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Article • May 15, 1997 • from PLN May, 1997
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
Drug Policy as Social Control by Noam Chomsky In the typical third world society, like Colombia, or India, or Mexico or Egypt -- they are all more or less the same there is a sector of great wealth, enormous wealth, there are large numbers of people who live somewhere between …
Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN January, 1997
From the Inside Looking Out by Jon Marc Taylor The late Malcom Forbes once said it was "more fun to arrive at a conclusion than to justify it." Brookings Institute senior fellow Dr. John J. DiIulio has certainly arrived at a conclusion, but his justifications range from questionable to outright …
Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN January, 1997
Prison Time vs. Crime Rate Study by According to a study in August 1995, by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley, putting more people in state prisons has had little effect on California's crime rate. In only two categories of criminal activity analyzed in the study -- robbery …
Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN January, 1997
DiIulio's Crime Solution by Like a party clown twisting balloons into cute animal shapes, John J. DiIulio Jr. twists facts, myths, and statistics into fantastical logical conclusions. DiIulio is professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University. He is also a media-darling of the lock-em-up, conservative right. Professor DiIulio …
Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN February, 1997
Costs of Crime by JW Mason by J.W. Mason Suppose you could calculate the dollar value of the costs of crime -- lost property, medical bills, missed work, pain and suffering -- and figure out its total yearly cost to society? While "putting a dollar value on the suffering resulting …
Article • November 15, 1996 • from PLN November, 1996
Criminal Injustice: Confronting the Prison Crisis by Daniel Burton-Rose Review by Daniel Burton Rose This collection is an excellent primer on many of the issues and struggles currently being waged by prisoners and their supporters. Previously distributed in prison activist circles as With the Power of Justice in our Eyes, …
Article • October 15, 1996 • from PLN October, 1996
Smoke and Mirrors by Review by George Everett Smoke & Mirrors has less to do with drugs than it does with the true casualties of the long-fought War on Drugs -- the many civil liberties that all of us have lost, especially in the last decade, as federal policy has …
Article • September 15, 1996 • from PLN September, 1996
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
From the Home Front by Kate I've been receiving PLN for a year now. I appreciate your work on behalf of prisoners and for the cause of truth telling in our society. PLN is a righteous satisfaction to read. Your editorials are especially excellently written, intelligent, articulate, radical and sane. …
Article • May 15, 1996 • from PLN May, 1996
Jury Power in Action by A single mother in Cleveland, Ohio went on trial for welfare fraud. She was charged with "stealing" $11,000 in cash and food stamps over a two-year period. Between June 1988 to January 1990 she is accused of working at a $6,000-a-year part time job emptying …
Article • May 15, 1996 • from PLN May, 1996
Citizen Anti-Crime Initiatives? How the Gun Lobby Bankrolls the War on Crime by Paul Wright Recent years have seen a plethora of so called anti-crime initiatives placed on various state ballots, the most famous being the "Three Strikes You're Out" type laws. These initiatives purport to be efforts by state …
Damn Lies and Statistics by Most PLN readers are well aware of the conservative PR campaign designed to convince legislators and the voting public that the courts are threatened with drowning in a deluge of prisoner-initiated litigation. The National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) has developed model legislation designed to …
Article • February 15, 1996 • from PLN February, 1996
It's About Time: Americas Imprisonment Binge by Linda Wilson It's About Time: America's Imprisonment Binge, by John Irwin and James Austin, Wadsorth Publishing Co. (1994), provides an excellent critical analysis of the American prison system and makes a very strong case against America's excessive reliance on the use of imprisonment …
Federal Prisons Erupt by Dan Pens At least five federal prisons erupted in violence within days after a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives to overrule a recommendation by the U.S. Sentencing Commission to end the 100 to 1 sentencing disparity between crack and powdered cocaine offenses. Information on …
Iowa Crime Legislation by Michael Brant The 1995 Iowa legislature passed a new wave of bills that affect many Iowa prisoners and ex-prisoners. Among these new laws are: The refusal of the county treasurer to renew vehicle registrations if the person has unpaid delinquent restitution; the inmate hard labor law …
Article • October 15, 1995 • from PLN October, 1995
US Prison Population Report by According to the Department of Justice the American prison population has grown more than 2.5 times between 1980 and 1993. As of 1993, the latest year statistics are available, 2.6% of the US adult population, 4.9 million adults, were on parole, probation, in prison or …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
Warden Survey Released by On December 21, 1994, Illinois US senator Paul Simon (D) released a survey he had conducted of 157 prison wardens across the country. Simon told a news conference he was releasing the survey because it was time for a "reality check" as congress gears up for …
Books Available: Barred: Women, Writing and Political Detention by Barbara Harlow Barred: Women, Writing and Political Detention, by Barbara Harlow, examines and presents the writings of women political prisoners in Northern Ireland, Palestine, El Salvador, Egypt, South Africa and the United States. The book gives an analysis of the dynamics …
Article • June 15, 1995 • from PLN June, 1995
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
The New Politics of Crime by Dan Pens Those who command state power have honed their craft over the ages. The smart ones learn the tricks of their trade by studying the "science" of politics whereby they can benefit from the accumulated knowledge of centuries. One of the tricks that …
Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
S&L Looters Do less Time than Petty Thieves by Paul Wright S&L Looters Do Less Time than Petty Thieves by Paul Wright Fraud in the Savings and Loan Industry: White Collar Crime and Government Response was written by University of California, Irvine, criminology professor Henry Pontell and associate professor Kitty …
Article • April 15, 1995 • from PLN April, 1995
Most Murders by Friends and Family by One of the propaganda lies hyping the anti-crime hysteria is the fear of seemingly random crimes committed by strangers against strangers. Anyone who watches the television news or reads newspapers would conclude that such crimes constitute the majority of murders committed. However, according …
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