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Article • April 15, 1991 • from PLN April, 1991
Filed under: Parole, News, State Legislation
The LBC's Final Report to the Legislature: A Retreat From The Principles of the SRA by Ed Mead By Ed Mead On January 17, 1991, the Legislative Budget Committee (LBC) issued a "proposed final report" on the performance of the Indeterminate Sentence Review Board (ISRB). The LBC assessed the operations …
Article • April 15, 1991 • from PLN April, 1991
Political Prisoners Hunger Strike in France by Jean-Marc Rouillan By Jean Marc Rouillan [Editors note: this article is translated and based on a letter from Jean Marc to one of PLN's editors.] FRESNES, FRANCE The latest struggle here in France is a rolling hunger strike, one of us will not …
Article • April 15, 1991 • from PLN April, 1991
Beating in the MANCI Control Unit by John Perotti Beating In The MANCI Control Unit By John Perroti MANSFIELD, OHIO - On February 8, 1991, in the super-max administrative control unit (AC-Isolation) at the Mansfield Correctional Institution (MANCI) high tech prison, designed after the U.S. Penitentiary at Marion, II, 35 …
Article • April 15, 1991 • from PLN April, 1991
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
Bush Keeps Crime on Front Burner by Bush Keeps Crime On Front Burner President Bush, who expressed disappointment with the limited crime control bill approved by Congress last year, has signaled that he intends to keep anti-crime initiatives on the national agenda this year, beginning with a national conference that …
Article • April 15, 1991 • from PLN April, 1991
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
Shelton Changes by F D I am a 25-year-old inmate serving time in Washington State Correction Center at Shelton. Since my incarceration here at Shelton I have watched expensive reconstruction projects occurring rapidly, such as Birch and Spruce Halls turned into more R-units, more fencing and razor wire, as well …
Article • April 15, 1991 • from PLN April, 1991
Panel Blasts BJA for Ending Drug Treatment Projects by Panel Blasts BJA For Ending Drug Treatment Projects A House committee has issued a report alleging that the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), which manages the $492-million drug enforcement grants program, discontinued funding of drug treatment in prisons and jails, and …
Article • April 15, 1991 • from PLN April, 1991
Filed under: Organizing, Hunger Strikes
John Perroti on Hungerstrike by John Perotti John Perroti On Hungerstrike John Perroti and his partner, Linda Leisure, have been on a hunger strike since February 14, 1991. Perroti has been held on a one-man isolation tier supposedly only until MANCI's AC unit opened. His visits have been restricted to …
Article • April 15, 1991 • from PLN April, 1991
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
Murder Case Update by Some of you with 1st degree murder convictions that occurred prior to July 1, 1984, have been appearing before the Board for so-called 1457 minimum term settings. Information received by this writer indicates that the Board is handing out very long terms in the vast majority …
Article • April 15, 1991 • from PLN April, 1991
Non-English Messed Over by Many of our inmates are Mexican and/or Central American citizens. They are called up to legal mail line and receive registered letters from their home countries. These letters usually contain a few well worn, soiled American dollars. The institution counts them and has the inmate sign …
Article • April 15, 1991 • from PLN April, 1991
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
Years of Change by B Roland Blankenship By B. Roland Blankenship One thing every old convict asks himself at one time or another is: Is prison change better than the old way of doing time? Backing up to the days of slave labor when a simple complaint could buy you …
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, …
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