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Article • January 15, 1994 • from PLN January, 1994
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
Weed and Seed: The Fortress Culture by Christian Parenti America's inner cities are being militarized. And Operation Weed and Seed, initiated in 1991 by the Bush administration in order to subordinate social spending to the agenda of the Justice Department, lies at the heart of the assault. Michael Zinzun of …
A Bunch of Scumbags by Adrian Lomax By Adrian Lomax Awhile back a friend wrote in her letter to me that, as she was writing, her son walked into the room and asked what she was doing. Upon hearing her answer, the son said, "Those guys in prison are a …
Article • November 15, 1993 • from PLN November, 1993
Republicans Introduce Crime Bill by Paul Wright By Paul Wright In last month's issue of PLN , I reported on President Clinton's crime bill, which he unveiled at an August 11, 1993, press conference. It turns out that a week before this, with considerably less fanfare, Senate Minority Leader Robert …
Article • November 15, 1993 • from PLN November, 1993
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Crime
The Politics of Imprisonment by Ed Mead By Ed Mead Peoples' fear of being victimized by crime has steadily risen over the past couple of decades. This has been particularly true for women, the elderly, and minority communities. While there has always been a substantial amount of crime in the …
Article • October 15, 1993 • from PLN October, 1993
Clinton Unveils "Anti-Crime" Package by Paul Wright By Paul Wright On August 11, 1993, president Clinton revealed his proposed new "anti crime" legislation. A few months ago I wrote an article in PLN concerning Clinton's campaign promises as they affected prisoners. It appears that things are worse than expected. With …
Article • October 15, 1993 • from PLN October, 1993
Filed under: Organizing, Crime
Families Against Mandatory Minimums by FAMM is a national, grassroots organization of the friends and family members of prisoners serving "mandatory minimum" sentences. In the 1980's, as part of the "war on drugs" the U.S. congress and many state legislatures passed laws mandating minimum sentences for many types of offenses, …
Article • October 15, 1993 • from PLN October, 1993
NY Re-Examines Tough Drug Laws by Former New York governor Nelson Rockefeller decided to launch a "get tough on crime" approach to dealing with that state's drug users and dealers. In 1973 Rockefeller had the state legislature pass a "lock `em up and throw away the key" approach to drug …
Article • October 15, 1993 • from PLN October, 1993
Florida Builds More Prisons by The Florida state legislature in late May approved a plan to spend $215 million on prison construction and also voted to overhaul state sentencing guidelines. The expansion package, which passed during a special legislative session called by Gov. Lawton Chiles, will add 10,524 beds to …
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
AIDS Patient Released from Jail by Gregory Scarpa is a pretrial detainee with full-blown AIDS. He is an alleged mafia captain awaiting trial on charges of racketeering, various murders, murder conspiracies, etc. While on bail previously he was involved in a shoot out and, according to the government, continued his …
Article • August 15, 1993 • from PLN August, 1993
Filed under: Crime, Sentencing
City of Refuge by David Finney Everyone has heard about alternative sentencing. What about alternative incarceration? The debate should be expanded to encompass this issue too. When people get put in prison the great majority become distrustful, angry and radicalized. It is a symptom of theseemingly arbitrary and unfair nature …
Article • August 15, 1993 • from PLN August, 1993
California Prisons Grow by Since 1973 the U.S. prison population has tripled. According to a recent study by the Sentencing Project, a record 1.1 million Americans are now behind bars at a cost of $20.3 billion a year. We now have the highest rate of incarceration in the world, far …
Article • July 15, 1993 • from PLN July, 1993
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Crime
We Need Solutions, Not More Prisons by Ed Mead The state of Washington, like most other states in the U.S., is on an expensive prison building binge. The state's prison population has tripled since the late '70s, yet crime rates continue to soar. The same situation exists elsewhere across the …
Article • June 15, 1993 • from PLN June, 1993
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
White House Pot Baron by Paul Wright By Paul Wright The March 9, 1993, edition of the Seattle Times reports that Arizona businessman Walter McCay made his fortune growing massive amounts of marijuana. What was interesting about McCay is that he is a prominent Republican businessman and banker who worked …
Article • June 15, 1993 • from PLN June, 1993
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
PA Prison Expansion Fails to Cut Crime by A recent report prepared for the Pennsylvania State Commission on Sentencing found that a dramatic increase in the state's prison population has not reduced violent crime. The report, Incarceration and Crime: Facing Fiscal Realities in Pennsylvania, by Penn State University Professor Darrell …
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
Filed under: Crime, Sentencing
What's Wrong With This Picture? by Paul Wright By Paul Wright A judge in Maryland recently sentenced a university student to six months in jail after the student was discovered to have cheated on his Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), which is the test used for college admissions. The student cheated …
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
NIJ To Study Roots of Crime by The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has announced its support for a vast study of the ways in which criminal offenders differ from law-abiding people, and what leads certain people into criminal behavior. Directors of the "Roots of Crime" project said it will …
Article • December 15, 1992 • from PLN December, 1992
Filed under: Organizing, Crime
Officials Seek to End Politicization of Crime Debate by Hundreds of public officials have signed a statement urging political candidates to refrain from "appeals to base human instincts and demagoguery" when discussing crime this election year. Furthermore, the statement criticizes past approaches to crime control, which it says have relied …
Article • December 15, 1992 • from PLN December, 1992
Crime and Punishment in America by Paul Wright Crime And Punishment In America By Paul Wright The October 7, 1992, edition of the Seattle Times reported that in Carson, CA a homeless man had been acquitted by a jury of stealing aluminum cans from a recycling bin. The man was …
Article • September 15, 1992 • from PLN September, 1992
Drug War Patronage by According to an investigation by the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, the Office of National Drug Control Policy which is supposed to lead the nations war on drugs has a higher percentage of political patronage jobs than any other government agency. The agency …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
Washington's DOC Boss Talks That Talk. Can He Walk That Walk? by Amonth or so ago Chase Riveland, the Washington state's chief corrections officer, went to Washington, D.C. for what he thought would be a dialogue, an exchange of ideas about crime and punishment. Instead he got a U.S. Justice …
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