http://community.nicic.org/blogs/corrections_headlines/archive/tags/Legal+issues_3A00_+offenders_2F00_detainees/default.aspxTags: Legal issues: offenders/detaineesenCommunityServer 2007.1 SP1 (Build: 30415.43)http://community.nicic.org/blogs/corrections_headlines/archive/2006/08/29/Risks-in-Releasing-New-Orleans-jail-inmates_3F00_-Listen-to-NPR.aspxTue, 29 Aug 2006 16:13:00 GMT26cc0436-63b6-4ef3-9d43-d8006bc9b9ca:534Peggy L. Ritchie0The <a href="http://www.npr.org/" target="_blank">National Public Radio</a> hosted a discussion on releasing jail inmates whose cases have been delayed since Hurricane Katrina due to shortages of public defenders. <strong>Is this a major public safety issue? What do you think? </strong><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5708448" target="_blank">Listen here</a>....<img src="http://community.nicic.org/aggbug.aspx?PostID=534" width="1" height="1">Legal issues: offenders/detaineeshttp://community.nicic.org/blogs/corrections_headlines/archive/2006/06/26/48.aspxMon, 26 Jun 2006 20:13:00 GMT26cc0436-63b6-4ef3-9d43-d8006bc9b9ca:48Connie Clem0<P>In a recent paper, <A href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=859164"><U><FONT color=#0000ff>"Civil Rights Injunctions Over Time: A Case Study of Jail and Prison Court Orders"</U></FONT></A>, Margo Schlanger (Washington University, St. Louis - School of Law) argues that, "even now, ten years after passage of the PLRA, the civil rights injunction is more alive even in the prison and jail setting than the conventional wisdom recognizes" (from the Abstract). The&nbsp;article appears in the New York University Law Review, Vol. 81, 2006. <A href="http://law.wustl.edu/Faculty/index.asp?id=416"><U><FONT color=#0000ff>Review Ms. Schlanger's other published works</U></FONT></A>.</P><FONT size=2></FONT></FONT><img src="http://community.nicic.org/aggbug.aspx?PostID=48" width="1" height="1">Legal issues: offenders/detainees