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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 …
Article • January 15, 1992 • from PLN January, 1992
Election Year Demagoguery by Paul Wright Washington State attorney general Ken Eikenberry has announced that he will be running for the governor's office on the Republican Party ticket. Eikenberry has been attorney general since 1980 and is serving up a typical Republican economic program with regards to turning the state …
Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
Filed under: Parole, News, State Legislation
Getting Rid of the Board: Status of the Initiative Process by Ed Mead Getting Rid Of The Board: Status Of The Initiative Process By Ed Mead Back in the February issue we told readers that the Prison/Community Alliance (P/CA) and the PLN editors were in the process of drafting sample …
Article • August 15, 1991 • from PLN August, 1991
Filed under: News, State Legislation
Mass. Corrections Policy "Disaster" Says Task Force by Mass. Corrections Policy "disaster" Says Task Force Emphasizing that state spending on prisons has skyrocketed while taxpayer confidence in the level of public safety has plummeted, a joint Task Force of the Boston Bar Association and the Crime and Justice Foundation has …
Article • July 15, 1991 • from PLN July, 1991
Prison/Community Alliance Update by Carrie Roth By Carrie Roth June 10, 1991 the Legislature went back into session and by the time this is read the session should be over. This is a time when there is a lot of speculation and rumors going around. One rumor is that Senator …
Article • May 15, 1991 • from PLN May, 1991
DOC "Taxes" Oklahoma Prisoners by Jeff Lea By Jeff Lea This year state lawmakers determined that Oklahoma taxpayers were paying too much state sales tax and would continue to do so in the future. Accordingly, they passed a bill allowing the tax agency to refund $20.00 this year and $40.00 …
Article • April 15, 1991 • from PLN April, 1991
Filed under: Parole, News, State Legislation
Pennsylvania Lawmakers Want to Axe Parole Board by Pennsylvania Lawmakers Want To Axe Parole Board Leaders of the Pennsylvania House and Senate Judiciary Committees said they will introduce legislation this year to strip the Parole Board of most of its authority as a way to reduce prison overcrowding. The lawmakers …
Article • April 15, 1991 • from PLN April, 1991
Filed under: Parole, News, State Legislation
The LBC's Final Report to the Legislature: A Retreat From The Principles of the SRA by Ed Mead By Ed Mead On January 17, 1991, the Legislative Budget Committee (LBC) issued a "proposed final report" on the performance of the Indeterminate Sentence Review Board (ISRB). The LBC assessed the operations …
Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
Filed under: Parole, News, State Legislation
The Parole Board Audit Report by Ed Mead Ed Mead The Legislative Budge Committee (LBC) has issued its preliminary report on the Indeterminate Sentence Review Board (ISRB). The December 14, 1990, report was an audit that examined the operations of the Board in the context of the dual sentencing system …
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