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Death by Lethal Infection
By Salomon Zavala, Esq.
January 2023
Inadequate prison health systems have allegedly caused the deaths of thousands of prisoners during the COVID-19 pandemic. The author speaks to the events leading to his client’s death a short time before he was to be released from prison.
Sixty Years On — Cause for Pause
By Stephen R. LaCheen, Esq.
October 2019
A well-known criminal defense attorney analyzes changes he has witnessed in the criminal justice system over 60 years of law practice. Mr. LaCheen argues that the War on Drugs and War on Crime claimed a crime wave and used the hysteria the media generated to ramp up penalties; the result was a dramatic increase in the prison population and the decimation of a generation of African-American men. As for the new prison reform law, he notes its impact remains to be seen.
Attica- History Made and Lessons Lost
By Michael Deutsch, Esq., Dennis Cunningham, Esq., and Elizabeth Fink, Esq., with Joseph Heath, Esq., and Dan Meyers, Esq.
July 2001
Twenty-nine years after New York’s watershed riot at New York’s Attica prison and its brutal aftermath, New York State has agreed to a settlement for the damage done to the inmates. The attorneys who devoted 25 years to litigation express their conclusions about the settlement, the significance of the case, the riot and where things stand today – in the era of isolation units, private prisons, prison labor and more prisons holding more prisoners serving longer sentences.