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Article • November 15, 2004 • from PLN November, 2004
Gates of Injustice - The Crisis in America's Prisons by Tom Murlowski by Alan Elsner, FT Prentice Hall, 256 pp., hardcover Review by Tom Murlowski "Alan Elsner's powerful book demonstrates that our $40 billion corrections system for both adults and juveniles is badly broken. Our jails and prisons and penitentiaries …
Manipulation of Crime Statistics and Use of Tax Dollars for Campaigning Revealed by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The public entrusts its law enforcement officials to protect it from crime and to use the tax dollars it provides to fulfill that duty. The manipulation of that trust has come …
Article • August 15, 2004 • from PLN August, 2004
Exporting the American Way of Crime by by Matthew T. Clarke For well over two hundred years fol-lowing the founding of the United States, foreigners who committed crimes faced imprisonment, execution, fines, parole, and/or probation. Few were deported. Those that were deported were generally infamous criminals or political dissidents. The …
Ex Con "Helps Police" by Trying to Murder Sex Offenders by Gary Hunter Between April 12 and April 25, 2003, Lawrence Trant, Jr., 56, tried to kill 8 registered sex offenders in Concord, New Hampshire. Trant set fire to a boarding house, to an apartment building and ultimately stabbed one …
No Crueler Tyrannies: Accusation, False Witnesses, and Other Tyrannies of Our Times by Robert Woodman by Dorothy Rabinowitz. 2003. Free Press, ISBN: 0-7432-2834-0 Review by Robert Woodman "There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice." These words, …
DeLay/TRMPAC Indictments Include Cornell Contributions by by Matthew T. Clarke On September 21, 2004, a Travis County, Texas, grand jury handed down 33 felony indictments against people and corporations associated with Republican U. S. House of Representatives Majority Leader Tom Delay and the Texans for a Republican Majority Political Action …
Cornell Half Way House Employees Charged with Drug Trafficking by The Ben Reid Community Correctional Facility in northeast Houston is run by Houston-based Cornell Companies, Inc., under a $4.8 million contract with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. In May, 2004, Roy Thomas, 50, Ben Reid's director of employee training, …
Bloated Prison Budget Fuels California's Degenerative Incarceration Spiral by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg California's $5.3 billion prison spending plan was shaved only a miniscule $35 million in the August 2, 2003 $100 billion annual state budget - a "budget" that is admittedly $38.2 billion out of balance …
Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003
Crime Control as Industry: Towards Gulags, Western Style by Peter Wagner by Nils Christie, Routledge Press (2000 Rev. Ed.) 244 pages, Paperback Review by Peter Wagner The heavily revised third edition (2000) of Crime Control As Industry: Towards Gulags, Western Style is an essential guide to understanding the incarceration boom …
Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003
New Study Rejects Link Between Prisons and Economic Growth by A new study examining 25 years of economic data finds that despite the many claims and promises, building prisons in rural communities has had no positive effect on either employment or per capita income. The study by The Sentencing Project …
Article • September 15, 2003 • from PLN September, 2003
Shoot First, Ask Questions Later: The Militarization of Law Enforcement by Silja JA Talvi Shoot First, Ask Questions Later: The Militarization of Law Enforcement by Silja J.A. Talvi The following is a review of Militarizing the American Criminal Justice System: The Changing Roles of the Armed Forces and the Police, …
Article • September 15, 2003 • from PLN September, 2003
Strapped States Threaten Prisoner Releases to Extort Revenue by by Matthew Clarke In the wake of an economic downturn, states throughout the country are facing budget deficits averaging 15% of their previous general revenue. A uniform response to the revenue shortfall has been to threaten the early release of state …
Article • September 15, 2003 • from PLN September, 2003
Justice Department Report Decries Smuggling in Federal Prisons by Justice Department Report Decries Smuggling in Federal Prisons The U. S. Justice Department has issued a report decrying the ability of smugglers to get regular shipments of drugs even into the highest security federal prisons. The report blames visitors, mail, and …
California Prison Guards' Attorneys Convicted in Dog Mauling by Marvin Mentor On March 21, 2002, a San Francisco, California husband and wife attorney team, Robert Noel and Marjorie Knoller, who for years had defended prison guards at maximum security Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP), were themselves convicted of manslaughter when …
Article • July 15, 2003 • from PLN July, 2003
Kansas Tobacco Smuggling Conviction Upheld by The Kansas Supreme Court upheld Audra Watson's conviction for smuggling tobacco into the county jail in Pratt County, Kansas. That court rejected Watson's argument that the statute under which she was convicted, KSA § 21-3826, was unconstitutionally vague and could not be applied to …
The Crime of Being Poor by Paul Wright "The law in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread." _ Anatole France A central part of the mythology of the criminal justice system in …
Article • February 15, 2003 • from PLN February, 2003
Washington Police Scientists' Work Under Scrutiny by Innocence Project Northwest (IPNW) is undertaking a review of cases in which Washington State Patrol scientists Arnold Melnikoff and Michael Hoover conducted forensic testing or offered expert testimony. It was recently revealed that Melnikoff engaged in scientific fraud during his tenure as the …
Article • February 15, 2003 • from PLN February, 2003
No Probation in Arizona Jail Drug Possession by The Arizona court of appeals held that Proposition 200, which mandates probation for drug possession offenses, does not apply to drug possessions that occur in detention facilities. Edwin Roman was convicted of promoting prison contraband and possessing dangerous drugs after guards in …
Article • December 15, 2002 • from PLN December, 2002
Fatal Overdoses: Drugs and Death in Prison by On April 27, 1997, at Ohio's Trumbull Correctional Institution, Daniel Ray Williams died by lethal injection. Williams, then 37, was not on death row; the lethal injection was a self-administered dose of heroin. Robert Baksi, a Trumbull prisoner who reportedly had a …
Article • December 15, 2002 • from PLN December, 2002
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HUD Leases Must Evict Innocent Tenants for "Any" Drug Activity by HUD Leases Must Evict Innocent Tenants for "Any" Drug Activity Four tenants of Oakland Housing Authority (OHA), public housing subsidized by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), faced eviction proceedings from their apartments because of the …
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