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Research guide on Solitary Confinement, by Ken Strutin, August 10, 2010:

Excerpt from introduction: “Solitary confinement is the most extreme penalty in the hierarchy of incarcerative punishment. 1 Depending on the institution, length of detention and purpose, this “prison within prison” 2 has been described in many ways: administrative segregation, communications management unit, 3 control unit, disciplinary housing unit, the hole, intensive management unit, lockdown, punitive isolation, segregation, SHU (special housing unit, special handling unit, segregated housing unit, security housing unit), and Supermax (Super-Maximum Security Confinement). 4 And these “inner prisons,” 5 have come under constitutional scrutiny by the way of the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, 6 and procedural due process challenges to prison conditions and special status, e.g., death row or gang affiliation. 7

The selected materials collected here represent current research and thinking about the physical, psychological and legal implications of isolation as punishment, and the policy issues behind continuing this practice in the light of national and international standards and human rights declarations. Additional bibliographic resources are noted throughout….” (Link to full guide.)

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A lot of us don’t think of Oregon as horse-country, but it is! Notwithstanding the fantasies (though, not mine – I’m more a chill out on the deck with a tall drink sort of person) of riding barebacked on the Oregon coast (still the People’s Coast from North to South), there is plenty of legal work for horse lawyers, aka equine lawyers.

If you need a “horse lawyer” you can contact the Oregon State Bar Information and Referral Service and ask for one. While you’re waiting for that first appointment, read a little about equine law: University of Vermont Equine Law website.

You might notice that horse law requires knowledge of civil procedure, contracts, sales, torts, bankruptcy, debtor-creditor law, and more! There can also multi-state disputes so the attorneys need to be knowledgable about other states’ laws and procedures.

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If you have been reading about the arrests and trials of members of the Oregon Followers of Christ, you might be curious about the religion and about faith-healing generally.

There is some, though not a lot, of information available online, in the “mainstream web” (also known as the “I looked it up on the Internet” search method).

I did not include here results from a thorough literature search. Additional information can be gleaned by searching the deep web, and news, magazine, and subject-specific databases at your local public library.

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Flynn’s Harp: Capital punishment, hanging reflections (7-28-10)

Excerpt: “… Only men have been executed in Washington and of the 14 who have gone to their deaths since 1949, 13 were Caucasian and one was Hispanic. Two of the last four men to suffer the death penalty chose hanging, the last being Charles Campbell in 1995.
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… Spenser, the young man who contacted me for the interview for his project, told me he and a friend had decided to do a paper on the death penalty and had searched the Internet but found “mostly factual, neutral stuff. It was difficult to find sites that gave us opinions.”

I shared with him the details of the June evening of 1963 when two other young journalists and I were among the group of about 35 people on hand for Self’s hanging, by tradition just past midnight, “the first minute of the new day.”

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I love the Wisconsin State Law Library Newsletter and always learn something new when I read it. This month, August 2010, in addition to other useful legal research tools (e.g. CiteGenie), they had links to two handy-dandy published reviews / comparisons of Smart Phones. We can’t get enough of those, our mini-brains!

1) Lifehacker smart phone comparison

2) CNET smart phone reviews

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The July 2010 report can be found at the Portland (Oregon) City Auditor’s Office:

Report to the City of Portland Concerning the In-Custody Death of James Chasse, Prepared by Michael Gennaco, Robert Miller & Julie Ruhlin, OIR Group, 323-890-5425, July 2010

If that link doesn’t work (or this one) and if you have trouble finding the report on the website, please contact the Office of the Ombudsman, 1221 SW 4th Ave, Rm. 140, Portland, OR 97204, phone: 503-823-0144

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The Government Printing Office’s GPO Access is becoming FDsys, and includes access to the Code of Federal Regulations (FR), the Federal Register (FR), the Congressional Record (CR), U.S. Statutes at Large (Stat), and the U.S. Code (USC).

See the full list at the FDsys homepage.

(Brace yourself for another name change in the not so distant future. It would not surprise me if FDsys finds itself with a challenge to select a stickier, more memorable name. And then again, if you say it over and over again, FDsys, FDsys, FDsys – it becomes fidsis, fidsis – oh, never mind.)

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