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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 …
Article • April 15, 2004 • from PLN April, 2004
Asset Forfeiture Defense Manual by John E Dannenberg by Brenda Grantland, Judy Osburn and Susan Raffanti; Liberty Press, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 2001; 500 pp. (soft-back) Vol. 1: Substantive Law and Administrative Procedure; Review by John E. Dannenberg You may have thought your troubles were over when you were prosecuted …
Article • April 15, 2004 • from PLN April, 2004
Filed under: Reviews, Media, Prisoner Media
Prison Nation Wins Human Rights Award by On December 16, 2003, Paul Wright and Tara Herivel were awarded the 2003 Myers Outstanding Book Award certificate for Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America's Poor (Routledge, 2003). The award is from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human …
Article • April 15, 2004 • from PLN April, 2004
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America, From Slave Passes to the War on Terror by Scott Christianson The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America, From Slave Passes to the War on Terror by Christian Parenti, (Basic Books, 2003) 273 pp., $24.95 cloth Review by Scott Christianson Big Brother is watching. He …
Article • April 15, 2004 • from PLN April, 2004
A Culture of Prosecutorial Misconduct by Peter Schmidt Review by Peter Schmidt The Center for Public Integrity (CPI), a non-profit, investigative journalism organization based in Washington, D.C., has recently published a major study on prosecutorial misconduct in America. The lengthy, empirical study, entitled Harmful Error: Investigating America's Local Prosecutors, which …
Article • February 15, 2004 • from PLN February, 2004
From the Editor by Paul Wright In this issue of PLN we report the filing of PLN's lawsuit against the federal Bureau of Prisons for their blanket ban on PLN at the ADX facility in Florence, Colorado and our suit against the Florida Department of Corrections for their blanket ban …
Book Review: The Disciplinary Self-Help Litigation Manual: A Guided Tour of Wonderland by Stuart G. Friedman by Dan Manville, 350 pages, paperback Review by Stuart G. Friedman As any criminal litigator knows, dealing with prison issues feels like jumping through the looking glass and into Wonderland. Despite court statements suggesting …
Article • January 15, 2004 • from PLN January, 2004
James Quigley November 9, 1950-October 7, 2003 by Paul Wright James Quigley November 9, 1950-October 7, 2003 by Paul Wright On October 7, 2003, long time Prison Legal News contributing writer James Quigley was found hanging in his cell in the segregation unit of the Northwest State Correctional Facility in …
Article • January 15, 2004 • from PLN January, 2004
Filed under: Editorials, Media, Censorship
From the Editor by Paul Wright This issue of PLN is dedicated to the memory of James Quigley, a long time contributing writer and prisoner rights activist who died in October, 2003. More details on his life and accomplishments are above. We start this year of publishing PLN with a …
Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment by Silja JA Talvi Edited by Marc Mauer and Meda Chesney-Lind, The New Press, 2002, 368 pgs. Review by Silja J.A. Talvi Mass imprisonment, according to criminal justice experts Marc Mauer and Meda Chesney-Lind, is the direct outgrowth of social and legal …
Article • January 15, 2004 • from PLN January, 2004
California Habeas Handbook, 4th Edition by John E Dannenberg by Attorney Kent Russell, Sept. 2003, 67 pages plus appendix Review by John E. Dannenberg The completely revised 4th Edition of the California Habeas Handbook, a self-help manual on the preparation of both California and federal habeas corpus petitions, guides pro …
Article • November 15, 2003 • from PLN November, 2003
From the Editor by Paul Wright SouthLand Prison News was a bi-monthly magazine published by Virginia prisoner Joseph Houck. In August, 2003, they published their last issue after almost five years of publishing. I am saddened at their passing as it illustrates the ongoing problems of the prison press in …
Article • November 15, 2003 • from PLN November, 2003
America Without the Death Penalty: States Leading the Way by Robert Woodman America Without the Death Penalty: States Leading the Way by John F. Galliher, Larry W. Koch, David Patrick Keys, and Teresa J. Guess. Northeastern Univ. Press, Boston, 2002, 280 pages, hardcover $35.00 Review by Robert H. Woodman Death …
Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003
Crime Control as Industry: Towards Gulags, Western Style by Peter Wagner by Nils Christie, Routledge Press (2000 Rev. Ed.) 244 pages, Paperback Review by Peter Wagner The heavily revised third edition (2000) of Crime Control As Industry: Towards Gulags, Western Style is an essential guide to understanding the incarceration boom …
Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003
From the Editor by Paul Wright Subscribers should soon receive PLN's fall fundraiser letter along with our reader survey. Periodically we send readers a survey asking readers what they think of PLN's coverage and content and what they would like to see in future issues. We welcome suggestions and comments …
Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003
Thomas and Scalia Flunk History by Scott Christianson The unanimous decision of the United States Supreme Court in Overton v. Bazzetta, upholding Michigan's punitive restrictions on prisoners' visiting rights, showed again how antagonistic the Rehnquist Court is toward prisoners' rights compared to the Burger Court. But the Court's two most …
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