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Article • December 15, 1991 • from PLN December, 1991
Executions Report Issued by Eleven states executed 23 people last year, the U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced on September 29th. The Bureau said as of December 31, 1990, there were 2,356 people being held on death row in 34 states. Between 1976, when the U.S. Supreme …
Article • December 15, 1991 • from PLN December, 1991
From The Editor by Paul Wright By Paul Wright Welcome to the December issue of PLN . When you receive this issue the whole commercialized Christmas season will be in full swing. So in the spirit of giving, if you haven't donated to PLN yet this is a great time …
Article • December 15, 1991 • from PLN December, 1991
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
Letters From Readers by More On Plight Of The Young This letter is in response to a letter to the editor printed in the September issue of the PLN, titled "Plight Of The Young. " The thing with brother Barry Massey, in particular - the U.S. judicial systems sanctioning of …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Mandatory Sentencing Flops in Florida by Mandatory Sentencing Flops In Florida Florida offers a classic example of how mandatory sentencing laws and large-scale incarceration of drug offenders can produce an unbalanced correctional system and possibly reduce public safety, according a new study by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Prison Guards: Victims or Villains? by Paul Wright Prison Guards: Victims Or Villains? Review By Paul Wright This is the title of one of two articles in the latest issue [o]f "Blueprint for Social Justice." Both articles are written by female former prison guards who describe their experiences working as …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Info on Free by Info on FREE Salutation and congratulations.... Yesterday I received my first copy of the Prisoners' Legal News, a victory all the same. I was impressed. [PLN only recently overturned a statewide ban on the newsletter in Texas.] I have been active in several ongoing litigations here …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Editorial by Ed Mead Editorial Comments By Ed Mead Welcome to another issue of our little newsletter. The first thing I want to do this month is extend a hearty expression of good wishes to one of our favorite outside readers, Jonathan Nelson, who is today serving 30 days in …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
Reviews by AUTONOMI is an English language magazine published in Denmark with an autonomous and anti-imperialist outlook. The latest issue, number 6, has articles on political prisoners in the U.S., an update on the trial of members of the Communist Workers Group in Denmark who were convicted of committing various …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Attention Former PAP Members by Jane Kuja If you are a former member of the PAP or know the whereabouts of any past members, we'd appreciate hearing from you. Send any correspondence to: Jane Kuja, P.O. Box 507, Auburn, WA 98071.
Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
Materials for Imprisoned Parents by Materials For Imprisoned Parents The Clearinghouse at Pacific Oaks has a large number of publications and materials available at very low costs that deal with children who have parents in prison and prisoners with children. Many of the materials are bilingual (English and Spanish) and …
Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
Filed under: Reviews, Sentencing, Probation
Community Service Sentencing Found Effective by Requiring criminal offenders to perform a certain number of hours of community service is a sentencing option that can be administered effectively and which appears to produce recidivism rates no worse than those produced by terms of incarceration, according to a study by Malcolm …
Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
Death Penalty Resources by Paul Wright By Paul Wright With the NCADP conference being held in Seattle this is a good chance for citizens to learn more about the death penalty and its inherent injustice. One of the often overlooked aspects of the death penalty is that in the criminal …
Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
In Total Resistance by In Total Resistance is the newest (1991) abridged and revised edition of the writing and poetry of Leonard Peltier (Native American prisoner of war), Standing Deer and Bobby Garcia and others. It has updates on the efforts to secure Leonard's release from prison as well as …
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 • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
Help Yourself Legal Information by Paul Wright By Paul Wright Part of the purpose of PLN is to try to help prisoners help themselves when it comes to using the courts to extend democracy to all and to vindicate our civil rights. We pretty much concentrate on federal court rulings …
Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
From The Editor by Paul Wright By Paul Wright Welcome to another issue of PLN . Longtime readers of PLN may recall that PLN was banned by the Texas DOC in July of 1990 as they claimed we were not a "publisher." We appealed the decision and it was upheld …
Article • September 15, 1991 • from PLN September, 1991
Group Cites Shift from Education to Prisons by Group Cites Shift From Education To Prisons The criminal justice system is "stealing" dollars away from public education, according to a study by the national Center on Institutions and Alternatives (NCIA), an Alexandria, Virginia-based criminal justice research organization. "We're trading textbooks for …
Article • September 15, 1991 • from PLN September, 1991
Filed under: Resources, Organizing
Families Against Mandatory Minimums by FAMM is a nationwide organization of citizens working for the repeal of statutory mandatory minimum sentences. Its members consist of prisoners, their families and loved ones, lawyers and civil rights activists. Mandatory minimum sentences are sentences which must be served with no possibility of parole …
Article • September 15, 1991 • from PLN September, 1991
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
Why Do Legal Work? by F L Dwight Correctional Center is served educationally by Lewis University, " A Christian Brothers University." Lewis University offers courses entitled Paralegal I and II (16 weeks each), which I have decided to take. According to Lewis University, "the primary purpose of this course is …
Article • September 15, 1991 • from PLN September, 1991
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
The Class Implications of Prisoner Rights Litigation by Ed Mead The Class Implications Of Prisoner Rights Litigation Compiled by Ed Mead Today the most reactionary and violent faction of the ruling class controls the government. These right-wing conservatives ignore the root causes of crime and instead seek to scapegoat prisoners …
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