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Article • September 15, 2003 • from PLN September, 2003
Filed under: Reviews, Medical, Hepatitis
CDC Report Outlines Prevention and Control of Hepatitis in Prisons by John E Dannenberg CDC Report Outlines Prevention And Control Of Hepatitis In Prisons by John E. Dannenberg The national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued an updated report providing guidelines and recommendations for juvenile and adult …
Article • August 15, 2003 • from PLN August, 2003
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
Behind the Walls: A Guide for Families and Friends of Texas Prison Inmates by Michael Rigby by Jorge Antonio Renaud, University of North Texas Press, 2002, soft cover, 218 pages, $14.95 Review by Michael Rigby If you or someone you know is one of the nearly 150,000 people incarcerated in …
Article • July 15, 2003 • from PLN July, 2003
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
Joinder of Georgia Annual Parole Hearing Injunction Is Rejected by Paul Wright The Eleventh Circuit US Court of Appeals rejected the attempt of a Georgia life prisoner to use the mechanism of joinder (Fed.RulesCiv.Proc. Rule 20(a)) to gain the benefit of another life prisoner's injunction providing for annual parole consideration …
Article • May 15, 2003 • from PLN May, 2003
Prison Population Continues to Grow by Continuing a trend first noted in 2000, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), a division of the U.S. Department of Justice, reported that the overall growth rate of the United States' prison population was quite small. In some states, prison populations actually declined. PLN …
Article • May 15, 2003 • from PLN May, 2003
No Escape: Male Rape in U.S. Prisons: A Human Rights Watch Report by Joanne Mariner by Alex Coolman Review by Alex Coolman In April of 2001, Human Rights Watch released a report called No Escape: Male Rape in U.S. Prison. The report, written by Joanne Mariner, contains dozens of first-hand …
Article • May 15, 2003 • from PLN May, 2003
Filed under: Reviews, Court Access
Writing to Win by John E Dannenberg by Steven D. Stark, Broadway Books, 1999, soft back, 283 pages Review by John E. Dannenberg Write succinctly! Or, alterna-tively, bore your intended reading audience to death with burdensome legal treatises steeped in excessive, redundant verbosity, liberally laced with old-as-the-hills cliches. Get it? …
Article • April 15, 2003 • from PLN April, 2003
Filed under: Reviews, Court Access, Judiciary
Book Review: Law and the Rise of Capitalism by Peter Wagner by Michael E. Tigar & Madeleine R. Levy, New (2000) Edition by Michael E. Tigar, Monthly Review Press, 348 pages, $18.00 Review by Peter Wagner Famed litigator and scholar Michael Tigar has reissued his 1977 classic Law and the …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN March, 2003
Filed under: Reviews, Work, Prison Industries
Gender and Incarceration: How Men and Women Experience Life Behind Bars by Silja JA Talvi Gender and Incarceration: How Men and Women Experience Life Behind Bars Reviews by Silja J.A. Talvi Prison Masculinities, edited by Don Sabo, Terry A. Kupers, and Willie London. Temple University Press, Philadelphia: 2001. Counseling Female …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004
Filed under: Reviews, Media
Prisons Almanac 2004 Prisons Foundation, Washington, DC by John E Dannenberg Reviewed by John E. Dannenberg Prisons Almanac is a refreshingly eclectic collection of 140 of "the most promising and uplifting prison-related news stories of the previous year" produced in classic almanac format by the Prisons Foundation. The Almanac also …
Report Downplays Wrongful Convictions in U.S. by Hans Sherrer A report by University of Michigan staffers and law students _ Exonerations in the United States: 1989 through 2003 _ was released to the public on April 23, 2004. The report analyzed data from 328 cases during that 15 year period …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004
Filed under: Reviews, Court Access
The Citebook by Michael Rigby by Tony Darwin, Starlite, Inc., 2004, 20th ed., 308 pp., $35.95, soft cover Review by Michael Rigby For anyone not trained in the law, navigating the U.S. judicial system can be a daunting prospect. But with knowledge comes confidence, and that's exactly what Tony Darwin …
Article • February 15, 2003 • from PLN February, 2003
Protecting Your Health and Safety: A Litigation Guide for Inmates by Paul Wright by Robert Toone, Southern Poverty Law Center, 2002, 328 pages Review by Paul Wright The bottom-line for most prisoners is surviving prison. That means staying healthy, getting medical care as needed in a safe environment and not …
Article • January 15, 2003 • from PLN January, 2003
Book Review: From Prison to Home by Roger Hummel by Jeremy Travis, Amy Solomon and Michelle Waul Justice Policy Center, the Urban Institute, Washington DC, 2001, 56 pages, paper Review by Roger Hummel In a remarkable new book from the Urban Institute's Justice Policy Center, the dimensions of prisoner reentry …
Article • January 15, 2003 • from PLN January, 2003
Filed under: Reviews, Court Access
A Jailhouse Lawyer's Manual, Fifth Ed. and 2002 Supplement by Paul Wright by Columbia Human Rights Law Review, 2002, 1,593 pages Reviewed by Paul Wright The law review staff at Columbia University in New York has published A Jailhouse Lawyer's Manual (JLM) since 1978. Now in its fifth edition, the …
Article • December 15, 2002 • from PLN December, 2002
2003 Political Prisoner Calendar Available by As 2002 ends, the need for a calendar for the coming year becomes more apparent. Activists in Canada have published the Free Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War 2003 Calendar. The eye catching and well designed calendar is filled with slick graphics and plenty …
Article • November 15, 2002 • from PLN November, 2002
A Sentence of Their Own by Hans Sherrer Directed and Produced by Edgar A. Barens (2001), 64 minutes, VHS video, $125 Review by Hans Sherrer Produced in the form of a home video, A Sentence of Their Own documents the negative impact of a man's 1996 seven-year prison sentence on …
Article • October 15, 2002 • from PLN October, 2002
Filed under: Reviews, Resources, Court Access
Represent Yourself in Court: How to Prepare & Try a Winning Case, 3rd Ed. by Sam Rutherford Represent Yourself in Court: How to Prepare & Try a Winning Case, 3rd Ed. By Attorneys Paul Bergman & Sara BermanBarrett, Nolo Press, 2001 (528 pages) Reviewed by Sam Rutherford The third edition …
Article • October 15, 2002 • from PLN October, 2002
All Things Censored by Mumia Abu Jamal by Gary Hunter Seven Stories Press, 335 page paperback, $14.95 Review by Gary Hunter For nearly two decades Mumia Abu Jamal has defied the deathgrip of Pennsylvania's death row. For nearly two decades he has revealed secrets that our nation's most powerful leaders …
Article • September 15, 2002 • from PLN September, 2002
Review: The Criminal Law Handbook, 3rd Edition by by Paul Bergman and Sara J. Berman-Barrett. Nolo, 606 pages, paperback, $29.95 A sure-fire method to eliminate future overcrowding of our nation's prisons would be to compel each aspiring scofflaw to read the third edition of The Criminal Law Handbook before his …
Article • August 15, 2002 • from PLN August, 2002
Prisoner's Guerrilla Handbook to Correspondence Programs in The United States and Canada , 2 nd Ed. by Hans Sherrer by Jon Marc Taylor, Biddle Publishing Co., 2002, pb. 341 pages Review by Hans Sherrer All across the country DOC educational programs available to prisoners are being reduced or eliminated. That …
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