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Crime Rates Continue Upward Climb
By Ed Mead
Preliminary figures from the FBI's recently released Uniform Crime Reports show violent crimes reported to police last year increased by 5 percent, continuing a seven-year trend of increases. The rate of violent crime per capita rose to the highest level in three decades, and the overall crime …
Preliminary figures from the FBI's recently released Uniform Crime Reports show violent crimes reported to police last year increased by 5 percent, continuing a seven-year trend of increases. The rate of violent crime per capita rose to the highest level in three decades, and the overall crime …
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More from this issue:
- Pelican Bay Conditions Suit Filed
- Crime Rates Continue Upward Climb, by Ed Mead
- Trafficking in Children Condemned
- Gay/Lesbian Prisoner Anthology Seeks Submissions
- Hand Me Downs, by Dan Pens
- Looking Back, Learning Lessons, PLN's Early Days, by Ed Mead
- Control Units: Isolation in 1992, by NJ AFSC
- Home Release Status Revoked for Exercising Right to Silence, by Adrian Lomax
- Amnesty International Condemns Abuse of Women Cons
- Pleas for Medical Attention Ignored, by Adrian Lomax
- Publications to Read, by Ed Mead
- Prison Officials Assault Public Records Law, by Adrian Lomax
- Prisoner Litigant and Prison Law Library Secondary Resource List, by Robert Pierce
- From The Editor, by Paul Wright
- Washington Lifers Prevail in District Court, by John Midgley
- Washington's Prisons to Reach 10,000
- Beating Violates Eighth Amendment
- South Africa Suspends Executions
- Suit Filed Over Telephone Services
More from Ed Mead:
- Class Differences in Crime Control, Feb. 15, 1994
- Law of Medical Treatment Explained, Jan. 15, 1994
- Editorial, Jan. 15, 1994
- Gender Based Treatment Disparity Violates Equal Protection, Dec. 15, 1993
- Editorial, Nov. 15, 1993
- The Politics of Imprisonment, Nov. 15, 1993
- Prison Slavery Upheld, Again, Oct. 15, 1993
- Prisoners as Workers: Court Defines Applicability of FLSA, Sept. 15, 1993
- Prisoners as Workers in Washington State: New Law Will Increase Exploitation, Sept. 15, 1993
- Editorial, Sept. 15, 1993
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