Add to ORKGRecent disturbances in prisons across the nation have focused attention on our prison population. Many argue that prison riots are initiated by malcontents, troublemakers, and revolutionaries inside and outside the prison. Others have attributed the disturbances to prisoner frustration with the complaint procedures in the prisons. Assembly Bill 1181, introduced in the 1971 California Legislature, would have created a prison ombudsman for the state prison system. The bill was vetoed by the Governor. This comment discusses the types of complaints made by prisoners, the present remedies for handling these complaints, and the purpose and function of an ombudsman. The penal ombudsman as proposed by A.B. 1181 is then considered by the autho...
An in depth look at CALIFORNIA\u27S 2007 ASSEMBLY BILL 900 which responds to California\u27s prison ...
Since the United States began using incarceration as its cornerstone of punishment for those who tra...
In May of 2011 the United States Supreme Court ruled that overcrowding in California’s state prison ...
Recent disturbances in prisons across the nation have focused attention on our prison population. Ma...
California\u27s prison system is totally broken and in urgent need of reform on many fronts. Over th...
This article examines aspects of penal reform within our present criminal justice system. The author...
Introduction: Riots are a recurrent phenomenon in American prisons. In the 1950s and the early 1970s...
Prisons in the United States house approximately 220,000 felons,\u2795 percent of whom will eventual...
This special issue on prison litigation is well-timed. As Tinsley Yarbrough notes in The Alabama Pr...
Over the course of the twentieth century American prisoners became increasingly politicized, perhaps...
In addition to a lack of interest by the courts, prison officials received little direction from sta...
Excessive incarceration is a national problem. Across the country, prisons face dangerous levels of ...
Eric Cummins: The Rise and Fall of California\u27s Radical Prison Movement. Stanford: Stanford Unive...
State prison overcrowding has grown into a detrimental problem within our American penal system, suc...
Throughout history the penal system has been viewed as the paramount means of dealing with criminals...
An in depth look at CALIFORNIA\u27S 2007 ASSEMBLY BILL 900 which responds to California\u27s prison ...
Since the United States began using incarceration as its cornerstone of punishment for those who tra...
In May of 2011 the United States Supreme Court ruled that overcrowding in California’s state prison ...
Recent disturbances in prisons across the nation have focused attention on our prison population. Ma...
California\u27s prison system is totally broken and in urgent need of reform on many fronts. Over th...
This article examines aspects of penal reform within our present criminal justice system. The author...
Introduction: Riots are a recurrent phenomenon in American prisons. In the 1950s and the early 1970s...
Prisons in the United States house approximately 220,000 felons,\u2795 percent of whom will eventual...
This special issue on prison litigation is well-timed. As Tinsley Yarbrough notes in The Alabama Pr...
Over the course of the twentieth century American prisoners became increasingly politicized, perhaps...
In addition to a lack of interest by the courts, prison officials received little direction from sta...
Excessive incarceration is a national problem. Across the country, prisons face dangerous levels of ...
Eric Cummins: The Rise and Fall of California\u27s Radical Prison Movement. Stanford: Stanford Unive...
State prison overcrowding has grown into a detrimental problem within our American penal system, suc...
Throughout history the penal system has been viewed as the paramount means of dealing with criminals...
An in depth look at CALIFORNIA\u27S 2007 ASSEMBLY BILL 900 which responds to California\u27s prison ...
Since the United States began using incarceration as its cornerstone of punishment for those who tra...
In May of 2011 the United States Supreme Court ruled that overcrowding in California’s state prison ...