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Article • April 15, 2007 • from PLN April, 2007
Filed under: Reviews, Sentencing, Parole
Does Parole Work? Apparently Not. by More than 774,000 men and women were on some form of community supervision in 2003, up 74.5 percent from 197,000 in 1980. According to a March 2005 study of the Urban Institute, however, ?parole supervision has little effect on re-arrest rates of released prisoners?. …
Sexual Victimization in Prison Statistically Analyzed by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The New York Academy of Medicine published a study in June 2006 on rates of sexual victimization of state prisoners. Contrasted with earlier studies that only used small population samples, this study covered all adult prisoners (22,231) …
Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
From the Editor by Paul Wright This editorial is being written in Wichita, Kansas on February 14, 2007. For the past two days PLN?s executive director, Don Miniken, and I have been attending the bench trial before USDC Judge Monte Belot in Prison Legal News v. Werholtz. PLN filed the …
Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
HIV in Prison Is Lower Than Believed by Gary Hunter The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released a study showing that the spread of HIV in prison is extremely low. Of 856 males in Georgia?s prisons who tested positive for HIV in 2005, only 76 acquired the virus …
Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
Fahrenheit 451 on Cell Block D by John Dannenberg [Certified Jailhouse Lawyer Program Proposed] By Evan R. Seamone, Esq., Reprinted from Yale Law & Policy Review, Vol. 24, No. 1 (2006), pp. 91-147. Reviewed by John E. Dannenberg Attorney Evan R. Seamone wants to promote justice by raising the stature …
Many U.S. Prisoners Mentally Ill, Few Receive Treatment by Michael Rigby Nearly half of the nation?s 2.3 million prisoners suffer from some sort of mental disorder, according to a report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) released in September 2006. Yet fewer than a third of those receive any …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
From the Editor by Paul Wright This month's cover story is by long time PLN contributing writer Mike Rigby. I am pleased to announce that in December, 2006, Mike was released from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice after 13 years of imprisonment. He will continue contributing articles to PLN …
Confronting Confinement, A Report On Safety and Abuse In America’s Prisons, Vera Justice Institute (2006), 118 pp. by John Dannenberg Confronting Confinement, A Report On Safety and Abuse In America's Prisons, Vera Justice Institute (2006), 118 pp. Reviewed by John E. Dannenberg The Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
California Habeas Handbook, Expanded 5th Edition, by Attorney Kent Russell, Sept. 2006, 114 pages plus appendix, soft cover by John Dannenberg Reviewed by John E. Dannenberg Three years after publishing his 67 page 4th Edition of the California Habeas Handbook (CHH) [see: PLN, Jan. 2004, p.18], Attorney Kent Russell has …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
Prison TB 10 Times Higher Than Non-Prison Cases by The number of Tuberculosis (TB) cases in correctional populations far outpaced the general population between 1993 and 2003, according to a study published in the American Journal of Public Health. TB case rates in the general population remained at fewer than …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
From the Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to the first issue of PLN for 2007. With this issue, PLN now enters it?s 17th year of publishing. We have several important goals for the coming year so we can better serve our readers. Among them are expanding the size of the …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
The Prison and Jail Industry—Who Will Run It by Gary Hunter The Prison and Jail Industry--Who Will Run It by Gary Hunter With the huge growth in American prisons between 1980 and 1990, the American Correctional. Association (ACA) went looking in the past to solve both foreseeable and current problems. …
Article • December 15, 2006 • from PLN December, 2006
From the Editor by Paul Wright As the year 2006 closes we have reported a lot of news and major developments, some of it good, some of it not so good. The main thing though is we accomplished a lot as far as getting back on our regular publishing schedule, …
Article • November 15, 2006 • from PLN November, 2006
From the Editor by Paul Wright By now subscribers should have received the annual PLN matching grant fundraiser. I hope that those who can afford to make a donation do so. While there are many worthy causes out there I think that PLN is one of the few where your …
Article • October 15, 2006 • from PLN October, 2006
From the Editor by Paul Wright As the year comes to an end we will soon be sending out PLNs annual fundraiser letter. A PLN supporter who wishes to remain anonymous has pledged to match all donations to PLN, up to the amount of $15,000, dollar for dollar that are …
Article • September 15, 2006 • from PLN September, 2006
From the Editor by Paul Wright This issue reports positive developments we have acheived in two lawsuits, one against the Washington Department of Corrections and the other against the federal Bureau of Prisons. Both cases have taken a lot of time and energy on the part of both PLN staff …
Article • August 15, 2006 • from PLN August, 2006
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
I Wake Up in Middle-of-Night Terror by Erika Huggins next to the warm sleeping body of my lover yet alone in the conviction that I am in a prison cell shut away, suddenly, from all that makes my life. I sense the great weight of the prison pressing down on …
Article • August 15, 2006 • from PLN August, 2006
From the Editor by Paul Wright The sexual assault of prisoners is one of the largest problems in American prisons and jails today (the lack of adequate medical care is probably the biggest). As regular readers of PLN know, we have had extensive and ongoing coverage of prison rape issues …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
From the Editor by Paul Wright With this issue of PLN we are back on our regular publishing schedule of sending each issue to the printer around the end of the month. We got behind last summer due to switching over to a new layout program and a trial in …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
The Warehouse Prison, by Dr. John Irwin, 318 pp., softback, Roxbury Publishing Company, 2005 by John Dannenberg Reviewed by John E. Dannenberg Taking Californias Solano State Prison as a model, author John Irwin exposes the warehouse concept of Californias prisons and its debilitating effect on prisoners and their struggle for …
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