thenewinquiry:“U.S. inmates quickly get used to the fact that the fewrights remaining to them can be
thenewinquiry:“U.S. inmates quickly get used to the fact that the fewrights remaining to them can be violated more or less with impunity. The 1996Prison Litigation Reform Act—passed amid a flurryof hard-to-source anecdotes about prisoners suing prisons over absurd and minorgrievances—prevents prisoners from being heard in the courts until they’ve first exhausted a given prison’s ‘administrative remedy’ procedure. For inmates in the federal Bureau of Prisons system, that procedure officially entails filing a BP-8, waiting five days, filing a BP-9, waiting 20 days, then waiting another 20 days if the prison needs more time, sending off a BP-10 to the regional office, waiting 30 days, then waiting another 30 days if the regional office needs more time, then sending off a BP-11 to the national office, waiting 40 days, then waiting another 40 days if the national office needs more time, and then filing in court.“Barrett Brown undertakes a year-and-a-half-long experiment on the tactics prison administrators use to deny their inmates legal rights -- source link
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