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Article • April 15, 1991 • from PLN April, 1991
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
".100 Hearings" Opinions Of An Attorney by ".100 Hearings" Opinions Of An Attorney by Barbetta Ralphs, Atty. As an attorney, I concur with the person who believed the Board was "maxing out" the majority of persons to whom they have allowed .100 hearings, or, at the very least, given them …
Article • April 15, 1991 • from PLN April, 1991
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
More Federal Money for Prisons by More Federal Money For Prisons While critics of the Bush Administration have been arguing that the war on drugs has become a "nonwar" since Operation Desert Storm began, the U.S. Justice Department says the fight to free the nation of the scourge of narcotics …
Article • April 15, 1991 • from PLN April, 1991
Did DOC Lie on Computer Issue? by Ed Mead Did DOC Lie On Computer Issue? By Ed Mead Back in the late '70s I was involved in an armed escape attempt from the state prison at Walla Walla. It was my first time in a state prison, and the experience …
Article • April 15, 1991 • from PLN April, 1991
Oppression and Resistance at Canada's Prison for Women by Oppression And Resistance At Canada's Prison For Women KINGSTON, ONTARIO - On February 12, 1991, Lorna Jones, a native prisoner, was found hanging in her cell. Her's was the fifth suicide by a native prisoner at the Prison for Women (P4W) …
Article • April 15, 1991 • from PLN April, 1991
Women's Report by F L Prisoner's Legal News is an excellent monthly magazine that I sincerely hope is generating interest and financial support, to which I will soon be adding. The major concern among most women in prison is the welfare of their children, many of whom were declared to …
Article • April 15, 1991 • from PLN April, 1991
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
To a Bureaucrat by Anthony McIntyre To A Bureaucrat You are as irrelevant to my future as I am to yours. I have no power over you and I seek none. But, you are unhappy to be likewise. You pretend to have influence with the big people enabling you to …
Article • April 15, 1991 • from PLN April, 1991
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
Reviews by RESISTANCE - Documents and analysis of the illegal front. Is an irregular tabloid that has news and analysis of militant autonomist, anti-imperialist, national liberation, and anti-nuclear struggle in the advanced capitalist countries. The latest issue has articles about native struggle in Canada, a discussion paper on patriarchy from …
Article • April 15, 1991 • from PLN April, 1991
Filed under: Sentencing, Three Strikes
Habitual Criminal Case Update by For those who have been following the habitual criminal issue, there is some news. The lead case, In Re Echman, which is pending in the State Supreme Court, challenges the way the Board conducted 1457 reviews. It is argued that the Board was directed by …
Article • April 15, 1991 • from PLN April, 1991
Filed under: Editorials, Media, Censorship
From The Editor by Paul Wright By Paul Wright Welcome to another issue of PLN. Next month will mark one full year of publishing PLN. This is our twelfth issue. We started out planning to make it a four to six issue project to see what kind of a response …
Article • March 15, 1991 • from PLN March, 1991
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
Toward Creating a More Equal Sentencing System by Toward Creating A More Equal Sentencing System In 1981 the Washington state legislature enacted the Sentencing Reform Act (SRA) in order to change from a rehabilitation based system of corrections to a punishment oriented sentencing policy. Two additional reasons for the change, …
Article • March 15, 1991 • from PLN March, 1991
Treatment Effective Against Drug Use by As the debate wages over the best way to rid the country of drugs, a government report said research shows drug treatment has proven effective against repeated use and drug-related crime. The government's triennial report to Congress, Drug Abuse and Drug Abuse Research, released …
Will The Racists Please Stand Up? by Paul Wright By Paul Wright The 101st Congress has passed the Racial Justice Act (RJA). What the RJA does is prohibit racism in the application of the death penalty. As currently applied a disproportionate number of the men and women on death row …
Article • March 15, 1991 • from PLN March, 1991
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
Getting Tough Approach To Crime Fails to Produce Results by Ed Mead Getting Tough Approach To Crime Fails To Produce Results By Ed Mead Anthony P. Travisono is the Director of the American Correctional Association (ACA), a national organization consisting of prison wardens and other high-level correction officials. He also …
Article • March 15, 1991 • from PLN March, 1991
Avenue to Attack Habitual Criminal Conviction by Avenue To Attack Habitual Criminal Conviction On January 8th the U.S. Supreme Court let stand a decision that a court can be ordered to review the constitutionality of a prior conviction before a person found guilty of a new crime is sentenced as …
Article • March 15, 1991 • from PLN March, 1991
Disclosure of AIDS Condition Violates Right to Privacy by Disclosure Of AIDS Condition Violates Right To Privacy The federal district court in New Jersey ruled that disclosure of a person's medical condition, especially exposure to or infection with HIV (the virus suspected of causing AIDS), is disclosure of a "personal …
Article • March 15, 1991 • from PLN March, 1991
Loss of Legal Materials States Claim for Denial of Access To The Courts by Loss Of Legal Materials States Claim For Denial Of Access To The Courts A prisoner's allegation that prison officials had accepted and lost materials essential to his pursuit of post-conviction relief stated a claim for denial …
Article • March 15, 1991 • from PLN March, 1991
The New and Improved Marion by Paul Wright By Paul Wright As we were preparing this issue of PLN we received several articles describing the horrible conditions of control units in Florida, New Jersey and Marion, Illinois. Most Washington prisoners are familiar with the local version of this phenomenon: the …
Article • March 15, 1991 • from PLN March, 1991
Prison Discipline Study by The Prisoner Rights Union (PRU) in California in 1989 started a survey to determine the prevalence of extreme forms of discipline in the American prison system. To do so they mailed out questionnaires to prisoners in 41 states across the U.S. Based on useable returns from …
Article • March 15, 1991 • from PLN March, 1991
U.S. Now Has World's Highest Incarceration Rate by The U.S. now has the highest recorded rate of imprisonment of any nation in the world, according to a new report by The Sentencing Project. With over one million inmates in prison and jail, the U.S. surpasses both South Africa and the …
Article • March 15, 1991 • from PLN March, 1991
Review: A Saga of Shame by A SAGA OF SHAME is a 20-page tabloid dealing with racial discrimination and the death penalty in the U.S. in its current and historical concerts. A lot of the information has been presented before in other publications and PLN has reported some of the …
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