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Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
Oregon Board Rules Held Ex Post Facto by An Oregon prisoner challenged the application of newly adopted parole board rules to his case. He sought review of the board's action in the state Court of Appeals, saying the board should have applied the review rules that were in effect when …
Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
From The Editor by Paul Wright By Paul Wright Welcome to another issue of PLN . Longtime readers of PLN may recall that PLN was banned by the Texas DOC in July of 1990 as they claimed we were not a "publisher." We appealed the decision and it was upheld …
Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
Filed under: Parole, News, State Legislation
Getting Rid of the Board: Status of the Initiative Process by Ed Mead Getting Rid Of The Board: Status Of The Initiative Process By Ed Mead Back in the February issue we told readers that the Prison/Community Alliance (P/CA) and the PLN editors were in the process of drafting sample …
Article • September 15, 1991 • from PLN September, 1991
Prison Discrimination Illegal by Mark Labounty, a black New York state prisoner fled suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claiming violation of his Eight amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment and his right to equal protection of the law because he was denied work as a …
Supreme Court Slams Conditions Case by Just before finishing its last session, the United States Supreme Court handed down a ruling making it more difficult for prisoners to challenge the constitutionality of prison conditions. The five to four decision held that prisoners must prove that prison officials not merely maintained …
Article • September 15, 1991 • from PLN September, 1991
Resistance at Pelican Bay Gulag by Resistance At Pelican Bay Gulag Greetings from the Control Unit in California's Pelican Bay state prison. I am litigating a civil rights act lawsuit 42 U.S.C. sec. 1983, due to being forcibly double celled here. The case is Fetters v. Marshall, N.D. Cal. Case …
Article • September 15, 1991 • from PLN September, 1991
Group Cites Shift from Education to Prisons by Group Cites Shift From Education To Prisons The criminal justice system is "stealing" dollars away from public education, according to a study by the national Center on Institutions and Alternatives (NCIA), an Alexandria, Virginia-based criminal justice research organization. "We're trading textbooks for …
Article • September 15, 1991 • from PLN September, 1991
Filed under: Resources, Organizing
Families Against Mandatory Minimums by FAMM is a nationwide organization of citizens working for the repeal of statutory mandatory minimum sentences. Its members consist of prisoners, their families and loved ones, lawyers and civil rights activists. Mandatory minimum sentences are sentences which must be served with no possibility of parole …
Article • September 15, 1991 • from PLN September, 1991
24-Hour Cell Lights by Tom Langbehn Prisoners confined in the oppressive and mentally debilitating environment of the Intensive Management Unit (IMU) at Walla Walla are being subjected to a highly effective form of sensory deprivation, a part of which being the lights in cells that are kept on 24 hours …
Article • September 15, 1991 • from PLN September, 1991
Racial Discrimination at Raiford by Darryl Conquest Racial Discrimination At Raiford The prison population at gulag Union Correctional Institution (UCI) in Raiford, Florida, borders on 1,500 captives. The population is made up of approximately 800 Blacks (55%), 675 Whites (43%), and 120 Hispanics (7%). Under the compulsory slave labor theme …
Article • September 15, 1991 • from PLN September, 1991
Prison/Community Alliance Update by Carrie Roth By Carrie Roth I received a copy of the June 24, 1991 indeterminate Sentence Review Board (ISRB) minutes today and in it is another example of the ISRBs' inability to adequately perform their duties. In the minutes is a short paragraph which states, "Ms. …
Article • September 15, 1991 • from PLN September, 1991
View From Italy by Giovanni Senzanni The U.S. prison system is one of the worst in the world: it is a means of mass oppression and control against the "minorities" (the people of the inside colony) and the proletarians - a perfect example of "class justice" as Marx said - …
Article • September 15, 1991 • from PLN September, 1991
Remembering Attica: Twenty Years Later by Ed Mead By Ed Mead On September 13, 1978, prisoners at Walla Walla celebrated Attica Day by holding a sparsely attended memorial talent show in the prison's auditorium. On September 13, 1979, the Washington Coalition Against Prisons (WaCAP) braved heavy rain to stage a …
Article • September 15, 1991 • from PLN September, 1991
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
State and Federal SRA Parole Systems Similar by I find the articles in PLN dealing with Washington state's dual sentencing procedure interesting and thought provoking because the federal system is going through something worse. There are at least four sentencing procedures going on here. The oldest is for those prisoners …
Article • September 15, 1991 • from PLN September, 1991
Prisoners Are Entitled to Recovery For Underpayment of Wages by Mark Cook Prisoners Are Entitled To Recovery For Underpayment Of Wages By Mark Cook, Leavenworth, Kansas There are over one Million prisoners in the United States, yet we are not counted as part of the US statistical labor force. It …
Article • September 15, 1991 • from PLN September, 1991
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
Why Do Legal Work? by F L Dwight Correctional Center is served educationally by Lewis University, " A Christian Brothers University." Lewis University offers courses entitled Paralegal I and II (16 weeks each), which I have decided to take. According to Lewis University, "the primary purpose of this course is …
Article • September 15, 1991 • from PLN September, 1991
More Racism in Florida's Slammers by Vincent Harris More Racism In Florida's Slammers I have recently heard of the PLN and at this time I will share some headlines of the legalized slavery here at Martin Correctional Institution. There are serious racial problems at MCI within the administration and continuous …
Article • September 15, 1991 • from PLN September, 1991
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
The Class Implications of Prisoner Rights Litigation by Ed Mead The Class Implications Of Prisoner Rights Litigation Compiled by Ed Mead Today the most reactionary and violent faction of the ruling class controls the government. These right-wing conservatives ignore the root causes of crime and instead seek to scapegoat prisoners …
Article • September 15, 1991 • from PLN September, 1991
Prison Education by Paul Wright As you know, the 9th Circuit ruled in Hernandez vs. Johnston (a case out of MICC) that we don't have a right to education or rehabilitation. My opinion is the that whole "school in prison" thing is a sham. The state could care less about …
Article • September 15, 1991 • from PLN September, 1991
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
The Rich Get Richer by The Rich Get Richer... The North American working class is now ninth in the world in terms of wages and benefits, and continues to decline. At this point the earnings of the U.S. working class have been driven back to what they were in the …
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