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- Prison Ombudsman The Minnesota Experience. Fedo, Michael W. // America;5/5/1973, Vol. 128 Issue 17, p409
The article focuses on the ombudsman concept being established at Minnesota correctional institutions in 1973 to address a channel of loss of rights or mistreatment among inmates. Although the ombudsman concept has been tried in other U.S. prisons, it notes that such concept has had little...
- IS IT PROCEDURAL OR SUBSTANTIVE? AND WHY DOES IT MATTER? Stine, Angela N. // Widener Law Journal;2007, Vol. 16 Issue 2, p699
The article discusses the court case Payne versus Commonwealth Department of Corrections wherein the prisoners challenged an administrative directive concerning the mail and publications that they received that was promulgated by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. It presents the...
- No Country For 270 Men. Isikoff, Michael // Newsweek;6/23/2008, Vol. 151 Issue 25, p8
The article discusses the Supreme Court ruling granting freedom for federal trial to Guantanamo Bay detainees. It is noted that the citizenship of those prisoners would be uncertain were they granted freedom after appearing in court. Countries like Yemen, where many detainees are from, are said...
- Inmate Labor and the Courts. // American Jails;Nov/Dec2005, Vol. 19 Issue 5, p84
This article presents information regarding the judgments pronounced by the courts of the United States, which affect the work activities of prisoners. While pronouncing judgment in the case of "Williams v. Bitner," the U.S. District Court held that the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized...
- DO CRIMINAL OFFENDERS HAVE A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO REHABILITATION? Rotman, Edgardo // Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology;Winter1986, Vol. 77 Issue 4, p1023
This article examines whether criminal offenders have a constitutional right to rehabilitation. Although the concept of rehabilitation has profoundly shaped U.S. sentencing and correctional policies, a constitutional right to rehabilitation remains unrecognized by the U.S. federal courts. In...
- THE JURISPRUDENCE OF THE PLRA. Robertson, James E. // Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology;Fall2001/Winter2002, Vol. 92 Issue 1/2, p187
In 1996, Congress enacted the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) partly in response to the judicial philosophy expressed in "Harris v. Fleming." Rather than defining judicial intervention as a "force" response to neglectful prison staff, congressional backers portrayed judges as liberal...
- Federal court affirms library rights for inmates. // American Libraries;Oct91, Vol. 22 Issue 9, p835
Reports that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed prisoners' right to access law library collections. Lawsuit by an Arizona inmate against the state's Department of Corrections for denying him adequate access to the prison law library; Requirement that inmates be allowed up to 10...
- Supreme Court Is Now in Session: PLRA Under Review. Schultz, Eric // Corrections Today;Oct2006, Vol. 68 Issue 6, p16
The article focuses on U.S. Supreme Court cases related to the Prison Litigation Reform Act. In Jones v. Bock, it will decide whether satisfaction of the Act's exhaustion requirement is a prerequisite to a prisoner's federal civil rights suit. In Williams v. Overton, it will decide whether the...
- On Tape: An 'Enemy' Interrogation. Isikoff, Michael // Newsweek;12/11/2006, Vol. 148 Issue 24, p10
The article reports on "enemy combatant" Jose Padilla who was once considered a dangerous Qaeda operative by U.S. President George W. Bush. He has been held in isolation for three years. A pentagon spokesman says all detainees are treated humanely despite claims that the government allegedly...
