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Archive: 1991

December

• Monroe's Struggle Against Double Celling by Ed Mead (p 1)
• Court Supports Supervisory Liability Claim (p 2)
• Prisoners May Not Be Subjected to Freezing Temperatures (p 3)
• Executions Report Issued (p 3)
• Written Findings of Disciplinary Hearing Held Inadequate (p 3)
• The Criminalization of Poverty by Sabina Virgo (p 4)
• Prison Law Libraries Must Keep All Books Current (p 4)
• From The Editor by Paul Wright (p 5)
• Oklahoma Must Provide Adequate Funds for Its Public Defenders (p 6)
• New York Prisons Profiled (p 6)
• Consent Decree Creates a Liberty Interest (p 7)
• Prison Tobacco Sales Are Not Punishment (p 7)
• Guards Liable for Harassing Searches of Cell (p 7)
• Prison Guards May Not Be Fired for Testifying on Prisoner's behalf (p 7)
• Civil Commitment by Carrie Roth (p 8)
• Evidence Must Be Presented at Disciplinary Hearing (p 8)
• No Liberty Interest in Prison Jobs (p 8)
• Letters From Readers (p 9)

November

• Washington Supreme Court Rules on Lifers by John Midgley (p 1)
• Caging America: The U.S. Imprisonment Binge by Patricia Horn (p 2)
• Pig Park Update (p 3)
• Abuses Continue at Ansar 3 (p 3)
• Prison System Increases Cell Integration to Avoid Fines (p 3)
• Unlawful Orders Cannot Be Enforced With Violence (p 4)
• Privacy Right Not To Be Viewed Naked by Opposite Sex Prison Guards (p 4)
• Right to Practice Religious Beliefs (p 4)
• Reviews (p 5)
• Due Process Distinguished (p 5)
• Attention Former PAP Members by Jane Kuja (p 5)
• Prison Guards: Victims or Villains? by Paul Wright (p 5)
• Sheriff Can't Release AIDS Test Results (p 6)
• Universal Suffrage: Give Us A Voice! by Tom Sparks (p 6)
• Editorial by Ed Mead (p 7)
• Violent Crime Rate Up, Again (p 7)
• Can't Search Visitor Leaving Prison (p 7)
• Mandatory Sentencing Flops in Florida (p 8)
• Search of Legal Files Violates Consent Decree (p 8)
• No Minimum Wages for Convicts (p 8)
• Letter from Germany (p 9)
• Passin' Gas by Clark Stuhr (p 9)
• Pelican Bay News (p 9)
• Info on Free (p 10)

October

• Getting Rid of the Board: Status of the Initiative Process by Ed Mead (p 1)
• Remembering Attica Correction by Beryl Sanders (p 2)
• AIDS In Prison: The New Death Row by Heather Rhoads (p 2)
• From The Editor by Paul Wright (p 4)
• In Total Resistance (p 4)
• Tacoma Court Commissioner Removed (p 4)
• Oregon Board Rules Held Ex Post Facto (p 5)
• Help Yourself Legal Information by Paul Wright (p 5)
• Search of Prison Visitors Without Probable Cause Illegal (p 6)
• Tim Anderson Free (p 6)
• Prisoner Allowed to Possess Petition (p 6)
• Materials for Imprisoned Parents (p 6)
• FBI To Collect Records on Juveniles (p 7)
• Getting Counsel Appointed in Civil Rights Cases by Paul Wright (p 7)
• Percentage of Black Prisoners Grows (p 7)
• Death Penalty Resources by Paul Wright (p 8)
• NCADP Conference in Seattle (p 8)
• Community Service Sentencing Found Effective (p 8)
• Notary Update (p 9)
• Resistance to Oppression by F T (p 9)
• Prison Repression in Spain by Jose Jimenez Fernandez (p 9)

September

• Remembering Attica: Twenty Years Later by Ed Mead (p 1)
• Prisoners Are Entitled to Recovery For Underpayment of Wages by Mark Cook (p 3)
• The Rich Get Richer (p 3)
• The Class Implications of Prisoner Rights Litigation by Ed Mead (p 4)
• Women Prisoners Entitled to Equal Education (p 4)
• Supreme Court Slams Conditions Case (p 5)
• Group Cites Shift from Education to Prisons (p 5)
• Prison/Community Alliance Update by Carrie Roth (p 5)
• Editorial by Ed Mead (p 6)
• Prison Discrimination Illegal (p 6)
• CBCC Mail Suit Filed by Paul Wright (p 7)
• Why Do Legal Work? by F L (p 7)
• Families Against Mandatory Minimums (p 7)
• State and Federal SRA Parole Systems Similar (p 7)
• Racial Discrimination at Raiford by Darryl Conquest (p 8)
• More Racism in Florida's Slammers by Vincent Harris (p 8)
• Resistance at Pelican Bay Gulag (p 8)
• Prison Education by Paul Wright (p 9)
• View From Italy by Giovanni Senzanni (p 9)
• 24-Hour Cell Lights by Tom Langbehn (p 9)

August

• A Lesson From Japan by Dan Pens (p 1)
• The United States Supreme Court: Petition for Writ of Certiori by Wm Daniel Ravenscroft (p 2)
• Drug Profits Fund Prison (p 3)
• Walla Walla 'Lifers With Hope' (p 3)
• Mass. Corrections Policy "Disaster" Says Task Force (p 3)
• Texas Prison Officials Indicted (p 3)
• Legal Mail May Not be Read (p 4)
• Mail Rejection Not Upheld (p 4)
• Prisoners Entitled to Exculpatory Evidence In Disciplinary Hearings (p 4)
• Prisoners Must Be Fed (p 4)
• Informants Must Be Reliable (p 4)
• Prison Visitors May Not Be Searched Without Probable Cause (p 4)
• From The Editor by Paul Wright (p 5)
• Grievance System Does Not Create Liberty Interest (p 5)
• Magistrates May Hear Prison Cases (p 5)
• Justice for Jimmy Haynes? by John Perotti (p 6)
• PLN Banned in France by Paul Wright (p 6)
• Reviews (p 6)
• The Ex Post Facto Clause and Washington's Parole Board by Ed Mead (p 7)
• California Prison Construction by Ruth Cashmere (p 8)
• Be a Rat or Else! (p 9)

July

• Racism: The Clouded Lens by Dan Pens (p 1)
• Violent Crime Up 10% in 1990 (p 2)
• Clallam Bay Double Celling (p 2)
• Prison/Community Alliance Update by Carrie Roth (p 2)
• Police Brutality or Brutal Police? by Paul Wright (p 3)
• Prisoners Allowed to See Evidence Against Them (p 4)
• Pig Park Update (p 4)
• Pro Se Litigants Entitled to Litigation Costs (p 4)
• Prisoners and the Grievance System (p 5)
• Editorial by Ed Mead (p 6)
• Overcrowded and Unfair by Gary Parker (p 6)
• No Warrantless Search of Departing Visitor (p 7)
• U.S. Prison Population Grew 8.2% in 1990 (p 7)
• Letters From Readers (p 7)
• Reality of Sexual Victimization Obscured by "Predator" Label by Patricia Novotny (p 9)
• Disagrees With Attorney's Article by H D (p 9)
• Bad Water, Backed Up Toilet States Claim (p 10)

June

• Civil Commitment Roasted on ABC's Nightline by Dan Pens (p 1)
• Which Shell is the Pea Under? Government Crime Statistics Invoke Slight of Hand (p 2)
• Court Upholds Collection of Blood Samples for DNA Data Bank (p 2)
• Mail to Public Officials and Media Protected (p 2)
• Medical Care (p 3)
• Female Guards Can Pat Search Male Prisoners (p 3)
• From The Editor by Paul Wright (p 3)
• Prisoner Victims of Guard Assault Win Damages (p 3)
• Prisoner With AIDS Care Found Lacking (p 4)
• Life Without Parole Okayed for 13-Year Old Killer (p 5)
• Crime and Revolution, Prisons Don't Work (p 5)
• Mere "Institutional Security" Claim Not Enough (p 5)
• Still Not the Hilton (p 6)
• Reviews (p 6)
• New Report Cites Higher Rates of HIV Infection Among Inmates (p 7)
• Human Rights in the U.S. Criminal Justice System (p 7)
• Biden: Violence Is At a New High (p 7)
• Puppets on Strings of Oppression by Christofer Kneech (p 8)
• Inhumane Living at CCI by Angelo Crimi (p 9)
• Aftermath MANCI Control Unit & Perotti Update (p 9)
• Pro-War Hypocrisy by Paul Wright (p 9)

May

• A Saga of Shame: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal by Equal Justice (p 1)
• GRAPO Hungerstrike Ends (p 2)
• Prison/Community Alliance Update by Martin Roth (p 3)
• Still Stuck in the U.S.A. (p 3)
• War Repression by Laura Whitehorn (p 4)
• Editorial by Ed Mead (p 4)
• Local Deities, A Book Review by Ed Mead (p 5)
• News from Dwight Womens' Prison by F L (p 5)
• "Rehabilitation" Hoax Unveiled at ISRB Meeting by Dan Pens (p 6)
• The Black Panthers Are Back by Paul Wright (p 6)
• DOC "Taxes" Oklahoma Prisoners by Jeff Lea (p 7)
• Update of Canadian Women Prisoners by Paul Wright (p 7)
• Exposure to Secondary Smoke Found Unlawful (p 8)
• Why Do We Still Have a Parole Board? by Ed Mead (p 8)
• Medical Care Chilling At Purdy by TE L (p 9)
• Pig Park by N R (p 9)
• Penitentiary Overcrowded (p 10)

April

• The LBC's Final Report to the Legislature: A Retreat From The Principles of the SRA by Ed Mead (p 1)
• Years of Change by B Roland Blankenship (p 2)
• Panel Blasts BJA for Ending Drug Treatment Projects (p 2)
• Did DOC Lie on Computer Issue? by Ed Mead (p 3)
• More Federal Money for Prisons (p 4)
• From The Editor by Paul Wright (p 4)
• Bush Keeps Crime on Front Burner (p 5)
• Beating in the MANCI Control Unit by John Perotti (p 5)
• Pennsylvania Lawmakers Want to Axe Parole Board (p 5)
• John Perroti on Hungerstrike by John Perotti (p 5)
• Habitual Criminal Case Update (p 5)
• Murder Case Update (p 6)
• ".100 Hearings" Opinions Of An Attorney (p 6)
• Oppression and Resistance at Canada's Prison for Women (p 7)
• Political Prisoners Hunger Strike in France by Jean-Marc Rouillan (p 7)
• Reviews (p 8)
• To a Bureaucrat by Anthony McIntyre (p 8)
• Women's Report by F L (p 9)
• Non-English Messed Over (p 9)
• Shelton Changes by F D (p 9)

March

• Sex Offender "Treatment" in Washington State, In Whose Best Interest? by Dan Pens (p 1)
• Review: A Saga of Shame (p 2)
• Loss of Legal Materials States Claim for Denial of Access To The Courts (p 2)
• Disclosure of AIDS Condition Violates Right to Privacy (p 3)
• Treatment Effective Against Drug Use (p 3)
• Avenue to Attack Habitual Criminal Conviction (p 3)
• Getting Tough Approach To Crime Fails to Produce Results by Ed Mead (p 3)
• Toward Creating a More Equal Sentencing System (p 5)
• Editorial by Ed Mead (p 6)
• U.S. Now Has World's Highest Incarceration Rate (p 7)
• Prison Discipline Study (p 7)
• The New and Improved Marion by Paul Wright (p 8)
• Letters From Readers (p 9)
• Will The Racists Please Stand Up? by Paul Wright (p 10)

February

• No Blood For Oil by Paul Wright (p 1)
• The Parole Board Audit Report by Ed Mead (p 1)
• Response To "Tread Carefully" by Paul Wright (p 3)
• Spending on Corrections Rises Sharply (p 4)
• Mothers in Prison (p 4)
• Texas Woman Wins $125,000 Settlement (p 4)
• Station Files Suit to Televise Execution (p 4)
• Florida DOC Officials Harass Women (p 5)
• Some Peruvian Prisoners Released (p 5)
• New York Report Matches National Study Results (p 5)
• Nutraloaf and the Law in the Northwest by Wasseneh Taddasse (p 5)
• Women Prisoner's Hunger Strike in Texas by Ana Lucia Gelabert (p 6)
• From The Editor by Paul Wright (p 6)
• Insufficient Facts to Support Exceptional Terms (p 7)
• Prison Officials Liable for Not Correctly Computing Prisoner's Sentence (p 7)
• Prisoner Assaulted by Guard (p 7)
• X-Ray Searches of Prisoners Found Unlawful (p 7)
• Deliberate Indifference Demonstrated (p 8)
• Habitual Criminal Case Update (p 8)
• Clallam Bay Prisoner Brutalized by Paul Wright (p 8)
• Prison's Water Contaminated by Ray Luc Levasseur (p 9)
• Exception to Slave Labor by D.H. Washington (p 10)

January

• Editorial by Ed Mead (p 1)
• Prison/Community Alliance (p 1)
• Non-Stenographic Depositions by Paul Wright (p 2)
• Prison Cells, Only $30 a Night! (p 3)
• Attention ISRB Prisoners (p 3)
• Psychiatry Can't Predict Violent Behavior (p 3)
• Rich Get Richer, Poor Get Poorer (p 3)
• Reviews by Paul Wright (p 3)
• Attorney General Uses Erroneous Information (p 4)
• Walla Walla IMU Stops Using Fire Hoses by Clark Stuhr (p 4)
• Florida DOC Offers Settlement (p 4)
• Prisoner Wins Ban on Military Catalog (p 4)
• Failure to Disassociate Noninfractable (p 5)
• Notice of Appeal Filed When Given to Cops (p 5)
• Who's in Prison in America (p 5)
• Four Out of Ten Get the Slammer (p 5)
• Federal Court Upholds Slave Labor (p 5)
• Problems That Can't Be Cured in Prison (p 5)
• Money Down the Drain (p 6)
• Convict Entitled To Have Officer Called As Witness At Hearing, And To Have Independent Evaluation Of Informant's Allegations (p 6)
• Tread Carefully With Sex Offenders by Mark LaRue (p 6)
• A Lesson To Be Learned From The Soviets (p 7)
• Furlough Facts by Ed Mead (p 7)
• Prisons - An Expensive Stone Wall (p 7)
• Book Request System Inadequate (p 8)
• The Price of Resistance - Is It Worth It? by John Perotti (p 8)
• Foreign Letter (p 9)
• Breeder Reactors by Dick Freeman (p 9)
• Rejection Process (p 9)