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Article • September 15, 2001 • from PLN September, 2001
Filed under: Editorials, Organizing
From the Editor by Paul Wright September, 2001, marks the 30th anniversary of the modern prisoner rights movement in the United States. In September, 1971, prisoners in Attica, New York, rose up to protest horrendous conditions. The uprising occurred after peaceful means of protest had failed and prisoners refused to …
Article • September 15, 2001 • from PLN September, 2001
Legal Research: How to Find and Understand the Law by Sam Rutherford by Stephen Elias and Susan Levinkind Legal Research does exactly what its title indicates; it explains how to find and understand the law. The book is written in easy to understand language, while imparting a vast amount of …
Article • September 15, 2001 • from PLN September, 2001
Snitch Culture: How Citizens Are Turned into the Eyes and Ears of the State by Hans Sherrer by Jim Redden, Feral House, 2001, 235 pages Snitch Culture is a timely examination of how personal and technological snitching is used by the state and by private organizations, in conjunction with informational …
Article • August 15, 2001 • from PLN August, 2001
PLRA Attorney Fee Cap Analyzed by The Temple Law Review recently published an article useful to any litigants challenging the Prison Litigation Reform Act's (PLRA) cap on attorney fees under 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(d). The Price of Civil Rights: The PLRA's Attorney's Fee Cap Provision as a Violation of Equal …
Article • August 15, 2001 • from PLN August, 2001
From the Editor by by Paul Wright We have recently added several new books to the list of titles PLN is distributing. In coming months we will add more titles to our book list. As PLN 's office situation stabilizes our staff has more time to do things like track …
Article • August 15, 2001 • from PLN August, 2001
Executive Director Note by This is the seventh issue of PLN printed since I became Executive Director. It has been a real challenge getting PLN back on track. To ensure another Fred fiasco does not happen again we have instituted several procedures and safeguards. These measures include: compartmentizing operations, two …
Article • July 15, 2001 • from PLN July, 2001
From the Editor by Paul Wright With this issue of PLN we are back on our normal publishing schedule. Readers should be receiving their copy of PLN around the first of the issue month. A reminder to our prisoner readers, if prison officials censor your PLN subscription please let us …
Article • July 15, 2001 • from PLN July, 2001
Filed under: Private Prisons, Reviews, Crime
Book Review: The Perpetual Prisoner Machine: How America Profits From Crime by Rick Card by Joel Dyer, Westview Press, 2000 (318 pages) Reviewed by Rick Card An estimated 69 million people, or 44 percent of all households now own stock or invest in one of thousands of mutual funds. According …
Article • July 15, 2001 • from PLN July, 2001
Book Review: Capital Crimes by Allen N Huxley by George Winslow, Monthly Review Press (1999), 360 pages Review by Allen N. Huxley Crime dominates the news, arouses fear and anger among the mass media-consuming public, and oils the rhetorical machinery of opportunistic politicians. Yet for all of the moralizing, finger …
Article • June 15, 2001 • from PLN June, 2001
From the Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to another issue of PLN. Right now we are still focused on getting our publishing schedule back on track so that readers receive their issue around the beginning of the issue's calender date. We expect to be back on schedule by July. As …
Article • May 15, 2001 • from PLN May, 2001
From the Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to PLN's 132nd consecutive issue. May 2001, marks PLN's eleventh anniversary. In that time period PLN has grown from a 10 page, hand typed, photocopied newsletter to its current magazine format and size. As reported in last month's editorial, things at PLN have …
Article • May 15, 2001 • from PLN May, 2001
The Prisoner's Guide to Survival: A Comprehensive Legal Assistance Manual for PostConviction Relief and Prisoners' Civil Rights Actions by Sam Rutherford By L. Powell Belanger PSI Publishing, Inc. (745 Pages) Reviewed by Sam Rutherford The Prisoner's Guide to Survival is a new legal research tool that covers all aspects of …
Article • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001
From the Editor by Paul Wright From The Editor by Paul Wright Recently PLN has not been publishing on its usual schedule. There have been a number of unforeseen developments lately that have caused this. In October 2000, the behavior of Fred Markham, PLN's office manager at the time, became …
Article • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001
Filed under: Reviews, Media, Prisoner Media
The Funhouse Mirror, By Robert Ellis Gordon and Inmates of the Washington Corrections System by Allen N Huxley WSU Press (2000), $14.95 Review by Allen N. Huxley Robert Ellis Gordon is an educator and fiction writer who conducted creative writing workshops in various Washington prisons during the late 80s and …
Article • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001
Filed under: Reviews, Crime, Sentencing
Crime and Punishment Relation Examined by Julia Lutsky Between 1991 and 1998 the rate of incarceration in the United States increased a dramatic 47% at same time the crime rate dropped 22%. Before you conclude that imprisoning more people results in less crime you would be wise to read a …
Article • February 15, 2001 • from PLN February, 2001
Filed under: Reviews, Media, Prisoner Media
Book Review: Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing by Mumia Abu-Jamal Fyodor Dostoevsky's old adage about measuring a civilization by reviewing its prisons if followed in the U.S. context is a condemnation of this nation's own version of the gulag archipelago. A cross-section of prisoner's writings submitted to the …
Article • February 15, 2001 • from PLN February, 2001
From the Editor by Paul Wright From The Editor Paul Wright For the past five years, the January issue of PLN has contained our annual index. We decided to discontinue the practice last year because as PLN grew so did the index. It has gotten to the point that an …
A.I. Reports on US Compliance with UN Convention Against Torture by Julia Lutsky In May 2000, a United States government delegation appeared before the UN Committee against Torture in Geneva to present its first report on the implementation of the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading …
Article • February 15, 2001 • from PLN February, 2001
The Prison Payoff: The Role of Politics and Private Prisons in the Incarceration Boom by A report published by the Western Prison Project and the Western States Center. The report concludes that private prison corporations exert increasing political influence at the state level. Private Prisons are also playing a key …
Article • January 15, 2001 • from PLN January, 2001
From the Editor by Paul Wright Paul Wright January 15, 2001, marks the end of PLN's matching grant fundraiser. PLN still hasn't reached the full $15,000 grant maximum. If you haven't donated yet to the matching grant fundraiser please do so now. We will report the fundraiser's results in the …
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