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Mental Illness, Human Rights, and US Prisons: Human Rights Watch Statement for the Record, Senate Judiciary Committee, Suncommittee on Human Rights and the Law
This document is a “brief overview of the problems faced by mentally ill persons who are incarcerated and the human rights ...
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Added: October 26, 2009
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No Equal Justice: The Prison Litigation Reform Act in the United States
This report "examines three provisions of the PLRA [Prison Litigation Reform Act] -- the exhaustion requirement, the ...
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Added: September 08, 2009
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Detained and Dismissed: Women's Struggles to Obtain Health Care in United States Immigration Detention
The finding that "ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] policies unduly deprive women of basic health services" is ...
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Added: April 23, 2009
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Barred from Treatment: Punishment of Drug Users in New York State Prisons
The provision of adequate health services to drug abusing prisoners in New York State's correctional facilities is examined. ...
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Added: April 16, 2009
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Decades of Disparity: Drug Arrests and Race in the United States
The overrepresentation of minorities in the criminal justice system due to the "war on drugs" in the U.S. is established. ...
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Added: March 19, 2009
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The Rest of Their Lives: Life Without Parole for Youth Offenders in the United States in 2008
The sentencing of juveniles to life without parole (JLWOP), effectively to die in prison, is examined. This report has ...
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Added: June 11, 2008
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United States: Targeting Blacks: Drug Law Enforcement and Race in the United States
Sentencing disparities, particularly those faced by African Americans, resulting from the "war on drugs" in the U.S., are ...
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Added: June 05, 2008
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United States: When I Die, They'll Send Me Home: Youth Sentenced to Life without Parole in California
Results from a study on the sentencing of juvenile offenders to life without parole in California are analyzed. Sections ...
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Added: February 08, 2008
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No Easy Answers: Sex Offender Laws in the US
Critical faults in sex offender laws in the U.S. are discussed. Eleven sections comprise this report: executive summary; ...
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Added: October 02, 2007
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Ensure Access to Condoms in US Prisons and Jails
The need for making condoms easy to get (in order to combat the spread of infectious diseases) is explained. Sections of ...
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Added: June 12, 2007
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