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Article • June 15, 1990 • from PLN June, 1990
Blacks Have Higher Crime Victimization Rate by Blacks are more likely than whites to be victims of violent crime, and the crimes against black victims are generally more serious that those against whites, according to a new study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). A review of the Bureau's …
Article • June 15, 1990 • from PLN June, 1990
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
Book on Washington Prisons by "Impacts of Washington State's Correctional Institutions on Communities" is the title of a study available at no cost from the Washington State Institute for Public Policy. The study was commissioned b the state legislature in 1988. The main purpose seems to have been to find …
Article • June 15, 1990 • from PLN June, 1990
Filed under: Prison Rebellion, Media
Clallam Bay Disturbance Update by Paul Wright Paul Wright As reported in the last issue of the PLN, there were 32 prisoners shipped from Clallam Bay to the Intensive Management Unit (IMU) at Shelton. The mainstream media reported that prison officials had told them there was a "brawl" between one …
Article • June 15, 1990 • from PLN June, 1990
It Only Gets Worse, Says DOC by The May 10th issue of the Seattle Times quoted Ruben Cendeno, director of the Division of Offender Programs for the state Department of Corrections (DOC), as telling a Washington Council on Crime and Delinquency sponsored forum that the Washington state corrections system is …
Article • June 15, 1990 • from PLN June, 1990
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
A History of Rehabilitation Under Washington State Law by Matt James A History Of Rehabilitation Under Washington State Law By Matt James [Editor's Note: The revised Code of Washington provides that the parole Board "shall not...release a prisoner, unless in its opinion his rehabilitation has been complete and he is …
Article • June 15, 1990 • from PLN June, 1990
Women Prisoners Meet Board by The Washington State parole Board has been going from prison to prison setting new minimum terms for offenders serving time for murder. In 1989 the average amount of time served on a murder one was 150.1 months. Along came the Sentencing Reform Act (SRA), which …
Article • June 15, 1990 • from PLN June, 1990
EPA Fining Florida Prison by Federal environmental officials plan to fine the State of Florida $100,000.00 for pollution violations at the Florida State Prison near Starke. The violations involve operations at the prison's sewage treatment plant. United States Environmental Protection Agency officials said April 18th the plant has been releasing …
Article • June 15, 1990 • from PLN June, 1990
Marion Prison to be Replaced by Marion Prison To Be Replaced It's gonna get worse, fellas. A March 30th report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons says the BOP is going to replace the federal prison at Marion, Illinois, with a new maximum-security penitentiary in Florence, Colorado. Marion was …
Article • June 15, 1990 • from PLN June, 1990
Prisoner AIDS Support Network by Prisoner Aids Support Network The Prisoner AIDS Support Network is already in contact with the inside and outside prisoner AIDS activists in Canada and the U.S. Experience is knowing that fighting homophobia and institutionally induced ignorance through peer education programs inside can make a difference …
Women Prisoners Raped, Harassed by Guards by Women Prisoners Raped, Harassed By Guards As a result of a law suit filed late last year on behalf of 12 prisoners at the Ohio Reformatory for Women at Marysville, 18 prison employees have resigned or been fired for having "illicit relations" with …
Article • June 15, 1990 • from PLN June, 1990
Victims to Amend Constitution by Victims To Amend Constitution A network of crime victim's rights advocates, concerned about difficulties in enforcing laws that were intended to give victims specific legal rights, is mounting a campaign to win ratification of amendments to state constitutions ensuring those rights. Six states have approved …
Article • June 15, 1990 • from PLN June, 1990
Jail Populations Up 54% in 5 Years by Jail Populations Up 54% In 5 Years In a special report "Population Density in Local Jails, 1988," the U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) recently announced that between 1983 and 1988, 5.3 million square feet of new housing space and …
Article • June 15, 1990 • from PLN June, 1990
Prison Populations To Grow 68% by '94 by Prison populations are expected to increase by about 68% by 1994, according to a report by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. Effects of the "war on drugs" are expected to overwhelm the nations correctional systems during that time. Other findings …
Article • June 15, 1990 • from PLN June, 1990
Newsletter for Prisoners with AIDS by Newsletter For Prisoners With Aids The Prisoners with AIDS -- Rights Advocacy Group (PWA-RAG) was founded by prisoners in May of 1988. The PWA-RAG newsletter is published by Jim Magner and Larry Snyder both prisoners at the federal medical center in Springfield, MO. PWA-RAG …
Article • June 15, 1990 • from PLN June, 1990
Abolish the Death Penalty! by Abolish The Death Penalty!!! Here in Washington state the Washington Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (WCADP) is working to do just that. They have a variety of resources available, including a quarterly newsletter. The Coalition is a variety of religious, civil liberties and civic …
Article • June 15, 1990 • from PLN June, 1990
WAC Notification List by by Gary Banning Under Washington state law, each state agency which proposes a change in the Washington Administrative Code (WAC) must notify interested parties of the changes that it is proposing to give the citizens an opportunity to contact their legislators, organize against it, etc. Under …
Article • June 15, 1990 • from PLN June, 1990
Them Today, Us Tommorrow by Ed Mead "In Germany they first came for the Communists and I didn't speak because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak …
Article • June 15, 1990 • from PLN June, 1990
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
Lehman Leaving by Pennsylvania Governor Robert Casey recently announced that Joseph Lehman, 46, the Assistant Secretary of Washington State's Department of Corrections, has been selected to head the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. Lehman will be overseeing a prison system about three times as large as Washington's which is beset with …
Article • June 15, 1990 • from PLN June, 1990
State Reneges on WSR Treaty by State Reneges On WSR Treaty The above headline is taken from an article in the Monroe Monitor of April 11th. "When a state senator gets fed up with broken promises from the state of Washington, you take notice." Said the article. It was Senator …
Article • June 15, 1990 • from PLN June, 1990
1989 Crime Rate Up 3% by One would think that with all of the new prisons constructed over the past 20 years the crime rate would be going down. Not so, according to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting System. The feds say crime was up 3% in 1989. Crime rates …
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