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Transsexuals Treated Poorly in New York Prisons by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) has issued a report on the treatment of transgender and intersex people in New York state men?s prisons. That report finds that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) prisoners experience …
Policy Lock-Down, The Institute On Money In State Politics, 95 pp., softbound, April 2006 by John Dannenberg reviewed by John E. Dannenberg In a classic case of "follow the money," The Institute On Money In State Politics (IMSP) reviewed influence-peddling by private prison corporations (and their leaders, lobbyists, and subcontractors) …
Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007
Sentenced to Science: One Black Man’s Story of Imprisonment in America, by Allen M. Hornblum by Greg Dober Sentenced to Science: One Black Man's Story of Imprisonment in America, by Allen M. Hornblum Published by Pennsylvania State University Press, 232 pages, 16 illustrations, Cloth Bound, $24.95 Book Review by Greg …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
Habeas Hints: Habeas Year in Review: 2007 by Kent A. Russell This column is intended to provide "Habeas Hints" to prisoners who are considering or handling habeas corpus petitions as their own attorneys ("in pro per"). The focus of the column is on habeas corpus practice under AEDPA, the 1996 …
Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007
Final Report on Ohio Prisoner Reentry Study by G.A. Bowers by G. A. Bowers The Urban Institute?s Justice Policy Center released in April 2007 One Year Out, the final report of its Returning Home study of nearly 300 former prisoners living in Cleveland, Ohio, one year after their release from …
Prison A Major Factor In Spreading AIDS by Gary Hunter A recent study entitled African Americans, Health Disparities and HIV/AIDS has directly linked incarceration to the spread of AIDS in minority communities. Robert Fullilove ED.D., of Columbia University authored the study which was released on December 1, 2006 to coincide …
Article • August 15, 2007 • from PLN August, 2007
Torture vs Other Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading Treatment -- Is the Distinction Real or Apparent?, by Metin Basoglu, MD, PhD et al., by John Dannenberg Arch Gen Psychiatry Vol. 64, pp.277-284, March 2007 Reviewed by John E. Dannenberg Motivated by recent reports of U.S. human rights abuses in military prisons, …
Article • August 15, 2007 • from PLN August, 2007
Breaking the Prison Habit by Mumia Abu-Jamal Book Review by Mumia Abu-Jamal Changin? Your Game Plan: How To Use Incarceration As A Stepping Stone For Success (Self-published: Big Mouth Street Media, 2006) pp.234] $14.99 This writer usually does reviews for political books, or ones which address the controversial or newsworthy …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
Study: Supermax Prisons Achieve Control While Inflicting Debilitating Side Effects, But Don’t Reduce Recidivism by John Dannenberg Study: Supermax Prisons Achieve Control While Inflicting Debilitating Side Effects, But Don't Reduce Recidivism by John E. Dannenberg The Justice Policy Center of the Urban Institute (UI) issued a research report, Evaluating the …
Article • May 15, 2007
Welcome to Hell: Letters and Writings from Death Row by Jan Arriens, Northeastern University Press, 255 pages. 1997 Reviewed By Yuri Holmes Death can arrive at any time. It can strike at anyplace. When pondered, death promotes fear in even the blackest of hearts. When allowed, it devours the human …
Article • April 15, 2007 • from PLN April, 2007
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Does Parole Work? Apparently Not. by More than 774,000 men and women were on some form of community supervision in 2003, up 74.5 percent from 197,000 in 1980. According to a March 2005 study of the Urban Institute, however, ?parole supervision has little effect on re-arrest rates of released prisoners?. …
Sexual Victimization in Prison Statistically Analyzed by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The New York Academy of Medicine published a study in June 2006 on rates of sexual victimization of state prisoners. Contrasted with earlier studies that only used small population samples, this study covered all adult prisoners (22,231) …
Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
HIV in Prison Is Lower Than Believed by Gary Hunter The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released a study showing that the spread of HIV in prison is extremely low. Of 856 males in Georgia?s prisons who tested positive for HIV in 2005, only 76 acquired the virus …
Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
Fahrenheit 451 on Cell Block D by John Dannenberg [Certified Jailhouse Lawyer Program Proposed] By Evan R. Seamone, Esq., Reprinted from Yale Law & Policy Review, Vol. 24, No. 1 (2006), pp. 91-147. Reviewed by John E. Dannenberg Attorney Evan R. Seamone wants to promote justice by raising the stature …
Many U.S. Prisoners Mentally Ill, Few Receive Treatment by Michael Rigby Nearly half of the nation?s 2.3 million prisoners suffer from some sort of mental disorder, according to a report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) released in September 2006. Yet fewer than a third of those receive any …
Confronting Confinement, A Report On Safety and Abuse In America’s Prisons, Vera Justice Institute (2006), 118 pp. by John Dannenberg Confronting Confinement, A Report On Safety and Abuse In America's Prisons, Vera Justice Institute (2006), 118 pp. Reviewed by John E. Dannenberg The Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
California Habeas Handbook, Expanded 5th Edition, by Attorney Kent Russell, Sept. 2006, 114 pages plus appendix, soft cover by John Dannenberg Reviewed by John E. Dannenberg Three years after publishing his 67 page 4th Edition of the California Habeas Handbook (CHH) [see: PLN, Jan. 2004, p.18], Attorney Kent Russell has …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
Prison TB 10 Times Higher Than Non-Prison Cases by The number of Tuberculosis (TB) cases in correctional populations far outpaced the general population between 1993 and 2003, according to a study published in the American Journal of Public Health. TB case rates in the general population remained at fewer than …
Article • January 15, 2007 • from PLN January, 2007
The Prison and Jail Industry—Who Will Run It by Gary Hunter The Prison and Jail Industry--Who Will Run It by Gary Hunter With the huge growth in American prisons between 1980 and 1990, the American Correctional. Association (ACA) went looking in the past to solve both foreseeable and current problems. …
Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006
The Warehouse Prison, by Dr. John Irwin, 318 pp., softback, Roxbury Publishing Company, 2005 by John Dannenberg Reviewed by John E. Dannenberg Taking Californias Solano State Prison as a model, author John Irwin exposes the warehouse concept of Californias prisons and its debilitating effect on prisoners and their struggle for …
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