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Article • February 15, 2000 • from PLN February, 2000
Filed under: Reviews, Court Access
Reviews: Legal Research: How to Find & Understand the Law, 7th ed. by Allan Parmelee Reviews: Legal Research: How to Find & Understand the Law, 7th ed. by Stephen Elias and Susan Levinkind, Nolo Press, 392 pages. Reviewed by Allan Parmelee Have you ever wondered what the difference is between …
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 …
Maximum Security University, edited by Tom Quinn (Book and Video Review) by Paul Wright Video Review by Bob Fischer and Janet Stanton Maximum Security University is a 48 minute video production by California Prison Focus depicting the deaths of four prisoners shot by guards during the notorious gladiator fights at …
A Guide to the Prison Litigation Reform Act, by John Boston (Review) by Paul Wright Review by Paul Wright The passage of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) in 1996 has significantly changed many aspects of prison and jail litigation. The PLRA makes it increasingly difficult for prisoner plaintiffs to …
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
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 • July 15, 1999 • from PLN July, 1999
Filed under: Reviews, Mental Health
The Mentally Disordered Inmate and the Law, by Fred Cohen (Book Review) by Paul Wright Civic Research Institute, 578 pp. Reviewed by Paul Wright With the steady criminalization of mental illness over the past thirty years, prisons and jails now hold hundreds of thousands of mentally ill prisoners. Conservative estimates …
Behind Bars in Brazil (Review of Human Rights Watch Report) by Julia Lutsky Reviewed by Julia Lutsky Since Brazil is the largest nation in Latin America it comes as no surprise to know that its prisons hold more people than do the prisons of any other Latin American nation. Its …
Prison Madness, by Terry Kupers, MD (Book Review) by Dan Pens Jossey-Bass, 1999 Reviewed by Dan Pens Ted Kaczynski is clearly mentally ill. So said six psychiatrists who told the court that the infamous Unabomber is an acutely psychotic paranoid schizophrenic. In addition to being quite mad, Kaczynski possesses a …
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 • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
The Sounding Tree: Voices Along the Razor Wire, by Lee Dickenson (Book Review) by Daniel Burton-Rose Reviewed by Daniel Burton-Rose Lee Dickenson writes in the voice of an embittered veteran. For more than a decade and a half he manned a war zone, where the monotonous routine was sharply punctuated …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
Filed under: Private Prisons, Reviews
Private Prisons in the United States: An Assessment of Current Practice (Review of Report) by Alex Friedmann Reviewed by Alex Friedmann In 1997 Congress instructed the Attorney General's office to undertake a study of prison privatization, to include a review of legal issues and existing research regarding cost effectiveness. The …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
California Habeas Handbook: A Practical Guide to Habeas Law for California Prisoners (Review) by This 37 page booklet by attorney Kent Russell is designed for pro se California prisoners to understand the time limits and filing requirements of the federal Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AFDPA). Russell uses easy …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
Behind the Razor Wire: Portrait of a Contemporary American Prison System (Review) by Paul Wright by Michael Jacobson Hardy. 136 pp, 50 BW photos. New York University Press Reviewed by Paul Wright "Prisons do their dirtiest work in the dark. The evil they perpetrate depends on a kind of willed …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
Public Access to Documents Resources by Paul Wright The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is a trade organization of journalists. The Committee publishes a number of very reasonably priced, authoritative and comprehensive publication that are invaluable to journalists, muckrakers, those seeking access to government information and those litigating …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
Publication Reviews by Voices Behind the Walls is a bi-monthly newsletter published by Pennsylvania prisoners. Each issue covers news and events in the PA prison system as well as commentaries on the criminal justice system. Subscriptions are $10 for prisoners and $20 for everyone else. Contact: VBTW, P.O. Box 474, …
Article • April 15, 1999 • from PLN April, 1999
Filed under: Reviews, Media, Prisoner Media
Jailhouse Journalism: The Fourth Estate Behind Bars by James McGrath (Book Review) by Paul Wright Reviewed By Paul Wright Little has been written about the prison press. Jailhouse Journalism is a first step in chronicling the history of prison publications. The book is organized largely in chronological order combined with …
Article • April 15, 1999 • from PLN April, 1999
Losing the Vote: The Impact of Felony Disenfranchisement Laws in the United States (Book Review) by Alex Friedmann Review by Alex Friedmann "The expansion of suffrage toall sectors of the population is one of the United States' most important political triumphs .... Today, all mentally competent adults have the right …
Article • March 15, 1999 • from PLN March, 1999
Book Review: Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison by Daniel Burton-Rose Allen M. Hornblum Routledge, 297 pgs., $25.00 by Daniel Burton-Rose The ignominious story of U.S. medical experimentation on prisoners is rarely one that makes the history books. Tests using prisoners as human guinea pigs included World War …
Article • March 15, 1999 • from PLN March, 1999
Book Review: Sensible Justice: Alternatives to Prison by Daniel Burton-Rose David C. Anderson The New Press, 182 pgs., $25.00 The programs David C. Anderson lauds in Sensible Justice are everything that alternatives to prison should not be. They stress the punitive over what could reintegrate an offender into society; the …
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