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Article • June 5, 2014 • from PLN June, 2014
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor by Paul Wright When Prison Legal News first started publishing in 1990, the Internet only existed for the military and a few academic institutions. PLN made its first online appearance in 1998 on what was a fairly simple website by today’s …
Article • May 19, 2014 • from PLN May, 2014
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
Book Review: Banking and Financial Management Course (1st Ed.), by Prisoner Assistant by Gary Hunter Banking and Financial Management Course (1st Ed.), by Prisoner Assistant (CreateSpace Independent Publishing, July 2013). 119 pages, $30.00   Book review by Gary Hunter   Life outside prison crosses the minds of most prisoners daily, …
Article • May 19, 2014 • from PLN May, 2014
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor   by Paul Wright   This month’s issue of Prison Legal News marks 24 years and 284 issues, which makes PLN the longest continuously-published prisoners’ rights publication in U.S. history. We have grown significantly from a ten-page, hand-typed newsletter to our …
Article • April 15, 2014 • from PLN April, 2014
An Interview with Noam Chomsky on Criminal Justice and Human Rights by On February 5, 2014, Prison Legal News editor Paul Wright interviewed Noam Chomsky, 85, at his home in Lexington, Massachusetts. Professor Chomsky is the foremost dissident intellectual in the United States, and for decades has been a prominent …
Article • April 15, 2014 • from PLN April, 2014
From the Editor by Paul Wright This month’s interview with Noam Chomsky is part of PLN’s ongoing series of interviews with notable people who have diverse views of the U.S. criminal justice system. Prior interviews have been conducted with well-known actor Danny Trejo, media mogul and millionaire Conrad Black, and …
Article • April 15, 2014 • from PLN April, 2014
Filed under: Reviews
The Redbook – A Manual on Legal Style by John Dannenberg by Bryan Garner (Thomson West, 2nd Ed., 2006). 510 pages (spiral bound), $15.00. Book review by John E. Dannenberg The Redbook is a comprehensive reference manual that provides guidance with every facet of preparing legal documents. Reviewed by judges …
Article • March 15, 2014 • from PLN March, 2014
From the Editor by Paul Wright This month’s cover story on Corizon, the company formed by the merger of Prison Health Services and Correctional Medical Services, is our most recent reporting on an issue that has been ongoing for the past several decades. Namely, the prison HMO model whereby corrections …
Article • March 15, 2014 • from PLN March, 2014
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
Arrest-Proof Yourself, by Dale Carson and Wes Denham by John Dannenberg (Chicago Review Press, 2007). 282 pages (paperback), $14.95. Book review by John E. Dannenberg In short, Arrest-Proof Yourself is a colorfully-written manual on how to avoid being arrested. The book’s principal thesis is a hypothetical “electronic plantation” where all …
Article • February 15, 2014 • from PLN February, 2014
From the Editor by Paul Wright In 2011, the Human Rights Defense Center – the parent organization of Prison Legal News – co-founded the national Campaign for Prison Phone Justice to eliminate the high costs of prison phone calls. We had success before the Federal Communications Commission, which voted in …
Article • February 15, 2014 • from PLN February, 2014
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
Arrested: What to do When Your Loved One’s in Jail, by Wes Denham by John Dannenberg (Chicago Review Press, 2010). 263 pages (paperback), $16.95. Book review by John E. Dannenberg Arrested: What to do When Your Loved One’s in Jail is a detailed “how-to” manual for educating the uninformed about …
Article • January 15, 2014 • from PLN January, 2014
From the Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to the first issue of PLN for 2014. If you have not donated to our annual fundraiser, please do so now; it is not too late and we need your support to continue our advocacy work on issues like the Campaign for Prison …
Article • December 15, 2013 • from PLN December, 2013
From the Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to the last issue of PLN for 2013. As the year closes we can look back and see we have accomplished a great deal, including expanding the magazine to 64 pages, successfully urging the FCC to cap the cost of interstate prison phone …
Article • November 15, 2013
This Draconian System of Punishment and Abuse: An Interview with Former Political Prisoner Ray Luc Levasseur by Aviva Stahl By Aviva Stahl The following is a partial transcript of an interview with Ray Luc Levasseur, a former political prisoner who spent over fifteen years in solitary confinement, primarily at USP …
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
Book Review: Against Their Will: The Secret History of Medical Experimentation on Children in Cold War America by Christopher Zoukis by Allen M. Hornblum, Judith L. Newman and Gregory J. Dober (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013). 266 pages. $27.00 Book review by Christopher Zoukis According to Oswald Spengler, writing in The Decline …
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
From the Editor by Paul Wright By now all PLN subscribers should have received their annual fundraising letter. Subscription and advertising income alone does not cover the cost of producing each month’s issue. Most importantly, it does not cover the cost of the advocacy we do on behalf of prisoners …
Article • October 15, 2013 • from PLN October, 2013
From the Editor by Paul Wright This month’s cover story on the San Diego County jail system illustrates that while prisons often get slightly more media attention, it is not because they are necessarily more poorly run. On any given day some 735,000 detainees are confined in local jails, and …
Article • September 15, 2013
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
The Wealthy 'Make Mistakes', the Poor Go to Jail by Chris Arnade I left my Wall Street trader job and began photographing drug addicts in NYC. These two worlds have entirely different rules. by Chris Arnade I knew him as "Mr one-glove". The origins of his nickname were cloudy, but …
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
From the Editor by Paul Wright The month of August was fairly eventful from a criminal justice perspective. New York City’s “stop and frisk” policy, under which police officers stopped and searched hundreds of thousands of predominantly black and Hispanic men, was found to be unconstitutional. U.S. Attorney General Eric …
An Innocent Man Speaks: PLN Interviews Jeff Deskovic by On April 9, 2013, Prison Legal News editor Paul Wright sat down with Jeffrey Deskovic as part of PLN's ongoing series of interviews concerning our nation's criminal justice system. Previously, PLN interviewed famous actor Danny Trejo [PLN, Aug. 2011, p.1] and …
Article • August 15, 2013 • from PLN August, 2013
From the Editor by Paul Wright As I write this month's editorial, prisoners in California are staging the largest hunger strike and food boycott in U.S. history to protest the California prison system's policy and practice of indefinite solitary confinement for thousands of prisoners spanning years and even decades. For …
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