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Summer of Discontent
Loaded on May 15, 2008
by John Dannenberg
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2008, page 16
Filed under:
Discrimination,
Gang Policies,
Prison Rebellion,
Hunger Strikes,
Prison/Jail Murders,
Failure to Protect (General),
Assaults on Staff.
Location:
United States of America.
by John E. Dannenberg
Underlying the purported societal goal of prisoner rehabilitation lurks the reality of what impedes it: systemic violence that defines the adversarial relationship between all men and women behind bars, prisoners and guards alike.
Driven by racial animus, drugs, anger, gang rivalry, perceived disrespect and lack of ...
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- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
- When Courts Get it Wrong: Clark v. Beard, by Mumia Abu-Jamal
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- Deadly Staph Infection 'Superbug' Has a Dangerous Foothold in U.S. Jails, by Silja JA Talvi
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- $2 Million Confidential Settlement In CCA Prisoner’s 2004 Beating Death Revealed, by Alex Friedmann
- Washington DOC Pays PLN $541,000 for Illegally Withholding Records, by Michael Rigby
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- Texas Prison Health Care: On the Brink of Unconstitutionality, Again, by Matthew Clarke
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- Texas Youth Commission Wants Increased Pepper Spray Use Despite Settlement, by Michael Rigby
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- Innocent California Prisoner Paid $3,171,000 For 12 Years Wrongful incarceration
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- FCC Order Heralds Hope for Reform of Prison Phone Industry, Dec. 15, 2013
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