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Prison Watch

The Prison Watch Project monitors human rights concerns, violations, and abuses of prisoners in the U.S. federal and state prison system, with a regional focus on New Jersey and New York. A special emphasis is maintained on the inappropriate use of isolation and devices of torture. Staff advocate resolution of the complaints through appropriate channels and report abuses to national and international monitoring groups. Staff speak widely on prison issues and provide technical assistance to students, media and authors.

Current Work:

• Healing Justice in Quaker Action, Fall 2007
  Speaking out against confinement abuses of prisoners, immigrants
• April-September 2007

Topics:

• Restorative Justice
• Human Rights Abuses
• Juveniles
• Women
• Control Units
• Prison Labor

Restorative Justice

• New Justice Paradigm, Bonnie Kerness, 9/28/2002 (pdf)

• Uhuru Tribunal on Reparations, Bonnie Kerness, 11/14-15/2003 (pdf)

• Ex-prisoners' plight , Bonnie Kerness, 12/17/2003 (pdf)

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Human Rights Abuses

• Issues of Torture and Re-Entry into the Community, Bonnie Kerness, 2/2/2008 (pdf 36kb)

• Someone To Watch Over Me? U.S. Prisoners and Human Rights in a Post 9/11 World, Bonnie Kerness, 1/28/2007

• Human Rights Abuses in US Prisons, Bonnie Kerness, 11/11-13/2005 (pdf)

• Correlation of Prisoners' Issues and Conditions to International Covenants and Treaties: An AFSC Resource Guide, Nardos Assefa & Bonnie Kerness, 6/2003 (pdf)

• Commission on Safety and Abuse in America’s Prisons, Bonnie Kerness, 7/19-20/2005, Public Hearing (pdf)

• Iraqi Prisoners Abuses, Bonnie Kerness, 5/6/2004, Star Ledger op-ed piece (pdf)

• The Prison Inside the Prison: Control Units, Supermax Prisons, and Devices of Torture, Rachel Kamel & Bonnie Kerness, 2003 (pdf)

• Torture in U.S. Prisons, Bonnie Kerness & Masai Ehehosi, edited by Julia Lutsky, Fall 2001 (pdf)

• Prison Sketch Book, Todd (Hyung-Rae) Tarselli

• Prison Sketch Book II, Todd (Hyung-Rae) Tarselli

• Survivors' Manual, Nov. 1997 (pdf)

• Prison Gang Workshop, Bonnie Kerness, 11/3/2000 (pdf)

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Control Units

• The Prison Inside the Prison: Control Units, Supermax Prisons, and Devices of Torture, Rachel Kamel & Bonnie Kerness, 2003 (pdf)

• History of Control Units, Bonnie Kerness, 4/27/1996 (pdf)

• Survivors' Manual, Nov. 1997 (pdf)

• Torture in U.S. Prisons, Bonnie Kerness & Masai Ehehosi, edited by Julia Lutsky, Fall 2001 (pdf)

• Prison Gang Workshop, Bonnie Kerness, 11/3/2000 (pdf)

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Juveniles

• Issues of Torture and Re-Entry into the Community, Bonnie Kerness, 2/2/2008 (pdf 36kb)

• No Child Left Behind, Bonnie Kerness, 11/1/2003 (pdf)

• Our Children's House 2/25/2002 (pdf)

• Cell Blocks to City Blocks, Bonnie Kerness, March 16, 2002 (pdf)

• Prison Gang Workshop, Bonnie Kerness, 11/3/2000 (pdf)

• Torture in U.S. Prisons, Bonnie Kerness & Masai Ehehosi, edited by Julia Lutsky, Fall 2001 (pdf)

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Women

• United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, Bonnie Kerness, January 14, 2005 - QUNO (pdf)

• Cell Blocks to City Blocks, Bonnie Kerness, March 16, 2002 (pdf)

• Torture in U.S. Prisons, Bonnie Kerness & Masai Ehehosi, edited by Julia Lutsky, Fall 2001 (pdf)

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Prison Labor

• Healing Justice in Quaker Action, Fall 2007
  Speaking out against confinement abuses of prisoners, immigrants

• Torture in U.S. Prisons, Bonnie Kerness & Masai Ehehosi, edited by Julia Lutsky, Fall 2001 (pdf)

• Prison Labor, Bonnie Kerness, February 23, 1999 (pdf)

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