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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
Cops Shaft Informant by In 1989 John Fay was serving a 15-35 year sentence for a second degree murder committed in 1973 and a 1984 armed robbery. While at the county jail pending a hearing on the robbery conviction, Fay came in contact with two guys who had just been …
Murderer Fired From Prison Job by Paul Wright By Paul Wright Massachusetts is currently being ruled by the Republican Weld administration. Governor Weld was elected to office on a "tough on crime" platform. Weld is himself a former federal prosecutor. Among his more interesting campaign promises were those to restore …
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
Guatemalan Prison Riot by Some 1,000 prisoners of Pavocinto penitentiary near Guatemala City who took over the prison grounds on April 11, 1993, allowed authorities back in on April 13, 1993, after a 30 hour standoff. In exchange, the government promised that living conditions in the prison would be improved. …
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 …
The Telephone Game by Nearly a year and a half after a scandal about purchasing involving the North Carolina Coin Tel Company has passed. The grand jury has finally indicted two people in the illegal activities. The indictments handed down against D.R. Hursey and Michael A. Weaver focus on a …
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
Prison Riot in Argentina by One prisoner was killed and several were injured by gunfire and several others managed to escape from Batan prison outside Mar de Plata, Argentina, when a riot erupted after a Feb. 8, 1993, break out attempt. According to differing reports, either 23 or 18 of …
Article • July 15, 1993 • from PLN July, 1993
Prison Breakout in Peru by On March 27, 1993, some 70 prisoners from the Cuzco jail in the Southern Andes of Peru escaped after at least 20 presumed members of the Communist Party of Peru (PCP) destroyed a back wall by exploding a vehicle loaded with explosives, according to a …
Illinois Tolling Statute Unconstitutional by Until 1987 Illinois prisoners had until two years after they were released from prison in which to file lawsuits. Any statute of limitations was tolled by imprisonment. In 1987 the Illinois legislature modified Illinois Rev. Statute ch. 110, ¶ 13-211, so that claims by prisoners …
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 …
Guard Convicted of Beating Prisoner by As a general rule PLN doesn't report criminal cases. This is an exception because it directly pertains to prisoner civil rights and because its so unusual for prison staff to be charged, much less convicted, of assaulting prisoners. Michael Newman was a jail guard …
Court Enjoins Torture of Jail Prisoners by Two Mississippi jail prisoners tried to escape from the jail by smashing their way out. Their attempt failed and guards secured and restrained them in an interrogation cell. The sheriff questioned the two men as to the location of their escape tools, which …
Brazilian Cops Charged in Prison Massacre by In Brazil 121 police officers have been formally charged with the murder of at least 111 prisoners at Carandiru prison in Sao Paulo on October 2, 1992, when they invaded the prisons cell block 9 on the pretext of quelling a riot. [PLN, …
Article • May 15, 1993 • from PLN May, 1993
MANCI: The Aftermath by John Perotti By John Perotti In June, 1992, MANCI guard Thomas Davis was stabbed in the back shoulder. Prisoner Roy Slider was accused of the stabbing. Davis died at a Mansfield hospital the next day. This began a series of retaliatory transfers and total lockdown of …
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