Links regarding Supermax Prisons

Ken Haynes speech at the September 6 rally

http://www.cnn.com/US/9801/09/solitary.confinement/

http://www.amnesty-volunteer.org/usa/group159/supermax.html

http://www.hrw.org/about/initiatives/onion.htm

http://www.aclu.org/news/w080897a.html

http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~kastor/ceml_articles/cu_in_us.html

http://www.channel3000.com/news/stories/news-980820-181904.html

http://prisonactivist.org/

http://www.stanfordwhite.com/proj-max.htm

http://www.jpp.org/

http://www.bop.gov/

http://www.prisons.net/

http://www.ucc.uconn.edu/~logan/

http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/prisoners_rights.html

http://www.prisons.com/

 

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 page updated  1/7/02

Found Poem for the SuperMax Prison
from The Story of the Fisherman, Stories from the Thousand and One Nights, The Harvard Classics.

…and when Suleyman saw me, he offered up a prayer for protection against me, and exhorted me to embrace the faith, and to submit to his authority;

but I refused; upon which he called for this bottle, and confined me in it, and closed it upon me with the leaden stopper, which he stamped with the Most Great Name:
he then gave orders to the Jinn, who carried me away, and threw me into the midst of the sea.

There I remained a hundred years; and I said in my heart, Whosoever shall liberate me, I shall enrich him for ever:
– but the hundred years passed over me, and no one liberated me:

and I entered upon another hundred years; and I said, Whosoever shall liberate me, I will open to him the treasures of the earth;
– but no one did so:

and four hundred years more passed over me, and I said, Whosoever shall liberate me, I will perform for him three wants:
– but still no one liberated me.

I then fell into a violent rage, and said within myself, Whosoever shall liberate me now, I will kill him; and only suffer him to choose in what manner he will die.

And lo, now thou hast liberated me, and I have given thee thy choice of the manner in which thou wilt die.

© 2001 FJBergmann