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Article • July 15, 1996 • from PLN July, 1996
Double Justice: A Documentary Film About Race and the Death Penalty by Double Justice: a Documentary Film About Race and the Death Penalty This is a 19 minute video tape produced by the ACLU's Capital Punishment Project. The film places the legal imposition of the death penalty in the US …
Article • June 15, 1996 • from PLN June, 1996
Report on Japanese Prisons Released by Human Rights Watch Asia has recently released a booklet titled Prison Conditions in Japan. The 93 page booklet gives a detailed overview of the Japanese prison system. Organized by topic the booklet includes a summary with chapters covering police detention, physical conditions, communication between …
Article • April 15, 1996 • from PLN April, 1996
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
The Keepers and the Caged: Heroes and Necromancers in the Prison System Today (Book Review) by Michael Spencer by Jean Marie Christenson; Kendall/Hunt Publishing 241 pages. $14.95 The Keepers and the Caged is a compilation of 21 personal interviews conducted by the author with Washington State prisoners, prison administrators, and …
Article • March 15, 1996 • from PLN March, 1996
Filed under: Reviews, Resources, Organizing
Legal Materials Available by The Prisoners Self Help Legal Clinic (PSHLC) in New Jersey is a volunteer project of the ACLU and is made up of attorneys, former prisoner paralegals, law students, civil rights advocates and other members of the community who assist pro se prisoner litigants. The PSHLC's concept …
Article • March 15, 1996 • from PLN March, 1996
Soledad Brother by Reviewed by Schulte, Elizabeth Review by Elizabeth Schulte This is a particularly relevant time to reissue Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson. This collection of letters that prisoner and activist George Jackson wrote from 1964 to 1970 speaks strongly of the brutality in the U.S. …
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 • December 15, 1995 • from PLN December, 1995
HIV/AIDS in Prison and Jail by The Department of Justice has released its latest statistics on the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in prison and jail facilities for 1993. As of that year 21,538 out of the 880,101 prisoners in state and federal prisons, 2.4% of the total, were known to be …
Article • October 15, 1995 • from PLN October, 1995
Jail Population Report by Like the prison population the nation's jail population has soared in recent years, overshadowed by prison crowding. According to a recent Department of Justice report, Jails and Jail Inmates 1993-94, the national jail population was at an all time record high of 490,442 detainees as of …
Article • October 15, 1995 • from PLN October, 1995
US Prison Population Report by According to the Department of Justice the American prison population has grown more than 2.5 times between 1980 and 1993. As of 1993, the latest year statistics are available, 2.6% of the US adult population, 4.9 million adults, were on parole, probation, in prison or …
Article • October 15, 1995 • from PLN October, 1995
Filed under: Reviews, Court Access
The Citebook by Paul Wright Review by Paul Wright The Citebook is a 275 page book written by Tony Darwin designed to help laypersons help themselves in researching their litigation. Now in its eleventh printing the book is organized by subject and gives a brief description of relevant cases. This …
Article • October 15, 1995 • from PLN October, 1995
Loompanics Unlimited by Loompanics modestly bills itself as "the best book catalog in the world." If it's not the best it is certainly the most diverse, having all the books you've heard about but probably haven't seen in the neighborhood bookstore. Loompanics is a publisher and vendor that pushes the …
Article • September 15, 1995 • from PLN September, 1995
How to Win Prison Disciplinary Hearings by Paul Wright Reviewed by Paul Wright In the August, 1994, issue of PLN we reviewed the first edition of How to Win Prison Disciplinary Hearings by Allan Parmelee. Now we are excited to tell you about the completed State and Federal Edition. We …
Article • September 15, 1995 • from PLN September, 1995
Filed under: Reviews, Court Access
New Prisoners' Self Help Litigation Manual by Paul Wright Reviewed by Paul Wright The Prisoners' Self Help Litigation Manual (PSHLM) by Dan Manville first appeared in 1983. It was designed to give prisoners an overview of the legal system, a basic overview of what their rights are and guidance on …
Article • September 15, 1995 • from PLN September, 1995
Live From Death Row by David Gilbert by Mumia Abu-Jamal (Review by David Gilbert) "Perhaps we can shrug off and shred some of the dangerous myths laid on our minds like a second skin--such as ... the 'right[s]' to a fair trial even. They're not rights -- they're privileges of …
Books Available: Barred: Women, Writing and Political Detention by Barbara Harlow Barred: Women, Writing and Political Detention, by Barbara Harlow, examines and presents the writings of women political prisoners in Northern Ireland, Palestine, El Salvador, Egypt, South Africa and the United States. The book gives an analysis of the dynamics …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
Litigation Status Report Available by The National Prison Project of the ACLU has issued its latest, updated status report on state prisons and the courts. The report gives a detailed listing, by state, indicating which prisons and prison systems are under court order or consent decrees to limit their populations …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
Book Review: Civil Liability in Criminal Justice by HE Barrineau Book review by H.E. Barrineau III This 108 page book provides a minimalist and simplistic, but quite broad overview of § 1983 litigation. It is aimed at criminal justice employees who are likely to be sued. The book is liberally …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
Books Available: The Penitentiary in Crisis: From Accomodation to Riot in NM by Mark Calvin The author is a former New Mexico assistant attorney general who was involved in investigating the causes and effects of the Santa Fe prison riot in 1980. The book takes a fairly objective analysis of …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
Filed under: Reviews, Organizing
The Rise and Fall of California's Radical Prison Movement (Book Review) by Mark Cummins This is a history of the California prison movement from 1950 to 1980, focusing on San Quentin state prison and highlighting the role that prison reading and writing played in the creation of radical prisoner ideology …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
Books Available: Cages of Steel by Ward Churchill Due to a shortage of space we are just giving short announcements to readers as to which books are available that may be of interest. The brevity of the review is no reflection on the quality of the book, just a matter …
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