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News in Brief

Article • December 15, 1994 • from PLN December, 1994

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News in Brief by France: A French prison worker's union said it was suing 100 prisoners and detainees as a symbolic protest of under staffing in France's crowded jails. The unions said its members wouldn't be overworked if prisoners had respected the law and stayed out of jail. Jamaica: Three …

News in Brief

Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994

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News in Brief by WA: In May, 1994, three former prisoners and two staff members of the Snohomish county jail filed suit in US District Court in Seattle claiming that they contracted tuberculosis at the jail due to its lax testing and screening policies. The plaintiffs' attorney, Ted Spearman, stated …

News in Brief

Article • September 15, 1994 • from PLN September, 1994

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News in Brief by WA: On June 3, 1994, former King County (Seattle, WA) jail guard Andre Gantt, 35, was sentenced to 26 months imprisonment after pleading guilty to two counts of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. The drugs in question were cocaine and marijuana which …

News in Brief

Article • July 15, 1994 • from PLN July, 1994

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News in Brief by KS: The state legislature enacted a death penalty law that becomes effective July I, 1994. The law restored the death penalty in Kansas for the first time since 1972 when the US Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional Kansas' death penalty statute. Governor Joan Finney allowed …

News in Brief

Article • May 15, 1994 • from PLN May, 1994

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News in Brief by UK The British government began a pilot study to set up a genetic DNA database of convicted criminals. Legislation pending in Parliament would expand police powers to take DNA samples from saliva and hair samples. A UK official was quoted as saying: "We will bring the …

News in Brief

Article • March 15, 1994 • from PLN March, 1994

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News in Brief by [This is a new feature in PLN which will provide short news items related to prisons which while interesting are not big enough to make up an article. If you like this feature let us know and send us news clippings of interest.] 17 Dec 1993, …

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