A comparative study of psychoses among negroes and whites in the New York 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.

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barred-from-treatment-punishment-of-drug-users-in-new-york-state-prisons-mar-2009-53pp

Human Rights Documents online ◽

10.1163/2210-7975_hrd-2156-0585 ◽

2016 ◽

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Drug Users ◽

New York State ◽

York State ◽

State Prisons

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

The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics ◽

10.1111/j.1748-720x.1999.tb01455.x ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 27 (3) ◽

pp. 216-233 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

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.

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