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Article • June 15, 1991 • from PLN June, 1991
Filed under: Medical, HIV/AIDS
Prisoner With AIDS Care Found Lacking by The national commission on AIDS has concluded a study of AIDS in prisons and jails with the finding that "the situation today for many prisoners living with [the AIDS] disease is nothing if not 'cruel and unusual.'" After visiting prisons, holding a fact-finding …
Article • June 15, 1991 • from PLN June, 1991
Civil Commitment Roasted on ABC's Nightline by Dan Pens By Dan Pens I had gotten word through the grape vine that Nightline was going to do a show on the Washington civil commitment law. So I stayed up several nights in a row to check it out. The plight of …
Article • June 15, 1991 • from PLN June, 1991
Mail to Public Officials and Media Protected by Mail To Public Officials And Media Protected The New Jersey Department of Corrections had a regulation that prevented them from opening outgoing "legal correspondence," but allowed prison officials to open,-read; and censor mail being sent to public officials, government agencies and media …
Mere "Institutional Security" Claim Not Enough by Mere "Institutional Security" Claim Not Enough A former prisoner of the Nevada State Prison brought a federal civil rights complaint against guards claiming that his fourth, eighth and fourteenth amendment rights were violated. He contended the violation occurred when guards forced him to …
Article • June 15, 1991 • from PLN June, 1991
Puppets on Strings of Oppression by Christofer Kneech Puppets On Strings Of Oppression By Christofer Kneech All of you came to prison because society did not enjoy your behavior and actions, whether they condemned such actions to be criminal when they may or may have been, but you all have …
Article • June 15, 1991 • from PLN June, 1991
Aftermath MANCI Control Unit & Perotti Update by Numerous organizations inquired into the beatings of six prisoners in the AC Control Unit at Mansfield, Ohio prison by 35 guards. The Cleveland ACLU has requested a written explanation and investigation into the matter. A civil rights complaint was filed by a …
Still Not the Hilton by Still Not The Hilton From: Out Of Time 2/91 The Bureau of Prison's (BOP) 'mission' to isolate, hide and break the spirit of women political prisoners (a la Lexington High Security Unit, Lexington, KY 198688) continues at Federal Correctional Institute (FCI) Marianna in Florida. The …
Article • June 15, 1991 • from PLN June, 1991
Filed under: Sentencing
Life Without Parole Okayed for 13-Year Old Killer by On April 15 the U.S. Supreme Court refused to overturn a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole for a Washington state 13-year old boy convicted of murder. The state courts had held that the sentence did not …
Article • June 15, 1991 • from PLN June, 1991
Crime and Revolution, Prisons Don't Work by Crime And Revolution, Prisons Don't Work Edited from MIM notes According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. government, the United States is number one in the world - number one in imprisonment. More people are in prison and jail in …
Article • June 15, 1991 • from PLN June, 1991
New Report Cites Higher Rates of HIV Infection Among Inmates by The virus that causes AIDS may be more common among prison and jail inmates, especially women, than previously thought, according to a new study based on testing of nearly 11,000 inmates entering 10 prisons and jails between mid-1988 and …
Prisoner Victims of Guard Assault Win Damages by Prisoner Victims Of Guard Assault Win Damages Ten prisoners in the D.C. jail learned they were being transferred to another facility. A number of the inmates passively resisted the transfer. They alleged that after the transfer, they were beaten by correctional officers. …
Article • June 15, 1991 • from PLN June, 1991
Pro-War Hypocrisy by Paul Wright By Paul Wright In early March of this year I received a T-shirt that said "official WWI souvenir, brought to you by ITT Rockwell, General Electric, et al." With a small U.S. flag with a skull and crossbones on it. Property guard L. Marts denied …
Article • June 15, 1991 • from PLN June, 1991
Human Rights in the U.S. Criminal Justice System by Human Rights In The U.S. Criminal Justice System by Equal Justice U.S.A. In addition to it's current use and expansion of the death penalty, the United States enters the 1990's with the highest rate of incarceration in the world. Over one …
Article • June 15, 1991 • from PLN June, 1991
Court Upholds Collection of Blood Samples for DNA Data Bank by A federal court has affirmed a Virginia policy of collecting DNA samples from incarcerated felons, saving the practice does not violate the inmates' right to privacy or constitute unreasonable search of seizure. The ruling is believed to be the …
Article • June 15, 1991 • from PLN June, 1991
Female Guards Can Pat Search Male Prisoners by Prisoners at a Nebraska state all-male prison brought a civil rights lawsuit complaining that their constitutional right to privacy was violated by pat searches performed by female guards and by female guards observing them nude or partially nude while they showered, used …
Article • June 15, 1991 • from PLN June, 1991
Medical Care by A former federal prisoner with diabetes was awarded $500,000 for failure to prison medical staff to provide proper diagnosis and treatment of foot infection which let to below-the-knee amputation of his right leg. The prisoner brought suit against the U.S. pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act, …
Article • June 15, 1991 • from PLN June, 1991
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
Reviews by World View is the quarterly publication of the Political Prisoners Rights Campaign. The spring 1991 issue is 16 81/2x11 pages and contains articles on western military intervention in the USSR; a response to Amnesty International criticizing that organization for a pro US/UK bias (for example, Al. has not …
Article • June 15, 1991 • from PLN June, 1991
Which Shell is the Pea Under? Government Crime Statistics Invoke Slight of Hand by The U.S. Justice Department claims a "definite and positive" link between locking people up and violent crime rates in the United States. As more offenders go to prison, the argument goes, violent crime decreases. It seems …
Article • June 15, 1991 • from PLN June, 1991
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
Biden: Violence Is At a New High by Biden: Violence Is At A New High Last year was "the bloodiest year in the United States history," with the murder toll jumping to an all-time high of 23,200, and rapes, robberies and assaults also reaching record levels, according to a report …
Article • June 15, 1991 • from PLN June, 1991
Filed under: Editorials, Media, Censorship
From The Editor by Paul Wright By Paul Wright Welcome to another issue of PLN. As I write this I don't know how successful our plea for donations in the last PLN was. Hopefully everyone who hadn't donated yet was overcome with a spirit of generosity. In an attempt to …
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