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Trifecta for Michigan DOC: Three Reports Find Deficient Prison Medical Care by David Reutter Trifecta for Michigan DOC: Three Reports Find Deficient Prison Medical Care by David M. Reutter From the advent of federal oversight of medical services for Michigan prisoners, the focus has been on three Michigan Dept. of …
Article • October 15, 2008
Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA’s Rendition Flights, 
by Trevor Paglen and A.C. Thompson. 
Melville House Publishing, 205 pages, $23.00 by David Preston Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA’s Rendition Flights, ?by Trevor Paglen and A.C. Thompson. ?Melville House Publishing, 205 pages, $23.00 Reviewed by David …
Prison Legal News Attends CCA Shareholder Meeting by Alex Friedmann Prison Legal News Attends CCA Shareholder Meeting by Alex Friedmann From 1992 to 1998, I served time at the South Central Correctional Center in Wayne County, Tennessee, which is operated by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest private …
Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System, by Silja Talvi ;Seal Press, 359 pp. $15.95 by Alexis Paige Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System, by Silja Talvi, Seal Press, 359 pp. $15.95 Reviewed by Alexis Paige Silja J.A. Talvi’s …
Article • September 15, 2008 • from PLN September, 2008
From the Editor by Paul Wright The link between solitary confinement and mental illness is well known, well documented and largely ignored by the prison officials and policy makers who decide to imprison tens of thousands of American prisoners in solitary confinement on any given day for months, years and …
Article • September 15, 2008 • from PLN September, 2008
Physical, Mental and Substance Abuse Problems Fuel Recidivism by by Gary Hunter In February 2008 the Urban Institute Justice Policy Center issued a report detailing three major factors fueling the high recidivism rate in U.S. prisons. These factors included Physical Health and Reentry, Mental Health and Reentry and Substance Abuse …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
From the Editor by Paul Wright One of the little noted facts and realities of the massive explosion of mass imprisonment, and the corresponding increase in money spent on prisons and jails, is the inherent corruption that accompanies it. This month’s cover story on the Oregon DOC’s corrupt food manager, …
Human Rights Watch Report: Most Sex Offender Laws Misguided and Ineffective by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In September 2007, Human Rights Watch released a report entitled No Easy Answers: Sex Offender Laws in the US. The report concluded that most sex offender laws are ineffective and misguided in that …
Unlocking America, Why and How to Reduce America’s Prison Population, The JFA Institute, November 2007, 32 pp. by John Dannenberg Reviewed by John E. Dannenberg Unlocking America is a study on how to approach the task of reducing America’s prison population (“decarceration”) without compromising public safety. Key factors recommended to …
Article • July 15, 2008 • from PLN July, 2008
From the Editor by Paul Wright Every issue of PLN is filled with news, court rulings and investigative reporting on prisons and jails around the country. Periodically we like to bring readers political analysis of how and why the current phenomenon of mass imprisonment came about. The United States stands …
Article • July 15, 2008 • from PLN July, 2008
PEW Public Safety Report: Prisoncrats Abuse Their Probation/Parole Violation Powers So As To Stymie Offenders’ Re-entry Into Society by Marvin Mentor A November 2007 national study by the PEW Public Safety Performance Project concluded that the policy of returning parolees and probationers to custody for other than new offenses has …
Article • July 15, 2008 • from PLN July, 2008
A Long Road Toward Reform: An Interview with John Boston, Director of the Prisoners’ Rights Project of the New York City Legal Aid Society by Todd Matthews For New York City attorney John Boston, law school was a calling of sorts. “I went to law school because legal work seemed …
Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
From the Editor by Paul Wright The past several months have been even busier than usual for PLN. In addition to getting the magazine published each month we have seen an upsurge in censorship activities in prisons and jails around the country. As noted in this issue of PLN, after …
Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
Think Outside The Cell: An Entrepreneur’s Guide for the Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated, by Joseph Robinson, Resilience Multimedia, 270 pages by Gary Hunter Book Review by Gary Hunter Books about business come and go. Someone is always ready to tell us how to manage our money. But few books break …
Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America, By Marie Gottschalk, Cambridge University Press, 451 pp. by Silja JA Talvi Book review by Silja J.A. Talvi It should no longer be a matter of any debate that the American trajectory toward mass incarceration is the result …
Washington Study Finds Higher Recidivist Rate Amongst Sex Offenders Recommended, But Not Committed, For Civil Commitment by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A report by the Washington State Institute for Public Policy concludes that sex offenders “who were referred for possible civil commitment have a much higher pattern of …
Article • May 15, 2008 • from PLN May, 2008
From the Editor by Paul Wright This issues marks PLN?s 19th anniversary of continuous publishing and we have now published 219 consecutive issues of PLN. Few magazines even publish ten issues, much less a hundred. Moreso considering the obstacles PLN has faced since it?s inception of being published behind bars, …
Article • May 15, 2008 • from PLN May, 2008
Crazy In America: The Hidden Tragedy Of Our Criminalized Mentally Ill, by Mary Beth Pfieffer (Carroll & Graf, 2007, 280 pp. $15.95) by David Preston Reviewed by David Preston Imagine how tough your life would be if you were trying to cope with schizophrenia or severe depression. Plenty tough, right? …
Article • April 15, 2008 • from PLN April, 2008
From the Editor by Paul Wright Over the years, PLN has frequently reported on the efforts of legislators and prisoncrats to seize money from prisoners, the vast majority of whom are poor. This trend has sharply accelerated in recent years. The cover story of this issue of PLN is excerpted …
Buried Alive: Solitary Confinement in Arizona’s Prisons and Jails by David Reutter Buried Alive: Solitary Confinement in Arizona's Prisons and Jails Review by David M. Reutter "There have been a couple of times that I've tried to end my life in here, but they keep reviving me and bringing me …
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