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Maine Prison System’s Board of Visitors: Secret, Unaccountable and Co-Opted by Lance Tapley The state prison in Warren has been hammered in recent months by a prisoner murder and other violence, a prisoner hunger strike, legislative investigations exposing mismanagement and poor guard morale, and a request by human-rights groups for …
Prison Health Care, Political Choice and the Accidental Death Penalty in Michigan by Elizabeth Alexander by Elizabeth Alexander1 In Hadix v. Caruso, I represent a class of prisoners in a decades-long case challenging conditions of confinement, including medical care, at various Michigan prison facilities.2 Since August 2006 I have been …
Article • January 15, 2010 • from PLN January, 2010
From the Editor by Paul Wright The cover story in this month’s issue is written by Elizabeth Alexander. Elizabeth is the former director of the ACLU’s National Prison Project and one of the top prisoner rights litigators in the United States. I first became aware of Elizabeth in the late …
U.S. DOJ Calls Houston Jail Unconstitutional, Prisoner Death Rate Alarming by Gary Hunter As a follow-up to PLN’s October 2009 cover story, this article examines in greater detail findings by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) related to conditions at the Harris County jail in Houston, Texas. From 2001 through …
Education for Persons in Detention—A Human Right by Jimmy Franks The positive correlation between increased education and lowered recidivism rates is a long-established fact. Even so, governments worldwide are not always willing or even able to insure that the men, women and children housed in various detention facilities are given …
Article • January 15, 2010 • from PLN January, 2010
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
Starting Out: The Complete Reentry Book, by William Foster and Carl Horn, 446 pp, $22.95 by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Ideally, our schools and parents teach us all of the things we need to know to function as healthy and productive adults. Obviously, this is not always the case. …
Article • December 15, 2009
Nursing homes with razor wire: Are elderly prisoners really a threat to public safety? by By David Fathi Sometime in the 1970s, the United States began a love affair with incarceration that continues to this day. After holding nearly steady for decades, our prison population began to climb as criminal …
Article • December 15, 2009 • from PLN December, 2009
Behind Montana Jail Fiasco: How Private Prison Developers Prey on Desperate Towns by Justin Elliott With the unraveling of the deal for the shadowy American Private Police Force to take over and populate an empty jail in Hardin, Montana, it’s pretty clear that the small city got played by an …
Article • December 15, 2009 • from PLN December, 2009
From the Editor by Paul Wright With the end of the year we can look back at our accomplishments in the past year as well as our goals for the coming year. In 2009 PLN accomplished quite a bit. We published our first book, the Prisoners Guerrilla Handbook Guide to …
Article • December 15, 2009 • from PLN December, 2009
HABEAS HINTS – CALIFORNIA COMMENT Pace and Bonner: Avoiding and Fighting “Untimeliness” Rulings Under California Law by Kent A. Russell by Kent Russell Recently, the interplay of two decisions, one from the U.S. Supreme Court and one from the Ninth Circuit, has created a potential minefield for California habeas corpus …
Article • December 15, 2009 • from PLN December, 2009
Judges: Umpires They Are Not by Brandon Sample U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts famously said during his confirmation hearing that judges are like umpires, each calling balls and strikes as they come. But is that really a fair comparison? “Batters” like Kevin Phelps and other prisoners who …
Article • November 15, 2009 • from PLN November, 2009
From the Editor by Paul Wright As the holidays approach people should consider subscriptions to Prison Legal News or some of the books we distribute as holiday gifts. Some titles, like PLN’s first book publishing project, the Prisoners Guerrilla Handbook to Correspondence Programs in the US and Canada offers the …
Article • November 15, 2009 • from PLN November, 2009
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
American Methods: Torture and the Logic of Domination, by Kristian Williams, South End Press, 279 pages by David Preston Reviewed by David Preston 1979. How well I remember it. My freshman year at college. In an effort to expand my consciousness and do good in the world, I joined a …
Article • November 15, 2009 • from PLN November, 2009
U.S. Senator John Ensign, Author of Ensign Amendment, Falls From Grace by Brandon Sample There is nothing like a good sex scandal to get things stirred up in Washington, and it’s even better when the scandal involves the likes of U.S. Senator John Ensign, a conservative Republican and member of …
Article • October 15, 2009 • from PLN October, 2009
From the Editor by Paul Wright On August 25, 2009, Senator Ted Kennedy died of brain cancer. With his passing prisoners lost one of the few advocates they had in the US Senate. Not surprisingly, mainstream media accounts largely ignored this aspect of Senator Kennedy’s long career. Probably the highlight …
Human Rights Watch Report Calls to Reform PLRA by David Reutter by David M. Reutter “The PLRA has had a devastating effect on the ability of incarcerated persons to protect their health and safety and vindicate other fundmanetal rights,” concludes a June 2009 report titled No Equal Justice: The Prison …
Columbia Jail Journal: The Compelling, Exclusive Inside Story of the Columbia Three, by James Monaghan, Brandon Press, 277 pages by David Preston Reviewed by David Preston Of the many and varied detours a man can take off the road to happiness, a trip to prison would have to be about …
Article • October 15, 2009 • from PLN October, 2009
Filed under: Reviews, Sentencing, Parole
Audit Finds California Parolees Sometimes Slip Through Bureaucratic Cracks by At the request of the legislature, the Bureau of State Audits examined the adult parole discharge practices of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and found that parolees, even those regarded as violent or serious offenders, occasionally slip through …
Article • September 15, 2009 • from PLN September, 2009
From the Editor by Paul Wright The cover story this month, on the nuts and bolts of winning a prisoner rights case is by Alphonse Gerhardstein, one of the top civil rights lawyers in the country. His invaluable advice applies equally to pro se prisoner litigants as it does to …
Article • September 15, 2009 • from PLN September, 2009
From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King, Oakland, CA: PM Press (2009) $24.95 hardback, 217 pages by Mel Motel Book review by Mel Motel Robert Hillary King writes like he speaks. I had the honor of spending some time with the only freed …
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