Michael S. Hamden - Attorney, Counselor at Law & Corrections Consultant

Scholarly Works

Lynn S. Branham, et al., “Limiting the Burdens of Pro Se Inmate Litigation: A Technical Assistance Manual for Courts, Correctional Officials, and Attorneys General,” (American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section 1997). 
http://www.abanet.org/crimjust/home.html

 

Lynn S. Branham & Michael S. Hamden, THE LAW AND POLICY OF SENTENCING AND CORRECTIONS (7th ed. WestLaw American Case Law Series)(2005) http://westgroup.com/store/product.aspx?r=131754&product_id=18256906

 

B. Iddings, "BIG DISCONNECT: WILL ANYONE ANSWER THE CALL TO LOWER EXCESSIVE PRISONER TELEPHONE RATES?" 8 North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology 159 (Fall 2006).

http://jolt.unc.edu/abstracts/volume-8/ncjltech/p159

 

Institute of Medicine, Ethical Considerations for Research Involving Prisoners.  A description of the publication can be viewed here, and copies can be obtained from the National Academies Press at the National Academies of Science, Institute of Medicine. http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11692

 

Love, Margaret, “Relief from the Collateral Consequences of Conviction: a State by State Resource Guide” (The Sentencing Project, executive summary):
http://www.sentencingproject.org/Publications.aspx?IssueID=486

 

Love,  Margaret, “Relief from the Collateral Consequences of Conviction: Executive Pardon” (National Hire Network News, February 2006):
http://www.hirenetwork.org/pdfs/HIRENewsletterFebruary2006.pdf

 

Love, Margaret & Frazier, April, “Certificates of Rehabilitation and Other Forms of Relief from the Collateral Consequences of Conviction: a Survey of State Laws” (ABA Commission on Effective Criminal Sanctions, September 19, 2006):
http://www.saferfoundation.org/docs/AllStates-BriefingSheet91906_2_.pdf

 

Margo Schlanger, “Inmate Litigation,” Harvard L. Rev., Vol. 116, No. 6 (April 2003).  http://law.wustl.edu/faculty_profiles/indexfaculty.asp?id=416

 

Anne Morrison Piehl and Margo Schlanger, “Determinants of Civil Rights Filings in Federal District Court by Jail and Prison Inmates,” Journal of Empirical Legal Studies Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 79–109 (March 2004). 

http://law.wustl.edu/faculty_profiles/indexfaculty.asp?id=416

 

Margo Schlanger, “Civil Rights Injunctions Over Time: A Case Study of Jail and Prison Court Orders,” N.Y.U. L. Rev. Vol. 81, p. 550 (April 2006).  http://law.wustl.edu/faculty_profiles/indexfaculty.asp?id=416

 

Margo Schlanger and Giovanna Shay, “Preserving the Rule of Law in America’s Prisons:
The Case for Amending the Prison Litigation Reform Act,” American Constitution Society for Law & Policy (March 2007).  http://law.wustl.edu/faculty_profiles/indexfaculty.asp?id=416

 

Other Resources & Reference Works

 

 

Prisoner Art

The Art of Prison Survival http://www.PrisonsFoundation.org

 

“We Too Sing America By Langston Hughes” - Ritchie Weatherspoon

Pastels on art paper (2004)

Ionia Maximum Correctional Facility, Ionia , Michigan

 

Ritchie Weatherspoon, 37, who has been incarcerated for 19 years, works in soft pastel. His “We Too Sing America By Langston Hughes” (2004) “symbolizes the meaning of the late great African American poet Langston Hughes' poem titled “We Too Sing America” - because no matter how...divided we are...or different we are ..., we are all Americans.” http://www.prisonsfoundation.org/prints/america.html (last accessed 1 July 2006 ).