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Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
The Black Political Voice by Gerald D Fuller by Gerald D. Fuller Maryland's disenfranchisement statute has its roots in the federal constitution. The state would have its citizens believe that Maryland's election laws which govern disenfranchisement are fair and impartial and are not discriminatory where blacks are concerned. It is …
Article • July 15, 1993 • from PLN July, 1993
Racism and Treatment by Terrence Hazel by Terrance Hazel The Texas Department of Criminal Justice's (TDCJ) present method of administering Substance Abuse Treatment Programs (SATP) discriminate against Black and Hispanic inmates. Black and Hispanic prisoners are: 71 percent of inmate population (35,000+) 80 percent of that 71 percent have serious …
Prison Officials Liable for Haircuts by Four prisoners at the Iowa State Penitentiary (ISP) with shag haircuts (where the hair is long in back and short in the front and on the sides) were ordered to get haircuts by prison officials. Two of the prisoners agreed to the haircuts, the …
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
Ex-Louisiana Officials Fined for Racial Segregation by Two former Louisiana corrections officials must pay $4,000 in fines for segregating inmates by race, a federal judge said. In his ruling October 27th in Baton rouge, a U.S. District judge lowered the judgment from $10,000 recommended by a federal magistrate earlier in …
Aborigines Have High Jail Death Rate by Nineteen Australian Aborigines died in police cells and prisons in 1990 and 1991 despite a multimillion dollar inquiry aimed at stopping aboriginal deaths in custody, according to a recent report. The continued over-representation of Aborigines in Australian prisons was a major contributing factor, …
Article • January 15, 1993 • from PLN January, 1993
A Nation in Chains by "Presidents Reagan and Bush have ensured that the federal courts will not be representative. Instead, they are a bastion of White America. They stand as a symbol of White Power." Can you guess who said these words? I'll wager most folks missed the identity of …
Brief • December 18, 1992
Shaw v. Department of Corrections, WA, Complaint, Staff Race Discrimination, 1992 -. '-. STATE OFFiCE. Vi' .. RISK MAH,AGEMEt~ 2 3 ~ DEC 4 7 RODNEY SHAW. and PATRICK STEVENS. Plaintiffs. 8 9 10 11 14 ) ) STATE OF WASHINGTON. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, McNeil Island Facility. ) . r>efendant, …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Study Finds Sentencing Bias in Washington State by Anew study has found that Hispanics in Yakima County are more likely to receive long prison sentences than whites. The study was performed by political scientist David Hood and sociologist Ruey-Lin Lin, both of Eastern Montana College in Billings. It was based …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Blacks Likely to Spend More Time In Jail by Blacks Likely To Spend More Time In Jail Without sentencing guidelines, employed blacks are almost six times as likely as their white counterparts to face jail for drug crimes, a new Florida State University (FSU) study says. The study by FSU …
Article • July 15, 1992 • from PLN July, 1992
42% of DC Young Black Men Said to Be in Justice System by More then 40 percent of the black men age 18 to 35 in the District of Columbia were "firmly in the grip of the criminal justice system" on an average day last year, according to a study …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Hand Me Downs by Dan Pens By Dan Pens I was only five. My mind didn't belong entirely to me yet. So much of it belonged to the world, especially to whomever I was with, and double-especially to adults, and triple especially to Grandpa 'cause he knew everything. He was …
Article • May 15, 1992 • from PLN May, 1992
Race Discrimination in Prison Job Assignments Condemned by Race Discrimination In Prison Job Assignments Condemned A black prisoner's allegation that white prisoners were given work assignments without completing any training while he was required to take 90-days of training for an electrician assignment, despite the fact that he was an …
Article • May 15, 1992 • from PLN May, 1992
Community Help Foundation Unlimited by Beryl Sanders Community Help foundation Unlimited By Beryl P. Sanders Director This article is in response to the March 1992 Prisoners' Legal News article, "The continuing Racism Against Black Pre-SRA Offenders," By Leland Jordan. As prisoners advocates and leaders of the African-American community, we have …
Brief • March 22, 1992
Filed under: Racial Discrimination
Uribe v. Riveland, WA, Complaint, Discrimination, 1992 ...... ~ J. 9.970 t: ~ ~'.'~' ," " J j *"'" " '2-lr ;--: ,'!!• . ' : : IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF 1 THUR~~QNA I LARRY URIBE, 4 vs. 5 6 7 …
Article • March 15, 1992 • from PLN March, 1992
The Continuing Racism Against Black Pre-SRA Offenders by Leland Jordan By Leland Jordan As most readers know, effective in July of 1984, the State of Washington moved from an indeterminate sentencing scheme to a determinate one. It did so in part on the basis of the conclusions reached by numerous …
Racial Discrimination in Prison Challenged by Racial Discrimination In Prison Challenged New York's Elmira Correctional Facility is plagued by racism toward prisoners in the areas of job placement, housing assignments, and discipline, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York held. Relying on both anecdotal and statistical …
Article • December 15, 1991 • from PLN December, 1991
New York Prisons Profiled by A prisoners' advocacy group in New York City on September 27 released a profile of the state and city inmate population and found a pattern of minority offenders being increasingly locked up for nonviolent crimes. The Correctional Association of New York said there are more …
Prison System Increases Cell Integration to Avoid Fines by Faced with the threat of millions of dollars in fines, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice began increasing the number of racially integrated, two-person cells July 1. Before July only about 2 percent of the system's 11,000 double cells were integrated; …
Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
Percentage of Black Prisoners Grows by Percentage Of Black Prisoners Grows In mid-July, 1991, the U.S. Department of Justice released a study titled Race of Prisoners Admitted to State and Federal Institutions, 1926-86. The results of the study are no big surprise. In 1926 78% of state and federal prisoners …
Article • September 15, 1991 • from PLN September, 1991
Prison Discrimination Illegal by Mark Labounty, a black New York state prisoner fled suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claiming violation of his Eight amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment and his right to equal protection of the law because he was denied work as a …
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