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48 Prison J. 2 (1968)

handle is hein.journals/prsjrnl48 and id is 1 raw text is: EDITORIAL Basic human rights for the prisoner in confinement, such as adequate food and clothing, decent treatment, and communication with his attorney must be taken for granted. The granting of rights to many minority groups and to the disad- vantaged individual is characteristic of our times. Prisoners have to some extent come to be included in this movement. Why, it is asked, have efforts to permit prisoners in the United States to exercise certain basic fundamental rights had to await this century and, more particularly, this decade, to be tested and eventually many of them to be established? Changes have become possible be- cause of the greater willingness of courts to review prisoners' complaints alleging deprivation of rights. Changes also are occurring because of some prison administration's will- ingness to move ahead with the times and even to set the pace, as Eugene N. Barkin's article- Impact of Changing Law Upon Prison Policy, in this issue, indicates the Federal Bureau of Prisons is attempting. The beginning of that article clearly sets the stage for changes in the late 1960's. But how is the prisoner to be heard? Louis M. Nordlinger, in Legal Coun- seling Behind Walls, presents a gen- eral discussion of the problems. Free services to indigent prisoners have only recently become available. Examples are: local defender agen- cies, both public and private; the legal clinics of law schools which have made available legally trained manpower without a fee; nationally operated legal services such as those obtained through the legal aid and defense funds of the NAACP and the ACLU. Involvement by a non- legal service, such as The Pennsyl- vania Prison Society in an amicus curiae capacity, adds still another dimension. A close look is taken at self-help by Professor Morris Cohen in his article, Reading Law in Prison. This definitive contribution also con- tains a minimum collection list for a state prison law library. From a vantage point of a Federal law clerk's position, Richard M. Cherry discusses A Look at Prisoners' Self Represen- tation. Several of the definitely 'in' prob- lems of prisoner and keeper are dis- cussed by Matthew Muraskin in Censorship of Mail: The Prisoner's Right to Communicate with the Out- side World, and by Betty D. Fried- lander in Wright v. McMann and Cruel and Unusual Punishment. In the past, virtually every prac- tice challenged by a prisoner in the court as being unduly restrictive or cruel and unusual punishment has been justified by the warden as es- sential to maintain security. That view is now receding. How far this movement will go is still to be de- termined. Also in this issue-in other veins- Myrl E. Alexander portrays potentials of community-based correctional programs. Marvin E. Wolfgang departs from his usual rigorous scientific stance to report to Journal readers his thoughts-in verse.

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