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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 …
Article • July 15, 2013 • from PLN July, 2013
From the Editor by Paul Wright The June and July issues of PLN are being mailed later than usual due to our move from Vermont to Florida; however, we expect to be back on schedule with the August issue. We apologize to our readers for any inconvenience, but this is …
Article • July 13, 2013
Filed under: Resources, Grievances
"Prison Grievances: When to Write, How to Write" - Graphic Book on the Basics by Matthew Clarke By Matt Clarke In Prison Grievances: When to Write, How to Write by Terry LeClercq , you will find the basic information on how to get your grievances heard presented in an illustrated format …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
From the Editor by Paul Wright Please note that as of June 10, 2013, Prison Legal News and its parent organization, the Human Rights Defense Center, will have a new mailing address: P.O. Box 1151, Lake Worth, FL 33460. Our website and e-mail addresses remain the same, and our new …
How the Prison - Industrial Complex Destroys Lives by Mark Karlin by Mark Karlin, Truthout Marc Mauer is the Executive Director of The Sentencing Project and the author of Race to Incarcerate, which has just been released in graphic format, illustrated by Sabrina Jones, as Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling …
Article • June 15, 2013 • from PLN June, 2013
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
Supermax: Controlling Risk Through Solitary Confinement, by Sharon Shalev (Willan Publishing, September 2009). 346 pages, $39.95 by Julie Etter Book review by Julie Etter Without exaggeration, Sharon Shalev's examination of supermax prisons and the dynamics of solitary confinement in the United States illustrates the consequences of bureaucratic dictates on the …
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