Articles

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Prison Administration

• The Basics of Prison Classification
• Risk Assessment
  
  Approaches and Applications
• Prison Dog Adoption Programs
  
  highlighting two of the more popular programs running in US prisons

Prison Conditions

• A Brief History of Prison Labour
• California Prisons
  Women Die from Medical Neglect
• Death Row Prisoners Fight for Their Rights
• Eight officers indicted for civil rights violations at Corcoran State Prison in California
• Federal Corrections Officer Indicted for Abusing Inmate
• Former White County Tennessee Corrections Officers Indicted and Arrested on Civil Rights Charges
• Gila County Jail Settles Allegations of Inadequate Inmate conditions
• Justice Department finds Unconstitutional Conditions at Two Arkansas Correctional Units
• Barbaric execution in Florida
  spurs call to end the racist death penalty
• Justice Department Settles Litigation to end Sexual Misconduct and Invasions of Privacy in Arizona State Womens' Prisons
• Memorial for Move Members
• Muscogee County Jail To Improve Inmate conditions
  
  Under Justice Department Agreement
• Georgia NAACP Protests Prison Head
• Commentary from Death Row
  Texas Leveling System Shows Rise in Repression
• Three Arkansas Department of Corrections Officers Plead Guilty to Torturing and Violating the Civil Rights of Inmatest
• Torture Policy Ordered by Rumsfeld
  Abu Ghraib Not Exceptional
• Two Men Indicted for Violating the Civil Rights of an Inmate at Greenville Federal Correctional Institution
  and Lying to Cover Up the Crime

Prison Execution

• Attorney General Ashcroft's Statement Regarding the Execution of Timothy McVeigh
• Date Set for First Federal Execution Since 1963

Prison Inmates, Staff, and Stakeholders

• All Reported Cases of Female Sex Offenders
• Canadian Prison Gangs
• Chicano Prison Art
• Inside California's Prisons: Interview with a Woman Corrections Officer
• Legal Issues for Women in Federal Prison
• Prison Gang Profile: the Mexican Mafia
• Prison Gang Profile: the Nuestra Familia
• Prison Rape: the challenge of prevention and enforcement
• Theories on the Etiology of Sex Offenders
• The Psychology of Criminal Conduct
• Suicide Methods in Prison
• Violent Offenders: Evidence and Treatment
• Snapshot: Where America's Serial Killers are Staying

Prison Riots

• 25th Anniversary of Attica Uprising

Prison Stories

• Cold War of the 1990s, by political prisoner Jalil Muntaquim.

Prison Types

• The Psychological Effects of Supermax Prisons (page 1 2 3)

The Criminal and Civil Justice System

• False Imprisonment in the Adversarial-Inquisitorial System Debate
• Felony Expungement
  A brief definition from U.S. state law
• Assault and Battery Case Law
  A Resource of Supreme Court and Appeal Court Cases
• Lawsuit Abuse Statistics
  not related to prison issues, but a popular topic
• Are Frivolous Lawsuits Legal?
  a compliment to the previous article on lawsuit abuse statistics
• Free Legal Advice by Phone
  how available is it?
• Deferred Felony
  it's common but not always understood. What is it?
• Street Drug Prices
  overview of prices of all major drugs across Europe and North America