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Article • November 15, 2002 • from PLN November, 2002
Mexico Bars Extradition of Criminals Facing Life Sentences by A ruling by the supreme court of Mexico has blocked the extradition of more than 70 murderers, drug smugglers and organized crime figures who face life sentences in U.S. prisons. The high court's decision, handed down in October 2001 and published …
Article • October 15, 2002 • from PLN October, 2002
Ball Park Franks Fiasco: 21 Dead, $200,000 Fine by Russell Mokhiber by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman Let us now have a moment of silence for the victims of the Ball Park Franks fiasco. Thank you. This is the situation: Bil Mar Foods is a unit of the Chicagobased giant …
Article • January 15, 2002 • from PLN January, 2002
ALEC in the House: Corporate Bias in Criminal Justice Legislation by Brigette Sarabi The past twenty years have marked a dramatic shift to more harsh criminal justice policies. While it is common knowledge that politicians beat the "tough on crime" drum to win elections, one has to wonder where they …
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 • 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 • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001
Ohio 'Entrepreneur' Lands in Hot Water by An Ohio prisoner will spend an additional three years and three months in prison after pleading guilty to theft charges stemming from an elaborate credit card and telephone scam he ran from behind bars. Lonny Lee Bristow, 27, was already serving a 9year …
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 • January 15, 2001 • from PLN January, 2001
States of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons by Mumia Abu-Jamal Edited by Joy James. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000). 352 Pages Reviewed by Mumia AbuJamal Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky once opined that the nature of a civilization could be discerned by examining its prisons. If that is so, James …
Article • December 15, 2000 • from PLN December, 2000
Perpetuating Crime, Consolidating Power by Janet Stanton Perpetuating Crime, Consolidating Power: The Race & Class Logic of Mass Incarceration An Interview with Paul Wright by Janet Stanton Arthur Stamoulis's (Common Courage Press) audiotaped interview with Paul Wright offers the listener a concise overview of the most disturbing issue confronting our …
Article • November 15, 2000 • from PLN November, 2000
Reconsidering Restorative Justice: The Corruption of Benevolence Revisited? by A A Condensed by David Rhys Adapted from an article by Sharon Levrant, Francis T. Cullen, Betsy Fulton and John F. Wozniak which appeared in the journal Crime & Delinquency, Vol. 45 No. 1, January 1999. Three decades have passed since …
Crack in the Federal Scheme: The October Rebellion of 1995 by Bill Dunne By Bill Dunne Between October 19 and October 26, 1995, the U. S. Bureau of Prisons (federal prison system) experienced a series of largely spontaneous but causally related uprisings in its then 84 prison, 100,000 prisoner gulag …
Article • October 15, 2000 • from PLN October, 2000
New Jersey Parole Board Chief Resigns by The chairman of the New Jersey state Parole Board submitted his resignation July 28, 2000, as authorities neared the end of a two-year investigation into his alleged links with organized crime. A law enforcement source close to the investigation told The Record, the …
Article • September 15, 2000 • from PLN September, 2000
Bush's Conservative Compassion: Allowing a Life Sentence for Three Bounced Checks by by Matthew T. Clarke Texas Governor George Bush has based his presidential aspirations on the questionable concept of compassionate conservatism, but how compassionate is the Texas criminal justice system in dealing with its citizens under the Bush regime. …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
America Behind Bars, video series from Deep Dish TV by Janet Stanton AMERICA BEHIND BARS, video series from Deep Dish TV Review By Janet Stanton No society since Nazi Germany has built so many prisons in such a short time. Each of those prisons is a school or a hospital …
Article • July 15, 2000 • from PLN July, 2000
The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade by Rick Card By Alfred W. McCoy Lawrence Hill Books, 1991 Review by Rick D. Card Imagine America, the great crusader against illicit drugs, a nation willing to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of its citizens in the name of …
Article • June 15, 2000 • from PLN June, 2000
Marijuana Law, 2nd Edition by Allan Parmelee By Richard Glen Boire, Ronin, 271 pages Review by Allan Parmelee This book is must reading for anyone interested in knowing what their rights are when dealing with police in general as well as every aspect of the law as it concerns the …
Article • April 15, 2000 • from PLN April, 2000
Discovering America As It Is by Hans Sherrer by Valdas Anelauskas, Clarity Press, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia, 1999, 584 pages Review by Hans Sherrer Discovering America is Valdas Anelauskas' challenge to the oft heard claim that America is the greatest country in the world. As a former Soviet dissident who emigrated …
Article • April 15, 2000 • from PLN April, 2000
Race to Incarcerate by Rick Card by Marc Mauer of the Sentencing Project,The New Press, 1999, 224 pages Review by Rick Card If understanding the social, political, and financial issues associated with our nation's massive prison system was a solution in itself, Marc Mauer's book, Race to Incarcerate, would spell …
Article • March 15, 2000 • from PLN March, 2000
Review: With Liberty for Some: 500 Years of Imprisonment in America by Rick Card by Scott Christianson,Northeastern University Press, 1998 Review by Rick Card Prisoners have played an important role in the entire story of America. From the founding of the New World by Christopher Columbus to the economic power …
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