NOTES ON EDITORS
Andrew Coyle, Sr. Editor
Dr. Coyle is the Director of the International Centre for Prison Studies in the
University of London, UK. He has had 25 years' experience at a senior level in the
prison services of the United Kingdom. He has a PhD in criminology from the
University of Edinburgh. He is the author of a number of books and articles on
issues concerning criminal justice and prisoners rights and has extensive
international experience on prison matters, having visited prison systems in many
countries as an expert consultant for bodies such as the United Nations and the
Council of Europe.
Sir Nigel Rodley, Preface
Sir Nigel Rodley is Professor of Law at the University of Essex. He has recently
stepped down from his position as United Nations Special Rapporteur for Torture.
He is a member of the Advisory Board of the International Centre for Prison Studies.
In 1999 he was awarded a knighthood in recognition of services to human rights
and international law.
Allison Campbell
Ms. Campbell is a Master of Arts candidate in the Department of Sociology at Simon
Fraser University, in the area of women’s corrections and state ruling practices. Her
work examines the changing shape of corrections for federally sentenced women
during the 1990s in Canada, looking at how institutional processes maintained and
reinforced the relations of ruling, despite discourse to the contrary.
Rodney Neufeld
Mr. Neufeld is a research associate at the Lauterpacht Research Centre for
International Law at the University of Cambridge where he works on diverse issues
of public international law. He is a graduate of the University of Manitoba (B.A.) and
the University of Ottawa (LL.B.).
Notes on Contributors
Elizabeth Alexander
Ms. Alexander is the Director of the National Prison Project of the American Civil
Liberties Union Foundation. A graduate of the Yale Law School, she has litigated
many cases challenging health care in prisons and has argued three cases before
the United States Supreme Court.
Julie Berg
Ms. Berg is a researcher, affiliated with the Institute of Criminology, University of
Cape Town, who has been studying the origin and monitoring the development of
prison privatization in South Africa.
Alex Friedmann
Mr. Friedmann is a former contributing writer for Prison Legal News, former
resources editor for Prison Life magazine, two-time PEN prison writing award
winner and member of the Public Safety & Justice Campaign – a coalition dedicated
to the abolition of the private prison industry. He served 10 years behind bars,
including six years at a private facility operated by Corrections Corporation of
America.
Amanda George
Ms. George is a Victorian community lawyer who for 20 years has been a prison
activist. She has received various awards for her work on women in prison including
the Australian Avon Spirit of Achievement Award. She has written numerous articles
on women in prison and in particular has been active against the privatization of
prisons.
Judith Greene
Judith Greene, a criminal-justice-policy analyst, has researched prison privatization
under fellowships from the Open Society Institute of the Soros Foundation and the
Institute on Criminal Justice of the University of Minnesota Law School.
Donna Habsha
Ms. Habsha is a second year student at the University of Windsor, Faculty of Law.
She maintains a commitment to the protection and promotion of children's rights
through research, writing and the facilitation of youth empowerment workshops.
Mark Erik Hecht
Kelly Hannah-Moffat
Dr. Hannah-Moffat is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, University
of Toronto Mississauga. She worked as a researcher and policy advisor for the
Commission of Inquiry into Certain Events at the Prison for Women in Kingston and
is a past president of the Toronto Elizabeth Fry Society. Her book Punishment in
Disguise: The Governance of Canadian Women's Federal Imprisonment has just
been published by the University of Toronto Press.
Kellie Leclerc Burton
Ms. Leclerc Burton is completing her second year as a Doctoral Candidate at the
Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto. Her interests include critical race
theory, with a specific focus on Canadian women in conflict with the law, the
racialized subject in the criminal justice system and prisoners' rights.
Joshua Miller
Mr. Miller is a corrections specialist with the American Federation of State, County
and Municipal Employees' (AFSCME) Department of Research & Collective
Bargaining Services. The union represents approximately 80,000 corrections
employees in the United States.
Bente Molenaar
Ms. Molenaar is a graduate of Development Studies from the Universities of
Carleton (B.A.) and Cambridge (M.Phil). She has worked on human rights issues in
association with a number of NGOs.
Dawn Moore
Ms. Moore is completing her PhD at the Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto.
She is currently studying the experiences of probationers and parolees in state
mandated substance 'abuse' treatment programs. She has been active in attempts
to resist the privatization of prisons in Ontario and has written critically (with Kelly
Hannah-Moffat) on the overhaul of Ontario's correctional system. Other publications
cover issues including date rape drugs, drug testing and alcohol intervention
programs.
Monique Morris
Ms. Morris is a senior research associate with the National Council on Crime and
Delinquency, where she has led several projects since 1998 designed to address
racial and gender disparities in the juvenile justice system. Morris has written and
spoken extensively on the plight of African American and urban youth, and is the
author of the critically-acclaimed novel, Too Beautiful For Words (Amistad Press:
2001). Morris received her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Science degrees from
Columbia University in the City of New York.
Stephen Nathan
Mr. Nathan is a journalist and researcher and editor of Prison Privatisation Report
International (www.psiru.org/justice). The writing of both articles was made possible
through financial support from the Open Society Foundation.
Christian Parenti
Mr. Parenti has a Ph.D. in sociology from the London School of Economics and is
currently a Senior Fellow with the Open Society Institute. He is the author of
Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis, (Verso, 2000) and his
articles appear in The Nation, The Progressive, the Washington Post, New York
Newsday and the Baffler.
Jeff Sinden
Mr. Sinden is a Research Associate at Human Rights Internet and is Managing
Editor of HRI's Human Rights Tribune. He is currently a Master's student in
International Development at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs.
Frank Smith
Mr. Smith has been a legislative advocate and community organizer in criminal
justice reform and decriminalization of substance abuse for over three decades. In
semi-retirement he remains an Alaskan court appointed Guardian ad litem,
representing the best interests of children. He is heavily involved in disability
advocacy and labor, peace and social justice activism. In the past ten years he has
helped a succession of communities in Alaska and other states to defeat private
prison proposals. He has visited prisoners and public and private penal institutions
throughout the United States and Sweden.
Katherine van Wormer
Dr. van Wormer did a participant-observation study at the women's prison in
Alabama and is a professor of social work at the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar
Falls. She is the author of six books including Women and the Criminal Justice
System (with C. Bartollas) (2000) and Counseling Female Offenders and Victims: A
Strengths-Restorative Approach (2001), as well as Addiction Treatment: A Strengths
Perspective, in press.
Phillip Wood
Dr. Wood was educated in Canada and the UK and teaches Comparative and
American Politics at Queen's University. His other research work includes projects
on the transformation of American politics since the 1970s; the politics of political
science research methods; structure, agency and disfranchisement in the Florida
fiasco of November 2000; globalization, uneven development and the restructuring
of southern textiles; and on the social structure of agriculture and racial politics in the
American South before the Voting Rights Act.
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