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Khalfani Trial Due to Begin by Leonard McQuay, also known as Khalfani X. Khaldun, was due to be released in 1997 from the Indiana prison system. But on December 13, 1994, Khalfani was transferred to the Maximum Control Complex in Westville, under investigation for it allegedly stabbing a prison guard …
Article • July 15, 1996 • from PLN July, 1996
A Matter of Fact by The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) has a $2.5 billion annual budget and 40,000 employees. It is the largest state agency in Texas. From January 1977 to October 1995, 302 prisoners were executed in the U.S. In that same time period, 95 death-sentenced prisoners …
Article • June 15, 1996 • from PLN June, 1996
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Victims
America's Most Wanted Hypocrite by Paul Wright John Walsh is known to millions of television viewers as the host of America's Most Wanted on FOX TV. The program features lurid reenactments of crimes and ask for viewer assistance in locating people that police claim have committed the crime in question. …
Tenth Anniversary of Peru Prison Massacres by [The following article is excerpted from the book Gloria al Día de Heroísmo, which is an account of the uprising and massacre of Peruvian political prisoners and Prisoners of War on June 19, 1986. This year marks the tenth anniversary of the uprising.] …
Article • June 15, 1996 • from PLN June, 1996
A Matter of Fact by Welcome to this new feature of PLN. Often we run across amazing facts, figures, quotes, or statistics, but don't have the time, energy, or space to develop a full-length article. So, in the same vein as "News in Brief," this column will be consist solely …
Article • May 15, 1996 • from PLN May, 1996
Jury Power in Action by A single mother in Cleveland, Ohio went on trial for welfare fraud. She was charged with "stealing" $11,000 in cash and food stamps over a two-year period. Between June 1988 to January 1990 she is accused of working at a $6,000-a-year part time job emptying …
Jail Guards' Convictions Affirmed by On November 29, 1995, the US court of appeals for the sixth circuit issued a ruling affirming the federal conviction of three jail guards for violating prisoners' civil rights. Ulysses Tines, Glynn Bridgeforth and Belinda Marshall were guards employed at the Shelby County jail in …
Article • May 15, 1996 • from PLN May, 1996
Texas Prison Developer Arrested in Escape Plot by A private prison developer with business ties to a former Texas state prison director was arrested in January and charged with plotting to help a convicted murderer escape from prison for a $750,000 fee. Patrick Harold Graham - using the alias Harold …
Article • May 15, 1996 • from PLN May, 1996
Citizen Anti-Crime Initiatives? How the Gun Lobby Bankrolls the War on Crime by Paul Wright Recent years have seen a plethora of so called anti-crime initiatives placed on various state ballots, the most famous being the "Three Strikes You're Out" type laws. These initiatives purport to be efforts by state …
Article • May 15, 1996 • from PLN May, 1996
More Trouble in Texas Rent-A-Jails by Bryon W, Ferguson by Bryon W. Ferguson Hawaii prisoner Larry Earl Pagan decided he'd had enough of Texas hospitality. Pagan, shanghaied from a Hawaii state prison [See: "Kidnapping and Extortion Texas Style" in the Feb '96 PLN], escaped in February from the Newton County …
Damn Lies and Statistics by Most PLN readers are well aware of the conservative PR campaign designed to convince legislators and the voting public that the courts are threatened with drowning in a deluge of prisoner-initiated litigation. The National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) has developed model legislation designed to …
$460,800 Verdict in Ohio Beating Affirmed by A district court in Ohio denied prison officials' motion for a new trial and affirmed a jury verdict of $460,800 to two Ohio state prisoners who had been beaten by prisoner guards. In the January, 1995, issue of PLN we reported the jury …
Article • April 15, 1996 • from PLN April, 1996
Peruvian POWs Rescued by [Editor's Note: Since 1980 the Communist Party of Peru (PCP) has waged a people's war in an effort to overthrow the US supported regime in Peru. That struggle suffered a major setback in 1992 when the party's chairman, Abimael Guzman, and several members of the central …
Article • April 15, 1996 • from PLN April, 1996
Prison Population Statistics Available by The annual BJS report on prison populations was released on Dec. 3, 1995. The number of state and federal prisoners grew by 89,707 during the 12 months ending June 30, 1995. It was the largest one-year population increase ever recorded in the U.S. The state …
Article • March 15, 1996 • from PLN March, 1996
Texas Guard Gets Probation for Killing Prisoner by In the September '95 issue of PLN we reported the manslaughter conviction of Joel Lambright, Jr. He was the first Texas prison guard in history to be convicted of killing a prisoner. He was sentenced to serve a two to ten year …
Article • February 15, 1996 • from PLN February, 1996
It's About Time: Americas Imprisonment Binge by Linda Wilson It's About Time: America's Imprisonment Binge, by John Irwin and James Austin, Wadsorth Publishing Co. (1994), provides an excellent critical analysis of the American prison system and makes a very strong case against America's excessive reliance on the use of imprisonment …
Article • February 15, 1996 • from PLN February, 1996
Ninth Circuit Rejects Disciplinary Double Jeopardy by The ninth circuit has joined the third and second circuit in holding that prison officials do not violate the double jeopardy clause of the constitution by subjecting a prisoner to administrative disciplinary proceedings and later to criminal prosecution. It is the first ninth …
Georgia Prisoner Strangled by Guards by On September 12, 1995, a guard at the Lee Arrendale Correctional Institution in Alto, Georgia, told 22-year-old prisoner, Samuel Rivers to clean his cell. Rivers had shredded newspapers and 'carpeted" his cell with them. When he refused to clean up the cell, five guards …
No Immunity for Retaliatory Discipline by The court of appeals for the fifth circuit has reaffirmed that prison officials who retaliate against prisoners who exercise their constitutional rights are not entitled to qualified immunity. The court also held that district court orders refusing to dismiss pendent state law claims are …
Federal Prisons Erupt by Dan Pens At least five federal prisons erupted in violence within days after a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives to overrule a recommendation by the U.S. Sentencing Commission to end the 100 to 1 sentencing disparity between crack and powdered cocaine offenses. Information on …
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