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Author | : Kitty Calavita |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0520284186 |
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Having gained unique access to California prisoners and corrections officials and to thousands of prisoners’ written grievances and institutional responses, Kitty Calavita and Valerie Jenness take us inside one of the most significant, yet largely invisible, institutions in the United States. Drawing on sometimes startlingly candid interviews with prisoners and prison staff, as well as on official records, the authors walk us through the byzantine grievance process, which begins with prisoners filing claims and ends after four levels of review, with corrections officials usually denying requests for remedies. Appealing to Justice is both an unprecedented study of disputing in an extremely asymmetrical setting and a rare glimpse of daily life inside this most closed of institutions. Quoting extensively from their interviews with prisoners and officials, the authors give voice to those who are almost never heard from. These voices unsettle conventional wisdoms within the sociological literature—for example, about the reluctance of vulnerable and/or stigmatized populations to name injuries and file claims, and about the relentlessly adversarial subjectivities of prisoners and correctional officials—and they do so with striking poignancy. Ultimately, Appealing to Justice reveals a system fraught with impediments and dilemmas, which delivers neither justice, nor efficiency, nor constitutional conditions of confinement.
Author | : Ben M. Crouch |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2014-05-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0292789653 |
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How does a prison achieve institutional order while safeguarding prisoners' rights? Since the early 1960s, prison reform advocates have aggressively used the courts to extend rights and improve life for inmates, while prison administrators have been slow to alter the status quo. Litigated reform has been the most significant force in obtaining change. An Appeal to Justice is a critical tudy of how the Texas Department of Corrections was transformed by Ruiz v. Estelle, the most sweeping class-action suit in correctional law history. Orders from federal judge William W. Justice rapidly moved the Texas system from one of the most autonomous, isolated, and paternalistic system to a more constitutional bureaucracy. In many respects the Texas experience is a microcosm of the transformation of American corrections over the second half of the twentieth century. This is a careful account of TDC's fearful past as a plantation system, its tumultuous litigated reform, and its subsequent efforts to balance prisoner rights and prison order. Of major importance is the detailed examination of the broad stages of the reform process (and its costs and benefits) and an intimate look at prison brutality and humanity. The authors examine the terror tactics of the inmate guards, the development of prisoner gangs and widespread violence during the reforms, and the stability that eventually emerged. They also detail the change of the guard force from a relatively small, cohesive cadre dependent on discretion, personal loyalty, and physical dominance to a larger and more fragmented security staff controlled by formal procedures. Drawing on years of research in archival sources and on hundreds of interviews with prisoners, administrators, and staff, An Appeal to Justice is a unique basis for assessing the course and consequences of prison litigation and will be valuable reading for legislators, lawyers, judges, prison administrators, and concerned citizens, as well as prison and public policy scholars.
Author | : Ian R. Freckelton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 996 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Judges |
ISBN | : 9780455226699 |
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Appealing to the Future is a celebration of Justice Kirby's achievements and contributions to the Australian legal system. This collection of essays contains writings and reflections from more than 40 eminent legal practitioners and academics in Australia and beyond. Each contribution explores an aspect or theme of Justice Kirby's judicial life, covering both his law reform and judicial writings. Covering a wide variety of legal topics, a common thread is Justice Kirby's values -- how they have shaped his judgments and interests and how they have evolved over the years to make him one of Australia's most renowned High Court judges.
Author | : Susan Berry Casey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2016-09-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780997698404 |
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This deeply researched riveting biography captures Jean Dubofsky's untold journey battling injustice, including successfully arguing the landmark gay rights case Romer v. Evans before the U. S. Supreme Court. It places Dubofsky and Colorado at the center of our country's fight for social justice. 16 pages of photos, Index.
Author | : Paul D. Carrington |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Grisham |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2010-03-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307576124 |
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town’s water supply, causing the worst “cancer cluster” in history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict—or reverse it. The chemical company is owned by a Wall Street predator named Carl Trudeau, and Mr. Trudeau is convinced the Court is not friendly enough to his interests. With judicial elections looming, he decides to try to purchase himself a seat on the Court. The cost is a few million dollars, a drop in the bucket for a billionaire like Mr. Trudeau. Through an intricate web of conspiracy and deceit, his political operatives recruit a young, unsuspecting candidate. They finance him, manipulate him, market him, and mold him into a potential Supreme Court justice. Their Supreme Court justice. Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!
Author | : William Wilberforce |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1823 |
Genre | : Slavery |
ISBN | : |
Download An Appeal to the Religion, Justice, and Humanity of the Inhabitants of the British Empire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Sara Mayeux |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2020-04-28 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1469656035 |
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Every day, in courtrooms around the United States, thousands of criminal defendants are represented by public defenders--lawyers provided by the government for those who cannot afford private counsel. Though often taken for granted, the modern American public defender has a surprisingly contentious history--one that offers insights not only about the "carceral state," but also about the contours and compromises of twentieth-century liberalism. First gaining appeal amidst the Progressive Era fervor for court reform, the public defender idea was swiftly quashed by elite corporate lawyers who believed the legal profession should remain independent from the state. Public defenders took hold in some localities but not yet as a nationwide standard. By the 1960s, views had shifted. Gideon v. Wainwright enshrined the right to counsel into law and the legal profession mobilized to expand the ranks of public defenders nationwide. Yet within a few years, lawyers had already diagnosed a "crisis" of underfunded, overworked defenders providing inadequate representation--a crisis that persists today. This book shows how these conditions, often attributed to recent fiscal emergencies, have deep roots, and it chronicles the intertwined histories of constitutional doctrine, big philanthropy, professional in-fighting, and Cold War culture that made public defenders ubiquitous but embattled figures in American courtrooms.
Author | : Scott David Allen |
Publisher | : Credo House Publishers |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2020-09 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781625861764 |
Download Why Social Justice Is Not Biblical Justice: An Urgent Appeal to Fellow Christians in a Time of Social Crisis Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Prepare yourself to defend the truth against the greatest worldview threat of our generation. In recent years, a set of ideas rooted in postmodernism and neo-Marxist critical theory have merged into a comprehensive worldview. Labeled "social justice" by its advocates, it has radically redefined the popular understanding of justice. It purports to value equality and diversity and to champion the cause of the oppressed. Yet far too many Christians have little knowledge of this ideology, and consequently, don't see the danger. Many evangelical leaders confuse ideological social justice with biblical justice. Of course, justice is a deeply biblical idea, but this new ideology is far from biblical. It is imperative that Christ-followers, tasked with blessing their nations, wake up to the danger, and carefully discern the difference between Biblical justice and its destructive counterfeit. This book aims to replace confusion with clarity by holding up the counterfeit worldview and the Biblical worldview side-by-side, showing how significantly they differ in their core presuppositions. It challenges Christians to not merely denounce the false worldview, but offer a better alternative-the incomparable Biblical worldview, which shapes cultures marked by genuine justice, mercy, forgiveness, social harmony, and human dignity.
Author | : John Diamond |
Publisher | : Trilogy Christian Publishing |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2020-10-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781647735920 |
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"This crisis has two faces. First is the increasing secularization of our country, and second is the erosion of self-government. The primary catalyst for both trends is, in my judgment, the Supreme Court of the United States... Our challenge... in this next millennium will be to...restore the American experiment as understood by George Washington, James Madison, and Abraham Lincoln." - Federal Judge Bill Pryor "Vindicate us Lord, and plead our cause against an ungodly nation. Get justice for us from our adversaries. Deliver us from deceitful and unjust men. Cause them to fall into the pit that they have dug for the righteous. Grant to Your servants that we may speak Your word in all boldness. Give us the nations for our inheritance, and the ends of the earth for our possession."