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... University Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) prisoners' legal rights prison rape The Prison Litigation Reform Act as Sex Legislation: (Imagining) a Punk s Perspective of the Act James E. Robertson Distinguished Faculty Scholar and Professor of Corrections, Minnesota State University Editor...

... five strategies to increase the chance that the present conjuncture leads to deep change and avoids the stabilization of the prison population into "mass incarceration lite." © The Ohio State University "Mass incarceration lite" human rights dignity evidence based penology racial...

... they are a punishment in their own right. Malcom Feeley famously observed 226 F e d e r a l S e n t e n c i n g R e p o r t e r V o l . 2 4 , N o. 4 A p r i l 2 0 1 2 years ago that legal process could constitute punishment,26 but this point may have a unique valence in the context of post-1996 prisoner litigation...

..., this fee-shifting provision has allowed persons with meritorious claims but little money to attract competent counsel, thus encouraging enforcement of civil rights. Given the poverty of virtually all prisoners and the ban on representation of prisoners by recipients of federal legal services funds...

... not be there in the long run, but the burden of expensive policies may remain. 2. The war on drugs grinds on. Any hope that policymakers might change substantially the direction of the war seems to have faded.3 But the growing movement to decriminalize or even legalize marijuana through citizen referenda may change...

... a growing tendency in recent decades to impose greater restrictions on lifers prospects for release from prison. Van Zyl Smit frames his discussion of life imprisonment as an attempt to address the moral, legal and constitutional issues which it poses, and does so in three sections: first, by defining...

...Ryan S. King Statement of Ryan King on Behalf of the Criminal Justice Policy Foundation, the Open Society Policy Center, Prison Reform International, and The Sentencing Project: Domestic Criminal Justice Issues in the United States and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights...

..., parole, or other court supervision; and (iii) execute judicially enforceable documents and agreements; (c) deprivation of legally recognized domestic relationships and rights other than in accordance with rules applicable to the general public. Accordingly, conviction or confinement alone: (i) should...

... their best to support me as we lost and lost and lost, wooed by new promises at every level of the system. By the time my prison sentence was coming to an end, years later, I d learned a lot about the criminal legal system. I d learned that having facts on your side doesn t always matter, that having...

... with the legal order and not unnecessarily stunted by their experience in prison. But many will not ever return to free society, or so it seems. Of course, the scarcity of correctional resources requires correctional officials to make choices about which prisoners go to which prisons and what activities...

... on Realignment First out of the gate has been a growing corpus of legal scholarship on Realignment.6 Given the national signi cance of the Plata decision, and with Realignment being the state s single most important remedial measure, a number of prison scholars, in particular, have turned their attention...

...Amy Ralston Povah; Walt Pavlo © The Ohio State University The OLC Memo Was a Step in the Right Direction, but Federal Prisoners, on Home Con nement due to the CARES Act and in Prison, Need Mercy in the Form of Clemency The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, or CARES Act...

... is supported by a recommendation from the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture that all individuals sentenced to life imprisonment should be given a prison regime that prepares them for release.2 Underlying both, however, is more than a scintilla of doubt about how far the current European legal...

... the criminal legal system including jails and prisons well.18 Prison sentences are reactive, not proactive, and do nothing to help the person harmed other than to remove the person who did the harm from society.19 Moreover, the experience of incarceration can be violent and damaging, and jails and prisons have...

... pride ourselves on speaking plain and we pride ourselves in speaking truth to power. And so let me get right to it. Because despite many wonderful public servants who work in it, you all know that our criminal justice system is just broken. As a former public defender, at the Legal Aid Society, each...

... in prisoner reentry, substance use, and victim rights; and advocates and formerly incarcerated people. Beyond their own experience, members drew on the expertise of well-known authorities in the public safety and health elds and the collective wisdom of some 200 innovators and in uencers who provided...

... a second look after at least a decade in prison. It begins by describing the justi cations for the second look proposal and then explains why the right to petition for a sentence reduction should apply to all incarcerated people after 10 years, and periodically thereafter if warranted. It describes...

...-level drug offenders. These developments suggest an emerging consensus among policy makers that it is no longer considered just or effective to impose lengthy prison terms on certain drug offenders. Moreover, as ever more states consider legalizing some marijuana use and as federal authorities seem...

... very clearly in your recent report, there is no rational reason to take away someone s voting rights for life just because they ve committed a crime, especially after they ve completed their sentence and made amends On the contrary: there is evidence to suggest that former prisoners whose voting...

.... 10. Prohibit waiver of collateral relief as part of the plea, including the right to pursue record sealing. It is true that many countries, including most of those in Europe, either do not have plea bargaining or use it sparingly. Interestingly, with the help of legal advisors from the United States...