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Article • October 15, 1990 • from PLN October, 1990
Government Spending for Civil, Criminal Justice Reached $61 Billion in 1988 by Government Spending For Civil, Criminal Justice Reached $61 Billion In 1988 Federal, state and local governments spent $61 billion for civil and criminal justice in 1988, a 34 percent increase since 1985, the U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of …
Article • October 15, 1990 • from PLN October, 1990
Use of Jailhouse Informants Faulted by Use Of Jailhouse Informants Faulted A grand jury has issued a stinging rebuke of the Los Angeles district attorney's office for failing to assure that "jailhouse informants" called as prosecution witnesses repeatedly over the last decade were telling the truth. "Very little effort was …
Article • October 15, 1990 • from PLN October, 1990
The Ultimate Hunt by This is what jackets had embroidered on them that were given away by Jerry Hodge, the Vice-Chairman of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice. The occasion was for Hodge and two of his cronies to "hunt" prisoners from the Huntsville prison using tracking dogs. The prisoner …
Article • October 15, 1990 • from PLN October, 1990
Filed under: Crime, Sentencing
Judicial Highpoints by Terry Dorsey, convicted in a Sacramento, California, Superior Court of shooting "Billy," the first police dog to die "in the line of duty," was sentenced to eleven years and eight months in state prison. This sentence was imposed in spite of the fact that the dog had …
Article • October 15, 1990 • from PLN October, 1990
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Crime
It Costs Too Much and It Does Not Work by Ed Mead It Costs Too Much And It Does Not Work By Ed Mead We need to prove it! According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), during the period between the end of 1988 and the end of 1989, …
Article • September 15, 1990 • from PLN September, 1990
Filed under: Organizing, Crime
Let's Come Together by Dawud Halisi Malik By Dawud H. Malik The ole adage about there's only two kinds of power in the world; money power and people power, with the latter being much stronger than the former is true. Across all racial groups, prisoners are drawn from the poorest …
Article • August 15, 1990 • from PLN August, 1990
Where Now for the Sex Offender? by Ed Mead This is the third and final part of our series on sex offenders. The first two installements ("Them Today, Us Tomorrow" and "We Are All Prisoners") were critical of non-sex offenders for discriminating against people on the basis of offense. In …
Article • August 15, 1990 • from PLN August, 1990
HR-4079: A National Crime Emergency? by Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, it does. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, Jr., resigned his seat, leaving President Bush to name an even more reactionary successor. Not only will the pro-choice Roe v. Wade ruling fall by the wayside, making …
Article • August 15, 1990 • from PLN August, 1990
In Defense of the Struggle Against Sexism by Ed Mead In Defense Of The Struggle Against Sexism With this issue of the PLN I conclude my three part series on sex offenders. And while I am writing this before the first installment of the series has been mailed out to …
Article • August 15, 1990 • from PLN August, 1990
Struggle in Ohio by Paul Wright Struggle In Ohio By Paul Wright There have been 5 prisoners and one staff member (schoolteacher) killed at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio since 1990 rolled in. Governor Celeste ordered an investigation into all aspects of SOCF operations by the State …
Article • July 15, 1990 • from PLN July, 1990
Washington Detains More Kids by According to the Bureau of Census' Children in Custody series, Washington State leads the nation in its confinement of juveniles in detention and state institutions. Washington has 1,211 juveniles in custody for every 100,000 population. The second ranked jurisdiction was the District of Columbia, which …
Article • July 15, 1990 • from PLN July, 1990
Prison Population Rises 12.1% by The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) has issued its annual bulletin on prison populations. The report stated the number of state and federal prisoners in the U.S. grew by a record 76,099 prisoners during 1989. This figure now reaches a new high of 703, 687 …
Article • June 15, 1990 • from PLN June, 1990
Blacks Have Higher Crime Victimization Rate by Blacks are more likely than whites to be victims of violent crime, and the crimes against black victims are generally more serious that those against whites, according to a new study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). A review of the Bureau's …
Article • June 15, 1990 • from PLN June, 1990
Victims to Amend Constitution by Victims To Amend Constitution A network of crime victim's rights advocates, concerned about difficulties in enforcing laws that were intended to give victims specific legal rights, is mounting a campaign to win ratification of amendments to state constitutions ensuring those rights. Six states have approved …
Article • June 15, 1990 • from PLN June, 1990
Jail Populations Up 54% in 5 Years by Jail Populations Up 54% In 5 Years In a special report "Population Density in Local Jails, 1988," the U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) recently announced that between 1983 and 1988, 5.3 million square feet of new housing space and …
Article • June 15, 1990 • from PLN June, 1990
Prison Populations To Grow 68% by '94 by Prison populations are expected to increase by about 68% by 1994, according to a report by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. Effects of the "war on drugs" are expected to overwhelm the nations correctional systems during that time. Other findings …
Article • June 15, 1990 • from PLN June, 1990
1989 Crime Rate Up 3% by One would think that with all of the new prisons constructed over the past 20 years the crime rate would be going down. Not so, according to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting System. The feds say crime was up 3% in 1989. Crime rates …
Article • May 15, 1990 • from PLN May, 1990
Guard Charged With Aiding Escape by GUARD CHARGED WITH AIDING ESCAPE An Illinois correctional officer was arrested in mid-February for allegedly providing inmates with hacksaw blades to aid in their escape from Joliet Prison. According to Nic Howell, the public information officer for Illinois DOC, the 13 year veteran guard, …
Article • May 15, 1990 • from PLN May, 1990
New Prison Spending Jumps by 73% by NEW PRISON SPENDING JUMPS BY 73% Federal and state corrections' systems will spend more than 6.7 billion on new prison construction in the period 1989-90, an increase of 73% compared to 1987-88, according to Corrections Compendium, a corrections research and information service. The …
Most Punished for Exercising Right to Jury Trial by MOST PUNISHED FOR EXERCISING RIGHT TO JURY TRIAL In 89% of the estimated 583,000 felony convictions in state courts during 1986, the defendant pleaded guilty instead of standing trial before a judge or jury, the U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Justice …
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