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Jerry Rosenberg, Jailhouse Lawyer, Dies at 72

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Jerry Rosenberg, Jailhouse Lawyer, Dies at 72 By SEWELL CHAN Published: June 1, 2009 Jerry Rosenberg, who was spared the death penalty for the 1962 murders of two New York City police detectives, and who became a pioneering jailhouse lawyer and a legal adviser for the leaders of the Attica prison uprising in 1971, died on Monday at the Wende Correctional Facility in Alden, N.Y. He was 72, and the state?s longest-serving inmate at his death. Mr. Rosenberg, who was admitted to the prison?s medical unit in 2000, died of natural causes, according to a spokesman for the State Department of Correctional Services, who said he could not provide further details because of privacy rules. ?Of all the jailhouse lawyers, he was the greatest and the best known,? said Ronald L...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 02, 2009 (boomark / email).