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Showing posts with label prison. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prison. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Wide-ranging social commentary in Peele's 'Wendell & Wild' pillories privatization, school-to-prison pipeline

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Released by Netflix in October 2022, Wendell & Wild is a delightful stop-motion horror animation and none-too-subtle commentary on the...
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Sunshine filters in to Mass. jail with gloomy history

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Bristol County, Mass., Sheriff Paul Heroux is seeking to close a jail with a gloomy history, and last week he gave journalists a look inside...
Wednesday, October 12, 2022

'Behind Bars': Petroff article explains how secrecy shields private prison labor from public scrutiny

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Alyssa Petroff , a judicial law clerk at the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, has published Behind Bars: Secrecy in Arizona’s Private Prison...
Friday, July 29, 2022

Lawsuit alleges excessive force against federal immigration detainees held near public law school

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⚠ Warning: indecent language. Latino detainees of the Bristol County House of Corrections, which is located just three-quarters of a mile ...
Saturday, July 16, 2022

'Civil death,' denial of tort claims, violates prisoners' right of access to courts, R.I. high court holds

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N.C. State Archives public domain photo via Wikimedia Commons The Rhode Island Supreme Court in March struck down the state "civil dea...
Monday, October 25, 2021

Incarcerated persons have access to information in Massachusetts law, court confirms, but not in all states

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Image by Ichigo121212 from Pixabay A man imprisoned for murder has a right of access to public records no less than anyone else, the Mas...
Sunday, September 12, 2021

FOIA committee ponders access amid privatization

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I had the great privilege last week to speak to the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Advisory Committee , working under the aegis of t...
Sunday, May 3, 2020

Policy behind 'home confinement' as criminal sanction has evolved, law grad writes in transnational journal

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A graduate of my Comparative Law class and our outgoing Student Bar Association President, Markus Aloyan , J.D. '20, has published a ...