prison reform
From today's NYT story about the political pressure placed on Dr. Carmona, W.'s first Surgeon General, and other Surgeon Generals:Similarly, Dr. Carmona wanted to address the controversial topic of sexual.
I can't believe they're sending Paris Hilton to jail for 45 days. Staggered, really. What's most surprising is that the judge's order specifically excludes the special segregation jails detailed in.
From an email from the Correctional Association's Women in Prison Project to the Coalition for Women Prisoners:In case you have not yet heard, for the first time in almost 30 years,the New York City Board of Correction (BOC) has suggested changes to theMinimum Standards, which...
There's been a lot of press recently about wrongly convicted men who have been exonerated by DNA evidence. No doubt, the work of the Innocence Project and other organizations that.
G'morning folks. Bean of A Bird and a Bottle here, guest posting for a few days while Scott is off doing professorial things. Over at my place, I write about.
I strongly recommend reading this post about the Prison Litigation Reform Act, which makes it more difficult for prisoners to sue and reduces the scope of potential litigation in ways that enable appalling prison conditions to continue. This is particularly problematic because (due to prisoners'...