... that would be helpful in reducing crimes against inmates is to provide appropriate prisoner classifications. However, this is a step (like many others) that would be more successful if there were records of reported crimes to help in the classification process. But, either way, a classification system could greatly help to reduce the risk of physical and mental harm to inmates under prison ... the two mentioned before, should be stricken from the PLRA by Congress in order to help deal with the prison crime situation. Prison Rape Reform Act The final step that I am proposing for the alle...

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... Shumway of Nebraska was convicted of the first-degree murder of his employer's wife on circumstantial evidence and sentenced to death by jury. His last words before his execution were: "I am an innocent man. May God forgive everyone who said anything against me." The next year, the victim's husband confessed on his deathbed that he, the husband, had murdered his wife ... retarded. During the delay, David Protess, a journalism professor at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., investigated Porter's case. Working with a private investigator, Protess and his students dug through polic...

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