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On 9/18/19 1:02 PM, Richard Fidler wrote:
As the first sentence states, this interview was published in New Politics this
last summer. Available on-line:
https://tinyurl.com/y68ydotk
Excellent. But I want comrades to take advantage of any free downloads
from Harper's, which for my money, is the best magazine in the USA and
one I have subscribed to since the early 80s.
I suspect that "Life after Life: Why parole in America in just another
prison" should be a valuable read especially in light of the Amazon
documentary I reviewed recently about the rapper whose career has been
jeopardized by a vindictive judge who keeps extending the number of
years he is on parole for minor technical infractions.
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Sara Norman is an attorney who for the past two decades has worked at
the Prison Law Office, which has been at the forefront of litigation
against the California prison system since 1976, fighting for the
improved treatment of the mentally ill as well as the developmentally
and physically disabled, for the provision of adequate medical care for
all prisoners, and for the reduction of overcrowding. After a string of
amazing victories, all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, the office
is nothing short of legendary inside the state’s prisons.
I ask Norman about the parole system. She recounts some of the cases
she’s been involved with, like that of a prisoner named Gene Horrocks, a
wheelchair user, who, in 1995, was forced to crawl up two flights of
stairs to get to a Board of Prison Terms hearing; that of Clifton
Feathers, legally blind and terminally ill, who, in 1997, was denied
parole because he had “failed to develop a marketable skill that can be
put to use upon release”; and that of Elio Castro, a deaf man with
profound developmental disabilities who, in 1996, was denied parole and
directed to participate in Alcoholics Anonymous programs without an
interpreter.
https://harpers.org/archive/2019/10/life-after-life/
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