Prison Report

Ack. I can't believe I forgot to post about this. For those who don't know, part of my summer has been spent doing an internship at the State Law Library's Law Library Service to Prisoners program. Technically, we're part of the Department of Corrections, but we're based out of the library.

Anyway, how the program works is that prisoners send in requests for legal information that they are unable to obtain in their prison law library. The requests are mailed to us, faxed, or called it. (Thankfully, I do not have to answer the phone). We find the information, copy it and mail it to them. In addition, once a month, a librarian visits the prison in person to meet face to face with the prisoners who want to do so. As part of the internship, I have the option of going along on one of these visits to a prison of my choice. It's not required, but I decided to visit Oak Park Heights, which is the state maximum security prison and the model fro SuperMax prisons around the country.

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Since I talked about my prison visit, I though I'd also mention that a former warden wrote about his experience there. The Big House: Life Inside a Supermax Security Prison.