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PRISON LEGAL NEWS Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights www.prisonlegalnews.org afriedmann@prisonlegalnews.org Please Reply to Tennessee Office: Direct Dial: 615-495-6568 5341 Mt. View Rd. #130 Antioch, TN 37013 July 4, 2008 SENT VIA FAX AND MAIL National Prison Rape Elimination Commission Attn: Publ
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Image. Problems with Women's women's prisons, however, is that most imprisoned women are not public safety In recent years, the national debate risks, and very little policy-oriented disoo jail and prison crowding, the domi-cussion centers on applying a least renaan correctional crisis of the 1980s, has st
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Image. Justice NUMBER I, FALL, 1984 Department Retreats: The Michigan Case Elizabeth Alexander The Rise and Fall of the Special Litigation Section For over 25 years, this nation's commitment to civil rights for all its citizeen has been symbolized by the existence of the Civil Rights Division of the Depart
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Title: EXHIBIT 1
STATEMENT OF ALEX FRIEDMANN ASSOCIATE EDITOR, PRISON LEGAL NEWS AND VICE PRESIDENT, PRIVATE CORRECTIONS INSTITUTE BEFORE THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY SUBCOMMITTEE ON CRIME, TERRORISM, AND HOMELAND SECURITY REGARDING H.R. 1889 (Private Prison Information Act o
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Clerk of the House of Representatives Legislative Resource Center B-106 Cannon Building Washington, DC 20515 Secretary of the Senate Office of Public Records 232 Hart Building Washington, DC 20510 LOBBYING REPORT Check if different than previously reported Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (Section 5)
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Title: Growth in Michigan's Corrections System: Historical and Comparative Perspectives
Michigan Corrections prison population growth. Michigan, state, government, corrections, incarceration, rate, rates, felony, conviction, recidivism, prison, population, prisoners, comparison, history, historical, growth, budget, spending,. Growth in Michigan?s Corrections System: Historical and Comparative Perspec
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1 M 32 2 PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION - "1 c:1~l T. l4'dJ,1 ~v" "T&T Communications of Pennsylvania. ) 4 Inc, ) Complainant wants PUC to bar the ) 5 companies from collecting a tax ) on speech in which tax doubles ) 6 cost of collect phone calls from ) prisoners and which is paid to ) 7 the Commonwealt
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Image. New evidence has been uncovered in 32-year-old Joe Giarratano's case which could prove his innocennce but so far the Attorney General's office in Virginia has refused to grant a new trial. Doubts Raised In Virginia Death Row Prisoner Case . . J~f i . / 11/ INSIDE . ? Case Law Report Recent Court Dec
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Image. Palmigiano v. Garrahy, 443 F.Supp. 956, 971 (D.R.I. 1977) To alleviate the fear and suffering of pretrial detainees, the 1977 order requiire the state to remove all such percontinued on next page AIDS in Prison Self-help groups form inside the walls p. 14 Highlights Recent NPP litigation p. 16 3700
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Image. ISSN 0748-2655 NUMBER 20, SUMMER 1989 A Lawyer Looks Back at 16 Years With Case: INSIDE . ? NPP AIDS Booklet Now in Spanish p. 15 ? Citizen Advisory Boards Giving the Public a Role in Corrections p. 12 ? Highlights Recent NPP Litigation p. 16 1; The 4xB cell in the "doghouse" which held six prisoner
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Title: Journal 20-1 (final)5
JOURNAL Inside this issue: Challenging Conditions of Confinement at Mississippi?s Supermax_1 Ely Prison?s Appalling Health Care _6 A Fight for Life_10 Know Your Rights: Religious Freedom _13 SAVE on Capitol Hill _16 Case Law Review: U.S. Supreme Court Cases_19 Contact Information _24 Volume 20, Issu
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Image. INSIDE . ? Women Offenders States Examine Policies p. 4 ? Willie Horton Did the Bush Campaign Damage Furlough Programs? p.1 0 ? AIDS Update JOURNAL Begins Regular Column on AIDS p.13 ,In the Nex~ssue: Washington State's Prisoner Numbers Stabilize As National Rate Soars ISSN 0748-2655 NUMBER 19, SPRI
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Image. NPP Takes on Immigration Detention Centers AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION Volume 19, Issue 2 Fall 2007 NATIONAL PRISON PROJECT JOURNAL Memorial Tribute to Pat McManus Inside this issue: NPP Takes on Immigration Detention Centers 1 Memorial Tribute to Pat McManus 1 Know Your Rights: ThePr~onLitigatio
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Image. AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION ~ALJOURNAL . PROJECT Vol. 19, No.1, Winter/Spring 2007ˇ ISSN 1076-769X DOUBLE ISSUE Report Details Horrible Treatment of Prisoners in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina Shortly before the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the ACLU's National Prison Project released
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Image. Maryland Jails New Strategies to Stop jail Expansion p. I I ? Sentencing Creative Punishment Alternatives p. I Carl B. Cleme~ts. an expert on prisoner c1assifrtation, examines offender nee@assessment in this issue beginning on page I. ? ? ? INSIDE Sentencing: Guidelines and Planning Services Foster
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Image. AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION .ALJOURNAL . PROJECT Vol. 18, No.2, Winter/Spring 2005ˇ ISSN 1076-769X Recent Supreme Court Rulings Impact Prisoners The U.S. Supreme Court completed its 2004 term in June and the Justices handed down three important decisions affecting prisoners during the first half
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Image. AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION Vol. 18, No.1, Summer/Fall 2004 -ISSN 1076-769X Appeals Court Says Texas Prison Officials Can Be Sued for Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation Roderick Johnson, a Navy veteran, was raped and abused by Texas prison gangs. In a legal first, a unanimous federal appe
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Image. INSIDE . . ? AIDS Policies Challenged Alabama Lawsuit Tests Segregatiio Practices. p.8 ? INDEX Four Years ofJOURNAL Articles ; p.9 ? Lexington High Security Unit Judge Rules: . a shameful reflecctio omthe Bureau's administration. p.19 ? Juveniles in Jails Some States Still Violating Laws On RemovaL
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Image. AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION .ALJOURNAL . PROJECT Vol. 17, No.2,winter/Spring 2004 ˇISSN 1076-769X Out of Prison and Working for the ACLU Larry Caldwell Discusses the Challenges of Re-Entry Continues on next page Continues on next page Larry Caldwell works part-time at the National Prison Project
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Image. AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION Vol. 17. NO.1. Summer/Fall 2003 ? ISSN 1076-769X ACLU Applauds Alabama's Move to Open Rehabilitative Programming to HIV+ Prisoners The American Civil Liberties Union commended the reversal ofa nearly 20-year-old segregation policy within the Alabama Department of Corre
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Image. IIII111 ˇ1 TIlE L OF THE NATIONAL PRISON PROJECT Editor: Jan Elvin Editorial Asst. Betsy Bernat Alvin J. Bronstein, Executive Director The National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation 1616 P Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036 (202) 331ˇ0500 The National Prison Project is
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Image. AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION .ALJOURNAL . PROJECT Vol. 16, NO.2, Winter/Spring 2003 ? ISSN 1076-769X Court Orders Immediate Remedies for Deplorable Conditions on Mississippi's Death Row Ruling in a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, a federal magistrate judge ruled in May that
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Image. 1 E .TIONAL PRISON PROJECT A ProjecLqf the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Inc. Vol. 16, No.1, Summer/Fall 2002 ? ISSN1 076-769X National Prison Project Celebrates 30 Years NPP Director Reflects on Protecting Prisoners'Rights By Elizabeth Alexander When I arrived at the National Prison Pr
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Image. continued from front page claims addressed to inadequate mental health and medical care have been raised.3 Forces driving this evolution incluude I) an increased population of femaal offenders, taxing existing medical service delivery systems and resulting in gross delays in medical care, care by in
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Image. A Project of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Inc. Vol. 15, No.2, Winter/Spring 2002ˇ ISSN 1076-769X .NPP Begins New Litigation Initiative to End Prisoner Rape I am so scared ofdeath and I feel that suicide is my only way out ofthis. I cannot sleep here at night with the horrors ofknow
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Image. A Project of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Inc. Vol. 15, No.1, Summer/Fall 2001 -ISSN 1076-769X WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE ACA? By Elizabeth Alexander NPP Director The American Correctional Association (ACA) is the largest and best-known organization of correctional staff in the country.
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Image. continued from front page cerated mothers and their children are receiving a greater amount of attention and response. Legal Services for Prisonner with Children in California has focuuse on several critical areas of concern to incarcerated parents in the last severra years. We have made some improv
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Image. THE NATIONAL PRISON PROJECT A Project of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Inc. Vol. 14, No.3 &4, Fall 2000/Winter 2001 ? ISSN 1076-769X NPP Challenges Abusive Supermax Confinement By David C. Fathi NPP StaffCounsel The proliferation of "supennax" prisons is the latest round in the perp
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Image. THE NATIONAL PRISON PROJECT A Project of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Inc. Vol. 14, NO.1 &2, Spring/Summer 2000ˇ ISSN 1076-769X No Lost Causes Remaking Advocacy for a New Millennium By Jackie Walker AIDSInformation Coordinator Over the past five years a number of conferences have b
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Image. WITHOUT CLIENTS < . there can be no lawsuiits Without pris" oners who are willing to step out of the darkness of prison life into the light of public expossure the litigation descrribe in the following pages could not have happened. This fifteenth anniversary issue of the JOURNAL is therefore dedica
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Image. THE NATIONAL PRISON PROJECT A Project of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Inc. Vol. 13, No.1 & 2, Spring/Summer 1999' ISSN 1076-769X Congressman Challenges P.rivatization Trend Representative Ted Strickland of Ohio's Sixth district introduced legislation on March 4, 1999 prohibiting pl
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Image. States Fail to Meet Critical Need of Indigent Defendants -continued from front page tied. At the july 31, 1985 hearing where his September 5, 1985 execution date was set, Washington's trial counsel moved to have new counsel appointed to represent him in connection with any habeas corpus proceedings,
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Image. THE NATIONAL PRISON PROJECT A Project of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Inc. Vol. 12, No.4, Fall 1998 &Winter 1999 ? ISSN 1076-769X Sexual Abuse and Civil Rights: The Impact of the PLRA Physical Injury Requirement By Giovanna Shayl r'fWo women prisoners are 1. strip searched by male
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Image. THE NATIONAL PRISON PROJECT Journal ISSN 1076-769X Vol. 12 No.3, Spring/Summer 1998 Friends and Colleagues Remember Activist Attorney Robert F. Bensing Robert F. Bensing, a staffattorney with the Southern Center for Human Rights, died February 3 of injuries sustained in a car accident after meeting
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Image. THE NATIONAL PRISON PROJECT ISSN 1076-769X Vol. 12 No.2, Fall 1997IWinter 1998 Journal . Drug Treatment in Prison -rethinking our priorities? Are we at last beginning a rational debate on the treatment ofdrug offenders in the United States? After a decade ofharsher punishment and longer prison sente
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Image. THE NATIONAL PRISON PROJECT Journal ISSN 1076-769X Vol. 12 No. I, Spring/Summer 1997 Prison Litigation Reform Act Update-American Civil Liberties Union Foundation As we go to press, the Second Circuit has still not issued its decision in Benjamin v. Jacobson. Lawyers for the plaintiffs in Plyer v. M
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Image. THE NAT!O~JAL PRISON PROJECT Journal ISSN 1076-769X Vol. 11 No.2, December 1996 American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Our apologies to all our patient subscribers who have waited so long for this edition ofthe Journal. This is only the second edition to be published in 1996 -and it will probably
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Image. Oil? THE NATIONAL PRISON PROJECT Journal ISSN 1076-769X . American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Vol. 11 No. 1 Winter 1996 Prisoner Lawsuits "There are many people in this nation with grievances large and small who need representation, and their grievances are often minimized, and sometimes even
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Image. Testing for AIDS . A Public Health Persp . p. 10 :l'l1 DC Juvenile Case . NPP, PDS Sue Over Conditions p. 12 ? Community Service Sentencing Is it a real alternative? p. 13 ~The National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation 1616 P Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036 (202)
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Image. THE NA TIONAL PRISON PROJECT JOURNAL A project of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Inc. Vol. 10, No.4, Fall 1995ˇ ISBN 1076-X As you can see, this quarters edition of the National Prison Project Journal is rather more subdued than usual -missing our red mast head, glossy paper and even
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Image. A PROJECT OF THE AMERICAN CIVil LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION, INC. VOl. 10, NO.3, SUMMER 1995 ? ISSN 1076-769X Bronstein Leaves NPPButNot Human Rights Work Q) E > - ~ z. ' .c I-IL. Alvin J. Bronstein, listening to a question from the group at the Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee reunion in Jac
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Image. A PROJECT OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION, INC. VOL. 10, NO.2, SPRING 1995 ? ISSN 1076ˇ769X Spread ofTB Poses Danger to Prisoners and Staff The resurgence of tuberculosis in jails and prisons will affect prisoners, correctional officers, and the community. I f an evil genius set out
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Image. A PROJECT OF THE AMERICAN CIVil LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION, INC. VOL 10, NO.1, WINTER 1994/95 ~ISSN 1076-769X "Corrections-Industrial Complex" Expands in u.s. ons added at least 105,219 beds, an increase of 13% from the 1992-93 totals of 92,028 beds. Some of the biggest names in finance 1ft"Int Blan
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Image. ISSN 0748-2655 NUMBER 9, FALL 1986 This issue we begin an exclusive fourpaar series on alternatives to incarceraation Russ Immarigeon takes a fresh look at the subject, and shows that public opinion, surprisingly, favoor alternatives to incarceration. Surveys Reveal Broad Support for Alternative Sen
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Image. A PROJECT OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION, INC. VOL. 9, NO.4, FALL 1994ˇ ISSN 107Q:769X Crime Bill Guts Educational Programs Paralegal course graduates, class of 1993-94, were honored last May at Northwest Missouri Community College's commencement exercises at the Louisiana State Pe
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Image. A PROJECT OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION, INC. VOL. 9, NO.3, SUMMER 1994 ? ISSN 1"Q76-769X No EqualJustice Under the Law in India-or the u.s. dead-end jobs, who are filling the prisons of Scotland; ? Duncan Chappell, an Australian criminoloogist has told us that aboriginals make up
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Image. A PROJECT OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL L1,BERTIES UNION FOUNDATION, INC. VOL. 9, NO.2, SPRING 1994 ? ISSN 0748-2655 ~ Billing Prisonersfor Medical Care Blocks Acress Timely access to sick call is the touchstone of a functioning prison health care system. ical staff. While these practices may seem like bene
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