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Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
. Branham for the ABA Criminal Justice Section's Corrections and Sentencing Committee, examines what it calls the "astronomical" rise in prison population in the U.S. in recent years, and current criminal ...
Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN January, 1997
marriage as if it is a crime. Doesn't family come before government? How can any government put its nose in between a husband and wife? Upon what alleged "authority" can such a desecration rest? From whence ...
Article • September 15, 1990 • from PLN September, 1990
Filed under: Parole, News, State Legislation
, not the voters, and requires only half as many signatures.) What could be done to get these signatures? There are nearly 8,000 adult prisoners in Washington. If 2,500 prisoners had just one family member ...
Article • June 15, 1999 • from PLN June, 1999
attention. And it worked, too. But what good did it do when all is said and done? Andy is still dead. On Friday, December 4, 1998, the state of South Carolina carried out the double killing of J.D. Gleaton ...
Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN February, 1997
is at almost double its capacity of 108, with prisoners even being housed in what is supposed to be a recreation room. According to Chuck Fisher, director of jail inspections for the Tennessee Corrections ...
Article • January 15, 1993 • from PLN January, 1993
commencement for law school graduates at Golden Gate University, San Francisco, California, Spring 1992. Reinhardt told the throng of potential attorneys, "What the African-American community perceived from ...
rights. The court applied the Supreme Court's ruling in Montayne v. Haymes , 427 US 236, 96 S.Ct.2543 (1976), which held that prisoners have no liberty interest as to what prison they are confined ...
Article • December 15, 1995 • from PLN December, 1995
directed to such issue, and (2) filing the demand as required by Rule 5(d)." The question in this appeal was what constitutes a "pleading" for the purposes of Rule 38. The court turned to FRCP 7(a) and held ...
Article • February 15, 1994 • from PLN February, 1994
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
of these changes will of course require a generation or two to alter the thinking and consciousness of a whole society. There is no shortcut or easy solution to this problem, yet it can be solved. What about those ...
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
damaging and self-defeating effects and that every effort should be made to keep people far away from courts and, in particular, the prisons." Raspberry said that American policy makers know that what ...
Article • August 15, 1997 • from PLN August, 1997
who sought medical care.  This case is more important for what it doesn't decide than for what it does.  The ruling in these two cases involve solely the issue of due process to be afforded ...
Article • July 15, 2005 • from PLN July, 2005
to the incident. So often prison officials think that no one will listen to what inmates say, and they can get away with calling them liars," said Alper, who represented Dodd. What we were able to do in this case ...
Article • March 15, 2006 • from PLN March, 2006
From the Editor by by Paul Wright Sometimes I am asked what PLN does, besides publish a magazine. The answer is quite a lot and we are going to try to do a better job of letting people know ...
and our hardworking staff. If you can afford to make a donation, please do so. Any amount, no matter how small, helps. Wondering what to do with extra 37 cent stamps and envelopes now that postage has gone ...
immunity and what law there is, is in conflict. Manis v. Corrections Corporation of America , 859 F. Supp. 302 (MD TN 1994) held there was no immunity while Smith v. United States , 850 F. Supp. 984 (MD FL ...
Article • February 15, 2000 • from PLN February, 2000
State Troopers Association (Smith), the court determined that their authority was limited on review. Under what they termed narrow scope, a majority of the justices decided that the legislature dictated ...
for review of prisoners' constitutional claims onto these statutes would be for us essentially to rewrite what the supreme court has deemed to be unambiguous statutory language, see Yeskey, 118 S.Ct. at 1953 ...
Article • January 15, 2001 • from PLN January, 2001
Filed under: Sentencing, Habeas Corpus
habeas corpus. However, you can't file for federal habeas corpus until you first exhaust your state remedies, so what happens on state habeas corpus has a huge effect on the AEDPA -- so much so ...
on all prisoner calls, which gave them more than a $1 million windfall on the overcharges. Neither the state nor MCI WorldCom will say what they will do with their portion of the money ...
to know what he was to defend against. The charges in the hearing were based solely on uninformative language, such as: "past admission to outside law enforcement about involvement with [the] Latin ...
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