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Article • July 15, 2003 • from PLN July, 2003
From the Editor by Paul Wright As PLN goes into its fourteenth publishing year, we have expanded our size to 40 pages to bring readers more information about prison and jail issues than ever before. Despite a prison and jail population at an all time high of more than two …
Article • July 15, 2003 • from PLN July, 2003
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
Joinder of Georgia Annual Parole Hearing Injunction Is Rejected by Paul Wright The Eleventh Circuit US Court of Appeals rejected the attempt of a Georgia life prisoner to use the mechanism of joinder (Fed.RulesCiv.Proc. Rule 20(a)) to gain the benefit of another life prisoner's injunction providing for annual parole consideration …
Article • June 15, 2003 • from PLN June, 2003
From the Editor by Paul Wright Observant readers will have noticed that PLN's masthead has changed its message from "Working to Extend Democracy to All" to "Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights." As PLN enters its fourteenth year of publishing and advocacy on behalf of prisoners, we think this change more …
Article • May 15, 2003 • from PLN May, 2003
From the Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to the thirteenth anni-versary issue of PLN. This marks the 157th issue of PLN that we have published since our first issue appeared in May, 1990. In that time period a lot has happened, both with PLN and the prison system we cover. …
Article • May 15, 2003 • from PLN May, 2003
Prison Population Continues to Grow by Continuing a trend first noted in 2000, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), a division of the U.S. Department of Justice, reported that the overall growth rate of the United States' prison population was quite small. In some states, prison populations actually declined. PLN …
Article • May 15, 2003 • from PLN May, 2003
No Escape: Male Rape in U.S. Prisons: A Human Rights Watch Report by Joanne Mariner by Alex Coolman Review by Alex Coolman In April of 2001, Human Rights Watch released a report called No Escape: Male Rape in U.S. Prison. The report, written by Joanne Mariner, contains dozens of first-hand …
Article • May 15, 2003 • from PLN May, 2003
Filed under: Reviews, Court Access
Writing to Win by John E Dannenberg by Steven D. Stark, Broadway Books, 1999, soft back, 283 pages Review by John E. Dannenberg Write succinctly! Or, alterna-tively, bore your intended reading audience to death with burdensome legal treatises steeped in excessive, redundant verbosity, liberally laced with old-as-the-hills cliches. Get it? …
Article • April 15, 2003 • from PLN April, 2003
From the Editor by Paul Wright From The Editor by Paul Wright Beginning with this issue of PLN there will be some changes in the law articles. Due to the limited space we have for news and law articles and the ongoing growth in prison and jail related cases being …
Article • April 15, 2003 • from PLN April, 2003
Filed under: Reviews, Court Access, Judiciary
Book Review: Law and the Rise of Capitalism by Peter Wagner by Michael E. Tigar & Madeleine R. Levy, New (2000) Edition by Michael E. Tigar, Monthly Review Press, 348 pages, $18.00 Review by Peter Wagner Famed litigator and scholar Michael Tigar has reissued his 1977 classic Law and the …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN March, 2003
Filed under: Reviews, Work, Prison Industries
Gender and Incarceration: How Men and Women Experience Life Behind Bars by Silja JA Talvi Gender and Incarceration: How Men and Women Experience Life Behind Bars Reviews by Silja J.A. Talvi Prison Masculinities, edited by Don Sabo, Terry A. Kupers, and Willie London. Temple University Press, Philadelphia: 2001. Counseling Female …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004
Scrubbing Abu Ghraib Away by Mumia Abu-Jamal SCRUBBING ABU GHRAIB AWAY by Mumia Abu-Jamal If persistent news tips are correct, the U.S. Army's report on the barbarities at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison will lodge blame for the events there at the rank of colonel and below, and no real bigwigs …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004
Filed under: Reviews, Media
Prisons Almanac 2004 Prisons Foundation, Washington, DC by John E Dannenberg Reviewed by John E. Dannenberg Prisons Almanac is a refreshingly eclectic collection of 140 of "the most promising and uplifting prison-related news stories of the previous year" produced in classic almanac format by the Prisons Foundation. The Almanac also …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004
From the Editor by Paul Wright From The Editor by Paul Wright The month of September will be the last month that Hans Sherrer, PLN's circulation manager will be with us. After several years working for PLN Hans is moving on to other activities. As PLN's circulation manager, Hans oversaw …
Report Downplays Wrongful Convictions in U.S. by Hans Sherrer A report by University of Michigan staffers and law students _ Exonerations in the United States: 1989 through 2003 _ was released to the public on April 23, 2004. The report analyzed data from 328 cases during that 15 year period …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004
Filed under: Reviews, Court Access
The Citebook by Michael Rigby by Tony Darwin, Starlite, Inc., 2004, 20th ed., 308 pp., $35.95, soft cover Review by Michael Rigby For anyone not trained in the law, navigating the U.S. judicial system can be a daunting prospect. But with knowledge comes confidence, and that's exactly what Tony Darwin …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN March, 2003
From the Editor by Paul Wright I am pleased to announce that The Celling of America: An Inside Look at the U.S. Prison Industry, PLN's first book which was published in 1998, is now available in Spanish. El Encarcelamiento de America was published last summer in Spain by Editorial Virus, …
Article • February 15, 2003 • from PLN February, 2003
From the Editor by Paul Wright PLN's new book, Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America's Poor is now available for distribution from PLN as well as other bookstores and outlets. Edited by myself and Seattle attorney Tara Herivel, Prison Nation is the first book to systematically examine the connection between …
Article • February 15, 2003 • from PLN February, 2003
Protecting Your Health and Safety: A Litigation Guide for Inmates by Paul Wright by Robert Toone, Southern Poverty Law Center, 2002, 328 pages Review by Paul Wright The bottom-line for most prisoners is surviving prison. That means staying healthy, getting medical care as needed in a safe environment and not …
Article • January 15, 2003 • from PLN January, 2003
From the Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to the first issue of PLN for 2003. If you have not yet been donated to PLN's annual fund-raiser it is not too late to do so. All donations, large or small, help. Your donations go directly to supporting the work that PLN …
Article • January 15, 2003 • from PLN January, 2003
Book Review: From Prison to Home by Roger Hummel by Jeremy Travis, Amy Solomon and Michelle Waul Justice Policy Center, the Urban Institute, Washington DC, 2001, 56 pages, paper Review by Roger Hummel In a remarkable new book from the Urban Institute's Justice Policy Center, the dimensions of prisoner reentry …
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