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• W33189573 abstract "The 288 most dangerous convicts in Maryland are incarcerated in Supermax, Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center. Supermax is a prisoners' prison, one in a growing class of supermaximum facilities that take worst of worst--murderers and rapists who have continued their violent behavior while on inside -- and lock them away in a redoubt of fortified walls and high-technology surveillance equipment. Supermaxes exist to isolate bad prisoners from general population, and in turn, these incorrigibles from each other. While some see supermaxes as civilized society's last line of defense against its most violent predators, others see them as cruel and unusual punishment. This latter group includes ACLU's and National Prison Project, National Campaign to Stop Control Unit Prisons, and, most recently, Clinton Justice Department. Deval Patrick, assistant attorney general for civil rights, has threatened to sue Maryland for alleged of prisoners' civil rights at Supermax. Maryland officials vehemently deny charges. The Clinton administration, they claim, is conducting a quiet campaign on behalf of prisoners that belies its tough-on-crime rhetoric. Even as President Clinton proposes a constitutional amendment to protect rights of crime victims, these officials charge, his Justice Department is trying to expand rights of prisoners by singling out Supermax. And although president has signed legislation to liberate state prisons from activist federal judges and groundless prisoner lawsuits, his political appointees are attempting to micromanage incarceration of states' most dangerous convicts. Rico Marzano is one such convict. In a 1987 drug deal that went bad, Marzano shot and killed four people, including two pregnant women. He was convicted of first-degree murder and placed in a maximum security facility. After his second escape attempt, he was sent to Supermax. Maryland's highest security prison houses three kinds of inmates: institutional rule violators (typically inmates who have assaulted or killed guards or other inmates); serious escape risks, like Marzano; and prisoners awaiting death sentences, like Anthony Brandison, who paid a man $9,000 to kill two witnesses scheduled to testify against him in a 1983 federal drug case. In all, 105 murderers and 19 rapists spend their days in Supermax in what corrections system calls restricted confinement. Inmates remain alone 23 hours a day in their 65-square-foot concrete cells. They are allowed no physical contact with other prisoners or guards; meals are passed through a narrow slit -- a beanhole -- in solid metal cell doors. Out-of-cell time is spent alone, in a windowless prison dayroom. When we were letting them rec [recreate] together they were killing each other, so we had to stop, said William Sondervan, Maryland's assistant commissioner for security operations. Despite such concern for safety of inmates -- not to mention prison staff -- Clinton Justice Department insists that isolation of inmates at Supermax is the mental equivalent of putting an asthmatic in a place with little air to breathe. But staff must maintain order among prisoners who regularly hurl cocktails of feces, urine, and other bodily fluids and often have to be forcibly removed from their cells. It is obviously frustrating, then, that prison officials must also fight a legal battle to protect what they see as a valuable -- and legal -- correctional tool. Each year, 50 states spend $81 million defending themselves against prisoner lawsuits seeking redress for civil rights violations ranging from insufficiently stylish footwear to faulty television reception. This epidemic of prisoner litigation -- one-fourth of civil cases filed in federal trial courts last year were initiated by prisoners -- is complemented by federal judges who impose voluntary consent decrees on states. …" @default.
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• W33189573 title "The Prisoners' Accomplice" @default.
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