growling viciously at a cowering Iraqi pris
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Title: 08pln04
08pln04. August 2004 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 15 No. 8 August 2004 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights I. Introduction Wrongful convictions do not occur in a vacuum of judicial indifferennce Every wrongful conviction results from a deliberative process involving
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Title: 09pln04
09pln04. September 2004 1 Prison Legal News Inside VOL. 15 No. 9 September 2004 Legal News ISSN 1075-7678 P R I S O N Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights Just a year ago, Attorney General John Ashcroft pointed to the Iraqi prison system as a shining example of the freedoms that the U.S. would bring to Iraq.
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