Category Archives: Prisoners’ rights

Sexual thoughts and the First Amendment

Posted on June 14, 2020 by Appellate Squawk

Mr. Bacon, a guest of the government at Ray Brook Federal Correctional Institution, wrote to his sister about the guards, “There is only one Black Woman here. I believe she is an Indian. She is very beautiful and healthy. I … Continue reading →

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The virus, like the rain, falleth on the just and the unjust

Posted on April 26, 2020 by Appellate Squawk

Does the right to free speech protect falsely shouting, “There’s no fire!” in a crowded theatre? Does the right of assembly protect defying the quarantine? Imagine being incarcerated with bozos like that. Which quite a few people are being. So … Continue reading →

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Life in non-punitive therapeutic civil commitment is not what you think

Posted on October 31, 2019 by Appellate Squawk

Jimmy Pesci, author and publisher of the outlawed blog Duck Soup and its successor FCCC Instigator, is one of 6,000 men in this country who, after completing their sentences, are being held indefinitely behind locked doors and razor-wire fences while the … Continue reading →

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Prison Sex Offender Treatment vs. The Fifth

Posted on May 5, 2019 by Appellate Squawk

“Confess and be saved” and its corollary, “Refuse to confess and be damned” have been the bedrock of the sinner rehabilitation industry, from the Inquisition to prison sex offender  “treatment” programs.  If the treatee refuses to confess to uncharged, unknown, … Continue reading →

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Keeping Calm at Rikers Island

Posted on May 30, 2018 by Appellate Squawk

New York City’s jail guards are highly offended at a poster displayed on the jailhouse walls exhorting them to “KEEP CALM AND REMEMBER EGOS AND UOF [Use Of Force] DON’T MIX.” The sign went up in response to the federal monitor’s recent … Continue reading →

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“The Constitution does not require Florida to join New York in la-la-land.”

Posted on May 24, 2018 by Appellate Squawk

Whenever a court invokes the old saw that constitutional rights can’t be stopped at the prison gate, it’s even money that the court is just about to do exactly that. The latest is the 11th Circuit’s upholding of the Florida … Continue reading →

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