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Article • July 15, 1991 • from PLN July, 1991
Violent Crime Up 10% in 1990 by Violent Crime Up 10% In 1990 Last issue we published an article titled "Which Shell Is The Pea Under?" in which we argued against the U.S. government's claim that there exists a "definite and positive" link between locking people up and violent crime …
Article • July 15, 1991 • from PLN July, 1991
No Warrantless Search of Departing Visitor by No Warrantless Search Of Departing Visitor Prison officials strip-searched a prisoner's sister at the conclusion of a visit because of a suspicion that she was smuggling marijuana to him. Nothing was found. She brought suit under 42 U.S.C. section 1983. The defendant prison …
Article • July 15, 1991 • from PLN July, 1991
Reality of Sexual Victimization Obscured by "Predator" Label by Patricia Novotny (Reprint of letter to the Seattle Times) Thomas Shapley in his column on sexual predators (Focus, April 7) does a disservice to the sexually abused and sexually assaulted. He reminds me of the man in the Mae West movie. …
Article • July 15, 1991 • from PLN July, 1991
U.S. Prison Population Grew 8.2% in 1990 by Washington State Has Second Highest (15.4%) Increase The number of state and federal prisoners grew 8.2 percent last year, the U.S. Justice Departments Bureau of justice Statistics (BJS) announced on May 15. According to the Bureau, the 1990 growth rate was more …
Article • July 15, 1991 • from PLN July, 1991
Racism: The Clouded Lens by Dan Pens By Dan Pens The other day I flipped on the Donahue Show to kill a few minutes before chow. The featured guests were families who raise their children to be racists. Instead of teaching them familiar Mother Goose rhymes, the children are taught …
Article • July 15, 1991 • from PLN July, 1991
Police Brutality or Brutal Police? by Paul Wright Police Brutality Or Brutal Police? By Paul Wright By now most people have seen the gruesome home video of Rodney King being beaten senseless by Los Angeles police. The only thing unusual about this episode is that it was captured on film, …
Prisoners and the Grievance System by Prisoners And The Grievance System By Paul Wright The Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) and many others have grievance systems to resolve complaints within the prison system rather than going to court to settle them. Many prisoners are skeptical of the grievance system as …
Article • July 15, 1991 • from PLN July, 1991
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
Disagrees With Attorney's Article by H D I would like to make some observations about the article titled ".100 hearings; Opinions of an Attorney" by Barbetta Ralphs, Attorney. I believe I am qualified [to discuss her article] because I have served a total of over eleven years on parole. It …
Article • July 15, 1991 • from PLN July, 1991
Editorial by Ed Mead Editorial Comments By Ed Mead First of all, I would like to share the situation and some of the thoughts of a former Palestinian prisoner, a man who was only recently released after having served l7 years in Israeli prisons. His name is Ali Mohammed Jiddah, …
Article • July 15, 1991 • from PLN July, 1991
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
Letters From Readers by Approaching Agreement I think [the letter from] "name withheld, TRCC" had a good point about stigmatizing sex offenders. I find it painfully ironic that the people in our society most victimized by stigmatization (i.e. prisoners) sometimes do the same thing to other inmates. If you include …
Brief • July 8, 1991
Enquist v. Frank, WA, Complaint, Mail Withheld, 1994 ( ( RECEIVED 8 199t JUl ATTORNE't GENERAL'S OffiCE CORRECnONS OIV UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE J.D. (Gerald) ENQUIST, Petitioner, v. ) ) ) ) . ) D. FRA.'n<.; A. CLARK; J. FITZPATRICK; NEAL BROWN; CHASE RIVELAND; …
Article • June 15, 1991 • from PLN June, 1991
Filed under: Medical, HIV/AIDS
Prisoner With AIDS Care Found Lacking by The national commission on AIDS has concluded a study of AIDS in prisons and jails with the finding that "the situation today for many prisoners living with [the AIDS] disease is nothing if not 'cruel and unusual.'" After visiting prisons, holding a fact-finding …
Article • June 15, 1991 • from PLN June, 1991
Civil Commitment Roasted on ABC's Nightline by Dan Pens By Dan Pens I had gotten word through the grape vine that Nightline was going to do a show on the Washington civil commitment law. So I stayed up several nights in a row to check it out. The plight of …
Article • June 15, 1991 • from PLN June, 1991
Mail to Public Officials and Media Protected by Mail To Public Officials And Media Protected The New Jersey Department of Corrections had a regulation that prevented them from opening outgoing "legal correspondence," but allowed prison officials to open,-read; and censor mail being sent to public officials, government agencies and media …
Mere &quot;Institutional Security&quot; Claim Not Enough by Mere "Institutional Security" Claim Not Enough A former prisoner of the Nevada State Prison brought a federal civil rights complaint against guards claiming that his fourth, eighth and fourteenth amendment rights were violated. He contended the violation occurred when guards forced him to …
Article • June 15, 1991 • from PLN June, 1991
Puppets on Strings of Oppression by Christofer Kneech Puppets On Strings Of Oppression By Christofer Kneech All of you came to prison because society did not enjoy your behavior and actions, whether they condemned such actions to be criminal when they may or may have been, but you all have …
Article • June 15, 1991 • from PLN June, 1991
Aftermath MANCI Control Unit & Perotti Update by Numerous organizations inquired into the beatings of six prisoners in the AC Control Unit at Mansfield, Ohio prison by 35 guards. The Cleveland ACLU has requested a written explanation and investigation into the matter. A civil rights complaint was filed by a …
Still Not the Hilton by Still Not The Hilton From: Out Of Time 2/91 The Bureau of Prison's (BOP) 'mission' to isolate, hide and break the spirit of women political prisoners (a la Lexington High Security Unit, Lexington, KY 198688) continues at Federal Correctional Institute (FCI) Marianna in Florida. The …
Article • June 15, 1991 • from PLN June, 1991
Filed under: Sentencing
Life Without Parole Okayed for 13-Year Old Killer by On April 15 the U.S. Supreme Court refused to overturn a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole for a Washington state 13-year old boy convicted of murder. The state courts had held that the sentence did not …
Article • June 15, 1991 • from PLN June, 1991
Crime and Revolution, Prisons Don't Work by Crime And Revolution, Prisons Don't Work Edited from MIM notes According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. government, the United States is number one in the world - number one in imprisonment. More people are in prison and jail in …
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