George Bush's America Meets Dante's Inferno: The Americans with Disabilities Act in Prison

Authors

Ira RobbinsFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

January 1996

First Page

49

Last Page

112

Abstract

Introduction: The conditions in America's correctional facilities have long been cause for concern. Even those who do not advocate a comfortable quality of life for inmates recognize that basic problems such as overcrowding, inmate violence,' inadequate staffing,2 and increasing costs of building and maintaining prisons have approached crisis levels. Meanwhile, the prison population continues to swell. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the United States Department of Justice, the number of prisoners incarcerated at state and federal prisons annually has grown at a rate of 8.4% in recent years.'

Recommended Citation

Ira Robbins, George Bush's America Meets Dante's Inferno: The Americans with Disabilities Act in Prison, Yale Law & Policy Review 49 (1996).
Available at: https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/facsch_lawrev/424