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Article • July 15, 1993 • from PLN July, 1993
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
The Hot House; Life Inside Leavenworth Prison - A Book Review by Ed Mead By Ed Mead I have just finished a pretty good book. A comrade gave it to me late yesterday afternoon. I went back to my cell and started reading it, and then kept on reading until …
Article • June 15, 1993 • from PLN June, 1993
Prison Litigation Report Issued by The winter, 1993, issue of the ACLU's National Prison Project contains a status report of nationwide prison litigation for 1992. Forty states plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands are under court order or consent decree to limit population and/or improve …
Article • April 15, 1993 • from PLN April, 1993
New Video Tape Available by Last October over a thousand people attended the International Tribunal of Indigenous Peoples and Oppressed Nations in the USA. The event, sponsored and organized by a coalition of 30 organizations, was part of the counter-Columbus quincentennial activities throughout the country. The Tribunal put the U.S. …
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
1990 U.S. Prison Population Stats by Ed Mead By Ed Mead The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics has just come out with two more books containing figures on the nation's prison population. The first is a 32-page pamphlet entitled Census of State and Federal Correctional Facilities-1990, and the second one …
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
Reviews and Correspondence by Paul Wright Crossroad: A New Afrikan Captured Combatant Newsletter is a quarterly publication which specializes in coverage of political prisoners and prisoners of war in the U.S. from a New Afrikan perspective. Recent issues have included an excellent interview with Assata Shakur, peer advocacy in AIDS …
Article • February 15, 1993 • from PLN February, 1993
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
Publication Reviews: Nationalist Struggles by Ed Mead By Ed Mead Nationalist Struggles You will no more learn the truth about various nationalist struggles going on around the world by merely reading the bourgeois media than you will learn about the realities of this nation's criminal justice system by watching TV …
Article • December 15, 1992 • from PLN December, 1992
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Prison Press Reviews by Paul Wright By Paul Wright There are a number of excellent publications that deal with the American prison system. We exchange with most of them and try to inform our readers of these publications by periodically reviewing them. Because we have had a large increase in …
Article • October 15, 1992 • from PLN October, 1992
Habeas Corpus Book by Clark Boardman has published Prisoner Collateral Attacks , a guide to bringing or defending against inmates lawsuits challenging their confinement. Topics include: prisoner challenges to state and federal convictions; the exhaustion of state remedies requirement; appealing a district court decision, procedural default; showing cause and prejudice; …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
1991 Prison Population Up 6.2% by The population of state and federal prisons (not counting jails) rose 6.2 percent last year, reaching a new record high of more than 823,000, according to a study by the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). The increase amounted to a need for 900 …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
ABA Says Use of Prisons Not Effective Way to Fight Crime by ABA Says Use Of Prisons Not Effective Way To Fight Crime The increasing reliance in the U.S. on the use of incarceration as a criminal sanction is a costly and ineffective way to combat crime, according to a …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
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Publications to Read by Ed Mead Publications To Read By Ed Mead You can't expect to understand the world and its political processes unless you have accurate information on these subjects. The Middle East, for example, is an important area of concern to the people of this nation - we've …
Article • May 15, 1992 • from PLN May, 1992
Prison Overcrowding Crisis Continues, Says New Report by Forty states, plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, are under court order to reduce prison overcrowding and/or to remedy unconstitutional conditions, according to a new Status Report released Feb. 27 by the National Prison Project of the …
Article • May 15, 1992 • from PLN May, 1992
Prison Conditions in the United States by Prison Conditions In The United States Human Rights Watch, an international human and civil rights group, has issued the results of its investigation into prison conditions in the United States. Their investigation consisted of visits to more than 20 state and federal prisons …
Article • May 15, 1992 • from PLN May, 1992
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Reviews by Bulldozer is a bi-monthly tabloid that has excellent coverage of the US and Canadian prison systems. It also covers native and anti-imperialist struggles from an antiauthoritarian point of view. The latest issue (#34) is the special supplement on women and prison with many good articles by women prisoners …
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
Reply to: Guards, Victims or Villains? by I've sent for a copy of the September 1991 issue of "Blueprint for Social Justice" and read both articles in it as you suggested. While the authors of these articles divulged some good points concerning the behavior of prison guards, their superiors and …
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
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Bibliography of Selected Prison Cases by Bibliography Of Selected Prison Cases This is the second edition of this useful 32 page booklet by South Dakota prisoner Roger Flittie. It provides a very good reference point for prison case law. With sections covering everything from class action conditions of confinement suits …
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
Supreme Court Informers by Paul Wright The most recent (#39) issue of Covert Action Information Bulletin contains an interesting article by Alexander Charns titled "FBI Involvement in the Supreme Court." Mr. Charns is a lawyer who has written a book concerning the FBI and the American judiciary. In this article …
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
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Reviews by Paul Wright USA A LOOK AT REALITY is a quarterly human rights tabloid newspaper. Previous issues have examined the racism in use of the death penalty and brutality in the American gulag. The latest issue examines events at Attica and its prison legacy today, 20 years later. It …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Mandatory Sentencing Flops in Florida by Mandatory Sentencing Flops In Florida Florida offers a classic example of how mandatory sentencing laws and large-scale incarceration of drug offenders can produce an unbalanced correctional system and possibly reduce public safety, according a new study by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Prison Guards: Victims or Villains? by Paul Wright Prison Guards: Victims Or Villains? Review By Paul Wright This is the title of one of two articles in the latest issue [o]f "Blueprint for Social Justice." Both articles are written by female former prison guards who describe their experiences working as …
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