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Article • May 15, 2009 • from PLN May, 2009
From the Editor by Paul Wright On March 20, 2009, the National Council on Crime and Delinquency gave Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration, the third PLN anthology on mass imprisonment its respected PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Award. The purpose of the award is to honor …
Texas Increasingly out of Step on Death Penalty by David C Fathi By David Fathi Copyright 2009 Houston Chronicle May 23, 2009, 3:44PM Barring unexpected events, in the next few weeks Gov. Rick Perry of Texas will oversee his 200th execution since taking office in 2000. Perry has already allowed …
Article • April 15, 2009 • from PLN April, 2009
From the Editor by Paul Wright I generally don’t write about books in my monthly editorial but this is an unusual month. PLN’s first book, the long awaited and much anticipated Prisoners’ Guerrilla Handbook to Correspondence Programs in the US and Canada has been printed and is now being shipped. …
Article • March 15, 2009 • from PLN March, 2009
From the Editor by Paul Wright Readers will have received the January and February, 2009 issues of PLN later than usual because we had a problem with our mailing list database. The problem has been resolved and we are now moving back towards our regular publishing schedule. We apologize for …
Article • March 15, 2009
Prison Nation by David C Fathi By David C. Fathi It's become a depressingly predictable event. Every few months, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), a branch of the US Department of Justice, releases new figures showing that the US prison and jail population has grown yet again and has …
Article • February 15, 2009 • from PLN February, 2009
From the Editor by Paul Wright This is the first issue of PLN published during the Barak Obama presidency. Hopefully we will see change for the better. Even before he took office Obama and Biden were making good on their promises to provide billions of dollars to local police departments …
Article • January 15, 2009 • from PLN January, 2009
From the Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to the first issue of PLN for 2009. For the new year we are introducing a new quarterly column in PLN called Prison Health and Self Care by Dr. Michael Cohen. Dr. Cohen is a doctor who has extensive experience working with prisoners …
Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008
From the Editor by Paul Wright With the election past there has been a change in the faces of government and the election of Barak Obama is a historic occasion in US history with the election of a black man to the presidency for the first time. Whether there is …
Article • November 15, 2008 • from PLN November, 2008
From the Editor by Paul Wright Each day the news brings more headlines about the turmoil in financial markets and the collapse of speculative financial devices that were apparently too complex for their buyers to understand (we can all recall the junk bonds of the 1980s), the financial bail out …
Article • October 15, 2008 • from PLN October, 2008
From the Editor by Paul Wright This issue’s cover story on the rights and treatment of gay and lesbian prisoners stems from the dearth of such coverage everywhere else. In February of this year I was a speaker on a panel in Manhattan on the rights of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual …
Article • September 15, 2008 • from PLN September, 2008
From the Editor by Paul Wright The link between solitary confinement and mental illness is well known, well documented and largely ignored by the prison officials and policy makers who decide to imprison tens of thousands of American prisoners in solitary confinement on any given day for months, years and …
Article • August 15, 2008 • from PLN August, 2008
From the Editor by Paul Wright One of the little noted facts and realities of the massive explosion of mass imprisonment, and the corresponding increase in money spent on prisons and jails, is the inherent corruption that accompanies it. This month’s cover story on the Oregon DOC’s corrupt food manager, …
Article • July 15, 2008 • from PLN July, 2008
From the Editor by Paul Wright Every issue of PLN is filled with news, court rulings and investigative reporting on prisons and jails around the country. Periodically we like to bring readers political analysis of how and why the current phenomenon of mass imprisonment came about. The United States stands …
Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
From the Editor by Paul Wright The past several months have been even busier than usual for PLN. In addition to getting the magazine published each month we have seen an upsurge in censorship activities in prisons and jails around the country. As noted in this issue of PLN, after …
Article • May 15, 2008 • from PLN May, 2008
From the Editor by Paul Wright This issues marks PLN?s 19th anniversary of continuous publishing and we have now published 219 consecutive issues of PLN. Few magazines even publish ten issues, much less a hundred. Moreso considering the obstacles PLN has faced since it?s inception of being published behind bars, …
Article • April 15, 2008 • from PLN April, 2008
From the Editor by Paul Wright Over the years, PLN has frequently reported on the efforts of legislators and prisoncrats to seize money from prisoners, the vast majority of whom are poor. This trend has sharply accelerated in recent years. The cover story of this issue of PLN is excerpted …
Article • March 15, 2008 • from PLN March, 2008
From the Editor by Paul Wright This issue?s cover story reports the push to renew the use of prisoners as the test subjects for medical experiments and testing. If history repeats itself first as tragedy then as farce, we are still at the tragic stage. The United States has a …
Article • February 15, 2008 • from PLN February, 2008
Filed under: Editorials, Juveniles
From the Editor by Paul Wright This month?s cover story on abuse in the Texas youth prisons is of notable interest for exposing the shallow hypocrisy of many politician?s ?protect the children? mantra which tends to go hand in hand with being ?tough on crime.? PLN has previously reported that …
Article • January 15, 2008 • from PLN January, 2008
From the Editor by Paul Wright This month?s cover story examines the environmental woes, and history, of one old prison in Colorado. In many respects this is a microcosm of many prisons in the United States. The negative aspects of prisons on the environment itself, and on the prisoners housed …
Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007
From the Editor by Paul Wright Long time readers of PLN may recall that from 1996 through 2004 John Midgley wrote our very popular Pro Se Tips and Tactics column with information on how prisoners could master civil procedure to vindicate their civil rights in court. John stopped writing the …
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