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Build Jails, Not Schools: Ohio Prison Building Corruption
The apparatus of repression provides frequent examples of the corruption endemic to late capitalism. It is hugely expensive, miniminaly accountable, and has no clear product by which to gauge its performance. Military fraud and waste are cliche. Endless police scandals regularly crop up around the country. The prisonindustrial complex is ...
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More from this issue:
- Hepatitis C, A 'Silent Epidemic' Strikes U.S. Prisons, by Silja JA Talvi
- Louisiana Prison System Exceeds Administrative Statutory Authority
- U.S. S.Ct. Upholds PLRA Automatic Termination Law
- Florida X-Wing Guard Acquitted in Valdes Beating
- Wisconsin Supermax Bans Local Paper
- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
- Qualified Immunity Denied in CO Rape Case; Suit Settled for $70,000
- Alabama Ad Seg Publication Ban Struck Down
- Eleventh Amendment Immunity for Illinois Sheriff Denied
- Morrissey Protections Required for WA Community Custody Revocation
- AZ Medical Copayment Not Retroactive, by James Quigley
- Iowa Segregation Suit Settled, by James Quigley
- Right to Associate Still Viable
- Construction Contractor Not Liable Under §1983 for Disabling Fire Safety Equipment
- Guard Reinstated After Nazi Flag Flap, by Ronald Young
- Habeas Hints: State Remedies, by Kent A. Russell
- DC Prisoners Sue VA Over Restraints
- Administrative Exhaustion Required in Third Circuit; U.S. S. Ct. Grants Review
- Build Jails, Not Schools: Ohio Prison Building Corruption, by Bill Dunne
- University Cancels Sodhexo-Marriott Contract
- Sodexho Bows to Pressure, Announces Sale of CCA Stock
- PLRA Attorney's Fees Cap Applies to Nonprisoner Intervenors
- States of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons, by Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Pubic Hair Search of Released Jail Detainee Unconstitutional
- MO Consent Decree Modification Affirmed
- IFP Litigant Entitled to Amend Complaint
- News in Brief
- NY DOCS Guard Nets $300,000 for ADA Retaliation
- Certificate of Review Mandatory in Colorado Negligence Suits, by Bob Williams
- DC District Court Denies Guards' Summary Judgment Retaliation Case
- High Standard of Proof for Retaliation Claims
- No Immunity for Ignoring Prisoner Work Restrictions, by Ronald Young
- Cursory Medical Treatment Cruel and Unusual
- NY Prisoners Have Liberty Interest in Work Release, by Ronald Young
- Seventh Circuit Rejects ETS Claim
More from Bill Dunne:
- South Carolina Rapes Exposed, April 15, 2001
- Build Jails, Not Schools: Ohio Prison Building Corruption, Jan. 15, 2001
- First Federal Execution Postponed, Oct. 15, 2000
- Crack in the Federal Scheme: The October Rebellion of 1995, Oct. 15, 2000
- New Plantation, Feb. 15, 1997
- Murder Incorporated, Feb. 15, 1994
- Dime Down, Jan. 15, 1994
- The Protection of the Law, March 15, 1992
More from these topics:
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- Tennessee DOC Rewards CoreCivic with Pay Increase Despite Critical Watchdog Audit, Aug. 15, 2024. Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Corrections Audits, Cost of Prison Systems.
- 1,200 Washington Prisoners Lose Laptops After One Shows Up on eBay, Aug. 15, 2024. Government Misconduct, Education, Computers, Internet.
- Ending Prison Slavery on the Ballot in California, Nevada, Aug. 15, 2024. Prison Labor, Voting, State Legislation.
- College and Post-Carceral Job Searches, Aug. 1, 2024. Education, jobs.
- Surveillance Tech Companies Compose Self-Promoting Press Releases for Cops That Media Lazily Regurgitates, July 15, 2024. Contractor Misconduct, Police State-Surveillance.
- Georgia Sheriff Takes $160,000 Kickback from Pay Tel for Video Visitation, July 1, 2024. Government Misconduct, Video Visitation, Private Phone Contractors.
- Colorado Program Employs Prisoners as Professors, July 1, 2024. Work, Education, Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Release and Reentry.
- Pell Grant Restoration Not Reaching All Prisoners, July 1, 2024. Education.
- CoreCivic Sued by Former Detainee Stabbed at Shuttered Kansas Jail, July 1, 2024. Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Totality of Conditions, Failure to Protect (General), State Law Claims.