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Federal Crime Bill Passes
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1994
by Paul Wright
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1994, page 1
By Paul Wright
Filed under:
Transfers,
Police Misconduct,
Gender Discrimination -- Women,
Sex Offender Registration,
Tuberculosis,
DNA Testing/Samples,
Drug Testing,
Crime/Demographics,
Crime,
Databases,
Overcrowding,
Education,
Disclosure of Records,
Consent Decrees,
Limitations,
Good Time,
Three Strikes,
Immigration,
Death Penalty,
Federal Legislation,
Fathers in Prison,
Mothers in Prison.
Location:
United States of America.
In the October and November, 1993, issues of PLN, I wrote articles about the "anti-crime" proposals that had been submitted in the US Congress by democrats and republicans, respectively. I predicted then the most repressive aspects of both proposals would likely wind up in the final version …
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More from this issue:
- Federal Crime Bill Passes, by Paul Wright
- Altered Disciplinary Evidence Violates Due Process
- Prisoners Lose Pell Grants, by Dan Pens
- No Help for Disciplinary Hearings
- BOP Can't Punish Detainees
- MI DOC Creates Liberty Interest in Seg Release
- Attorney Fee Awards Analyzed
- Pro Se Litigants Subject to Rule 11 Sanctions
- Obtaining Prisoner Witnesses
- Court Orders Return of Disks
- Women Prisoners Entitled to Equal Education
- Women Prisoners Lose Equal Protection Suit
- S.Ct. Grants Review in Prison Disciplinary Case
- VA Repressive Sentencing Law Results in Uprisings, by Dan Pens
- Fast Food Style Death Penalty Defense
- Houston - Death Penalty Capital of USA, by Dan Pens
- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
- Death Penalty Deterrents?
- One and Two Strike Laws Passed, by Paul Wright
- PI Issued for Prisoner Transfer
- News in Brief
- Russian Jails in Crisis
- Kurdish Prisoners Resist
- Ex-Prison Boss Assassinated in Turkey
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