Providing on-location legal services to prisoners
Subtitle: an analysis and report on the operation of the office of inmate legal services at Rahway State Prison, New Jersey from 1975 through 1977
By: by Alan S. Ziegler.
Contributors: New Jersey State Bar Association. Correctional Reform Committee.; Bar Association Support to Improve Correctional Services.
Publisher: BASICS
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 60
Subjects: State Prison, Rahway, N.J.; Legal assistance to prisoners -- New Jersey.; Prisoners -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- New Jersey.; Correctional institutions -- New Jersey -- Rahway.
Other titles: Providing on-location legal services to prisoners at Rahway State Prison.
Description: This monograph was written in connection with a continuation of funding through the American Bar Association of an experimental on-site prison legal services project. The author, Alan S. Ziegler, a Yale Law School graduate, was the project's Director and Supervising Attorney during the mid 1970's. He explains how the naivete of the original concept, that providing civil legal services to prison would facilitate their rehabilitation, was at odds with the prisoners' desire that the project use its resources to either shorten their prison time or at least improve their prison conditions. Addressing the prisoners' concerns led to tensions with and obstruction of the project's efforts by the prison administration and guards, both of which felt they had been misled as to the nature of a project that was situated inside its prison walls.  The author, as well as detailing the work of the project, also makes suggestions for changes that would make future prisoner legal service projects more effective.
Notes: Title on cover: Providing on-location legal services to prisoners at Rahway State Prison.

"A project of the New Jersey Bar Association, Correctional Reform Committee."

Includes bibliographical references.

Microfiche. Buffalo, N.Y. : Hein, 1994? negative.