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• Risks in Releasing New Orleans jail inmates? Listen to NPR

  The National Public Radio hosted a discussion on releasing jail inmates whose cases have been delayed since Hurricane Katrina due to shortages of public defenders. Is this a major public safety issue? What do you think? Listen here .... Posted Aug 29 2006, 10:13 AM by Peggy L. Ritchie with Filed under: Legal issues: offenders/detainees

• Has civil rights injunctive practice in corrections faded? Scholar says "no"

  In a recent paper, "Civil Rights Injunctions Over Time: A Case Study of Jail and Prison Court Orders" , Margo Schlanger (Washington University, St. Louis - School of Law) argues that, "even now, ten years after passage of the PLRA, the civil rights injunction... Posted Jun 26 2006, 02:13 PM by Connie Clem with Filed under: Legal issues: offenders/detainees