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Creates the Federal Prisons System under the Department of Justice
These three institutions make up the entire system for many years. They gradually become heavily overcrowded as new laws — such as the Volstead Act in 1919, which introduces Prohibition — create new categories of crime and exponentially increase the number of people incarcerated in federal prisons.
“The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.”
Puerto-Rican Black Muslim jailhouse lawyer Martin Sostre claims prison officials denied him access to the Koran, put him in solitary confinement, withheld good time credits due to his religious beliefs, and prevented him from seeing a spiritual advisor.
The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Sixth Amendment promise of assistance to counsel applies to all people, even those too poor to afford a lawyer.
