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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 …
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 …
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