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Article • April 15, 1992 • from PLN April, 1992
Law Would Let Prison Mothers Keep Kids by A bill has passed the Illinois State House and Senate which will allow female inmates to keep their children with them until the children reach the age of six. The bill is designed to help preserve a positive relationship between mother and …
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
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 • 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 • January 15, 1992 • from PLN January, 1992
Politicians Exploit Death Penalty by State-level lawmakers are using proposed death penalty legislation for political purposes rather than to deter crime, said the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty on October 9, 1991. The group released its annual survey of state legislation on the volatile issue, finding 183 bills …
Article • January 15, 1992 • from PLN January, 1992
Election Year Demagoguery by Paul Wright Washington State attorney general Ken Eikenberry has announced that he will be running for the governor's office on the Republican Party ticket. Eikenberry has been attorney general since 1980 and is serving up a typical Republican economic program with regards to turning the state …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Filed under: News
Pig Park Update by Readers of PLN will recall that we have previously reported the fact that the Washington State Penitentiary (WSP) in Walla Walla has bought 40 plus acres from the department of Wildlife for $80,000 which will be used as an "employee park" According to an August 22, …
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 • August 15, 1991 • from PLN August, 1991
Filed under: News, State Legislation
Mass. Corrections Policy "Disaster" Says Task Force by Mass. Corrections Policy "disaster" Says Task Force Emphasizing that state spending on prisons has skyrocketed while taxpayer confidence in the level of public safety has plummeted, a joint Task Force of the Boston Bar Association and the Crime and Justice Foundation has …
Article • July 15, 1991 • from PLN July, 1991
Prison/Community Alliance Update by Carrie Roth By Carrie Roth June 10, 1991 the Legislature went back into session and by the time this is read the session should be over. This is a time when there is a lot of speculation and rumors going around. One rumor is that Senator …
Article • May 15, 1991 • from PLN May, 1991
DOC "Taxes" Oklahoma Prisoners by Jeff Lea By Jeff Lea This year state lawmakers determined that Oklahoma taxpayers were paying too much state sales tax and would continue to do so in the future. Accordingly, they passed a bill allowing the tax agency to refund $20.00 this year and $40.00 …
Article • April 15, 1991 • from PLN April, 1991
Filed under: Parole, News, State Legislation
Pennsylvania Lawmakers Want to Axe Parole Board by Pennsylvania Lawmakers Want To Axe Parole Board Leaders of the Pennsylvania House and Senate Judiciary Committees said they will introduce legislation this year to strip the Parole Board of most of its authority as a way to reduce prison overcrowding. The lawmakers …
Article • April 15, 1991 • from PLN April, 1991
Filed under: Parole, News, State Legislation
The LBC's Final Report to the Legislature: A Retreat From The Principles of the SRA by Ed Mead By Ed Mead On January 17, 1991, the Legislative Budget Committee (LBC) issued a "proposed final report" on the performance of the Indeterminate Sentence Review Board (ISRB). The LBC assessed the operations …
Will The Racists Please Stand Up? by Paul Wright By Paul Wright The 101st Congress has passed the Racial Justice Act (RJA). What the RJA does is prohibit racism in the application of the death penalty. As currently applied a disproportionate number of the men and women on death row …
Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
Filed under: Parole, News, State Legislation
The Parole Board Audit Report by Ed Mead Ed Mead The Legislative Budge Committee (LBC) has issued its preliminary report on the Indeterminate Sentence Review Board (ISRB). The December 14, 1990, report was an audit that examined the operations of the Board in the context of the dual sentencing system …
Article • December 15, 1990 • from PLN December, 1990
U.S. House & Senate Pass Watered Down Version of Crime Bill by U.S. House & Senate Pass Watered Down Version Of Crime Bill In a last-minute effort to get out of town, the U.S. House and Senate quickly worked out differences over their respective versions of the 1990 Crime Bill. …
Article • November 15, 1990 • from PLN November, 1990
Filed under: Parole, News, State Legislation
The Initiative Process by M R The PLN's coverage of the "initiative" idea was good, but I don't think it left anyone feeling any less powerless than they were before. This (legislative initiative) is going to take a lot of push. People on the outside are still in the dark …
Article • September 15, 1990 • from PLN September, 1990
Filed under: Parole, News, State Legislation
The Initiative Process, Can Prisoners Use It? by In its 1988 Report To The Legislature, the Washington State Parole Board admitted that it imposed exceptional sentences in 53% of the cases it reviewed. These exceptional terms were all above the applicable guideline range. When a sentence was within the range …
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 …
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