Daily Events in Prison Based on "Behind a Convicts Eyes" Readings Misha,Yahoo! Contributor Network May 16, 2006 In my experience of reading the text, Behind a Convicts Eyes, I have learned many things about prison life. It has in fact changed my perception of what I thought prison lif...
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Our federal prison guidebook will take you from your very first day inside through your last. We walk you through the intake procedures, the uniform and housing steps, the institution's policies and rules, and the unwritten inmate rules that all inmates have to follow. We show you actual menus fr...
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Social Issues in Prison Steven Limbaugh,Yahoo! Contributor Network July 30, 2010 Sexual relations between inmates have been an ongoing occurrence long before the terminology prison and correctional facility ever existed. The majority of prisons throughout the United States completely ignore t...
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By Jonathan L Richards Your first few weeks and indeed your entire stay in prison will be made entirely more tolerable if you adhere to top three rules of inmate etiquette. Obeying these rules will help to positively shape your reputation, which will follow you throughout your sentence. 1. Don'...
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Oct 6, 2012As if America’s hedge-fund elite didn’t have enough crises to worry about – riots in Spain, the fiscal cliff, Lindsay Lohan’s hotel brawl – the parade of underlings copping pleas to insider-trading crimes just keeps growing. Every week it seems another one flips, promising to turn stat...
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Justice, civil disobedience, and mental health are just a few of the topics covered by these incarceration-inspired books.August 17, 2012When we imagine the places where our favorite authors penned their greatest masterpieces, a jail cell usually doesn't come to mind. But, whether their writers w...
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The Eighth Amendment prohibits the "cruel and unusual punishment" of inmates. So how will the Bureau of Prisons defend itself at Supermax?The first two parts of this series begin to tell the tale of the way a handful of mentally ill prisoners allege they are being treated at ADX-Florenc...
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A detailed new federal lawsuit alleges chronic abuse and neglect of mentally ill prisoners at America's most famous prison. (First in a three-part series.) June 18 2012When Jack Powers arrived at maximum-security federal prison in Atlanta in 1990 after a bank robbery conviction, he had never disp...
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In a lawsuit filed yesterday, these inmates at America's most famous and secure prison allege a cycle of abuse and madness, neglect, and retribution. (The second in a three-part series.)June 19, 2012You don't get to be an inmate at ADX-Florence, America's most famous and secure prison, without ha...