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Article • October 15, 1993 • from PLN October, 1993
Florida Builds More Prisons by The Florida state legislature in late May approved a plan to spend $215 million on prison construction and also voted to overhaul state sentencing guidelines. The expansion package, which passed during a special legislative session called by Gov. Lawton Chiles, will add 10,524 beds to …
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
Prisoners as Workers in Washington State: New Law Will Increase Exploitation by Ed Mead By Ed Mead The 1993 session of the Washington State Legislature has passed a new law that will dramatically increase the number of prisoners working in this state's institutional industries. Governor Lowry should have signed Senate …
Article • August 15, 1993 • from PLN August, 1993
WA Repeals Cons Tolling Statute by The 53rd Washington Legislature unanimously amended RCW 4.16.190 to repeal the provision which tolled the statute of limitations for prisoners serving less than natural life terms. The new law went into effect on July 1, 1993. The statute of limitations in Washington State for …
Article • August 15, 1993 • from PLN August, 1993
Texas Proposes to Build State "Jails" by Texas Proposes to Build State "Jails" After decades of costly prison reform litigation under the Ruiz decree the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) continues to have serious problems of overcrowding. Overcrowding of state prisons has reduced the TDCJ's ability to receive new …
Article • August 15, 1993 • from PLN August, 1993
Texas Studies Housing Prisoners in Foreign Countries by F Lee Weiss by F. Lee Weiss The Texas Senate approved a measure calling for a study to investigate the desirability of housing state inmates in foreign countries. State Senator John Leedom, a Republican from Dallas, said that his proposal could save …
Illinois Tolling Statute Unconstitutional by Until 1987 Illinois prisoners had until two years after they were released from prison in which to file lawsuits. Any statute of limitations was tolled by imprisonment. In 1987 the Illinois legislature modified Illinois Rev. Statute ch. 110, ¶ 13-211, so that claims by prisoners …
Article • June 15, 1993 • from PLN June, 1993
Initiative 595: Regulated Tolerance by The citizens of Washington state will have a chance to make real progress in the area of drug law reform if the Washington Citizen's for Drug Policy Reform (WCDPR) is successful in getting Initiative 595 on the state General Election ballot this fall. It will …
Article • May 15, 1993 • from PLN May, 1993
Road Kill For Washington Prisons by Prison food has been the subject of jokes and commentary for ages. Given its general low quality and often unidentifiable nature, meat dishes are often referred to as "road kill" or "mystery meat." If Washington state Representative Steve Fuhrman, (R) Kettle Falls, has his …
Article • April 15, 1993 • from PLN April, 1993
Three Strikes and You're Out, Again by Ed Mead Their baaack! And this time with both barrels. Ida (now Republican state representative from Mercer Island) Ballasiotes and her fellow victims' rights cronies have reintroduced the so-called "three strikes and you're out" initiative. In addition to Citizens' Initiative 593, this group …
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
Oregon Wants Prisoners to Pay for Incarceration by The Oregon DOC has introduced a bill into the Oregon Legislature that would allow the state to charge prisoners for their costs, which include transportation, room, board, clothing, security, medical and other living expenses. According to the DOC, the average cost of …
Article • October 15, 1992 • from PLN October, 1992
Wash. DOC Given $15 Million by The Washington state DOC has been given an additional $15 million in emergency funding to ease overcrowding in state prisons. Even after the money is spent to open new prisons and add beds in existing prisons, the system is likely to be operating well …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Three Strikes, You're Out by Ed Mead By Ed Mead Those short sighted anti-crime proponents in Washington state are at it again. This time the conservatives are circulating a citizen's initiative, The Persistent Offender Accountability Act (Initiative 590) that would provide two major changes to punishment: mandatory life in prison …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Filed under: Parole, News, State Legislation
Ohio Criminal Sentencing Commission Update by John Perotti By John Perotti There have been a lot of rumors of abolishing the parole board in Ohio. Here are the facts in relation to this rumor. In 1990 former Governor D. Celeste created the Ohio Criminal Sentencing Commission to study Ohio's sentencing …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Prison Officials Assault Public Records Law by Adrian Lomax By Adrian Lomax Ayear ago bills were introduced in both houses of the Wisconsin legislature that would have changed the state's public records law so that prisoners would no longer have any right to inspect government records, including those maintained by …
Article • April 15, 1992 • from PLN April, 1992
Law Would Let Prison Mothers Keep Kids by A bill has passed the Illinois State House and Senate which will allow female inmates to keep their children with them until the children reach the age of six. The bill is designed to help preserve a positive relationship between mother and …
Article • April 15, 1992 • from PLN April, 1992
Filed under: Parole, News, State Legislation
The Death of HB 2834 by The Death Of HB 2834 HB 2834 is dead. It almost made it through the legislative process but died when the Senate bogged down on the health care issue. Originally the bill read that the Indeterminate Sentence Review Board (ISRB) would be eliminated as …
Article • March 15, 1992 • from PLN March, 1992
Filed under: Parole, News, State Legislation
Legislative Update by Carrie Roth By Carrie Roth, Prison/Community Alliance As most of you already know, until last November we were planning on trying an initiative to the people which would eliminate the Indeterminate Sentence Review Board. If we had gotten 150,001 signatures within a specified period of time, we …
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
Filed under: Parole, News, State Legislation
Prison/Community Alliance Update by Carrie Roth By Carrie Roth The Prisoner/Community Alliance received a phone call from former Rep. Doug Sayan on Jan. 21, 1992. He said that the draft bill is now at the Code Revisors Office. The bill is an Omnibus bill which will include several aspects of …
Article • January 15, 1992 • from PLN January, 1992
Filed under: Parole, News, State Legislation
Prison/Community Alliance Update by Carrie Roth The Prison/Community Alliance (P/CA) has made progress. It now appears we will be able to have legislation proposed directly to the legislature this January. If this happens we will not be doing the initiative for the November 1992 election. A sequence of events has …
Article • January 15, 1992 • from PLN January, 1992
Politicians Exploit Death Penalty by State-level lawmakers are using proposed death penalty legislation for political purposes rather than to deter crime, said the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty on October 9, 1991. The group released its annual survey of state legislation on the volatile issue, finding 183 bills …
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