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Article • November 15, 2004 • from PLN November, 2004
Filed under: Editorials, Organizing
From the Editor by Paul Wright As this issue of PLN goes to press the 2004 presidential election is over. Regardless of who won, the need for PLN and the news and work we do will remain and undoubtedly increase given that both major party presidential candidates promise more repression …
Article • November 15, 2004 • from PLN November, 2004
Gates of Injustice - The Crisis in America's Prisons by Tom Murlowski by Alan Elsner, FT Prentice Hall, 256 pp., hardcover Review by Tom Murlowski "Alan Elsner's powerful book demonstrates that our $40 billion corrections system for both adults and juveniles is badly broken. Our jails and prisons and penitentiaries …
Article • November 15, 2004 • from PLN November, 2004
Study Shows Boot Camps Are a Failure by Study Shows Boot Camps are a Failure A June 2003 study published by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), a division of the U.S. Department of Justice, shows that boot camps are failures in reducing recidivism and prison populations. In the late …
Article • September 15, 2004 • from PLN September, 2004
Ill-Equipped: U.S. Prisons and Offenders with Mental Illness by Tara Herivel Human Rights Watch, 2003, 215 pp. Reviewed by Tara Herivel [In the interests of full disclosure, the author of this review contributed to the following Human Rights Watch Report as a source, and this magazine contributed to the gathering …
Article • September 15, 2004 • from PLN September, 2004
From the Editor by Paul Wright On August 7, 2004, I attended the memorial for PLN writer James Quigley. The memorial was held on the beach in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Jim died on October 7, 2003, when he hung himself in the segregation unit of the Northwest State Correctional …
Article • August 15, 2004 • from PLN August, 2004
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
2004 Supplement to the California State Prisoners Handbook by John E Dannenberg 2004 Supplement to the California State Prisoners Handbook by Fama, McKay, Snedecker, Smith and the Prison Law Office, 230 pp. Reviewed by John E. Dannenberg A 230 page Supplement to The California State Prisoners Handbook has been released, …
Article • August 15, 2004 • from PLN August, 2004
The Complicity of Judges in Wrongful Convictions by Hans Sherrer The Complicity of Judges In Wrongful Convictions by Hans Sherrer I. Introduction Wrongful convictions do not occur in a vacuum of judicial indifference. Every wrongful conviction results from a deliberative process involving law enforcement investigators, prosecutors, and one or more …
Article • August 15, 2004 • from PLN August, 2004
From the Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to another issue of PLN. With our June, 2004, issue we reached a milestone with our highest circulation yet of 4,006 subscribers on our mailing list. The past year has seen an ongoing effort by PLN to boost our circulation through inexpensive means …
Rape of Women Prisoners Rampant in Ohio by Michael Rigby The sexual assault of female pris-oners at the Ohio Reformatory for Women (ORW) in Marysville, Ohio, is shockingly commonplace, according to a report by Stop Prisoner Rape (SPR) released on December 10, 2003. The 15-page report, titled The Sexual Abuse …
Abu Ghraib, USA by Anne-Marie Cusac When I first saw the photo, taken at the Abu Ghraib prison, of a hooded and robed figure strung with electrical wiring, I thought of the Sacramento, California, city jail. When I heard that dogs had been used to intimidate and bite at least …
Article • July 15, 2004 • from PLN July, 2004
From the Editor by Paul Wright The month of June saw the media and the Bush administration in a massive love fest over the death of Ronald Reagan. While it is generally considered bad form to speak poorly of the dead, like much of American domestic and foreign policy, there …
Tennessee Prison Audit Blasts DOC, CCA and CMS by Michael Rigby A Tennessee Department of Corrections (TDOC) performance audit for the years 1997-2002, released by the state comptroller's office in September 2003, reveals problems with prison staffing, pre-release preparation, and numerous instances of contract violations by private prison contractors. A …
Article • July 15, 2004 • from PLN July, 2004
BJS Looks at Probation, Parole in 2002 by By the end of 2002, more than 6.7 million adults were incarcerated, on probation, or parole. This amounts to 3.1% of all adults in the United States, or about 1 in every 32 U.S. adults under correctional supervision. This is according to …
Article • July 15, 2004 • from PLN July, 2004
Record Number of "Lifers" Now in U.S. Prisons by Record Number of "Lifers" Now in U.S. Prisons A new national study by The Sen tencing Project released on May 11, 2004, finds that a record one of every eleven (9.4%) prisoners in the United States is now serving a life …
Article • June 15, 2004 • from PLN June, 2004
From the Editor by Paul Wright This month's cover story reports on the U.S. government's clandestine network of prisons around the world. The story was written before the news about the torture and murder of Iraqi prisoners appeared. The only thing that would have been unusual would have been the …
Article • June 15, 2004 • from PLN June, 2004
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
The Inmate's Guide to Prison Health Care by John E Dannenberg by Dr. D.M. Granit, Two Rainbow Publishing Co., Oct. 2003, 106 pp. Review by John E. Dannenber The Inmate's Guide to Prison Health Care offers prisoners a unique perspective on how to get the best response to their health …
Article • June 15, 2004 • from PLN June, 2004
Filed under: Private Prisons, Reviews
Capitalist Punishment: Prison Privatization & Human Rights by Mark Wilson Capitalist Punishment: Prison Privatization & Human Rights Edited by Andrew Coyle, Allison Campbell, & Rodney Neufeld,Clarity Press, Inc; Zed Books (2003) 234 pp. Softback Review by Mark Wilson Proponents of prison privatization argue that for-profit prisons make good sense, "promis[ing] …
No Crueler Tyrannies: Accusation, False Witnesses, and Other Tyrannies of Our Times by Robert Woodman by Dorothy Rabinowitz. 2003. Free Press, ISBN: 0-7432-2834-0 Review by Robert Woodman "There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice." These words, …
Article • May 15, 2004 • from PLN May, 2004
From the Editor by Paul Wright This issue marks the 14th anniversary of Prison Legal News. With this issue we will have published 169 issues. At this point, PLN is the longest, continuously publishing independent publication whose content is mostly written and produced by prisoners and ex-prisoners in American history. …
Article • April 15, 2004 • from PLN April, 2004
From the Editor by Paul Wright With our recent expansion to 48 pages we will be bringing readers more information than ever before and we also hope it will be more timely than it has been in the past. Readers that send us newspaper clippings and similar information help us …
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