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Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Filed under: Parole, News, State Legislation
Ohio Criminal Sentencing Commission Update by John Perotti By John Perotti There have been a lot of rumors of abolishing the parole board in Ohio. Here are the facts in relation to this rumor. In 1990 former Governor D. Celeste created the Ohio Criminal Sentencing Commission to study Ohio's sentencing …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Virginia Sets Guidelines for Terminally-Ill Prisoners by Virginia Sets Guidelines For Terminally-Ill Prisoners The state of Virginia has released a policy to handle requests by terminally-ill prisoners for early release. The policy was developed in response to a request by Alex Velazquez, a prisoner at Powhatan Correctional Center, to be …
Article • July 15, 1992 • from PLN July, 1992
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
Disgruntled Reader Needs Barf Bag by After reading your March 1992 issue of the PLN I was thoroughly disillusioned, disgusted, and very disappointed that PLN would allow a prisoners' news source to be used to propagate something very harmful to everyone incarcerated [in this state]. I am speaking of the …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Home Release Status Revoked for Exercising Right to Silence by Adrian Lomax By Adrian Lomax Steven Asherman was doing a fourteen-year bit for manslaughter in the Connecticut prison system. After he had served three years, the keep [guards] approved Asherman's application for Supervised Home Release. SHR is not parole, but …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Washington Lifers Prevail in District Court by John Midgley By John Midgley, Attorney At Law U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Zilly has ruled in the Powell case that SHB 1457 is ex post facto as applied to Mr. Powell's first-degree murder sentence. The state has been directed to determine Mr. …
Article • May 15, 1992 • from PLN May, 1992
Guards Can't Be Prevented From Making Positive Recommendations To Parole Board by A policy prohibiting correctional employees from making recommendations directly to the parole board could be challenged by inmate asserting correctional employee's first amendment rights; such communications were not "purely personal," the court held, but rather involved matters of …
Article • May 15, 1992 • from PLN May, 1992
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
The Parole Board, a Step Nearer to Gone? by The Parole Board, A Step Nearer To Gone? In 1981 Washington State legislature passed the Sentencing Reform Act. The SRA implemented determinate sentencing for all, and fixed a date for abolishing the parole board. The original principles of the SRA were …
Pregnant Con Miscarries After Taser Attack by Afemale parole violator was told to submit to a strip search, but refused, noting five male officers were present right outside the cell. She stated that she would allow the strip search if she were taken to another cell, outside the view of …
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 …
Article • April 15, 1992 • from PLN April, 1992
Lifers Litigation Update by John Midgley By John Midgely Evergreen Legal Services This is to update all interested persons on the progress of the Powell case in federal court. Recently, United States Magistrate Judge Sweigert made a recommendation to Judge Zilly that SHB 1457 be found ex post facto as …
Article • April 15, 1992 • from PLN April, 1992
Filed under: Parole, News, State Legislation
The Death of HB 2834 by The Death Of HB 2834 HB 2834 is dead. It almost made it through the legislative process but died when the Senate bogged down on the health care issue. Originally the bill read that the Indeterminate Sentence Review Board (ISRB) would be eliminated as …
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 …
Article • March 15, 1992 • from PLN March, 1992
Filed under: Parole, News, State Legislation
Legislative Update by Carrie Roth By Carrie Roth, Prison/Community Alliance As most of you already know, until last November we were planning on trying an initiative to the people which would eliminate the Indeterminate Sentence Review Board. If we had gotten 150,001 signatures within a specified period of time, we …
Article • March 15, 1992 • from PLN March, 1992
Probation and Parole Figures Up Again by Probation And Parole Figures Up Again It should come as no surprise to PLN readers that all statistics relating to crime and punishment are on the increase. The 1990 probation and parole figures recently released by the Bureau of Justice Statistics contains no …
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
Filed under: Parole, News, State Legislation
Prison/Community Alliance Update by Carrie Roth By Carrie Roth The Prisoner/Community Alliance received a phone call from former Rep. Doug Sayan on Jan. 21, 1992. He said that the draft bill is now at the Code Revisors Office. The bill is an Omnibus bill which will include several aspects of …
Article • January 15, 1992 • from PLN January, 1992
Filed under: Parole, News, State Legislation
Prison/Community Alliance Update by Carrie Roth The Prison/Community Alliance (P/CA) has made progress. It now appears we will be able to have legislation proposed directly to the legislature this January. If this happens we will not be doing the initiative for the November 1992 election. A sequence of events has …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Washington Supreme Court Rules on Lifers by John Midgley Washington Supreme Court Rules On Lifers John Midgley, Attorney At Law As most prisoners in the system now know, the Washington Supreme Court in August handed down its decision in the " lifer" case, In re Powell, et al., 117 Wn.2d …
Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
Oregon Board Rules Held Ex Post Facto by An Oregon prisoner challenged the application of newly adopted parole board rules to his case. He sought review of the board's action in the state Court of Appeals, saying the board should have applied the review rules that were in effect when …
Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
Filed under: Parole, News, State Legislation
Getting Rid of the Board: Status of the Initiative Process by Ed Mead Getting Rid Of The Board: Status Of The Initiative Process By Ed Mead Back in the February issue we told readers that the Prison/Community Alliance (P/CA) and the PLN editors were in the process of drafting sample …
Article • September 15, 1991 • from PLN September, 1991
Prison/Community Alliance Update by Carrie Roth By Carrie Roth I received a copy of the June 24, 1991 indeterminate Sentence Review Board (ISRB) minutes today and in it is another example of the ISRBs' inability to adequately perform their duties. In the minutes is a short paragraph which states, "Ms. …
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