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Article • August 15, 2002 • from PLN August, 2002
PLRA and AEDPA Have Different Effects on Prisoner Petitions by In a December 2001 special report, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, a division of the U.S. Department of Justice, determined that the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) and the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) have had significant, but …
Article • July 15, 2002 • from PLN July, 2002
Filed under: Reviews, Medical, Hepatitis
Book Review: Dr. Melissa Palmer's Guide To Hepatitis Liver Disease by Phyllis Beck Penguin Putnam, NY, 2000, pb. 457 pages Review by Phyllis Beck A big thumbs up for Dr. Melissa Palmer's Guide to Hepatitis Liver Disease . The book's information is up-to-date, it is fully indexed, it includes a …
Article • June 15, 2002 • from PLN June, 2002
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
Book Review: The Prisons by Maggie Jaffe by Michael McIrvin (Cedar Hill Publications, 92 pages, paper, $15.00) Reviewed by Michael McIrvin The Prisons, Maggie Jaffe's most recent poetry collection is hard to read, as the bleakest truths often are. The book is also hard to put down for the same …
Article • June 15, 2002 • from PLN June, 2002
The Death Penalty in the U.S.A. -- Past, Present, and Future by Roger Hummel The Death Penalty in the U.S.A. - Past, Present, and Future Book Reviews by Roger Hummel Condemned: Inside the Sing Sing Death House by Scott Christianson. New York University Press, New York. 184 pages (illustrated), $24.95, …
Article • June 15, 2002 • from PLN June, 2002
Punch & Jurists: Criminal Law News You Can Use by Paul Wright One reason PLN doesn't expand its coverage into criminal law is because other publications already do a good job covering it and we see little point in duplicating those efforts. Punch and Jurists is, bar none, the best …
Article • April 15, 2002 • from PLN April, 2002
HIV Still a Major Health Threat in Prisons and Jails by Between 1995 and 1999, the death rate from AIDS in prisons and jails plummeted, and the rate of increase of HIV in prisons grew at about one third the rate of increase of the general prison population. That bit …
Article • February 15, 2002 • from PLN February, 2002
Mental Health Treatment in State Prisons Falls Short by Among the 1,558 public and private state prisons and community corrections facilities, approximately 191,000 prisoners are mentally ill. Of these prisoners, about one in five does not receive necessary mental health treatment. These numbers come from a report by Allen J. …
Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001
Book Review: Power, Politics, & Crime by Rick Card Book Review: Power, Politics, & Crime by William J. Chambliss, Westview Press, 1999 Review by Rick Card "There is ... a huge chasm," says William Chambliss in his book, Power, Politics, & Crime , "between the reality of crime, the public's …
Article • October 15, 2001 • from PLN October, 2001
The Prison Payoff: The Role of Politics & Private Prisons in the Incarceration Boom by by Brigette Sarabi and Edwin Bender The popularity of the term "prison-industrial complex" in recent years, and especially since the groundbreaking Critical Resistance conference in Berkeley in September 1998, has produced a few critics who …
Article • October 15, 2001 • from PLN October, 2001
Filed under: Reviews, Court Access
California State Prisoner's Handbook by John E Dannenberg by Steven Fama, et. al. Subtitled a "Comprehensive Practice Manual" for California prisoners, the new 3rd edition of the California State Prisoners Handbook easily lives up to its billing. Covering in detail all aspects of California prisoners' interaction with the "correctional experience" …
Article • September 15, 2001 • from PLN September, 2001
Legal Research: How to Find and Understand the Law by Sam Rutherford by Stephen Elias and Susan Levinkind Legal Research does exactly what its title indicates; it explains how to find and understand the law. The book is written in easy to understand language, while imparting a vast amount of …
Article • September 15, 2001 • from PLN September, 2001
Snitch Culture: How Citizens Are Turned into the Eyes and Ears of the State by Hans Sherrer by Jim Redden, Feral House, 2001, 235 pages Snitch Culture is a timely examination of how personal and technological snitching is used by the state and by private organizations, in conjunction with informational …
Article • August 15, 2001 • from PLN August, 2001
PLRA Attorney Fee Cap Analyzed by The Temple Law Review recently published an article useful to any litigants challenging the Prison Litigation Reform Act's (PLRA) cap on attorney fees under 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(d). The Price of Civil Rights: The PLRA's Attorney's Fee Cap Provision as a Violation of Equal …
Article • July 15, 2001 • from PLN July, 2001
Filed under: Private Prisons, Reviews, Crime
Book Review: The Perpetual Prisoner Machine: How America Profits From Crime by Rick Card by Joel Dyer, Westview Press, 2000 (318 pages) Reviewed by Rick Card An estimated 69 million people, or 44 percent of all households now own stock or invest in one of thousands of mutual funds. According …
Article • July 15, 2001 • from PLN July, 2001
Book Review: Capital Crimes by Allen N Huxley by George Winslow, Monthly Review Press (1999), 360 pages Review by Allen N. Huxley Crime dominates the news, arouses fear and anger among the mass media-consuming public, and oils the rhetorical machinery of opportunistic politicians. Yet for all of the moralizing, finger …
Article • May 15, 2001 • from PLN May, 2001
The Prisoner's Guide to Survival: A Comprehensive Legal Assistance Manual for PostConviction Relief and Prisoners' Civil Rights Actions by Sam Rutherford By L. Powell Belanger PSI Publishing, Inc. (745 Pages) Reviewed by Sam Rutherford The Prisoner's Guide to Survival is a new legal research tool that covers all aspects of …
Article • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001
Filed under: Reviews, Media, Prisoner Media
The Funhouse Mirror, By Robert Ellis Gordon and Inmates of the Washington Corrections System by Allen N Huxley WSU Press (2000), $14.95 Review by Allen N. Huxley Robert Ellis Gordon is an educator and fiction writer who conducted creative writing workshops in various Washington prisons during the late 80s and …
Article • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001
Filed under: Reviews, Crime, Sentencing
Crime and Punishment Relation Examined by Julia Lutsky Between 1991 and 1998 the rate of incarceration in the United States increased a dramatic 47% at same time the crime rate dropped 22%. Before you conclude that imprisoning more people results in less crime you would be wise to read a …
Article • February 15, 2001 • from PLN February, 2001
Filed under: Reviews, Media, Prisoner Media
Book Review: Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing by Mumia Abu-Jamal Fyodor Dostoevsky's old adage about measuring a civilization by reviewing its prisons if followed in the U.S. context is a condemnation of this nation's own version of the gulag archipelago. A cross-section of prisoner's writings submitted to the …
A.I. Reports on US Compliance with UN Convention Against Torture by Julia Lutsky In May 2000, a United States government delegation appeared before the UN Committee against Torture in Geneva to present its first report on the implementation of the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading …
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