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Article • June 15, 1999 • from PLN June, 1999
before. What I'm describing is not new to any reader of PLN . The fact that federal law allows the admission into evidence of uncorroborated testimony, and uses such testimony to convict bit players ...
been "cured". A shocking number of them have been tossed into the human wastebin of the U.S. criminal justice system. Swept off the streets and disposed of. And what happens to the mentally ill after ...
admitted they had initially lied to state officials investigating Edwards' death. Prosecutors accused the defendants of portraying Edwards as a vicious criminal who "got what he deserved." After ...
Article • June 15, 1994 • from PLN June, 1994
in the cruel prison environment a matured parolee can reenter the community as a law abiding citizen, even a successful career professional. So what went wrong? The politicians have used disinformation ...
Article • July 15, 1993 • from PLN July, 1993
that several states have similar sentencing systems as the State of Washington-- the system will be explained in more detail below. What is the equation Rehabilitation versus Punishment = Attitude? The Revised ...
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
a new facility goes on line, its capacity is surpassed. Who's Responsible? While it's easy to say if you don't like prison, don't commit criInes, one must examine what we have to work with. First ...
a year after MCI began providing "Inmate telephone services," the company was under investigation for overcharging consumers, imposing a $3 surcharge on collect calls placed by prisoners -- triple what ...
Article • October 15, 1995 • from PLN October, 1995
, state health codes reflect established public attitudes as to what those hazards are." This established the objective component of the their claim. "The allegations that prison officials knew for years ...
Article • August 15, 1993 • from PLN August, 1993
Filed under: Crime, Sentencing
City of Refuge by David Finney Everyone has heard about alternative sentencing. What about alternative incarceration? The debate should be expanded to encompass this issue too. When people ...
Article • May 15, 1996 • from PLN May, 1996
declared. "It has a lot of impact when you read it in words written by other teens or talking about what happened to them when they were juveniles. The street language is immediately understandable by any ...
Article • October 15, 1993 • from PLN October, 1993
Ninth Circuit Reverses Powell Decision by Robert Powell By Robert Powell To understand just what has happened in this case one must first understand Washington state law. At the time of my ...
Article • November 15, 1999 • from PLN November, 1999
, and replaced them with prison slave labor. The former welfare clients had been earning $5.20/ hour before they were laid off in December, 1998 because the "waste stream" was not what had been predicted. Four ...
Article • May 15, 1994 • from PLN May, 1994
produced a surplus of goods after serving their own institutional needs. What started out as prison reform eventually turned into profit seeking enterprise. Today Federal Prison Industries is a half billion ...
Article • September 15, 1991 • from PLN September, 1991
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
this substantially defensive tactic, social prisoners (those confined for non-political. crimes) should not burden themselves with the useless baggage of illusions or pretense about what will be required to bring ...
and providing for an offset against any judgment the prisoner might obtain." Sound familiar? What the NAAG has produced is what I refer to "cookie cutter legislation." That is, they have a conference and draw ...
Article • August 15, 1995 • from PLN August, 1995
the strength of the case in favor of the prevailing party and what effect the restraints might have had given the nature of the issues and evidence involved in the trial. Where the restraints would appear ...
the law and what it means to prisoners and their family members. The flyers asked, "Why do they have to tax the money prisoners receive as gifts when their labor is already stolen from them?" The flyer ...
, the mayor will get all or most of what he wants." He noted that prison reform usually follows a riot "What's striking in this is that I can't recall when we've had an organized political protest by inmates ...
Article • November 15, 1994 • from PLN November, 1994
Filed under: Media, Access to Media
to good use. What follows is a two-fold story. One of Martin and how he veiws life from behind prison walls and razor wire and how his editorials affected the public. One of Sussman, who became, Martin's ...
Article • February 15, 1996 • from PLN February, 1996
the wheel or a written language and were in a constant state of warfare with each other and even, heaven forbid, practiced slavery! They were a backward people who got what they deserved given the Darwinistic ...
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