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Of Bannings and Unbannings: Why Do They Do It?
Loaded on Aug. 15, 1990
by Ed Mead
published in Prison Legal News
August, 1990, page 4
Of Bannings and Unbannings: Why do they do it?
Filed under:
Mail Regulations,
Media,
PLN Litigation,
Prisoner Media,
Censorship.
Location:
Washington.
By Ed Mead
As many of you know issue #2 of the PLN was banned from both the Penitentiary and the Reformatory. We immediately drafted a comprehensive civil rights complaint challenging the censorship, but just days before the suit was to …
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More from this issue:
- HR-4079: A National Crime Emergency?
- Editorial Comments, by Ed Mead
- Storm Warning, by Paul Wright
- Repeal "Point 100" Statute, by Dan Pens
- Of Bannings and Unbannings: Why Do They Do It?, by Ed Mead
- Prisoners in Struggle, by Paul Wright
- Struggle in Ohio, by Paul Wright
- GRAPO Prisoner Dies
- Where Now for the Sex Offender?, by Ed Mead
- In Defense of the Struggle Against Sexism, by Ed Mead
- Letters From Readers
More from Ed Mead:
- Class Differences in Crime Control, Feb. 15, 1994
- Law of Medical Treatment Explained, Jan. 15, 1994
- Editorial, Jan. 15, 1994
- Gender Based Treatment Disparity Violates Equal Protection, Dec. 15, 1993
- Editorial, Nov. 15, 1993
- The Politics of Imprisonment, Nov. 15, 1993
- Prison Slavery Upheld, Again, Oct. 15, 1993
- Prisoners as Workers: Court Defines Applicability of FLSA, Sept. 15, 1993
- Prisoners as Workers in Washington State: New Law Will Increase Exploitation, Sept. 15, 1993
- Editorial, Sept. 15, 1993
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