Background
He was born in Brooklyn to Louis and Lillian (née Spielman) Bronstein, who both worked in sales.
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While prison officials continue to hold enormous power over prisoners, since the late 1960s judicial decisions have begun to reflect an attempt to eliminate major prison abuses. Topics covered include freedom from cruel and unusual punishment, due process, prison censorship, religious and racial discrimination, special concerns of women prisoners, medical care, rehabilitation, parole, and remedies and procedures for challenging conditions of confinement.
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He was born in Brooklyn to Louis and Lillian (née Spielman) Bronstein, who both worked in sales.
Bronstein attended Erasmus Hall High School, then the City College of New York before graduating from New York Law School with an Bachelor of Laws
According to his American Civil Liberties Union biography, "he has argued numerous prisoners’ rights cases in federal trial and appellate courts as well as the Supreme Court of the United States. He was a consultant to state and federal correctional agencies, has appeared as an expert witness on numerous occasions and has edited or authored books and articles on human rights and corrections."
Bronstein"s Russian Jewish family had moved to the United States to seek refuge from the Nazis. He began his career working in the American South during the Civil Rights Movement, becoming the Chief Staff Counsel of the Lawyers’ Constitutional Defense Committee from 1964 to 1968 in Jackson, Mississippi.
He litigated civil rights cases during that time in Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana, and represented the major civil rights organizations in the South.
He was a Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, from 1969 to 1971. He was Pace Law School’s Practitioner-in-Residence in 2009.
He served as the director of the National Prison Project from 1972 until 1995. During this time, he argued three cases in the United States Supreme Court, Hudson v.
McMillan (1992), Block v.
Rutherford (1984) (), and Montanye v. Haynes (1976) (). Since his departure from the National Prison Project, he has been a consultant for the American Civil Liberties Union. Bronstein died of Alzheimer"s disease on October 24, 2015, in Centreville, Maryland.
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He also served as a board member of Penal Reform International (London) and a member of the Assembly of Delegates for the World Organization Against Torture (Geneva).