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Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005
Prisoners of Love: Good Advice for Those Separated By Walls But United by Love by by Matthew T. Clarke If you want to know the mechanics of how a Texas prison is run, you should read Behind the Walls by George Antonio Renauld [PLN Aug. 2003, p. 29]. It gives …
Article • July 15, 2005 • from PLN July, 2005
U.S. Department of Justice Reports Soaring Justice Expenditures by by Matthew T. Clarke In a recently-published report, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) of the U.S. Department of Justice documented the soaring costs of the justice system in the United States. The BJS report is for the year 2001 and …
Article • July 15, 2005 • from PLN July, 2005
From the Editor by by Paul Wright This issue marks PLN's 180th consecutive issue and our 15th anniversary. When I first started PLN in 1990 I didn't think it would last this long. I am pleased to report that it has and should continue to do so for the foreseeable …
Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
From the Editor by by Paul Wright I would like to thank everyone who has written, called or e mailed us with favorable comments about last month's 15th anniversary issue of PLN. It was quite the milestone and one which we are very proud of. We hope the next decade …
Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
What Some People Have to Say About PLN's 15th Anniversary by As a civil rights litigator specializing in prison cases, I have read virtually every issue of PLN since its first newsletter was published 15 years ago. This publication is an essential resource for everyone concerned about human rights. Congratulations …
Article • May 15, 2005 • from PLN May, 2005
From the Editor by Paul Wright The many duties I have as editor of PLN include doing a lot of the research for the news and legal stories that appear in PLN as well as coordinating PLN’s litigation efforts around the country, doing advocacy on behalf of prisoners’ rights and …
Article • May 15, 2005 • from PLN May, 2005
American Gulag: Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons, By Mark Dow University Of California Press, 413 pages, $27.50 by Ashley Makar American Gulag: Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons, By Mark Dow University Of California Press, 413 pages, $27.50 Reviewed by Ashley Makar Mark Dow's American Gulag: Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons is an articulate …
Article • April 15, 2005 • from PLN April, 2005
From the Editor by by Paul Wright With last month's issue of PLN we reached an all time circulation high of 4,051 subscribers. This is the most subscribers PLN has ever had. Considering we started with 75 subscribers in 1990, that is a lot of growth. But considering there are …
Article • March 15, 2005 • from PLN March, 2005
From the Editor by by Paul Wright On February 1, 2005, the Ninth Circuit US court of appeals upheld the injunctions in Prison Legal News v. Lehman, 272 F. Supp.2d 1151 (WD WA 2003) which require that the Washington Department of Corrections deliver PLN's subscription renewal letters, book and subscription …
Lucasville: The Untold Story of a Prison Uprising by Karen Thimmes By Staughton Lynd; Temple University Press, 2004; soft cover, 244 pages. $16.95 Reviewed by Karen G. Thimmes Death Row in Ohio is located at Mansfield Correctional Institution, a stone's throw from the fabled Mansfield Penitentiary, where much of the …
Article • February 15, 2005 • from PLN February, 2005
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Silja JA Talvi by Angela Y. Davis Open Media/Seven Stories Press, 127 pp. $8.95 paperback Review by Silja Talvi "On the whole people tend to take prisons for granted," Angela Y. Davis. But are we, as a society, willing to face the reality of what goes …
Article • February 15, 2005 • from PLN February, 2005
From the Editor by Paul Wright The index for the 2004 issues of PLN is now ready and available for shipping. PLN's indexes are a great stand alone research tool as well as the best tool to maximize the use of PLN as a research tool. Each index lists all …
Report Lambastes New York Lockdowns by Michael Rigby by: Michael Rigby Emotional and physical distress...restricted diets... "greeting beatings" ...high rates of mental illness...a reliance on warehousing instead of treatment. This is the troubling reality of disciplinary confinement in New York, according to a 54-page report released on October 22, 2003, …
Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005
Is There A Winning Argument Against Excessive Rates For Collect Calls From Prisoners? by John E Dannenberg by Madeline Severin, 25 Cardozo Law Review 1469, March, 2004 Review by John E. Dannenberg We all know about how prisons and jails conspire with telephone companies to bilk recipients of prisoner phone …
Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005
Prison Needle Exchanges Around the World by Julie Falk Did you know the first prison needle exchange program was started in Switzerland in 1992? Would you guess that the five other countries maintaining needle exchange programs in their criminal justice systems are Germany, Spain, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan and Belarus? In the …
Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005
From the Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to the first issue of 2005. The year is starting pretty much the way it ended in terms of political progress for prisoners' rights: not very good at all. The ongoing, simmering outrage of the abuse of Iraqi and Afghan prisoners by the …
Colorado DOC Report: CCA At Fault for Crowley Uprising by by Matthew T. Clarke On October 12, 2004, the Colorado Department of Corrections (DOC) issued an extensive, 179-page After Action Report on the July 20, 2004, riot at the Crowley County Correctional Facility (CCCF) which is run by Corrections Corporation …
Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005
Filed under: Reviews, Mental Health
Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison by David C Fathi Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison by Lorna A. Rhodes, University of California Press, 2004 (329 pages, $19.95). Reviewed by David C. Fathi Like chain gangs and boot camps before them, "supermax" …
Article • December 15, 2004 • from PLN December, 2004
From the Editor by Paul Wright From The Editor by Paul Wright As we close the year I would like to remind readers of our matching grant fundraiser where donations will be matched, dollar for dollar from non prisoners, and two dollars for every dollar donated from prisoners. The maximum …
Article • December 15, 2004 • from PLN December, 2004
Private Capitol Punishment: The Florida Model by David Reutter by Ken Kopczynski, 111 pp. 2004, Authorhouse, softbound Reviewed by David M. Reutter As the prison industrial complex has expanded, the privatization of prisons has increased. The pages of PLN have chronicled the mental and physical abuse, as well as medical …
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