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• Pelican Bay parallels Guantanamo Bay.
• There are about 640 prisoners from 42 different nations - people the Bush administration refers to as “detainees” - being held in legal limbo at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. ...
• About 2,500 miles northwest of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in Pelican Bay, California, the very same method of isolation and confinement is being practiced.
• Currently, there are about 50 to 60 Black prisoners being held in Pelican Bay State Prison’s administrative segregation unit - commonly referred to as the “hole” - “pending an investigation,” according to officials. ...
• Beginning in June 2003, the “pickle suits” (correctional officers, or COs, who wear green suits) began locking down black prisoners from both general population facilities here at Pelican Bay, alleging that black prisoners were “conspiring to assault and/or murder correctional staff,” a serious indictment. ...
• What makes this allegation and subsequent locking down of black prisoners especially felonious by those who manipulate and control this monstrous beast called Pelican Bay is that there is no evidence being used to validate the alleged conspiracy. ...
• Some of the Brothas who were placed in the hole have never even met one another and came from various geographical locations - or turfs - within the state, and have nothing more in common then their Afrikan heritage. ...
• Those of you who have been reading the San Francisco Bay View newspaper for a year or more are probably familiar with the name of the author of this article - a. ... Low Key - and are aware that I have written articles before describing the deleterious practices of CDC and Pelican Bay in particular. ...
• - began with a proposal that I had written and presented to the prison administration here at Pelican Bay State Prison after years of violence in which prisoners were gunned down during racial riots, which many, including myself, believed were staged. ...
• The prison allowed for C. ... to become an official prison inmate activity group, basically to contend with the prison’s negative image behind a major riot that resulted in 16 prisoners being shot, one fatally, in February 2000. ... What actually took place is that the activity group, which was facilitated, maintained and directed by prisoners, became very effective, oftentimes meeting with some of the top officials in the prison, discussing ways to loosen the chokeholds of prison oppression.
• The article informed me that this so-called conspiracy tactic was being practiced at other prisons within the state, revolving around a Brotha who’s been on death row for over 20 years, Stanley “Big Took” Williams, who is allegedly the co-founder of the Crips and was also nominated while on death row for the Nobel Peace Prize for writing children’s books deterring kids away from gangs. The article indicated a “kite” found on a prisoner at Corcoran State Prison suggested “vaguely” that Black prisoners throughout the California Department of Corrections would collectively “insurrect” against the Prisoncrats after “Big Took” was put to death at San Quentin’s death row, even though the Brotha’s appeal of his death sentence is still in the Supreme Court. ...
• Every time a Blackman moves to educate himself within prison and discards the reactionary, frustrating acts of carrying out violence against others and other Blackmen and removes from his character the niggerization that these Prisoncrats use to justify treating human beings like animals, these Prisoncrats manufacture dysfunctional methods to re-associate Blackmen in prison with the role of a nigga. ...

• Although there is no nationally accepted definition of a Special Management Unit (or supermax), in general, it is described as "a highly restrictive, high-custody housing unit within a secure facility, or an entire secure facility, that isolates inmates from the general prison population and from each other due to grievous crimes, repetitive assaultive or violent institutional behavior, the threat of escape or actual escape from high-custody facility(s), or inciting or threatening to incite disturbances in a correctional institution. ...
• From 1934 to 1963 this was the federal prison that housed "habitual" and "intractable" prisoners. 3 When the prison closed, the inmates were then disbursed among other federal prisons. ... This was the only federal prison of this type until the opening of the Administrative Maximum Penitentiary in Florence, Colorado in 1994. ...
• Located at Arizona State Prison Complex-Eyman, the Special Management Units I and II have a combined capacity of 1,728 single cells. ...
• California operates two security housing units (SHU): one at maximum custody Pelican Bay State Prison and the other at Corcoran State Prison, which also houses inmates in protective custody. Inmates placed in a SHU have committed violent acts while in prison against either staff or other inmates. ...
• SHU inmates are allowed non-contact visits, housing unit and cell door religious activities by the chaplain, radios and television sets with earplugs, and access to the prison’s law library. Medical care is provided in each SHU housing unit, but if more complex treatment is needed it is provided through the prison’s infirmary, or by a community hospital.
• Interestingly enough, inmates housed at the SHU unit at Pelican Bay State Prison filed and won a lawsuit in 1995, Madrid v Gomez, which challenged the conditions of confinement, and alleged a pattern of brutality by staff on inmates, inadequate medical and psychiatric care, and inhumane housing conditions. ...
• Colorado State Penitentiary.
• Constructed due to the deaths of prison guards at Marion Federal Penitentiary, this prison houses mainly felons from other federal prisons that have killed inmates or guards while incarcerated. ...
• 15 The prison was designed to keep every prisoner in near-solitary confinement. ...
• A 421-bed facility in Michigan houses inmates who have threatened or injured other prisoners or staff, possessed deadly weapons or dangerous drugs, disrupted the prison, or have escaped or attempted to escape with use of deadly weapons or in a manner that threatened the lives of other persons. ...
• These inmates work in the prison kitchen, laundry, and other routine maintenance tasks. ...
• South Carolina projects a need of one percent of its total prison capacity for this type of facility. ...

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• Pelican Bay Maximum Security Prison.
• ' A recent survey by the Federal Bureau of Prisons found that 36 states now operate some form of super-maximum-security prison or unit within a prison. ... Ostensibly designed to control disruptions, punish inmates, and break up prison gangs, these new facilities actually engender more violence. ... The rage they spawn is unleashed first on the prison yard and then onto the public streets when the prisoners are paroled. This prison system makes visible, through the still-smoking embers of South Central L. ...
• In the race toward mass imprisonment, no state has outdone California, the nation's leading jailer. ... population, California incarcerates more people than any other state, has more than twice as many inmates in its jails as any other state in the country, and confines an astounding 20 percent of this country's juvenile prisoners. From 1982 to 1990, while spending for schools and other social programs was savagely reduced, funding for the state's prisons soared 359 percent, doubling the number of prisons and tripling the number of prisoners.
• In 1989, the CDoC unveiled its state-of-the-art weapon against crime: a 1,056-cell SHU at Pelican Bay State Prison near Crescent City Within the main unit, the X-shaped SHU is a high-tech replica of the nation's earliest prisons, which featured solitary cells. ...
• A Pelican Bay SHU inmate is guaranteed at least 22'/~ hours of bleak confinement. ...
• Prison authorities delay mail for weeks, withhold it for trivial or inconsistent reasons, and open privileged attorney-client communication. ...
• In the late summer of 1992, for example, after a prisoner was murdered by another inmate at Pelican Bay, prison staff tried to deflect an investigation by blaming gang drug wars.
• Some enter a private world of madness, scream incessantly in their cells, and even cover themselves with their own feces This psychological decay is worse for prisoners who cannot afford a state-issued TV or radio. ...
• In his 1980 study at Walpole, Massachusetts prison, Dr. ...
• The Institutional Classification Committee at Pelican Bay-essentially a kangaroo court-decides which prisoners are confined in the SHU. ...
• Consistent with the CDoC's intent to make the Pelican Bay SHU its first-line weapon against prison gangs, all gang-linked inmates receive an indeterminate sentence. ... Snitching requires that a prisoner confess violations of prison rules to the Criminal Activities Coordinator and implicate gang members in illegal acts. ...

• Chapel and State By Sarah Barringer Gordon.
• Dickens wasn't the first European intellectual who had crossed the Atlantic to visit Eastern State Penitentiary. A decade earlier, Alexis de Tocqueville had been sent by the French government to study the Philadelphia prison. ... Around the same time, the Rihouet porcelain factory in Paris produced a dessert plate featuring a painting of the prison's neo-Gothic façade. ...
• What drew the attention of Americans and Europeans was an innovative method of punishment being pioneered at the prison called solitary confinement. ...
• In the months following Franklin's salon, Rush and other reformers mobilized to put their ideas into practice, forming the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons to lobby the legislature to reform the prison system. ...
• In 1821, the reformers finally convinced the Pennsylvania legislature to approve funding for Eastern State Penitentiary, which would be the largest public building in the country; with a price tag of nearly $800,000, it was likely the most costly one as well. No expense was spared: To prevent disease, each cell in the new prison was equipped with a toilet, a rare luxury at the time. ...
• Eastern State was designed by John Haviland, a young architect, who proposed a hub-and-spokes model that allowed for constant surveillance. ...
• Prisoners ate their meals in their cells and did small-scale prison labor there like shoemaking. ... Silence was maintained at all times in the prison, and reading the Bible was the only activity other than labor that was permitted. ... On average, inmates spent two to four years alone in their cells, underneath a single round skylight, known in the prison as the "eye of God. ...
• The expense of the building limited its influence in the United States, but Eastern State was widely copied in Europe and even in Latin America and Japan, where economic conditions made the model more attractive. ...
• At the cornerstone-laying ceremony for Eastern State in May 1823, the Philadelphia philanthropist Roberts Vaux told the crowd that Pennsylvania was proudly pioneering a new penal system that substituted "milder correctives" for "those cruel and vindictive penalties which are in use in the European countries. ...
• In 1826, the Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette visited Eastern State, then under construction. ...
• When Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in Philadelphia in 1831, he requested permission to interview inmates at the newly opened prison. ...

• PRISON LIFE INSIDE THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS .
• I've written this report due to the torrent of requests I have received on the subject of prison life and inmates. ...
• This report will give you the "inside" look into prison life. The overall opinion is based on my prison experience since my arrest on December 2, 1993, until the present. ...
• With the crime rate on the rise in California and the passage of legislation like the "THREE-STRIKES LAW", our state prison system is packed beyond capacity. ... California has the second largest prison system in the world, second only to China (See FOOTE Page 1). It is difficult to grasp that our state has a larger prison population than any other country in the world with the exception of China. ... While some of these services are available, I will show that the average California prison does not serve simply as a vacation spot for criminals, but in fact, life inside is difficult and dangerous. If the state prison industry were standardized, it would not only run more efficiently, but would cost less and result in a lower repeat offender rate. ...
• " The prison staff must oversee the inmates movements "from the time they wake up, during meals, when working or in class, during free time in the dayroom, and believe it or not, when they are asleep" (See CALIFORNIA Page 1). ...
• In 1994 the Little Hoover Commission, an independent agency created to oversee state government operations, studied the California Department of Corrections. ...
• A judge can send a person to state prison for up to five years for possession of rock cocaine, but there is little or no drug rehabilitation offered to that person. ... "(See FOOTE Page 6) Without some kind of training, these offenders will be back inside a few years, continuing to cost the state money. One report likened the idea of sending a drug user who has been convicted of committing robberies to finance his habit to state prison, to "a maid sweeping dirt from the floor under the living room rug. ...
• However, some kind of standardized educational system is needed within the prison system, since many inmates have turned to a life of crime due to lack of education. ...
• Even with this system in place, doctors are often over-booked which causes a delay in treatment if the prison does not have the services needed or if they must make arrangements with outside doctors or hospitals. Additionally, there is often a delay in diagnosing or treating mental illness simply because some prison guards hold the belief that the majority of illness inmates claim to have are feigned or the guards "believe that sick prisoners get what they deserve. ...

• Il caso era stato sollevato da un detenuto nel carcere di massima sicurezza Pelican Bay State Prison in California. ... Nel 1998 il direttore del Pelican aveva deciso però di vietare l’accesso alle e-mail, appellandosi a motivi di sicurezza. ... È del tutto legittimo, quindi, il regolamento del direttore del Pelican, che aveva vietato l’ingresso della posta elettronica per motivi di sicurezza. ...
• COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA - FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT - DIVISION ONE - Februar 5, 2001.
• is in the business of publishing personal Web pages on the Internet for prison inmates who subscribe to its service. ... Aaron Collins, an inmate at Pelican Bay State Prison (Pelican Bay), subscribed to INMATE Classified’s service. In mid-1998, however, the warden at Pelican Bay directed that materials downloaded from the Internet would not be accepted by the prison mailroom.
• Pelican Bay is a maximum security prison that houses some of the state’s most dangerous prisoners, including those who have become affiliated with prison gangs or committed serious disciplinary infractions in prison and are confined in its security housing unit. ... ) Inmates at Pelican Bay do not have direct access to the Internet through computer terminals at the prison.
• INMATE Classified is a business that advertises itself as offering prison inmates a "personal connection to the Internet. ... Each personal home page includes the inmate’s prison mail address and an individual e-mail address. ...
• Collins subscribed to INMATE Classified sometime in mid-1997, while he was incarcerated at California State Prison-Sacramento. He was transferred to Pelican Bay in October 1997 and continued his subscription for several months, receiving multiple messages. But in May 1998, the warden at Pelican Bay issued a memorandum informing inmates that there had been an influx of mail containing Internet related material and that materials downloaded from the Internet and sent to the prison were considered unauthorized publications pursuant to California Code of Regulations, title 15, section 3138(f)(1) 2 . The memorandum stated that these publications and the mail in which they were enclosed would not be accepted by the prison mailroom.
• At the hearing on the petition, Pelican Bay presented the testimony of Augie Lopez, Associate Warden of Central Services, Jill Tholl, prison mail room supervisor, and Michael Menz, a detective in the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department assigned to the "High Tech Crimes Task Force," who testified as an expert in Internet law enforcement and investigation. According to Lopez and Tholl, the prison mail room staff opens between 2,000 and 5,000 pieces of mail daily, Monday through Friday. ... , mail sent through a third party to circumvent the regulation allowing correspondence between prison inmates only with prior approval of the warden of each facility. ...

• "Dry words on paper cannot adequately capture the senseless suffering and sometimes wretched misery that (Pelican Bay State Prison) unconstitutional practices leave in their wake. ...
• On a sunny day in January, I went on a tour of Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP) with 12 other people, mainly members of Bar None, a prisoner support/prison abolition group, and Operation U-Turn, a Humboldt State University based organization that helps released prisoners get into college.
• PBSP is in Crescent City, California, in the northwest corner of the state. The prison opened in 1989 and has as its best known feature the Security Housing Unit, known as the SHU. ... Prisoners go to the SHU for crimes committed while in prison or for being labeled a gang member. ...
• "I've been corresponding with a prisoner who's in the SHU up at Pelican Bay. ... "I pursued it because I've never been in prison, I wanted to see what it looks like on the inside. ... I'm also into the idea of being an outside watchdog, and we're going in as Bar None, and Pelican Bay knows who we are. ...
• I also feel like it's important for prison activists to regularly strengthen our sense of outrage; for it is that sense of outrage that keeps us struggling against the prison industrial complex even when there are times where I feel like Don Quixote, tilting at windmills.
• Supermax prisons are sharply on the rise, largely in response to the radical prison movements of the ‘70s. ... The SHU and other supermaxes house validated gang members and prisoners convicted of crimes in prison, but the SHU is also home to jail house lawyers, political prisoners/POWs, influential prisoners and folks who organized solidarity and resistance inside. ...
• Grundy showed us a diagram of the prison and where we would be going on the tour. ...
• The only exception to this is when they go to the industry yard, where inmates can engage in activities like woodshop and auto mechanics, and make things like shoes for the rest of the California prison system and glasses for Medi-Cal.
• It's a state funded, tax paid operation, and as such, it's not only your right, but it's your responsibility to see what we're doing here. ...
• The other part of that equation is how prison life encourages violence, even among those who weren't violent on the outside. ... I also know that ingenuity and creativity take many other forms in prison, from figuring out how to make wine in their cells, to amazing artwork and writing, to figuring out novel ways of communicating between cells. ...

• Valentine Weekend Trip to Pelican Bay State Prison.
• Written and directed by Bay Area poet/musician Avotcja. ...
• Valentine Weekend Trip to Pelican Bay State Prison.
• Valentine weekend trip to Pelican Bay State Prison, in Crescent City, CA, sponsered by Expression Art Gallery, San Francisco Christian Center. ...

• reported "Feds widen Nuestra Familia probe", it said federal attorneys in Northern California were dramatically expanding their charge to gang members and attempting to penetrate its leadership within Pelican Bay State Prison. This may lead to the first federal death penalty trial in the Bay Area in decades. The unusual thing was why the federal government using its resources to go after a state prison gang. ... A prison gang is a state problem. ...
• It would be a murder for less penalty bargain between federal law enforcement agency and prison gang. ... But they can't say all people died "suiciding", by then I realized they would kill by the hands of prison gang. ...
• Schneider was infamous among inmates and prison authority. He is serving a life sentence for stabbing a prison guard and stabbing an attorney in courtroom. He was in Pelican Bay State Prison. ...
• The couple then were practising their business by representing inmates and correction staff in lawsuits against the state government. ...
• What FBI did was when they threw Won Ho Lee in prison, a news was spread that former CIA chief committed same crime as Lee, down loading classified document without permission. ...

• A visit to Pelican Bay State Torture Chamber.
• He is incarcerated at Pelican Bay State Prison - it should be called Pelican Bay State Torture Chamber – in the Security Housing Unit (SHU).
• Driving on to the prison grounds is a nightmare in itself. Pelican Bay State Torture Chamber is located in one of the most beautiful areas of California, close to the Pacific Ocean and near redwood forests. ...
• The entire prison area sits on gravel; not even token blades of grass or weeds can be seen. Three sets of fences surround the prison. ...
• to begin processing each and every person through the prison system. ...
• There were protests at prisons throughout the State of California, demanding “prisoners’ human rights and to tell Gov. Davis, the California Department of Corrections” (what a ridiculous name – they are actually the Department of Torture and State Sanctioned Murder) “and the California Supreme Court, to shut down Security Housing Units, overturn the Three Strikes Law and to release the lifers, grant them parole now!”.
• Bar None, a prison activist group in Arcata, Calif. , coordinated the protest at Pelican Bay. ...
• Yogi has been locked up for over 38 years and has been in the SHU at Pelican Bay since he was transferred there in 1990, shortly after the prison was opened. ...
• Last year, close to a thousand prisoners at Pelican Bay and Corcoran SHU went on a hunger strike in an attempt to change the unfair rules governing their Security Housing Unit placement. According to Bar None, they suspended the strike at the request of state Sen. ... 19, a number of prisoners at Pelican Bay and Corcoran SHU began another hunger strike. ...
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• PRISON LIFE INSIDE.
• I've written this report due to the torrent of requests I have received on the subject of prison life and inmates. ...
• This report will give you the "inside" look into prison life. The overall opinion is based on my prison experience since my arrest on December 2, 1993, until the present. ...
• PRISON LIFE INSIDE .
• With the crime rate on the rise in California and the passage of legislation like the "THREE-STRIKES LAW", our state prison system is packed beyond capacity. ... California has the second largest prison system in the world, second only to China (See FOOTE Page 1). It is difficult to grasp that our state has a larger prison population than any other country in the world with the exception of China. ... While some of these services are available, I will show that the average California prison does not serve simply as a vacation spot for criminals, but in fact, life inside is difficult and dangerous. If the state prison industry were standardized, it would not only run more efficiently, but would cost less and result in a lower repeat offender rate. ...
• " The prison staff must oversee the inmates movements "from the time they wake up, during meals, when working or in class, during free time in the dayroom, and believe it or not, when they are asleep" (See CALIFORNIA Page 1). ...
• In 1994 the Little Hoover Commission, an independent agency created to oversee state government operations, studied the California Department of Corrections. ...
• A judge can send a person to state prison for up to five years for possession of rock cocaine, but there is little or no drug rehabilitation offered to that person. ... "(See FOOTE Page 6) Without some kind of training, these offenders will be back inside a few years, continuing to cost the state money. One report likened the idea of sending a drug user who has been convicted of committing robberies to finance his habit to state prison, to "a maid sweeping dirt from the floor under the living room rug. ...
• However, some kind of standardized educational system is needed within the prison system, since many inmates have turned to a life of crime due to lack of education. ...

• Muslim leader decries prison conditions.
• The conditions detailed by Haddad are very similar to those endured by prisoners in Control Unit or Super Maximum prisons, such as California's Pelican Bay State Prison. ...

• In a decade when the incarceration rate has skyrocketed and the number of HIV-positive people in prison has grown faster than ever, AIDS-in-prison advocacy has not kept pace -- only a handful of individuals and organizations are working to help inmates with HIV/AIDS. In many ways things are back to where they started 15 years ago, and yet we're also poised at the edge of what could be an exciting new time for AIDS-in-prison activists on both sides of the walls.
• New York state prisoners David Gilbert, Yusuf A. Shakoor, Cruz Salgado (now known as Ruben Rodriguez), and others were locked down and even shipped to different prisons throughout the state for daring to start HIV peer education programs behind the walls. ... "I really felt part of a movment for justice and peer education," recalls Ruben Rodriguez, who now works for the AIDS in Prison Project of the Osborne Association in New York. ...
• At the all-male California Medical Facility, prisoners reached out to state legislators, led hunger and medication strikes, and faced indefinite lockup in the high-security Pelican Bay State Prison for membership in the "gang" ACT UP. At the Central California Women's Facility (CCWF) in 1994, Joann Walker, an HIV positive prisoner activist, campaigned for the compassionate release of dying women, and organized a rally on the prison yard while supporters demonstrated on the road outside the prison. Demonstrations for better care continue today, led by the California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP) and California Prison Focus (CPF). ...
• Demonstrations were held in Albany in front of the New York State Department of Corrections headquarters to protest poor access to medical care and the high death rate of prisoners with HIV/AIDS. A dramatic demonstration was organized inside the state capitol building in Madison, Wisconsin to protest the murder of Donald Woods, a prisoner with AIDS, who died of asphyxiation after prison staff bound and gagged him, then strapped him to a bed, leaving him to die.
• Mary Lucey, an HIV-positive former prisoner, comments, "After I was released from prison, I felt I could not turn my back on women who still suffer behind bars. It is our responsibility to continue to bring attention to the cruelty that people with HIV/AIDS face in the prison system. ...
• Other AIDS activists rallied to the defense of HIV-positive prisoners who were charged with attempted murder for alleged spitting and biting incidents against prison guards. ACT UP-Philadelphia began a campaign demanding freedom for Gregory Smith, an HIV-positive gay, African American prisoner convicted of attempted manslaughter in New Jersey in 1990 and sentenced to up to 25 years after he was brutally beaten by a New Jersey prison guard. ... "Greg's commitment as an activist and peer educator inside prison is inspiring; the hurdles he must overcome to share life-saving information, including solitary confinement as punishment for his activism, are monumental," said Julie Davids, a long-time supporter of Greg and member of ACT UP-Philadelphia.
• While the energy of the prison AIDS activist movement clearly inspired many prisoners around the country, its dissipation over the last several years has left many more without a base of support and little voice in the community. ...

• "  The CCADP's Dave Parkinson and Tracy Lamourie take on the state of Arizona's attempt to ban prisoners from their webpage and are the main focus of Canada's hour long premier investigative documentary program on the CBC. ...
• Dave Parkinson of the CCADP and James Lockyer from AIDWYC appear to discuss with Bill Cameron the recent cases involving Canadians being unfairly treated abroad, in a half hour discussion about capital punishment following the documentary "When the State Kills" .
• The Rivasfars believe Wike has too many freedoms for someone scheduled to die in prison. ...
• Saul Dos Reis, whose Internet personal ad was recently taken down, pleaded guilty in March to state manslaughter and sexual assault charges in connection with the murder of 13-year-old Connecticut resident Christina Long, whom prosecutors say Dos Reis befriended over the Internet.
• Regulations banning this kind of "third-party contact" are in place at other prisons as well, including the entire New York state prison system. ...
• "It's a well-established right that prisoners can both send and receive mail," says David Fathi, an attorney with the ACLU's National Prison Project. If prison administrators are worried about the content of mail generated via Web sites, Fathi notes it's also well-established that jail officials "have the right to read the mail and make sure it doesn't contain material that would pose a risk to prison security. ...
• In May, a federal judge in Arizona struck down a state law that allowed corrections officials to punish inmates who had contact with Web sites or had their names mentioned on Web sites -- even if a site listed a prisoner's name without his knowledge or permission. Last year, a district court judge ruled against the California Department of Corrections, which tried to ban any kind of Internet-based material from reaching prisoners at the Pelican Bay high-security prison.
• In the Arizona case, the ACLU sued the state on behalf of several prisoners-rights groups, including the Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty, which allows death-row prisoners to maintain free Web pages.
• CCADP director Tracy Lamourie says maintaining contact with the outside world via Web sites can benefit both the prisoner and the prison community .
• Like many other state sites, the New York State Department of Corrections Web page allows Internet surfers to look up the records of inmates in the system. ...
• Conover spent a year as a prison guard, which he chronicled in the award-winning book "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing. ...
• When he insisted on defending himself in his double-murder trial, despite pleas from defense attorneys that he had an IQ of 77 and was not competent to stand trial, he became the first person under the state's current capital punishment law to represent himself. ...
• Reed was sentenced to 37 months in prison after pleading guilty to assault, but he continued to write Rego threatening letters from prison.
• When Reed was released from prison on April 25, 1994, instead of going to a federal halfway house in Fayetteville, N. ...

• How prisons, established to fight crime, produce crime -- a sequel to our December cover story, "The Prison-Industrial Complex" .
• Nevertheless, horror stories have led to calls for longer prison sentences, for the abolition of parole, and for the increasingly punitive treatment of prisoners. ... " In 1986, according to figures published in the Survey of State Prison Inmates (1991), 175,662 people were serving sentences of more than ten years; five years later 306,006 were serving such sentences. ...
• "The Prison-Industrial Complex," by Eric Schlosser (December, 1998).
• America's prison-industrial complex, the author argues, is rapidly corrupting the criminal-justice system. ...
• "A Model Prison," by Robert Worth (November, 1995).
• "Maybe it is time, now that everyone else has had his say on the continuing problem of prison riots, that a former convict should make some observations on the subject. ...
• "Prison Progress," by Brice P. ...
• "The time has come to do away with the title of 'warden' and the designations of 'prison,' 'penitentiary,' and the rest, and to start a new and enlightened era with a 'President of State Industries. ...
• "The State of Vermont contains a prison where the inmates are treated upon a novel plan. ...
• "Should the goal of incarceration be to deter criminals? To punish them? To rehabilitate them? Or just to warehouse them safely away from law-abiding society?" The transcript of an online conference with Robert Worth, author of "A Model Prison. ...
• Prison Activist Resource Center.
• Coordinated and maintained by long-time prison activists and legal workers, PARC serves as an information clearinghouse on areas such as political prisoners, control units, women in prison, the death penalty," and more. ...
• In prison Scully degenerated, eventually using a contraband hacksaw blade to escape from his cell and attacking another inmate with a homemade knife. ...
• Scully wound up in solitary confinement in a prison named Corcoran. ... In 1990, soon after the "supermax" prison at Pelican Bay had opened in the redwood forests northeast of the old Victorian timber town of Crescent City, Scully was moved again, into a tiny bare cell with a perforated sheet-metal door and a hatch through which his food was served. ... A month later he was arrested for violating parole by consorting with an armed acquaintance, and went straight back to Pelican Bay. ...

• At the Washington State Reformatory, for example, prisoners are constantly observed during visits and are not allowed to leave the visiting room without terminating the visit. ...
• It can also help us to understand why modern prison officials are so eager to get past state limits on the length of time a prisoner can be placed in isolation. ...
• This is because they are about 40% more likely to receive a prison sentence if convicted by a jury and three times as likely to receive life in prison or death. ...
• At one point he says, " If Gaia does not die and some exceptionally scrupulous judge hestitates to torture her further without fresh proofs or to burn her without a confession, she is kept in prison and more harshly fettered, and there lies for perhaps an entire year to rot until she is subdued. " This implies that in some cases women who withstood torture without confessing would confess after being kept in prison for long periods of time. ...
• ( Florida isn't running a prison system; it's running a mortuary. ...
• I'm a prisoner at the Washington State Penitentiary. I've filed a few lawsuits over the years against prison officials, prison employees and prison conditions with some success. ...
• Recently, I had a case dismissed on the state's motion for summary judgement. After the court granted the state's motion, Assistant Attorney General Carol Murphy filed a Bill of Costs against me for $284. ...
• You can do this by attaching a statement of your trust fund account to your "Motion for Review of the Clerks Entry for Bill of Costs"; by telling the judge whether you have a prison job and how much a month your job pays; by pointing out to the court the little income you get is essential for "personal hygiene items" from the inmate store. ...
• If you have a legitimate complaint that prison officials are unwilling to work with you to resolve, exercise your constitutional right of access to the courts. ...
• Tillman Farr was a prisoner at the Washington State Penitentiary (WSP) at Walla Walla. Prison officials placed Farr in Administrative Segregation (ad seg) based on information from confidential informants which claimed Farr and others were going to assault a guard. ... Farr filed suit under 1983 claiming his ad seg placement was in violation of his due process rights and done in retaliation for his having filed grievances and complaints against prison officials. ... While Farr lost his case the language of the ruling is very good, and will definitely be of assistance to Washington state prisoners. ...

• Tough Time: Part One Inside the supermax Pelican Bay prison, brutal conditions make convicts more brutal  .
• Pelican Bay State Prison is a "supermax," a level of high-tech security above maximum. ... Critics of the American penal system loathe it, while supporters adore Pelican Bay and demand more like it. ...
• But at Pelican Bay, there is no fortress, no iron gate. ...
• From a distance, the prison is a complex of interconnected two-storey concrete buildings brutal only in their blandness, seemingly sand-blasted of any distinguishing characteristics. ...
• Throughout the prison, the noise, filth and visceral brutality of old dungeons like Alcatraz are gone. ...
• Pelican Bay is divided in two, with one side operating as an ordinary maximum prison that keeps the appearance of order by a steady rotation of "lock downs" that keep prisoners in their cells around the clock. ...
• Every prisoner in Pelican Bay's supermax is locked in his cell for 22. ...
• Many prisoners never receive visits because Pelican Bay is two days' drive from Los Angeles, where most inmates' families live. ...
• Misbehaviour at a lower security prison can get a man a "determinate" sentence. Assaulting another inmate with a weapon, for example, means 15 months at Pelican Bay. ...
• Otherwise, the only way he can leave Pelican Bay, in the words of the prison's spokesman, Lieut. ...
• "If there are ever Nuremberg trials in the United States," says Franklin Zimring, a criminologist at the University of California, Berkeley, "Pelican Bay and its equivalent in other states will be the basis of indictments. ...
• When Pelican Bay opened in 1989, at a cost of $290 million U. ... , the governor christened it "the prison of the future. ... Almost 1,300 are held in Pelican Bay's SHU. ...

• State Prison-Eyman, 4-B-7.
• San Quentin Prison, EB-2-91.
• Pelican Bay State Prison, C4108.
• Autry State Prison, H1-219-B.
• Mike Durfee State Prison.
• Maximum Security Prison.
• 3950 Tiger Bay Rd.
• Pelican Bay State Prison, A2-107.
• Kanater Men's Prison.
• Folsom State Prison, 5-AB2-09.
• Mike Durfee State Prison.
• State Prison-Florence, 7H-12.
• Anamosa State Penitentiary.
• Men's State Prison.
• State Prison.
• 49030 State Hwy. ...

• Pelican Bay State Prison, California. ...
• complaints of excessive force by state law enforcement agents and bringing.
• authorities to take stronger steps to ensure that conditions in state and.
• some new, super-maximum security prison units in the USA fall short of such.
• change in existing state practice, the whole concept of international human.
• became the thirty-eighth US state to reinstate the death penalty. ...
• State laws.
• state supreme court and prisoners then have the same rights as all.
• issues through both state and federal courts (known as habeas corpus.
• an important measure of a state's compliance with minimum international.
• of state laws permitting this practice, Amnesty International believes that.
• life cannot be reserved and that, in particular "a State may not reserve.
• In some states, also, no state funding is provided for appeals beyond.
• the direct appeal to the state court and prisoners have to rely on.
• Article 2(2) of the ICCPR requires each State Party to undertake steps to.
• than any other state (more than 80 between 1982 and February 1995), the.

• Bonnie Kerness, Coordinator Prison Watch.
• Women in Prison .
• Many prison guards refuse to recognize that the punishment prisoners receive is to be taken away from. ... Being sent to prison is their punishment, they are not. ... sent to prison to be punished. ...
• After the Madness: “A Judge’s Own Prison Memoir,” Sol Wachtler, 1997 .
• - Northern prison, Somers, Connecticut, 11/24/99, 9/20/00.
• - Hays State Prison, Trion, Georgia, 9/8/97.
• - Utah State Prison, Draper, Utah, 6/13/99.
• - Wallens Ridge State Prison, Big Stone Gap, Virginia, 1/16/00.
• - Northern State Prison, Newark, New Jersey, 4/30/99, 8/13/99(2).
•       “The prison medical department. ...
• ***************       “The folks in prison are mostly poor and working class people who need jobs and education. Prison issues are class issues and race issues. ...
• - State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, Huntington, Pennsylvania, 2/15/00.
• - Northern State Prison, Newark, New Jersey, 4/30/99, 8/13/99(2).

• Startseite - Lesetips - Jail-Voice - SonderausgabePelican Bay State Prison (PBSP).
• Endstation: "Pelican Bay".
• In der äußersten nordöstlichsten Ecke Californiens, nahe der Stadt mit den wohlklingenden Namen Eureka und unmittelbar nächst dem kleinen aber bizarren Ort Crescent City liegt "Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP)". Pelican Bay wurde gebaut für 2. ... Pelican Bay wird in einem Artikel der Los Angeles Times vom 1. Mai 1990 wie folgt beschrieben: "Pelican Bay ist völlig automatisiert und so konstruiert, dass Häftlinge im Grunde genommen keinen Blickkontakt mit Wärtern oder anderen Mithäftlingen haben. ... Pelican Bay symbolisiert unsere Philosophie, dass der beste Weg zur Reduzierung von Kriminalität darin liegt, verurteilte Straftäter hinter Gitter zu bringen. ... Ben Grundy aber nicht die gefährlichste-) Unruhen in "Pelican Bay Prison" stattgefunden habe. ...
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• Pelican(?) Bay State Prison .

• Gray Davis imposed budget cuts that cut $500 billion of state funding for the university system. ...
• San Francisco Bay View, Commentary, K. ...

• Friday, attorney Robert Noel walked out of Pelican Bay State Prison in the remote northwestern corner of California to hold a news conference. ...
• He and his wife have done volunteer work for the homeless, but much of their work-spearheaded it seems, by Noel-has centered on Pelican Bay State Prison. ...
• He has represented prisoners, including his current adopted son, in cases alleging prison abuse and, on the other hand, has defended prison guards against charges of civil rights violations. ...
• One such case ended last year when his prison guard client, who was fired for making racist comments to minority inmates, was convicted of shooting an inmate in the chest without cause. ...
• But at the news conference at Pelican Bay State Prison Friday, Noel's comments reflected that attitude. ...
• The news conference was held on the edge of the prison property. ...

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