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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 …
Article • March 15, 1991 • from PLN March, 1991
Sex Offender "Treatment" in Washington State, In Whose Best Interest? by Dan Pens Sex Offender "Treatment" in Washington State, In Whose Best Interest? By Dan Pens The Washington State Sex Offender Treatment Program (SOTP) currently ensconced in TRCC receives national acclaim. They publish statistics which portray them as an unqualified …
Article • March 15, 1991 • from PLN March, 1991
Filed under: Editorials, Media, Censorship
Editorial by Ed Mead Editorial Comments By Ed Mead Here is another edition of our newsletter. We hope that you find it is a good one. The Prison/Community Alliance is going to be working toward getting rid of this state's parole board and will need all of the help that …
Article • March 15, 1991 • from PLN March, 1991
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
Letters From Readers by Hey - I got issue #2 of PLN tonight. I read the article on sex offenders and thought it was excellent. Not only was I not offended, I agree with you 100%. Look - we all have our prejudices as to what is an "okay" crime …
Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
X-Ray Searches of Prisoners Found Unlawful by X-Ray Searches Of Prisoners Found Unlawful A claim that a x-ray search was ordered by prison security officials without medical authorization was not frivolous. The failure to inquire into the plaintiff's medical history to consider the possible cumulative effect of x-rays, to get …
Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
Station Files Suit to Televise Execution by Station Files Suit To Televise Execution A San Francisco public television station, KQED, has filed a suit against the governor for permission to broadcast executions. Currently, cameras are barred and witnesses are not permitted to take notes. A DOC representative said the rules …
Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
Spending on Corrections Rises Sharply by Spending On Corrections Rises Sharply Federal, state and local governments in the United States spent $61 billion in fiscal year 1988 for civil and criminal justice, an increase of 34 percent since 1985, according to a report recently issued by the U.S. Department of …
Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
Filed under: Parole, News, State Legislation
The Parole Board Audit Report by Ed Mead Ed Mead The Legislative Budge Committee (LBC) has issued its preliminary report on the Indeterminate Sentence Review Board (ISRB). The December 14, 1990, report was an audit that examined the operations of the Board in the context of the dual sentencing system …
Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
Some Peruvian Prisoners Released by Prisons in Peru are so overcrowded and under financed that two prisoners a day are dying at Lurigancho prison (where 5,900 are housed). As a result of these conditions, prisoners went on a hunger strike for better conditions. The result of this strike was a …
Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
Mothers in Prison by Mothers In Prison [The following article about Mothers in Prison was excepted from the "Pacific" section of the December 2, 1990, issue of the Seattle Times/P-1, and then edited further to meet the informational needs of Prisoners' Legal News readers.] Lori and Raynette are both inmates …
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