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Judges cite Haney’s testimony in landmark prison overcrowding ruling

August 19, 2009

A recent landmark ruling by a three-judge panel cited analysis by psychology professor Craig Haney.
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Haney praises court decision on prison overcrowding

February 12, 2009

Psychology professor Craig Haney was one of the main expert witnesses who testified in the case before the three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
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California prison shakeup reveals urgent need for reform, expert says

March 20, 2006

The recent shakeup in the troubled California Department of Corrections reveals the resistance to a badly needed overhaul of the nation’s largest prison system, says a leading expert on prisons and the psychology of incarceration. The resignation of Corrections chief Roderick Hickman, hired two years ago by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to overhaul the dysfunctional system,…
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Skewed system facilitates death sentences and undermines fairness of capital punishment, says author of new book Death by Design

September 26, 2005

In a harsh critique of the death penalty before a gathering of the nation’s lawyers last month, U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens said recent exonerations of death row inmates reveal serious procedural flaws that undermine the way capital punishment is administered in this country. Stevens’s remarks before members of the American Bar Association…

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