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Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Washington's Prisons to Reach 10,000 by Washington's Prisons To Reach 10,000 Washington State's jammed prisons soon will hold a record 10,000 inmates, and the state is stepping up construction of more cells to head off the unrest that often comes with overcrowding. "We've been pretty lucky that we haven't had …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Control Units: Isolation in 1992 by NJ AFSC By N.J. Community Relations Program American Friends Service Committee In 1975, after the tumultuous years of the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, and the prisoner's rights movement, Trenton State Prison in New Jersey established an administrative isolation unit for politically dissident …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Hand Me Downs by Dan Pens By Dan Pens I was only five. My mind didn't belong entirely to me yet. So much of it belonged to the world, especially to whomever I was with, and double-especially to adults, and triple especially to Grandpa 'cause he knew everything. He was …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Crime Rates Continue Upward Climb by Ed Mead By Ed Mead Preliminary figures from the FBI's recently released Uniform Crime Reports show violent crimes reported to police last year increased by 5 percent, continuing a seven-year trend of increases. The rate of violent crime per capita rose to the highest …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Filed under: Juveniles
Trafficking in Children Condemned by Trafficking In Children Condemned From: World Perspectives The UN Commission on Human Rights, located in Geneva, has released a report on child slavery, child trafficking and child prostitution. It says 10 years ago the number of children aged 10-14 who were victimized in one or …
Beating Violates Eighth Amendment by Alfred Flowers is a Louisiana state prisoner who was handcuffed and shackled after a disciplinary hearing, then beaten and kicked by three prison guards without provocation. Flowers suffered a sprained ankle, small abrasions and limited movement range of his limbs as a result of the …
Pelican Bay Conditions Suit Filed by The Pelican Bay Information Project (PBIP) is an independent citizens' group that has formed in response to the complaints of prisoners. The group is composed of prison visitors, writers, ex-prisoners, lawyers and human rights advocates. Since Pelican Bay's 1250 cell Security Housing Unit (SHU) …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Filed under: Editorials, Media, Censorship
From The Editor by Paul Wright By Paul Wright Welcome to another issue of the PLN. We encourage our readers to submit articles and information about happenings in their areas so we can publish them in the paper. However, what some folks have done recently is send us bundles of …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
Publications to Read by Ed Mead Publications To Read By Ed Mead You can't expect to understand the world and its political processes unless you have accurate information on these subjects. The Middle East, for example, is an important area of concern to the people of this nation - we've …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Prisoner Litigant and Prison Law Library Secondary Resource List by Robert Pierce By Robert Pierce In the field of law, books that deal with an overall view of a topic, those that are used in teaching law, or that are encyclopedic in nature, are known as secondary resource materials. These …
Article • May 15, 1992 • from PLN May, 1992
Delay of Legal Files States Claim by Delay Of Legal Files States Claim A Washington D.C. prisoner was transferred to various state and federal prisons. In the course of the transfers Lorton prison officials delayed and refused to send the plaintiff, Crawford El, his property containing his legal materials. Crawford …
Article • May 15, 1992 • from PLN May, 1992
Guards Can't Be Prevented From Making Positive Recommendations To Parole Board by A policy prohibiting correctional employees from making recommendations directly to the parole board could be challenged by inmate asserting correctional employee's first amendment rights; such communications were not "purely personal," the court held, but rather involved matters of …
Article • May 15, 1992 • from PLN May, 1992
Deportation Delays Criticized by Editorial Comments By Ed Mead Paul and I are now in our third year of publishing the Prisoners Legal News. It has been a good experience for both of us, and hopefully for you, too. I know that we have learned a lot in the process …
Article • May 15, 1992 • from PLN May, 1992
Prison Overcrowding Crisis Continues, Says New Report by Forty states, plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, are under court order to reduce prison overcrowding and/or to remedy unconstitutional conditions, according to a new Status Report released Feb. 27 by the National Prison Project of the …
Article • May 15, 1992 • from PLN May, 1992
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
ABA Committee - Shift in Drug Strategy Needed by A national drug strategy that relies on the criminal justice system to solve the drug crisis won't work and diverts attention and resources from other needed approaches such as prevention, education and treatment, according to a report released by the American …
Can't Stop Con's Legal Help Due to Transfer by Can't Stop Con's Legal Help Due To Transfer A New York prisoner incarcerated at Attica was granted authorization to provide legal assistance to two other inmates after completing a law clerk training program sponsored by the Department of Correctional Services. When …
Article • May 15, 1992 • from PLN May, 1992
Convict Heritage Comes Through in Australia by Convict Heritage Comes Through In Australia In an article on the abrasive, hard-edged world of Australian journalism, a Christian Science Monitor writer notes that the continent's "convict heritage...also acts to restrict the press. Once a convict was given `ticket of leave,' allowing a …
Article • May 15, 1992 • from PLN May, 1992
Iowa Visiting Rules Create Liberty Interest by Iowa prison officials doubled the population in a minimum-security facility from 65 to 120 prisoners. To house the additional prisoners the visiting room was converted into a dormitory and visiting was cut in half, from every weekend to every other weekend. William Patachette …
Article • May 15, 1992 • from PLN May, 1992
Prison Conditions in the United States by Prison Conditions In The United States Human Rights Watch, an international human and civil rights group, has issued the results of its investigation into prison conditions in the United States. Their investigation consisted of visits to more than 20 state and federal prisons …
Article • May 15, 1992 • from PLN May, 1992
Not All Are Frivolous by A L I wanted to write about something in the March issue of the PLN. On page 6, an article addressing an absurdly frivolous lawsuit filed by a couple of idiots here about lottery tickets, says: "Wisconsin prisoners answered the question by filing suit alleging …
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