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Article • January 15, 2003 • from PLN January, 2003
Filed under: Reviews, Court Access
A Jailhouse Lawyer's Manual, Fifth Ed. and 2002 Supplement by Paul Wright by Columbia Human Rights Law Review, 2002, 1,593 pages Reviewed by Paul Wright The law review staff at Columbia University in New York has published A Jailhouse Lawyer's Manual (JLM) since 1978. Now in its fifth edition, the …
Article • December 15, 2002 • from PLN December, 2002
From the Editor by Paul Wright This is the last issue of PLN for the year. We would like to thank all of our readers for your continued support which makes PLN possible. PLN's office staff notes that many readers send letters to our office that do not have the …
Article • December 15, 2002 • from PLN December, 2002
2003 Political Prisoner Calendar Available by As 2002 ends, the need for a calendar for the coming year becomes more apparent. Activists in Canada have published the Free Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War 2003 Calendar. The eye catching and well designed calendar is filled with slick graphics and plenty …
Article • November 15, 2002 • from PLN November, 2002
From the Editor by Paul Wright Subscribers should soon receive PLN's annual fund-raiser mailing. If you can afford to make a donation to help sustain and expand PLN's work, please do so. PLN relies almost exclusively on reader support to continue publishing. Subscriptions account for only a portion of the …
Article • November 15, 2002 • from PLN November, 2002
A Sentence of Their Own by Hans Sherrer Directed and Produced by Edgar A. Barens (2001), 64 minutes, VHS video, $125 Review by Hans Sherrer Produced in the form of a home video, A Sentence of Their Own documents the negative impact of a man's 1996 seven-year prison sentence on …
Article • October 15, 2002 • from PLN October, 2002
Filed under: Editorials, Organizing, Voting
From the Editor by Paul Wright The connection between felon disenfranchisement and mass imprisonment is rarely explored. In this month's cover story we discuss the correlation between the two. In many ways, the more things change the more they remain the same. Today's convicts effectively pad voter numbers when legislative …
Article • October 15, 2002 • from PLN October, 2002
Filed under: Reviews, Resources, Court Access
Represent Yourself in Court: How to Prepare & Try a Winning Case, 3rd Ed. by Sam Rutherford Represent Yourself in Court: How to Prepare & Try a Winning Case, 3rd Ed. By Attorneys Paul Bergman & Sara BermanBarrett, Nolo Press, 2001 (528 pages) Reviewed by Sam Rutherford The third edition …
Article • October 15, 2002 • from PLN October, 2002
All Things Censored by Mumia Abu Jamal by Gary Hunter Seven Stories Press, 335 page paperback, $14.95 Review by Gary Hunter For nearly two decades Mumia Abu Jamal has defied the deathgrip of Pennsylvania's death row. For nearly two decades he has revealed secrets that our nation's most powerful leaders …
Article • September 15, 2002 • from PLN September, 2002
From the Editor by Paul Wright Over the years, PLN has conducted a number of sample mailings to potential subscribers. This has always been a good way to expand our circulation, but such mailings are expensive to do. We have long recognized that our best outreach resource is our readership. …
Article • September 15, 2002 • from PLN September, 2002
Review: The Criminal Law Handbook, 3rd Edition by by Paul Bergman and Sara J. Berman-Barrett. Nolo, 606 pages, paperback, $29.95 A sure-fire method to eliminate future overcrowding of our nation's prisons would be to compel each aspiring scofflaw to read the third edition of The Criminal Law Handbook before his …
Article • August 15, 2002 • from PLN August, 2002
The Parents' Project by Denise Johnston by Denise Johnston and Michael Carlin According to the U.S. Department of Labor, more than 25% of the nation's adult population lives with a criminal record for a substantial portion of their lives. The majority of these adults are parents. The Center for Children …
Article • August 15, 2002 • from PLN August, 2002
Prisoner's Guerrilla Handbook to Correspondence Programs in The United States and Canada , 2 nd Ed. by Hans Sherrer by Jon Marc Taylor, Biddle Publishing Co., 2002, pb. 341 pages Review by Hans Sherrer All across the country DOC educational programs available to prisoners are being reduced or eliminated. That …
Article • August 15, 2002 • from PLN August, 2002
PLRA and AEDPA Have Different Effects on Prisoner Petitions by In a December 2001 special report, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, a division of the U.S. Department of Justice, determined that the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) and the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) have had significant, but …
Article • August 15, 2002 • from PLN August, 2002
Filed under: Editorials, Juveniles
From the Editor by Paul Wright 9-11 Immigration Detainees NJ Sex Offender Website Florida Guards Acquitted Parents' Project S.Ct. on Civil Commitment $3.5 Million Nevada Settlement Damages in Michigan Smoking Case Legal Mail Bans $2.8 Million TX Boot Camp Award Texas Guards California Parole News in Brief When people think …
Article • July 15, 2002 • from PLN July, 2002
From the Editor by Paul Wright PLN 's cumulative index is now available. The index has almost 500 different subject categories for all articles reported by PLN . No more time spent looking vainly for cases or articles under various topics. PLN 's new indexing system is designed for the …
Article • July 15, 2002 • from PLN July, 2002
Filed under: Reviews, Medical, Hepatitis
Book Review: Dr. Melissa Palmer's Guide To Hepatitis Liver Disease by Phyllis Beck Penguin Putnam, NY, 2000, pb. 457 pages Review by Phyllis Beck A big thumbs up for Dr. Melissa Palmer's Guide to Hepatitis Liver Disease . The book's information is up-to-date, it is fully indexed, it includes a …
Article • July 15, 2002 • from PLN July, 2002
Resource Directories by The Prisoner's Assistance Directory is a 69-page booklet published by the ACLU's National Prison Project. The Directory gives a 50 state breakdown on legal organizations that represent prisoners in court, prison related publications, activist groups, advocacy and anti death penalty groups and organizations which provide assistance to …
Article • June 15, 2002 • from PLN June, 2002
From the Editor by Paul Wright This month's cover story examines the effects of mass imprisonment on the children of prisoners. All too often it is forgotten that prisoners have family members and the impact of penal policies on these families is largely ignored. Just as "family values" has served …
Article • June 15, 2002 • from PLN June, 2002
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
Book Review: The Prisons by Maggie Jaffe by Michael McIrvin (Cedar Hill Publications, 92 pages, paper, $15.00) Reviewed by Michael McIrvin The Prisons, Maggie Jaffe's most recent poetry collection is hard to read, as the bleakest truths often are. The book is also hard to put down for the same …
Article • June 15, 2002 • from PLN June, 2002
The Death Penalty in the U.S.A. -- Past, Present, and Future by Roger Hummel The Death Penalty in the U.S.A. - Past, Present, and Future Book Reviews by Roger Hummel Condemned: Inside the Sing Sing Death House by Scott Christianson. New York University Press, New York. 184 pages (illustrated), $24.95, …
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