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1. 1. NYSBA | News Release - Prisoners' Rights 'Guru' Named Recipient of New York State Bar Association's Haywood Burns Award

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   Published on: 1/25/2007   Last Visited: 5/13/2008

   John Boston, the director of the Prisoners' Rights Project and an author of a litigation manual for incarcerated individuals, has been selected to receive the 2007 Haywood Burns Memorial Award from the New York State Bar Association.
   
   The award, co-sponsored by the Association's Civil Rights Committee and the Committee on Minorities in the Profession, will be presented on Thursday, January 25 at a reception during the State Bar's Annual Meeting in Manhattan.
   
   "John is regarded as one of the most articulate, prolific and intelligent lawyers working in prisoner civil rights at this time in the United States," said Dianna Goodwin of Albany (Prisoner's Legal Services of New York), a member of the Committee on Civil Rights, in nominating Boston for the award."John is regarded as one of the most articulate, prolific and intelligent lawyers working in prisoner civil rights at this time in the United States," said Dianna Goodwin of Albany (Prisoner's Legal Services of New York), a member of the Committee on Civil Rights, in nominating Boston for the award.
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   Boston received his undergraduate degree in sociology from Vanderbilt University and earned his J.D. from New York University School of Law.He began his career as a research coordinator for The Defender Project of the Twentieth Century Fund in New York City.He also has done research and writing concerning prison population issues for the Correctional Association of New York and began his tenure at The Legal Aid Society as a staff attorney.
   
   Boston is the co-author of "Prisoners' Self-Help Litigation Manual."He has published numerous articles on prisoners, their rights and circumstances nationwide, and has litigated several cases pertaining to prisoners rights.He also participated in a national working group with the ACLU in response to the Prison Litigation Reform Act, reviewing briefs and pleadings, consulting with prisoner advocates, preparing CLE and practice materials.
   
   He is on the faculty of the Practicing Law Institute and co-administrator of the Prisoners' Rights section of the Web site www.probono.net.

2. 2. www.citylimits.org

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   Published on: 7/24/2007   Last Visited: 7/24/2007

   John Boston, director of Legal Aid's Prisoners' Rights Project, agrees that borough-based jails are advantageous, and that detaining defendants at Rikers is "just another way of wasting poor people's time."

3. 3. New York Daily News - Home - Rocky road looms for Roger

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   Published on: 4/20/2006   Last Visited: 4/20/2006

   "A week in jail is a week of restriction and idleness at best, and it can be dangerous at worst," said John Boston, director of the Legal Aid Society's Prisoners' Rights Project.