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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 …
Article • April 15, 2008 • from PLN April, 2008
Drug-Resistant Staph Infection (MRSA) Deaths Nationwide Now Exceed Those From AIDS; Prison Connection Ignored by John Dannenberg by John R. Dannenberg The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reported that nationwide, more deaths in the United States are now resulting from drug resistant invasive MRSA (methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus) …
Article • March 15, 2008 • from PLN March, 2008
From the Editor by Paul Wright This issue?s cover story reports the push to renew the use of prisoners as the test subjects for medical experiments and testing. If history repeats itself first as tragedy then as farce, we are still at the tragic stage. The United States has a …
Factor 8: the Arkansas Prison Blood Mining Scandal Movie review and Director Interview by Brandon Eng Filmmaker Kelly Duda’s first documentary, Factor 8: the Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal, chronicles the decades of abuse towards prisoners and patients from blood mining in search of profits. Traveling back to his home state …
Article • February 15, 2008 • from PLN February, 2008
Filed under: Editorials, Juveniles
From the Editor by Paul Wright This month?s cover story on abuse in the Texas youth prisons is of notable interest for exposing the shallow hypocrisy of many politician?s ?protect the children? mantra which tends to go hand in hand with being ?tough on crime.? PLN has previously reported that …
Transsexuals Treated Poorly in New York Prisons by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) has issued a report on the treatment of transgender and intersex people in New York state men?s prisons. That report finds that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) prisoners experience …
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