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Not Part of my Sentence: The Rape of Washington Prisoners by Silja JA Talvi Gig Harbor, Wash.: Annette Guzman-White, a 32-year-old minimum-security prisoner incarcerated on a second-degree burglary charge at the Washington Correction Center for Women (WCCW), is eager to get out of prison. It's something that could probably be …
BOP Lieutenant Pleads Guilty to Brutality Charges by Robert Durkee In an ongoing criminal investigation, the Department of Justice, Office of Inspector General, is continuing its probe into allegations of obstruction of justice and other civil rights violations at the federal prison in Beaumont, Texas. The investigation took a dramatic …
Chinese Company Convicted of Using Forced Prison Labor by On February 28, 2001, Peter Chen, a Taiwanese entrepreneur, pled guilty in a New Jersey federal district court to charges of selling goods in the U.S. which were produced by forced prison labor. Chen will pay a $50,000 fine. Chen owned …
Cowboys and Prisoners by Willie Wisely Trumpeted as the pinnacle of high-tech prison architecture when it opened in 1993, the Federal Correctional Complex in Florence, Colorado, contains two lower security facilities, one maximum security prison, and, since 1994, the Clockwork Orange inspired U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum. The steel and concrete …
Article • September 15, 2001 • from PLN September, 2001
Feds Tally the Death Penalty by In December, 2000, the Bureau of Justice Statistics analyzed the United States' death penalty in a report titled "Capital Punishment 1999." It is an in-depth analysis of how the death penalty was applied in the United States in 1999, plus a preliminary execution report …
Article • September 15, 2001 • from PLN September, 2001
Snitch Culture: How Citizens Are Turned into the Eyes and Ears of the State by Hans Sherrer by Jim Redden, Feral House, 2001, 235 pages Snitch Culture is a timely examination of how personal and technological snitching is used by the state and by private organizations, in conjunction with informational …
BOP Guards Smuggle Sperm by In October, 2000, federal prison guards Troy Kemmerer and Todd Swineford were arrested and indicted for accepting money to help smuggle cryogenic sperm kits to a New York City fertility clinic. The investigation began over two years ago when convicted hit man Kevin Granato sat …
Article • September 15, 2001 • from PLN September, 2001
New York Prisoners Prosecuted by Gary Hunter The prosecution of prisoners in Greene County New York is a high priority for District Attorney Terry Wilhelm. In the first nine months of his tenure, Wilhelm secured 23 indictments from the Greene and Coxsackie Correctional Facilities. His predecessor, Ed Cloke, prosecuted only …
New York Nazi Guard Charged with Sodomy by New York Nazi Guard Charged With Sodomy In the January, 2001, issue of PLN we reported the New York Court of Appeals' ruling that upheld an arbitrator's decision to continue the employment of Edward Kuhnel, a prison guard at the Eastern Correctional …
Article • August 15, 2001 • from PLN August, 2001
Two Escape from Oklahoma Control Unit by Two Escape From Oklahoma Control Unit Two maximum security prisoners escaped on January 15, 2001, from the Oklahoma State Penitentiary's notorious Hunit, an underground control unit, only to be recaptured two days later. The escaped prisoners were identified by ODOC spokesman Jerry Massie …
Kansas Disciplinary Restitution Orders Authorized by The Kansas Court of Appeals affirmed a district court judgment, reducing the amount of restitution assessed against two prisoners for disciplinary rule violations, from $1,956.75 to $1,104.68 per prisoner. In doing so, the court concluded that the Department of Corrections has the authority to …
Dismissal of Washington Persistent Prison Misbehavior Charge Upheld by The Washington Supreme Court has affirmed the dismissal of a persistent prison misbehavior charge because the Department of Corrections (DOC) failed to properly promulgate its list of serious infractions, one of which formed the basis of the charge. In doing so, …
Pelican Bay Guard's Conviction Upheld by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely Jose Garcia was a guard at California's Pelican Bay prison. With his supervisor, Mike Powers, Garcia plotted with prisoner shotcallers to have convicted child molesters, sex offenders, and informants stabbed or beaten. The conspiracy ran from January 1994 to …
Article • July 15, 2001 • from PLN July, 2001
Filed under: Private Prisons, Reviews, Crime
Book Review: The Perpetual Prisoner Machine: How America Profits From Crime by Rick Card by Joel Dyer, Westview Press, 2000 (318 pages) Reviewed by Rick Card An estimated 69 million people, or 44 percent of all households now own stock or invest in one of thousands of mutual funds. According …
Article • July 15, 2001 • from PLN July, 2001
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Escapes
BOP Imposter Scheme Discovered by For more than a year, the BOP had an imposter in its midst officials discover last October. One man paid another to do his time and the BOP remained clueless until the imposter escaped. After pleading guilty to a charge of receiving proceeds from a …
Article • July 15, 2001 • from PLN July, 2001
Book Review: Capital Crimes by Allen N Huxley by George Winslow, Monthly Review Press (1999), 360 pages Review by Allen N. Huxley Crime dominates the news, arouses fear and anger among the mass media-consuming public, and oils the rhetorical machinery of opportunistic politicians. Yet for all of the moralizing, finger …
Arkansas Guards Indicted for Shocking Prisoners by Arkansas Guards Indicted For Shocking Prisoners On February 7, 2001, criminal charges were filed in a federal District Court in Arkansas against 6 former guards who beat handcuffed prisoners and shocked them with a stungun and a cattle prod. On January 7, 1998, …
Article • June 15, 2001 • from PLN June, 2001
Prisoners of the Census by Tracy Huling Record numbers of urban people of color are now in prisons in rural areas _ where the census counts them as residents. Result? The prisoners' `share' of federal funds pegged to population counts will go to their keepers' hometowns. Since April Fool's Day, …
Washington DOC Hit with almost $50 Million in Verdicts and Settlements in Parole Victim Suits by Paul Wright In a four-month period between September, 2000 and January, 2001, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) was hit with separate jury verdicts for $22.4 and $15 million and settled two additional cases …
Closing Washington's Window of Parole Liability by Paul Wright In addition to almost $50 million in settlements and verdicts assessed against the Washington DOC in recent months, the Washington DOC has paid an additional $20.6 million to settle 25 parole liability cases and pay one jury verdict since 1994. Apparently, …
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