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Article • April 15, 1991 • from PLN April, 1991
Filed under: Parole, News, State Legislation
sentence in what is often perceived as an arbitrary and highhanded manner." The legislation would still allow inmates to be kept in prison for parole violations or serious prison misconduct. Those decisions ...
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
prices 10%, and charge $5 fines for misbehavior. I don't yet have a reading on what the response will be. I think one way or the other things will get worse for us. This situation is just one aspect ...
Article • June 15, 1990 • from PLN June, 1990
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
for Public Policy. The study was commissioned b the state legislature in 1988. The main purpose seems to have been to find out what effects prisons have on the local community. With opposition to the building ...
Article • January 15, 1991 • from PLN January, 1991
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
the justice system and building more jails may by money down the drain because punishment is not an effective deterrent. What does work, the ABA found, is to teach prison inmates to read and write so ...
Article • April 15, 1991 • from PLN April, 1991
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
Court. On Wednesday, January 23, 1991, the Court heard oral argument in Thompson. Attorneys report that everything went very well, though it is of course impossible to guess what the Court will ultimately ...
Article • September 15, 1991 • from PLN September, 1991
Filed under: Resources, Organizing
enormous power in deciding what charges to press. First time offenders are heavily impacted by these sentences. FAMM is gathering information about outrageous sentences imposed because of mandatory minimums ...
% and a judge convicted 3% following a bench trial. Larceny convictions had the highest percentage of guilty pleas (92%) while murder had the lowest (58%). Some of the conclusions of the report verified what ...
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
times what it was in 1980. The highest percentage increase last year were in Rhode Island (15.9 percent), Washington state (14.5 percent), New Hampshire (14.2 percent), and Arkansas (13.9 percent ...
Article • March 15, 1997 • from PLN March, 1997
"voluntary" donor. "This sounds to me to be distasteful, and I'm not sure what we will do here," Halderman said. The surgery would be performed by Vanderbilt doctors at a nearby veterans hospital where ...
Article • November 15, 1992 • from PLN November, 1992
, and they surrounded all of the Indians, and asked us to leave the area. Our "Indian" rep from Olympia won't do anything, but agree with what the prison administrators say to him. His name was Ben Stiffarm. I have ...
Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
stating the governments case was "fragile," "unreliable in significant respects" and that the whole proceeding was fundamentally unfair. For more information on what's happening in the Australian criminal ...
beds. It is not known at this time where Todd will serve his sentence, but it's amusing to imagine what it might be like if he were to end up in one of his former company's prisons. Sources ...
Article • February 15, 1996 • from PLN February, 1996
objected and the district court denied the motion, holding that a genuine issue of material fact existed as to what treatment Robinson actually received. The defendants had not objected to the magistrate ...
Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
Filed under: Organizing
of calculated deterrence. Refusal to conform to standards set by the controlling parties, despite coercion. Any political prisoner, politicized social prison or POW knows what this is about. I live in a very ...
Article • March 15, 1996 • from PLN March, 1996
the job. Agents also found what is believed to be cocaine and marijuana in the search of her home. Soares agreed to pay $2,500 for the murders. In one meeting with the hit man she asked him to kill ...
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
in the robbery. They described the robbery as being "very professional." We wonder what Greenham and the Rings' opinions on prison reform and the death penalty are. Source: Arizona Republic, February 17, 1995. ...
Article • September 15, 1999 • from PLN September, 1999
for ordering the search. Schneider's attorney, Nanci Clarence, told media "They thought they could attack the victim because of the nature of her arrests, because of what she looks like and because she's poor ...
Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN February, 1997
Filed under: Work, Chain Gangs
for ending this aspect of our torture, and will then have to live in fear of what degradation it will be replaced with. -- F.P., Alabama ...
Article • April 15, 1994 • from PLN April, 1994
), which was to set aside, by a 2-1 vote, several parts of an injunction issued by the lower court. What is new in the opinion amended on December 23, 1993, is an addition to the majority's explanation ...
Article • January 15, 1995 • from PLN January, 1995
Filed under: Medical, HIV/AIDS
services in state prisons. An integral part of our carnpaign is gathering input and information from prisoners. I would greatly appreciate it if you would write to me and let me know what the situation ...
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