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Article • March 15, 2000 • from PLN March, 2000
The Keeper of the Keys by Rick Card by Lee Dickenson, Lost Coast Press, 1999, 161 pages Review by Rick Card In a sequel to The Sounding Tree, published last year [PLN, May 1999], Lee Dickenson now offers a bundle of unrelated tales about his experience as a Connecticut prison …
Article • February 15, 2000 • from PLN February, 2000
Filed under: Reviews, Crime, Media, Prisoner Media
Reviews: Voices From Within the Prison Walls by Rick Card by D.A. Shelton, News and Letters, 71 pages Reviewed by Rick Card "Criminals have become the 'bogeyman' so that corporate America can continue to commit atrocities against the proletariat throughout the nation and around the world," says David Shelton in …
Article • February 15, 2000 • from PLN February, 2000
Filed under: Reviews, Crime, Court Access
Federal Criminal Defendant's Handbook: Negotiating the Long, Lonely Road from Arrest, to Prison, to Freedom by Paul Wright by Douglas Hill, J.D., Kensington Publishers, 208 pages Reviewed by Paul Wright. A common refrain among jailhouse lawyers that have successfully learned how to navigate the legal system while imprisoned is "I …
Article • January 15, 2000 • from PLN January, 2000
California Governor Vetoes Media Access Bill by In September, 1999 California Governor Gray Davis vetoed legislation that would have rescinded his predecessor's policy of barring reporters from interviewing state prisoners. The measure was supported by the California Correctional Peace Officers' Association (CCPOA) which said that barring reporters from prison makes …
Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis, by Christian Parenti (Review) by Paul Wright Verso, 290 pages Review by Paul Wright The government is by no means a neutral agent dedicated to the welfare of all its citizens. Instead, it stands first and foremost to protect the …
Article • October 15, 1999 • from PLN October, 1999
Tough on Prisoners Florida Sheriff Avoids Prison by In the March, 1999, issue of PLN we reported the arrest of Marion County, Florida, sheriff Ken Ergle, on corruption charges. Ergle had previously gained notoriety for housing county jail prisoners in tents under draconian conditions and charging them "rent" and a …
Article • September 15, 1999 • from PLN September, 1999
Crime and Punishment in America, by Elliot Currie (Review) by H Bruce Franklin Metropolitan 230 pp. Reviewed by H. Bruce Franklin This is a very unfashionable book. Elliott Currie does not believe that we need to build more and more prisons, impose longer sentences, make prisons as harsh as possible, …
Article • August 15, 1999 • from PLN August, 1999
"Victims' Rights" as a Stalkinghorse for State Repression by Paul Wright "Victims' Rights" As A Stalkinghorse for State Repression By Paul Wight How the ruling class defines and punishes "crime" goes a long way towards demonstrating whose class interests are being served by the criminal justice system. The criminal justice …
Article • August 15, 1999 • from PLN August, 1999
No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System, by David Cole (Review) by Alex Friedmann by David Cole, The New Press 218 pages, $25.00 hardcover. Review by A. Friedmann Those people who have long believed that this nation's criminal justice system is steeped in systemic racism …
Article • June 15, 1999 • from PLN June, 1999
Indictment: The News Media and the Criminal Justice System (Book Review) by Alex Friedmann Reviewed by Alex Friedmann Indictment, a report by the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University, presents a hard look at the shortcomings of crime coverage by the press. The authors, two experienced journalists, condemn …
Article • October 15, 1998 • from PLN October, 1998
Serious Crime Down Again by For the sixth year in a row, serious crime rates fell during 1997, particularly in the Northeastern states, and big cities, according to recent Justice Department figures. In a survey of 16,000 city, county and state agencies, the overall rate of serious crime fell by …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
The Tough-On-Crime Myth: Real Solutions to Cut Crime by Daniel Burton-Rose American penal reform movements have a long and distinguished history: that of middle-class activists working to check the excesses of the centralized state against the underclass. Some of the reformers had good hearts, some didn't. Either way, they're responsible …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class and Criminal Justice by Daniel Burton-Rose Jeffrey Reiman's book is an excellent antidote to The Real War on Crime and The Tough on Crime Myth. First published in 1979 and now in its fifth revised edition, The Rich Get …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
The Real War on Crime: The Report of the National Criminal Justice Commission (Book Review) by Daniel Burton-Rose by Steven R. Donziger, Editor Harper Perennial, 1996, $15.00 by Daniel Burton-Rose The Tough-On-Crime Myth: Real Solutions to Cut Crime, by Peter T. Elikann Insight Books, 1996, $24.95 The Rich Get Richer …
Article • July 15, 1998 • from PLN July, 1998
Former Arizona Governor Sentenced by O'Neil Stough In September, 1997, Republican Governor J. Fife Symington, III, was convicted in federal court of seven counts of fraud related to fabrications and misrepresentations he made on financial statements in securing loans. Following his conviction, he resigned as Governor. On February 2, 1998, …
Rural Prison as Colonial Master by Christian Parenti In 1964, a tsunami swept over Crescent City, California completely destroying the downtown. Only nine people died, but the town -- nestled just below the Oregon border -- never recovered. It was rebuilt as a shabby imitation of California's worst planning examples; …
Article • March 15, 1998 • from PLN March, 1998
BJS Reports on Sentencing and Imprisonment by The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) released two reports that may interest PLN readers: Prisoners in 1996 (NCJ 164619, June 1997) and Felony Sentences in the United States, 1994 (NCJ 165149, July 1997). The report on prisoners provides state-by-state (and federal) prison population …
Article • December 15, 1997 • from PLN December, 1997
New York State Drug Sentencing Report by Julia Lutsky Angela Thompson, a 17-year-old with no prison record participated in a single sale of 2 oz and 33 grains of crack cocaine to an undercover officer for which she received a 15-year-to-life sentence. Cruel and Usual : "Disproportionate Sentences for New …
Article • December 15, 1997 • from PLN December, 1997
U.S. and Russia Reaching Record Levels of Incarceration by A new 59-nation study by The Sentencing Project reveals that Russia and the United States have reached record levels of incarceration and are far ahead of other nations in their use of imprisonment. The study also found that a 92% increase …
Article • December 15, 1997 • from PLN December, 1997
The Poor Get Poorer - The Rich Get Prisons by Wall Street recently celebrated an initial public offering (IPO) and welcomed the addition of a spanking new growth-oriented corporation: CCA Prison Realty Trust. This Nashville-based corporation is a spin-off of the world's largest private prison corporation -- another Wall Street …
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