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California Slashes Family Visits
The young Hispanic woman, juggling a squirming infant under each arm, began to cry as she read the notice posted on the wall of the visitor processing building at Lancaster prison. For months prisoner rights advocates had been warning visitors, trying to organize resistance, but few believed it would ever ...
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More from this issue:
- US Supreme Court: Florida Gain Time Statute Violates Ex Post Facto, by Paul Wright
- California EFV Injunction Reversed
- California Slashes Family Visits, by Willie Wisely
- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
- Law's Nature, by Mumia Abu-Jamal
- A Matter of Fact
- PLRA Consent Decree Termination Provision Unconstitutional
- Reversal of Frivolous Dismissal Voids PLRA Strike
- PLRA Applied to Attorney Fees
- Prisoners Retain Right to Safety
- Philadelphia Fined for Degrading City Prisons
- Racial Violence in California Lockups, by Willie Wisely
- Florida Private Prison Criticized, by Dan Pens
- Impregnated Arkansas Prisoner Wins Suit
- No Double Jeopardy in Massachusetts Disciplinary Hearings
- Inadequate Jail Staffing Violates Due Process
- Ohio Jail Construction Corruption?
- No Immunity for Eighth Amendment Violation in Rectal Search
- Beating and Strip Cell Require Trial
- Farmer Remanded Again, for Discovery
- Connecticut Supreme Court Upholds Phone and Mail Restrictions
- Drug Sales Boom in Wisconsin Prisons
- Virginia Felons Disenfranchised
- A Native American Resource
- Ex-Sheriff Sex Offender Retains Pension
- FJC Prisoner Litigation Guide
- Louisiana Jail Abuse Settlement
- Texas Lawyers Unhappy About Conscription
- ABA Calls for Halt to Executions
- CBCC Associate Superintendent Resigns
- Copying Claims Not Barred by Res Judicata
- News in Brief
- Double Celling States Eighth Amendment Claim
- Seventh Circuit Analyzes RFRA
More from Willie Wisely:
- From the Editor, Sept. 15, 2002
- California Guards Bust Budget, June 15, 2002
- California Pays for Guard's Sexual Misconduct, Jan. 15, 2002
- Prison Guard Sentenced in Escape Plot, Dec. 15, 2001
- California Dials Wrong Number, Nov. 15, 2001
- Plug Pulled in California Prison, Nov. 15, 2001
- Cowboys and Prisoners, Sept. 15, 2001
- Racist Knot of Florida Guards, Sept. 15, 2001
- Brutality Behind the Orange Curtain, Aug. 15, 2001
- Pelican Bay Guard's Conviction Upheld, July 15, 2001
More from these topics:
- Two Michigan Jails Face Class-Action Suits for Banning In-Person Visits, Dec. 15, 2024. Visiting, Class Actions.
- California Prisoner Wins Round Before Magistrate in Lawsuit Over Marriage Application Delayed Two Years, Dec. 15, 2024. Disclosure of Records, Visiting, Marriage.
- NYC Rehires Former Head of Rikers Island Lockup Where Guard Assault Left Detainee Quadriplegic, Nov. 15, 2024. Guard Misconduct, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Restraints, Guard Unions.
- California Throws Prisoners Under the Bus to Adopt New Heat Rules, Nov. 15, 2024. Exposure to Heat, Guard Unions, Failure to Protect (Staff).
- BOP Cuts Ties With American Correctional Association, Sept. 15, 2024. Guard Unions, ACA, Bureau of Prisons (BOP).
- Officials of Pennsylvania Guards Union Charged with Theft, Jan. 1, 2024. Threats by Staff, Corrections Audits, Guard Unions.
- New York Adding Names to Tombstones of Dead Prisoners, Dec. 1, 2023. Visiting, Extended Family Visiting, Family.
- South Carolina Supreme Court Denies Prisoner’s Challenge to DOC Policy Restricting Visitors to People He Knew Before Incarceration, Nov. 15, 2023. Visiting, Video Visitation.
- Five Years After Limiting Personal Visits and Banning Mail, Drug Use Worse in Pennsylvania Prisons, Sept. 15, 2023. War on Drugs, Mail Regulations, Visiting.
- Federal Watchdog Finds BOP Staffing, Maintenance in Crisis, Sept. 15, 2023. Totality of Conditions, Staffing, Guard Unions, Bureau of Prisons (BOP).