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Federal Crime Bill Passes by Paul Wright By Paul Wright In the October and November, 1993, issues of PLN, I wrote articles about the "anti-crime" proposals that had been submitted in the US Congress by democrats and republicans, respectively. I predicted then the most repressive aspects of both proposals would …
Article • December 15, 1994 • from PLN December, 1994
VA Repressive Sentencing Law Results in Uprisings by Dan Pens The feature attraction in this summer's media/political crime-hype circus in Virginia was the coverage of "Proposal X," Republican Gov. George Allen's repressive new sentencing bill. The bill, signed into law by Allen on October 17th, 1994, calls for tougher sentencing, …
Article • November 15, 1994 • from PLN November, 1994
Scared Witless by The fear in her voice reverberated throughout talk-radio land. The elderly woman was among a parade of callers who passionately supported the caning of 18-year-old Michael Fay, who'd pled guilty to vandalism in Singapore. When the host asked why such a brutal punishment was appropriate, she replied …
Article • November 15, 1994 • from PLN November, 1994
Killer Workplace by On June 15, 1994, a conference on workplace violence was held at Boeing's Renton campus near Seattle, WA. The topic was growing workplace violence, defined as workers striking out rather than companies maiming, poisoning, exploiting workers and the community. According to Dr. Kevin Flynn, a consultant to …
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
U.S. Number 1 (in Murder, Violence, Imprisonment, etc.) by The United Nations released its 1994 Human Development Report in mid June, 1994. According to the report, the United States is first in murders, first in military spending, first in rapes and first in road accidents in the industrialized world. It …
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
German Court Legalizes Soft Drugs by On April 28, 1994, the Federal Constitutional Court, Germany's highest court, ruled that possession of small quantities of hashish and marijuana should no longer be the subject of criminal penalties. The ruling came as the court affirmed the 1992 lower court ruling by Lubeck …
Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994
WA Initiative to Increase Gun Penalties by Paul Wright By Paul Wright The Washington Citizens for Justice are the right-wingers headed by Dave LaCourse, of the Public Policy Institute in Bellevue, WA; John Carlson, of KVI radio and Seattle Times columnist and Ida Ballasiotes, Republican state representative for Mercer Island. …
Article • July 15, 1994 • from PLN July, 1994
Drug Use Legalized in Columbia by On May 5, 1994, Columbia's Constitutional Court (the equivalent of the US Supreme Court) voted five to four that a 1986 law permitting the arrest of someone for carrying a "personal dose" of drugs was a violation of the country's new constitution. Court president …
Article • July 15, 1994 • from PLN July, 1994
Media Hype Exposed by Anyone who watches TV or reads corporate media publications is well aware of the unrelenting propaganda barrage of hysterical stories attacking prisoners, criminal suspects, etc., as part of a "crime wave." With the collapse of the former USSR the ruling elite has been in desperate search …
Article • June 15, 1994 • from PLN June, 1994
Three Strikes Racks 'em Up by Paul Wright Three Strikes Racks 'Em Up By Paul Wright In November of 1993 voters in Washington state passed Initiative 593 which mandates life without parole for defendants convicted of one of 42 qualifying felonies for the third time. PLN covered the initiative process …
Article • June 15, 1994 • from PLN June, 1994
DOJ Seeks More Money for Prisons by On February 7, 1994, President Clinton submitted his proposed budget for fiscal year 1995 to congress. The Department of Justice (DOJ) is slated to receive $13.652 billion, a $2.679 billion increase over the 1994 budget. This figure includes $2.423 billion that the administration …
Article • June 15, 1994 • from PLN June, 1994
A Call to Reason by Pat O'Connell By Pat O'Connell The recent news about an ex-murderer being promoted to assistant sheriff of the San Francisco Sheriff's department shouldn't really be such a unique news item but the story got me to thinking about why it would make headlines. Michael Marcum …
Article • June 15, 1994 • from PLN June, 1994
Why the Mighty GE Can't Strike Out by William Greider Led by Bill Clinton, the crime fighters of Washington have hit upon a wondrous new weapon for stomping on criminals: Three crimes of violence, from armed robbery and murder, the judicial remedy will be permanent. Lock 'em up for life …
Article • May 15, 1994 • from PLN May, 1994
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
Petty Drug Criminals Fill BOP by Attorney General Janet Reno ordered a study to determine if the growing use of mandatory minimum sentences was causing overcrowding in the federal prison system. The study, produced by former Deputy Attorney General Philip Heyman, the BOP and selected U.S. Attorneys, found that 16,316 …
Article • May 15, 1994 • from PLN May, 1994
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
Ask the Media if Crime pays, Then Who's Footing the Bill? by Dan Pens Ask The Media if Crime Pays, Then Who's Footing the Bill? By Dan Pens A recent survey by the Center for Media and Public Affairs shows that the three major networks aired more than twice as …
Article • May 15, 1994 • from PLN May, 1994
FL Reforms Sentencing Law by Florida has built 10,729 new prison beds in the past five years yet has been unable to keep up with its growing prison population. In May of 1993 the Florida legislature passed the Safe Streets Initiative which has the goal of reducing prison overcrowding to …
Article • April 15, 1994 • from PLN April, 1994
British Govt Rolls Back Civil Rights by As part of the political and economic crisis racking all the capitalist countries the British government has recently passed it's version of a crime bill. Home Secretary Michael Howard says the bill is the most comprehensive attack on "crime" in three decades. This …
Article • March 15, 1994 • from PLN March, 1994
A Tomb in Columbia by Raul Zibecchi By Raul Zibecchi [The following article appeared in the December 10, 1993, edition of the Uruguayan weekly Brecha . It was translated and edited by PLN Editor Paul Wright. Given the fact that tens of thousands of Americans languish in prison as casualties …
Article • February 15, 1994 • from PLN February, 1994
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
Class Differences in Crime Control by Ed Mead By Ed Mead The other day a prisoner at a women's prison wrote and asked me how we, as revolutionaries, would handle crime problems differently than the existing government is now doing. The biggest difference would be both a social and an …
Article • January 15, 1994 • from PLN January, 1994
"Tough On Crime" Law Increases Michigan Crime Rates by Despite the increased use of prison as a criminal sanction, nearly every category of violent crime rose from 1981 to 1991. In the past decade, Michigan's legislature has passed many "tough on crime" laws and quadrupled the state's corrections budget, according …
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