Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the ConstitutionPublisher:
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Category : Inmates of institutions
Languages : en
Pages : 1156
Book Description
Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the ConstitutionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Inmates of institutions
Languages : en
Pages : 1156
Book Description
Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of JusticePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Inmates of institutions
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Civil Rights Handbook
Author: United States. Forest ServicePublisher:
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Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Civil Rights for Institutionalized Persons
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of JusticePublisher:
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Category : Inmates of institutions
Languages : en
Pages : 916
Book Description
Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of JusticePublisher:
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Category : Inmates of institutions
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Enforcing Religious Freedom in Prison
Author: United States Commission on Civil RightsPublisher:
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Category : Freedom of religion
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
From Executive summary: This report focuses on the government's efforts to enforce federal civil rights laws prohibiting religious discrimination in the administration and management of federal and state prisons. Prisoners in federal and state institutions retain certain religious exercise rights under the Constitution and statutes including the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUPIPA), the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), and the Civil rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA). Many states have similar provisions in their state constitutions and in state law modeled on RFRA. These rights must be balanced with the legitimate concerns of prisons officials, including cost, staffing, and most importantly, prison safety and security. Reconciling these rights and concerns can be a significant challenge for penal institutions, as well as courts.
Getting Uncle Sam to Enforce Your Civil Rights
Author: United States Commission on Civil RightsPublisher:
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Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
What We Have Done
Author: Fred PelkaPublisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN: 1558499199
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Compelling first-person accounts of the struggle to secure equal rights for Americans with disabilities
Communities in Action
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309452961
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 583
Book Description
In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
No Pity
Author: Joseph P. ShapiroPublisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307798321
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
“A sensitive look at the social and political barriers that deny disabled people their most basic civil rights.”—The Washington Post “The primer for a revolution.”—The Chicago Tribune “Nondisabled Americans do not understand disabled ones. This book attempts to explain, to nondisabled people as well as to many disabled ones, how the world and self-perceptions of disabled people are changing. It looks at the rise of what is called the disability rights movement—the new thinking by disabled people that there is no pity or tragedy in disability and that it is society’s myths, fears, and stereotypes that most make being disabled difficult.”—from the Introduction