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Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
respective prisons as well as our work on other legal and political projects pretty much take up all of our time. What we try to do with PLN on the legal front is to help prisoners help themselves. I can tell ...
Article • January 15, 1994 • from PLN January, 1994
, what they need is a little capitalist training, so they can become manageable, exploitable, good little worker bees." On the other hand this is the first time since the Sentencing Reform Act took ...
Article • March 15, 1995 • from PLN March, 1995
, Health Care and Judiciary committees. What are her qualifications to serve on, much less head, the corrections committee? Only a desire to bash prisoners and make already miserable lives even worse. Rather ...
, the prison's medical provider, but the amount of that settlement was not disclosed. Lorenzo Williams, the family's attorney, said only that it is substantially" more than what the state is paying. Paisley's ...
Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
press. At the conclusion of my presentation to the students about the state of human rights in American prisons and jails one student asked me what they, as Canadians, could do to help improve ...
Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
the strike. And since DOC policy bans media interviews with high-security prisoners, the prisoners had little chance to tell their side of the story. They lied so blatantly about what was really going ...
in its decision; lack of adequate notice before reclassification hearings; and a lack of notice of what conduct is necessary in order to qualify to leave OSP. See: Austin v. Wilkinson, 189 F.Supp.2d 719 ...
What's Wrong With the ACA? by Elizabeth Alexander The American Correctional Association (ACA) is the largest and best-known organization of prison and jail staff in the country. It offers ...
state prison facilities were placed on lockdown. What happened during that lockdown was a crime. Surveillance tapes show one prisoner bouncing from step to step as guards dragged him down a steel ...
Article • December 15, 1998 • from PLN December, 1998
Filed under: Organizing
in the size of what is euphemistically called the "corrections" system. Presently over 1.8 million people are incarcerated a threefold increase since 1980 in U.S. prisons and jails. On a per capita basis more ...
on the Ex Post Facto claim, as well as the Fifth and Eighth Amendment claims. However, some Fifth Amendment implications were not addressed by the court: What of those sex offenders who maintain ...
Article • June 15, 2002 • from PLN June, 2002
will be in bookstores by the end of the year. In this book we explore the class nature of the American criminal justice system and how two million people actually wound up in prison and what's happening once we got ...
Oklahoma prison, it had no idea what was in store for these women. What ensued over the next three years, according to a lawsuit filed by four Hawaiian women, was a "widespread pattern of inmate sexual ...
Article • May 15, 2003 • from PLN May, 2003
the Shah's SAVAK in Iran to South American and Asian torture states, American government agents institutionalized and professionalized what before had been haphazard torture practices. A.J. Languth's book ...
planning in terms of duration and scope of activities. For good reasons, such planning has been missing in earlier forms of prison protest. PNL: What kind of good reasons? Musaa: In times past ...
Article • June 15, 2006 • from PLN June, 2006
agencies are required to seek competitive bids on orders above $5,000. But what the Observer found--and auditors confirmed--is that CE regularly split large orders for fabric and other raw materials ...
Article • February 15, 2008
Filed under: News, State Legislation
in Maine. Under the plan, the governor would appoint Board of Corrections members, subject to confirmation by the committee and the state Senate. But many details of what the board and the new prison ...
Article • February 15, 2008 • from PLN February, 2008
American - who have been scared away by the state's restrictive immigration laws. In 2006, the Colorado legislature passed what it trumpeted as the nation's toughest immigration policies. Law enforcement ...
. Are we really being effective in what were trying to do? stated Pinellas Sheriff Jim Coats. Somewhere, theres a breakdown in the system here. PLN has reported in the past that paramilitary boot camps have ...
Article • September 15, 2007 • from PLN September, 2007
transfer to a mental health facility. "It makes me sick to think what he's going through," said Cory's mother, Rachel Itson. "He needs medication, but he's not getting it. They're treating him like a dog ...
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