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Article • January 15, 1992 • from PLN January, 1992
IMU's and Controlled Feeding at CBCC by IMU'S and Controlled Feeding At CBCC As part of the continuing trend across the U.S. to open control units the Clallam Bay Corrections Center in Washington state has opened an Intensive Management Unit (IMU). Currently prisons at Shelton, Wa. and Walla Walla, Wa., …
Article • January 15, 1992 • from PLN January, 1992
Incarceration Rate Grows in First Half of 1991 by Incarceration Rate Grows In First Half Of 1991 The nation's state and federal prison population grew by 30,149 inmates, just under four percent, during the first half of1991 to reach a record 804,524 men and women as of June 30, the …
Article • December 15, 1991 • from PLN December, 1991
Monroe's Struggle Against Double Celling by Ed Mead Monroe's Struggle Against Double Celling: A Status Report By Ed Mead A flood of new rumors have been flying hot and heavy on the double celling status here at the Reformatory in Monroe. Some of these reports say there has been a …
Supreme Court Slams Conditions Case by Just before finishing its last session, the United States Supreme Court handed down a ruling making it more difficult for prisoners to challenge the constitutionality of prison conditions. The five to four decision held that prisoners must prove that prison officials not merely maintained …
Brief • August 23, 1991
T.I. V. Delia, WA, Stipulation of Settlement, Conditions of Confinement - Juvenile Detention, 1991 T.I. V. Delia 11111 I IIII II II 1111111111111111 JI-WA-001-018 1 CIVIL TRACK I Judge Dixon 2 3 ·, 4 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON FOR KING COUNTY 6 7 8 T. I., a minor, et …
Article • August 15, 1991 • from PLN August, 1991
California Prison Construction by Ruth Cashmere Ruth Cashmere Recently studies have shown that the United States has the world's highest incarceration rate. The United States has 426 prisoners per 100,000 population. Over the past 10 years, the state of California has experienced the greatest increase in state prison population surpassing …
Article • July 15, 1991 • from PLN July, 1991
Clallam Bay Double Celling by On June 12, 1991, Clallam Bay Corrections Center (CBCC) superintendent Neal Brown announced that the 21 million dollar expansion of CBCC was on schedule (but there is no money for teachers and schools in Washington). The expansion plans include renovation of food service and dining …
Pro Se Litigants Entitled to Litigation Costs by Pro Se Litigants Entitled To Litigation Costs Benton Burt was a pretrial detainee in San Francisco who filed suit under 42 USC, §1983 in federal court claiming he was confined under illegal and unconstitutional conditions. At a bench trial Burt won his …
Article • July 15, 1991 • from PLN July, 1991
Filed under: Overcrowding, Sentencing, Parole
Overcrowded and Unfair by Gary Parker Overcrowded And Unfair By Gary Parker Human nature and society were not transformed when the SRA was implemented in 1984. The transformation was meant to occur in the basic philosophy of this state's justice system. The old system did not work. Some offenders were …
Article • May 15, 1991 • from PLN May, 1991
Penitentiary Overcrowded by The Seattle Times reports that the Washington State Penitentiary (WSP) at Walla Walla now has 1,970 prisoners and is expected to house about 2,600 by this summer. This is a record of overcrowding at a prison long characterized for its overcrowding. Remodeling is now taking place for …
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
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 • November 15, 1990 • from PLN November, 1990
Warehouses of Misery by Wm Daniel Ravenscroft By Wm. Daniel Ravenscroft, esq. What has our prison system really come to? Nothing more than a giant machine gobbling up human beings then spitting them out without the slightest concern for the collateral consequences. The California prison system has over 90,000 inmates …
Article • August 15, 1990 • from PLN August, 1990
HR-4079: A National Crime Emergency? by Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, it does. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, Jr., resigned his seat, leaving President Bush to name an even more reactionary successor. Not only will the pro-choice Roe v. Wade ruling fall by the wayside, making …
Article • July 15, 1990 • from PLN July, 1990
Prison Population Rises 12.1% by The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) has issued its annual bulletin on prison populations. The report stated the number of state and federal prisoners in the U.S. grew by a record 76,099 prisoners during 1989. This figure now reaches a new high of 703, 687 …
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
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
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 • May 15, 1990 • from PLN May, 1990
Walla Walla Installs Fourth Bunk by WALLA WALLA INSTALLS FOURTH BUNK by M. H. We here at the Walls are also experiencing the governor's state of emergency. Our captors have shut down 8-Wing for remodeling. In 6-Wing they have just installed the 4th bunk on A and B tiers, and …
Publication • 1988
National Directory of Corrections Construction 2nd Edition, April 1988 · U.S. Department of Justice National Institute of Jus1ice National Directory of Corrections Construction Second Edition j About the National Institute of Justice About the American Correctional Association The National Institute of Justice is a research branch of the U.S. Department …
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