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Article • June 15, 1991 • from PLN June, 1991
Human Rights in the U.S. Criminal Justice System by Human Rights In The U.S. Criminal Justice System by Equal Justice U.S.A. In addition to it's current use and expansion of the death penalty, the United States enters the 1990's with the highest rate of incarceration in the world. Over one …
Article • June 15, 1991 • from PLN June, 1991
Which Shell is the Pea Under? Government Crime Statistics Invoke Slight of Hand by The U.S. Justice Department claims a "definite and positive" link between locking people up and violent crime rates in the United States. As more offenders go to prison, the argument goes, violent crime decreases. It seems …
Article • June 15, 1991 • from PLN June, 1991
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
Biden: Violence Is At a New High by Biden: Violence Is At A New High Last year was "the bloodiest year in the United States history," with the murder toll jumping to an all-time high of 23,200, and rapes, robberies and assaults also reaching record levels, according to a report …
Article • April 15, 1991 • from PLN April, 1991
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
Bush Keeps Crime on Front Burner by Bush Keeps Crime On Front Burner President Bush, who expressed disappointment with the limited crime control bill approved by Congress last year, has signaled that he intends to keep anti-crime initiatives on the national agenda this year, beginning with a national conference that …
Article • April 15, 1991 • from PLN April, 1991
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
More Federal Money for Prisons by More Federal Money For Prisons While critics of the Bush Administration have been arguing that the war on drugs has become a "nonwar" since Operation Desert Storm began, the U.S. Justice Department says the fight to free the nation of the scourge of narcotics …
Article • March 15, 1991 • from PLN March, 1991
Treatment Effective Against Drug Use by As the debate wages over the best way to rid the country of drugs, a government report said research shows drug treatment has proven effective against repeated use and drug-related crime. The government's triennial report to Congress, Drug Abuse and Drug Abuse Research, released …
Article • March 15, 1991 • from PLN March, 1991
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
Getting Tough Approach To Crime Fails to Produce Results by Ed Mead Getting Tough Approach To Crime Fails To Produce Results By Ed Mead Anthony P. Travisono is the Director of the American Correctional Association (ACA), a national organization consisting of prison wardens and other high-level correction officials. He also …
Article • March 15, 1991 • from PLN March, 1991
U.S. Now Has World's Highest Incarceration Rate by The U.S. now has the highest recorded rate of imprisonment of any nation in the world, according to a new report by The Sentencing Project. With over one million inmates in prison and jail, the U.S. surpasses both South Africa and the …
Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
Spending on Corrections Rises Sharply by Spending On Corrections Rises Sharply Federal, state and local governments in the United States spent $61 billion in fiscal year 1988 for civil and criminal justice, an increase of 34 percent since 1985, according to a report recently issued by the U.S. Department of …
Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
New York Report Matches National Study Results by A study released in October of 1990 found that nearly one out of every four young black men in New York state is under the control of the criminal justice system on any given day. The results of the joint study by …
Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
Texas Woman Wins $125,000 Settlement by A woman won a $125,000 settlement from the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles that may set a precedent for more civil suits involving parole decisions. The woman was raped by a man who had been sentenced in 1977 to 123 years in prison …
Article • January 15, 1991 • from PLN January, 1991
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
Money Down the Drain by Money Down The Drain A special American Bar Association committee has concluded that the millions of dollars Americans pour into hiring more police, expanding the justice system and building more jails may by money down the drain because punishment is not an effective deterrent. What …
Article • January 15, 1991 • from PLN January, 1991
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
Breeder Reactors by Dick Freeman Breeder Reactors? Latest PLN just arrived - excellent issue - you should know that your piece on prison cost was even more correct than you let on. That prisons are, in effect, breeder reactors where young men come in and, by treatment, are turned into …
Article • January 15, 1991 • from PLN January, 1991
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Crime
Prisons - An Expensive Stone Wall by This monolithic "solution" is becoming more and more costly to society. Yet, in spite of its expense and its dubious role in crime control and prevention, the prison response is being used with increasing frequency. In the last decade, the prison population doubled …
Article • January 15, 1991 • from PLN January, 1991
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
Problems That Can't Be Cured in Prison by Problems That Can't Be Cured In Prison Our society's criminal justice system is being used to treat or hide some serious social ills. Poverty, drug addiction, and alcoholism are intimately tied to the crimes for which most inmates in the federal system …
Article • January 15, 1991 • from PLN January, 1991
Four Out of Ten Get the Slammer by Four Out Of Ten Get The Slammer A Bureau of Justice Statistics study tracked 536,000 felony offenders in 12 states in 1967. The study found that out of every 10 people arrested on felony charges, eight were prosecuted, six were convicted of …
Article • January 15, 1991 • from PLN January, 1991
Rich Get Richer, Poor Get Poorer by In 1990, the richest 1% of the people have almost as much in after-tax income as the poorest 40%. To put it another way, 2.5 million rich people each take home 36 times as much as each 100 million poor. In 1980 it …
Article • December 15, 1990 • from PLN December, 1990
U.S. House & Senate Pass Watered Down Version of Crime Bill by U.S. House & Senate Pass Watered Down Version Of Crime Bill In a last-minute effort to get out of town, the U.S. House and Senate quickly worked out differences over their respective versions of the 1990 Crime Bill. …
Article • December 15, 1990 • from PLN December, 1990
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Crime
Could Sending People to Prison Actually Cause Crime? by Ed Mead Could Sending People To Prison Actually Cause Crime? By Ed Mead According to the U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), the nation's state and federal prison population increased by 42,862 prisoners, or six percent, during the first …
Article • December 15, 1990 • from PLN December, 1990
Sixteen Executed During 1989 by Sixteen Executions During 1989 In 1976 the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty. Since then 13 states have executed 120 people. Last year (1989) eight states executed 16 people. Eight of them were white and eight were black. They'd spent an average of seven …
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