scholarly journals Staphylococcus aureusColonization and Infection in New York State Prisons

2007 ◽  
Vol 196 (6) ◽  
pp. 911-918 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franklin D. Lowy ◽  
Allison E. Aiello ◽  
Meera Bhat ◽  
Vicki D. Johnson‐Lawrence ◽  
Mei‐Ho Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York State ◽  
York State ◽  
State Prisons

An Interview with Eddie Ellis

1998 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don Goodman ◽  
Maggie Smith
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Task Force ◽  
New York State ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
York State ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Community Justice ◽  
The Board Of Directors ◽  
Law And Justice ◽  
State Prisons

Edwin (Eddie) Ellis is President of the Community Justice Center, Inc., an anti-crime research, education, and advocacy organization located on 125th Street in Harlem, New York. A target of the FBI's Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) for his Black Panther Party activities, Ellis served 25 years in various New York State prisons. While he was in prison, he earned a Masters degree from New York Theological Seminary, a Bachelor's from Marist College and a paralegal degree from Sullivan County Community College. Widely recognized as a writer, lecturer, and community activist, Ellis is credited with the successful public dissemination of the research findings of the Think Tank, a group of prisoners from Greenhaven Correction Facility which established that 75% of the prisoners in New York State come from seven neighborhoods in New York City. Eddie Ellis is a fellow of the Bunche Dubois Institute for Public Policy at Medgar Evers College/CUNY, serves on the Board of Directors of Center for Law and Justice in Albany, NY, is a member of the Drug Policy Task Force, The Vera Institute IRB, and the National Criminal Justice Commission. This interview took place in the offices of the Community Justice Center on August 6, 1997.

Compassionate Release from New York State Prisons: Why are So Few Getting Out?

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 216-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Beck
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Prison Population ◽  
New York State ◽  
State Legislature ◽  
York State ◽  
Frequent Event ◽  
Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
The Face ◽  
State Prisons ◽  
Prison Systems

It is inevitable that some inmates in large state prison systems will suffer from terminal conditions and die while incarcerated. But how those inmates experience that event is primarily controlled by correctional policies and by the prison medical and correctional staff assigned to their care. Compassion for inmates who are dying cannot be legislated or mandated, but humane and compassionate care for the dying can be facilitated or thwarted by legislative and correctional policies, and by the manner in which correctional personnel interpret those policies.Death in New York State prisons is a frequent event, occurring at a rate substantially higher than that in most other states. With a prison population that has risen to 70,000 inmates and with the nation’s highest rate of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, more than 2,817 inmates died in New York prisons during the period 1990-1998. In April 1992, in the face of an ever-increasing death rate in its prisons, the New York State legislature passed the Medical Parole Law, a measure designed to permit dying inmates to be released on parole prior to their normal release eligibility date.

Factors related to suicide in New York state prisons

2005 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce B. Way ◽  
Richard Miraglia ◽  
Donald A. Sawyer ◽  
Richard Beer ◽  
John Eddy
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York State ◽  
York State ◽  
State Prisons

Prison Crime in New York State

1997 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 456-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID R. EICHENTHAL ◽  
LAUREL BLATCHFORD
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
New York State ◽  
Prison System ◽  
York State ◽  
State Prison ◽  
Prison Management ◽  
State Prisons

The lack of attention devoted to crimes committed in prisons is striking given the important implications of the problem both for prison management and for public safety. This study examines reporting of crimes, referrals for prosecution and actual prosecution of crimes committed in New York State prisons. The authors find that there is no accurate means of tracking either prison crimes or prosecutions. But based on interviews, a review of state correctional department data, and a survey of prosecutors in more than one dozen counties where state prisons are located, they conclude that as many as 6,000 crimes may be committed annually in the New York State prison system. Yet few of these crimes are referred for prosecution or actually prosecuted.

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