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 JLM is an excellent resource, reference guide and how to manual for ...
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The connection between felon disenfranchisement and mass imprisonment is rarely explored. In this month's cover story we discuss the correlation between the two. In many ways, the more things change the more they remain the same. Today's convicts effectively pad voter numbers when legislative districts are drawn which begs the ...
Over the years, PLN has conducted a number of sample mailings to potential subscribers. This has always been a good way to expand our circulation, but such mailings are expensive to do. We have long recognized that our best outreach resource is our readership. To that end, we want to ...
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NJ Sex Offender Website
Florida Guards Acquitted
Parents' Project
S.Ct. on Civil Commitment
$3.5 Million Nevada Settlement
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Legal Mail Bans
$2.8 Million TX Boot Camp Award
Texas Guards
California Parole
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PLN 's cumulative index is now available. The index has almost 500 different subject categories for all articles reported by PLN . No more time spent looking vainly for cases or articles under various topics. PLN 's new indexing system is designed for the serious researcher and litigator. Aside from ...
This month's cover story examines the effects of mass imprisonment on the children of prisoners. All too often it is forgotten that prisoners have family members and the impact of penal policies on these families is largely ignored. Just as "family values" has served as a cover for a war ...
One reason PLN doesn't expand its coverage into criminal law is because other publications already do a good job covering it and we see little point in duplicating those efforts. Punch and Jurists is, bar none, the best criminal defense newsletter and website in America today. Now in its ninth ...
Welcome to PLN 's 12th anniversary issue. PLN first started publishing in 1990 and this marks 12 years and 144 consecutive issues. PLN is the longest publishing independent, prisoner-produced magazine in U.S. history. While we have had our ups and downs over the years we have consistently improved the quality ...
