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Human Rights Report Details Women in Prison by A recent report from the group Human Rights Watch, titled Nowhere to Hide: Retaliation Against Women in Michigan State Prisons , charges both that Michigan holds female prisoners in horrid conditions and that women who challenge these conditions are subject to retaliation …
Article • February 15, 1999 • from PLN February, 1999
Book Review: Breaking the Walls of Silence by Laura Whitehorn Book review by Laura Whitehorn Breaking The Walls Of Silence: AIDS and Women in a New Youk State Maximum Security Prison was written by the members of the ACE Program (AIDS Counseling and Education) of Bedford Hills Women's Prison. It …
Article • December 15, 1998 • from PLN December, 1998
Filed under: Reviews, Media, Prisoner Media
Prison Writing in 20th-Century America (Book Review) by Daniel Burton-Rose H. Bruce Franklin,Editor, Penguin, 1998 by Daniel Burton-Rose Closing a conversation about how hideous and abysmal prisons are these days, the great ex-con sociologist John Irwin remarked to me with a muted note of pleasure which I found somewhat unethical …
Article • November 15, 1998 • from PLN November, 1998
Restorative Justice Booklet Available by Dan Pens Review by Dan Pens Long time readers of PLN know that I have an interest in Restorative Justice. I have reviewed and recommended several publications on the topic. I bring your attention now to a very well-produced and affordable booklet that offers an …
Article • October 15, 1998 • from PLN October, 1998
Filed under: Reviews, Media
Book Review: Project Censored: The News That Didn't Make the News by Paul Wright Washington on $10 Million a Day: How Lobbyists Plunder the Nation by Ken Silverstein. Common Courage Press Project Censored: The News That Didn't Make the News, by Peter Phillips and Project Censored. Seven Stories Press. Prison …
Article • October 15, 1998 • from PLN October, 1998
Loompanics Unlimited by Paul Wright Loompanics modestly bills itself as "the best book catalog in the world." If it's not the best it is certainly the most diverse, having all the books you've heard about but probably haven't seen in the neighborhood bookstore. Loompanics is a publisher and vendor that …
Article • September 15, 1998 • from PLN September, 1998
Filed under: Reviews, Court Access
Criminal Law by Paul Wright Criminal Law is an 809 page book designed for criminal justice personnel, judges, prosecutors, police, etc. The book is extremely useful for anyone seeking a basic understanding of substantive criminal law. It does not deal with criminal procedure. With extensive state and federal case citations …
Article • September 15, 1998 • from PLN September, 1998
Allan Ellis' Federal Prison Guidebook by Paul Wright Allan Ellis' Federal Prison Guidebook is a 312 page book that gives a detailed rundown of federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) facilities. Alan Ellis is a California attorney who specializes in the pre-sentence and post conviction representation of federal prisoners. He is …
Article • September 15, 1998 • from PLN September, 1998
Cigarette Health Hazards by Paul Wright Cigarette Health Hazards: The January 14, 1998, Volume 279, No. 2, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) contains an article on the risks of cigarette smoke in increasing the risk of heart disease. Title "Cigarette Smoking and Progression of Athero …
Article • September 15, 1998 • from PLN September, 1998
Filed under: Reviews, Court Access
Connecticut Prisoner Rights by Paul Wright Connecticut Prisoner Rights is a brand new 232 page book produced by the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union and the Jerome Frank Legal Services Organization of Yale Law School. A group effort by Peter Stern and numerous other law students and attorneys, the end result …
Article • September 15, 1998 • from PLN September, 1998
Filed under: Reviews, Court Access
Briefs of Leading Cases in Corrections by Paul Wright Briefs of Leading Cases in Corrections is a 268 page book by Rolando Del Carmen, Susan Ritter and Betsy Witt, which gives a summary and synopsis of 113 United States supreme court cases dealing with prisons, jails, probation, parole, the death …
Article • September 15, 1998 • from PLN September, 1998
Filed under: Reviews, Organizing
The Razor Wire by Paul Wright The Razor Wire is a 24 page bi-monthly tabloid published by the November Coalition. Its focus is on federal drug policy issues, specifically mandatory minimums and sentencing issues. A grassroots movement, the November Coalition encompasses prisoners, their families, as well as academics and other …
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
Filed under: Reviews, Organizing
DARK NIGHT Field Notes by Dan Pens DARK NIGHT field notes DARK NIGHT field notes is a most excellent quarterly magazine chronicling progressive struggle. Why I had never been exposed to this zine before, I don't know. Issue #11 (its focus on prison struggle) found its way to my desk, …
Article • July 15, 1998 • from PLN July, 1998
Prisoner 'Stress Response Syndrome' Described by Dan Pens The Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) and related court rulings have raised imposing obstacles to prison civil rights litigation, effectively gutting class action claims against overcrowding and other conditions of confinement. Increasingly, courts require a showing of how such conditions are violating …
Human Rights Watch Condemns Indiana Control Units by Daniel Burton-Rose In October, 1997 the international human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) released Cold Storage: Super-Maximum Security Confinement in Indiana , a report on the Maximum Control Facility at Westville and the Secured Housing Unit at the Wabash Valley Correctional …
Article • June 15, 1998 • from PLN June, 1998
Descent Into Madness: An Inmate's Experience in the New Mexico State Prison Riot by Daniel Burton-Rose by Mike Rolland, 1997 If the 1971 rebellion at Attica typified the internal cohesion, strength, and political awareness of the U.S. prison movement in the late 60s and early 70s, the 1980 riot at …
Pro Se Tips and Tactics: Limiting the Burdens of Pro Se Inmate Litigation by John Midgley Review of Limiting The Burdens Of Pro Se Inmate Litigation: A Technical Assistance Manual For Courts, Correctional Officials, And Attorneys General , by Lynn S. Branham (American Bar Association, 1997). Given all the anti-prisoner …
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