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Three Strikes and You're Out, Again
Their baaack! And this time with both barrels. Ida (now Republican state representative from Mercer Island) Ballasiotes and her fellow victims' rights cronies have reintroduced the so-called "three strikes and you're out" initiative. In addition to Citizens' Initiative 593, this group and a bunch of reactionary legislators have introduced House ...
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More from this issue:
- Three Strikes and You're Out, Again, by Ed Mead
- Release Not Appropriate Relief for Beatings
- Prison Escapes and Killings Down
- 24 Cops Killed in First Half of 1992
- Inquiry Stepped up in Georgia Prison Sex Case
- VA Builds More Prisons
- NY Corrections Commissioner Pleads Guilty
- NYC Claims Prisoners Shoot Themselves to File Suit
- Death Row Prisoners Can Marry
- Denial of Winter Clothing Cruel and Unusual
- Punishment of Pretrial Detainees Unlawful
- Change in IFP Status Does Not Require Fee Payment
- Right to Religious Diet Clearly Established
- Confiscation of Law Books States Claim
- Infraction Suits Must Exhaust Administrative Remedies
- Wisconsin Lacks Adequate State Remedies for Due Process Violations
- Nominal Damages Awarded in Prison Rape Case
- State Liable for County Jail Overcrowding
- Damages Awarded to HIV+ Jail Prisoner
- Blind Pretrial Detainees Entitled to Treatment
- DOC Phone Rip Off, by Paul Wright
- From The Editor, by Paul Wright
- AT&T Exploits Prison Labor
- Peruvian Political Prisoners Mistreated, by Paul Wright
- Prison Riot Crushed in Venezuela
- New Video Tape Available
- Article Clarification Revisited, by RK
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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