Prison Litigation and Bureaucratic Development

Prison Litigation and Bureaucratic Development

Agile development in a bureaucratic arena - A case study experience

The evolving nature of development approaches towards Agile development is viewed with some success. However, evidence suggests that not all development environments have evolved with the same alacrity, thus an organization’s inherent culture may not match the development approach adopted effecting failure. This paper concerns an innovative, real-world Government IS project that is currently be...

Prison Litigation Reform Act: Congressional Statute Not Open to Judicial Discretion.

Lieutenant Lane. On the other hand, under the Model Penal Code interpretation, the brief time lapse would not have precluded an EED defense. Regarding prison culture, although Mr. Johnson was denied access to records related to general prison violence on the basis of relevance, in that the records were not necessary for the preparation of his defense, one could argue that such records would hav...

Prison Libraries the Scandinavian Way: An Overview of the Development and Operation of Prison Library Services

Economic and organizational structures are important factors that affect how, and to what extent, prisoners receive satisfactory library services. In the Scandinavian countries, the services offered are largely dependent on existing national policy. In Norway, changes in the organization and financing of prison library services over the past thirty years have led to improved service. During the...

Bureaucratic Responses

This paper’s interest is in understanding how bureaucracies should respond to their clients. I claim that because many services are not priced, bureaucratic responses to their clients will often be the opposite of the reactions of “normal” firms. Specifically, they ignore the most credible complaints from clients, provide the poorest service to clients to value the service most, and require mos...