The Prison Problem in Alabama
Author : United States. Prison Industries Reorganization Administration
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Page : 122 pages
File Size : 10,11 MB
Release : 1939
Category : Convict labor
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Author : United States. Prison Industries Reorganization Administration
Publisher :
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 10,11 MB
Release : 1939
Category : Convict labor
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Author : United States Prison Industries Reorganization Administrtion
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Page : 118 pages
File Size : 34,71 MB
Release : 1939
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Author : United States. Prison Industries Reorganization Administration
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Page : 48 pages
File Size : 14,9 MB
Release : 1939
Category : Prisons
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Author : United States. Prison Industries Reorganization Administration
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Page : pages
File Size : 48,23 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Convict labor
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Author : Larry W. Yackle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 19,12 MB
Release : 1989-04-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0195363418
When the deplorable conditions in Alabama's prisons were revealed at trial in 1975, Judge Frank Johnson declared the prison system as a whole to constitute cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the eighth amendment. He then issued an elaborate decree specifying improvements that must be made to satisfy constitutional standards. In this study, Larry W. Yackle describes the campaign to achieve prison reform in Alabama through constitutional litigation in the federal courts and surveys the process that produced Johnson's decree, and subsequent efforts to enforce his order in the face of bureaucratic inertia, administrative incompetence, and political demagogy. A decade later, the prisons showed significant physical improvements, but Alabama's resistance to progressive penal policies remained intact and impeded lasting change. Covering the lawyers' strategies, Judge Johnson's creative actions, and the machinations of state and federal officials including the Department of Justice under President Ronald Reagan, this book conveys the frustrating yet effective effort at prison litigation and offers important lessons for other proponents of penal reform across the country.
Author : United States Commission on Civil Rights. Alabama Advisory Committee
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Page : 80 pages
File Size : 23,87 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Prisoners
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 48,61 MB
Release : 1939
Category : Prisons
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Author : Mary Ellen Curtin
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 32,80 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780813919843
This book traces the history of black prisoners in Alabama and their connections to and participation in the labor movement among miners in the late 19th century. Curtin (U. of Essex, UK) explores the convict- leasing system that ran most of Alabama's mines and its links to the African American transition out of slavery, illustrating the parallel transition from prisoner to coal miner. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
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Page : 53 pages
File Size : 40,28 MB
Release : 1936
Category : Convict labor
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Page : 100 pages
File Size : 23,21 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Criminal justice personnel
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