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June 2, 2018
General Discussion
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Nelson Mandela Rules

The revised United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, named the Nelson Mandela Rules, were adopted unanimously in December 2015 by the UN General Assembly and set out ...
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June 13, 2017
General Discussion
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Turn on the Lights, Now!

Louis D. Brandeis Quotes. “Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient ...
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June 11, 2017
Agency, General Discussion, Human Rights, inareceration, incarceration, Justice for the Mentally Ill, mental illness and criminal justice, prison conditions
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“Sunshine is the best disinfectant.”

We need an oversight committee, Getting quality health care can be hard enough for everyday people. But for the more than 49,000 people in Illinois prisons, that process can be even tougher. Two ...
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June 15, 2015
General Discussion, Uncategorized
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Criminal Justice For the Mentally Ill

Criminalization of Mental Illness Ought to be a Crime   A lack of mental health treatment options is a major contributing factor in the mass incarceration of people with mental illness in ...
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October 22, 2014
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An answer?

  We Spend $9 Billion a Year to Lock Up People With Mental Illnesses: Here’s What We Should Do Instead San Antonio, TX has found a better approach to mental illness than handcuffs and ...
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October 17, 2014
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Because my mind roams over these walls…from “Solitary Voices”

The following story comes from Mustafa Zulu, who has been in solitary confinement for most of the past 22 years. He was born and raised in Washington, DC, where he watched both parents struggle ...
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March 11, 2014
General Discussion, Uncategorized
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Obamacare is not just about health, it could end up reducing prison populations “more than any reform in a generation”?

From Sentencing Law and Policy: An Affiliate of the Law Professors Blog Network ...
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February 13, 2014
General Discussion, Uncategorized
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Are we there yet?

  1764: Beccaria developed in his treatise a number of innovative and influential principles: punishment had a preventive , not a retributive, function; punishment should be proportionate to ...
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November 14, 2013
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Aging in prison

Give elderly chance at parole A bill is being considered by the Legislature, HB 3668, that would permit elderly prisoners to apply for parole. People may wonder who are these elderly people? Miss ...
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October 11, 2013
General Discussion, Uncategorized
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The Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution states that “cruel and unusual punishments [shall not be] inflicted”

http://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/about-us/our-blog/69-no-state/2413-prisons-are-a-very-poor-place-to-treat-the-mentally-ill-   Prisons Are a Very Poor Place to Treat the Mentally Ill ...
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