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Article • November 15, 2008 • from PLN November, 2008
Snitch: Informants, Cooperators & the Corruption of Justice, by Ethan Brown Public Affairs Publishing, 273 pages, $25.95 by David Preston Snitch: Informants, Cooperators & the Corruption of Justice, by Ethan Brown Public Affairs Publishing, 273 pages, $25.95 Reviewed by David Preston “Snitch” – the word is one of the most …
Article • October 15, 2008 • from PLN October, 2008
States Expand Registration Laws to Include Drug Offenses by States Expand Registration Laws to Include Drug Offenses In 2003, Montana began including persons convicted of manufacturing illegal drugs on its sex offender and violent offender Internet registry. Since then, Tennessee, Minnesota, Kansas and Illinois have created online registries for people …
Massachusetts’ Mental Health Treatment Policies Prove Deadly for Public, Prisoners by David Reutter by David M. Reutter As America’s prisons continue their transformation into mental health institutions, little thought is given to mentally ill prisoners who languish within the harsh confines of prison environments with little if any treatment. That …
Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System, by Silja Talvi ;Seal Press, 359 pp. $15.95 by Alexis Paige Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System, by Silja Talvi, Seal Press, 359 pp. $15.95 Reviewed by Alexis Paige Silja J.A. Talvi’s …
Article • September 15, 2008 • from PLN September, 2008
Physical, Mental and Substance Abuse Problems Fuel Recidivism by by Gary Hunter In February 2008 the Urban Institute Justice Policy Center issued a report detailing three major factors fueling the high recidivism rate in U.S. prisons. These factors included Physical Health and Reentry, Mental Health and Reentry and Substance Abuse …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
Informant/Hit Man In 20 Murders Released After 12 Years; Paid $20,000 by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg A hit man with 20 cold-blooded murders under his belt, but who turned government informant to expose a dirty FBI agent, was released from a Massachusetts state prison in 2007 after serving …
Article • August 15, 2008
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
Capitalism and Incarceration Revisited by Richard D. Vogel “Capitalism and Incarceration.” written by the author and published in Monthly Review twenty years ago (March 1983), analyzed the relationship between the capitalist economy and the prison system in America and came to an indisputable conclusion: The overall trends and year-by-year correspondence …
Arkansas Trooper Mistakes Mentally Disabled Man for Fugitive and Kills Him; Deceased's Family Paid $1 Million by Former Arkansas State Trooper Larry Norman pled guilty to a charge of misdemeanor negligent homicide after killing mentally disabled Joseph Erin Hamley. Norman had mistaken Hamley, 21, for an escaped fugitive, and shot …
Oregon DOC Food Manager Takes Over $1 Million in Bribes, Feeds Prisoners “Distressed” Food by Mark Wilson During a 2002 interview, Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) Food Services Administrator Farhad “Fred” Monem, 49, shook his head in disgust as he criticized government employees who feel a sense of entitlement. “People …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
C O R R E C T I O N by Since PLN began publishing in 1990, we have never had to make a retraction based on our own factual mistake. While we’ve run corrections before, they were based on errors in the original news articles or reports that were …
Human Rights Watch Report: Most Sex Offender Laws Misguided and Ineffective by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In September 2007, Human Rights Watch released a report entitled No Easy Answers: Sex Offender Laws in the US. The report concluded that most sex offender laws are ineffective and misguided in that …
Unlocking America, Why and How to Reduce America’s Prison Population, The JFA Institute, November 2007, 32 pp. by John Dannenberg Reviewed by John E. Dannenberg Unlocking America is a study on how to approach the task of reducing America’s prison population (“decarceration”) without compromising public safety. Key factors recommended to …
National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges to Pay for Grant Fraud by On March 10, 2008, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) agreed to settle a grant fraud case for $300,000. After being promoted to Special Projects Manager of the NCJFCJ, Serena Hulbert requested …
Not the Usual Suspects: The Politics of the Prison Boom by Marie Gottschalk Throughout American history, politicians and public officials have exploited public anxieties about crime and disorder for political gain. The difference today is that these political strategies and public anxieties have come together in the perfect storm. They …
Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
Dallas County, Texas, Criticized for Offering Probation to Murder Defendants by Michael Rigby According to a Dallas Morning News article published on November 10, 2007, Dallas County, Texas, leads the state in the number of probation deals it hands out to murder defendants. The highly critical five-part series implies that …
Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America, By Marie Gottschalk, Cambridge University Press, 451 pp. by Silja JA Talvi Book review by Silja J.A. Talvi It should no longer be a matter of any debate that the American trajectory toward mass incarceration is the result …
Lawsuits test crackdown on sex criminals by john gramlich Friday, April 18, 2008 Stateline Article By John Gramlich, Stateline.org Staff Writer A death-penalty case argued before the U.S. Supreme Court this week marks the latest constitutional challenge to an ongoing, nationwide crackdown on sex criminals. From California to North Carolina, …
A Pursuit of Prisoners’ Health and Safety A conversation with Elizabeth Alexander, director of the ACLU’s National Prison Project by Todd Matthews A Pursuit of Prisoners' Health and Safety: A conversation with Elizabeth Alexander, director of the ACLU's National Prison Project by Todd Matthews Thirty-seven years ago, Elizabeth Alexander graduated …
Scandal Rocks Texas Youth Commission; Youths Molested by School Supervisors by Gary Hunter During the 2006 elections, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott ran television ads touting the capture of the state's 500th Internet child predator. Shortly after elected lawmakers convened in 2007 they went to work on a bill that …
Article • February 15, 2008 • from PLN February, 2008
Louisiana Work-Release Prisoners Used by Sheriff in Chop Shop by Gary Hunter In February 2005, Louisiana sheriff Ronald ?Gun? Ficklin was indicted on 22 counts of conspiracy, trafficking in motor vehicles with removed or altered Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs), removing or altering VINs, aiding and abetting the possession of a …
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