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Article • December 15, 1990 • from PLN December, 1990
U.S. House & Senate Pass Watered Down Version of Crime Bill by U.S. House & Senate Pass Watered Down Version Of Crime Bill In a last-minute effort to get out of town, the U.S. House and Senate quickly worked out differences over their respective versions of the 1990 Crime Bill. …
Article • December 15, 1990 • from PLN December, 1990
Chileans Still in Prison by Chileans Still In Prison Last December many thought that the elections that brought the formal end to the military dictatorship of General Agusto Pinochet (installed in a 1973 CIA assisted coup against the elected government of Salvador Allende) would curtail the massive human rights abuses …
Article • December 15, 1990 • from PLN December, 1990
CBCC Legal Services Scam by Paul Wright By Paul Wright On October 26, 1990, some 42 prisoners at CBCC showed up for what had been purported t be a "legal seminar" by Jean Schiedler Brown. It got started a half-hour late at 10 AM. It turns out Ms. Brown and …
Article • December 15, 1990 • from PLN December, 1990
Sore Loser by Right now the US government is claiming to be outraged by "violations of international law" on the part of the Iraqi government. This is a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black. In 1986 the World Court in The Hague found the United States guilty …
Article • December 15, 1990 • from PLN December, 1990
Filed under: Civil Procedure, Complaints
Prisoners' 1983 Suits by JD Enquist J. D. Enquist This is part two of the article Prisoners' 1983. It will be written from a somewhat different slant; your due process rights as protected by the Fourteenth Amendment. Prison employees are taught that in order to be effective they must view …
Article • December 15, 1990 • from PLN December, 1990
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Crime
Could Sending People to Prison Actually Cause Crime? by Ed Mead Could Sending People To Prison Actually Cause Crime? By Ed Mead According to the U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), the nation's state and federal prison population increased by 42,862 prisoners, or six percent, during the first …
Article • December 15, 1990 • from PLN December, 1990
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
Parole Board Action Alert by [The following notice was sent to us by a prisoner activist at Walla Walla.] If you have been subjected t a parole revocation or ".100" hearing in the last couple of years, you may want to do something about the outcome. If so, read on... …
Article • December 15, 1990 • from PLN December, 1990
Sixteen Executed During 1989 by Sixteen Executions During 1989 In 1976 the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty. Since then 13 states have executed 120 people. Last year (1989) eight states executed 16 people. Eight of them were white and eight were black. They'd spent an average of seven …
Article • December 15, 1990 • from PLN December, 1990
Filed under: Organizing, Overcrowding
Demonstration Against Double Bunking at Twin Rivers Prison by About a dozen members of the outside community held a demonstration in front of the Twin Rivers Correctional Center on October 21st. The protest was sponsored by the Ethnic Minority and Prison Task Force (PO Box 667, Edmonds, WA 98020), and …
Article • December 15, 1990 • from PLN December, 1990
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
Thinking About Women by David Gilbert By David Gilbert On the streets I had women on my mind all the time, but that was nothing compared to being in prison. On many nights I lie in my cell just thinking about women - missing loved ones, remembering times together, and …
Article • December 15, 1990 • from PLN December, 1990
Magistrate Recommends Continued Single Celling at Reformatory by Ed Mead There has been a long and bitterly fought struggle by prisoners at the Washington State Reformatory to enforce a consent decree mandating single celling. The consent decree is a product of a 1978 civil rights complaint filed by Evergreen Legal …
Article • December 15, 1990 • from PLN December, 1990
Fifth Circuit Adopts Reactionary Standard in Excessive Force Claim by Fifth Circuit Adopts Reactionary Standard in Excessive Force Claims A state prisoner filed a civil rights complaint in federal court against two guards who assaulted him during a cell search. The convict received an elbow fracture during the struggle. The …
Article • December 15, 1990 • from PLN December, 1990
Filed under: Editorials, Media, Censorship
From the Editor by Paul Wright From The Editor By Paul Wright Welcome to issue #8 of PLN. If your mailing label says "last issue" this means that you have not made any donations to PLN or assisted us in production. (Note: this applies only to US readers). We do …
Article • December 15, 1990 • from PLN December, 1990
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
Letters From Readers by Letters form our readers are encouraged. Words in brackets [like this] reflect material added by the editors in order to better clarify a subject. Names of writers will not be published unless specific authorization is given to do so. We not only welcome the input of …
Article • November 15, 1990 • from PLN November, 1990
Filed under: Parole, News, State Legislation
The Initiative Process by M R The PLN's coverage of the "initiative" idea was good, but I don't think it left anyone feeling any less powerless than they were before. This (legislative initiative) is going to take a lot of push. People on the outside are still in the dark …
Article • November 15, 1990 • from PLN November, 1990
Free Supreme Court Opinions by The new term for the U.S. supreme court started on October 1, 1990. The Court offers free copies of its decisions for each term to interested parties. This applies only to decisions in this term, there is a limit of 5 decisions per request, be …
Article • November 15, 1990 • from PLN November, 1990
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
Lines in the Sand by Paul Wright By Paul A. Wright As we go to press several hundred thousand American soldiers are waiting in the desert of Saudi Arabia. I expect that before too long they will be attacking Iraq or Iraqi troops in Kuwait. It cannot be said that …
Article • November 15, 1990 • from PLN November, 1990
Digital Probe Costs Nevada $4,000 by A U.S. Court of Appeals, noting that a digital anal body cavity search is "humiliating, degrading and uncomfortable" and that more "narrow and restrictive means could have been used," held that the defendant Associate Warden of a Nevada prison must pay an award of …
Article • November 15, 1990 • from PLN November, 1990
Filed under: Civil Procedure, Complaints
Authority by JD Enquist By: J. D. Enquist It seems that there are increasingly more and more prisoner litigants and many of them becoming jailhouse lawyers. Or as it has been suggested, In-house Legal Consultants or Prisoners Legal consultants. The latter being of no importance, this article is focused on …
Article • November 15, 1990 • from PLN November, 1990
Filed under: Organizing
Let's Get Educated by M Bottom I liked the PLN's proposal concerning getting outside people and prisoners together to lobby the legislature to change the laws in that state. I have done similar work here (in New York), to the point of actually writing a legislative bill and having it …
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