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Article • February 15, 2010 • from PLN February, 2010
to expand community-based reentry services for releasees, and authorizing judges to impose shorter sentences conditioned on the completion of treatment programs. The Democrats in Wisconsin’s legislature ...
Article • April 15, 2010 • from PLN April, 2010
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
educates readers as to how sentencing alternatives have been effective at reversing the rampant deterioration inflicted by tough-on-crime politics. Placing juveniles in community service and allowing ...
services took him to a hospital. Dominguez survived, but in a “’locked-in state’ as a quadriplegic with limited communication but complete consciousness.” He was given a medical parole in 2002 and discharged ...
Article • August 15, 2010 • from PLN August, 2010
of Nursing and co-author of the Institute of Medicine study, “Above eight hours a day, the errors [in medical judgment] start going up exponentially.” Such errors include misdiagnoses, communication ...
recommendation was that Craven establish “a formal, commission-specific communication and grievance process to improve the working relationship between management and staff and ensure all staff are treated fairly ...
Article • January 15, 2011 • from PLN January, 2011
registries and community notification programs. Georgia established its Sex Offender Registry (SOR) in 1996, and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) created a “new database on an existing mainframe ...
Article • January 15, 2011 • from PLN January, 2011
hearings. “You were looking at people who had been out all these years. They’ve never done another thing wrong, living a good life in the community and all of a sudden they get a letter in the mail: you’re ...
Article • April 15, 2011 • from PLN April, 2011
took into account variables based upon the releasee’s race, age, criminal history, length of imprisonment, prison disciplinary record, type of release, year of release, community notification ...
In-the-News Article • January 1, 2007
community corrections officers, who supervise convicts after they leave prison. It was that parole-like system that took a great deal of criticism — primarily from Republicans — during ...
Article • November 15, 1998 • from PLN November, 1998
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
Telephone System (ITS) implemented by the Colorado DOC and Sprint Communications Company violated state public utilities law by overcharging for prisoner calls. The PUC dismissed the petition, holding it had ...
Article • March 15, 1998 • from PLN March, 1998
Filed under: News, News in Brief
authority to strip search female prisoners. IA : Former Urbandale police officer James Trimble was sentenced to two years probation, a $1,000 fine and 100 hours of community service after being convicted ...
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
. The message is that the current punishment approach to crime does not work, and actually makes things worse; that the public is being ripped off by the state, at the expense of the community's safety. Some who ...
Article • December 15, 2001 • from PLN December, 2001
that the disenfranchisement of felons affects communities of color and poor people disproportionately. "As long as a citizen is subject to the pain of taxes, it would follow that they should have a right to vote," said ...
Article • October 15, 2002 • from PLN October, 2002
." The promise of prison generated welfare for rural communities, that is. Wilkinson said that Orient's condition and location were major factors in his decision. Several of its 19 buildings are nearly ...
out, but right now, I'm spread too thin." Autumn Keyes-Ita, site administrator for the Community College of Southern Nevada (CCSN), also decided to resign from the board in March, saying Willie Davis ...
Article • April 15, 1993 • from PLN April, 1993
of technology in security equipment. An increase in escapes was reported in seven systems due to an increase in population, specifically community or open institutions which makes it easier for an inmate to "walk ...
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
impact on the government, the media, the public and even the international community. 3.) The U.S. government pontificates and browbeats countries all over the world about political prisoners. Yet ...
Article • July 15, 2000 • from PLN July, 2000
they die the loss is felt personally by those of us at PLN as well as within the larger activist community. On April 28, 2000, Albert "Nuh" Washington died of liver cancer at the Coxsackie Correctional ...
Article • July 15, 1997 • from PLN July, 1997
in job-starved rural communities to encage the superfluous workers from job-stripped urban communities. The prisoners themselves become commodities. There is even a brokerage firm, Dominion Management, Inc ...
Article • October 15, 1990 • from PLN October, 1990
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
, but realize that 1) prison is no solution (to anything but jobs in the community they get put in), and 2) Prisoners must actively resist attempts by their cagers to turn one against another to further ...
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