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Article • June 15, 1995 • from PLN June, 1995
Attention Prisoners Convicted of Drug Offenses! by The PLN has often stated that in terms of political power prisoners don't have a voice that anyone in power has to listen to. A PLN reader in USP Lewisburg disagrees and submitted the following. Inform everyone you know (your spouse, children, family …
Article • June 15, 1995 • from PLN June, 1995
MO Hair Cut Rule Violates RFRA by In the June, 1994 issue of PLN we reported passage of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) 42 U.S.C. § 2000bb and predicted that many states "grooming rules" which ban beards long hair etc. would likely be found unlawful under it. While we …
No Immunity for Cold Filthy Cell by Melvin Wilson is an Illinois state prisoner. He filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claiming he was discharged from his prison job due to his race and when placed in segregation he was placed in a filthy, roach infested, leaking cell whose …
Winds of Unrest Blowing Over Arizona by Rainman In the August 1994 issue of PLN it was reported that many oppressive policies were being instituted in the Arizona prison system ("Oppression on the Rise in Arizona"). These changes, for the most part, are nothing more than a return to the …
Article • June 15, 1995 • from PLN June, 1995
True Lies in Philly by Five current or former police officers from the 39th District of North Philadelphia were indicted by a federal grand jury this past February, accused of framing dozens of Philadelphians. The indictment accuses the officers of warrant less searches both inside and outside their district, during …
Article • June 15, 1995 • from PLN June, 1995
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by WA: Bob Conklin, the former chief of Corrections for Chelan county was sentenced to five years in prison after being convicted of four counts of third degree child molestation and one count of indecent liberties. The former FBI agent, King County prosecutor and special forces soldier …
Article • June 15, 1995 • from PLN June, 1995
From The Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to the 61st issue of PLN. As Dan said in last month's editorials we want to expand PLN to 24 monthly pages in order to deal with a backlog of material. We have expanded from 10 typed …
Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
IL DOC Confinement Policy Illegal by The director of the Illinois DOC (IDOC) has promulgated a regulation under which all prisoners that it receives must be held for at least 60 days before they are released. Ronald Rooding was convicted and sentenced to one year in jail. After deducting good …
Prisoners Can't be Forced to Choose Between Law Library and Recreation by John Allen is a Hawaii state prisoner held in a Special Housing Unit (SHU) after allegedly assaulting a guard. His SHU confinement was indefinite. While in SHU he could use the law library and outdoor recreation area only …
Jail Detainee Entitled to Hearing by In 1986 Vincent McCann was a pretrial detainee in the mental health unit at the Orange County Correctional Facility (jail) in New York. A detainee complained to jail guards that other prisoners had thrown urine on him and were taunting him. After a cursory …
Disciplinary Evidence Must be Reliable by Michael Walsh is a New York state prisoner. He was infracted for allegedly exposing himself to and threatening a prison guard. At the disciplinary hearing, Walsh called as a witness another guard who had co-signed the infraction report. The guard testified that she was …
Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
Filed under: Medical, HIV/AIDS
Alert: Danger in Using Bleach to Clean Needles by David Gilbert The standard method to clean injection drug equipment that has been widely promoted turns out NOT to work. The three squirts in and out with household bleach (10% solution) followed by three squirts in and out with water looked …
Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
WA Prisoners Help Elect Republican by Paul Wright By Paul Wright From 1981 to 1993 Jack Metcalf held office in the Washington state Senate. In 1994 he was elected on the Republican ticket to represent Washingtons second congressional district. This is a story about prison slave labor, opportunism and hypocrisy …
Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
FL Ends Early Release by On December 9, 1994, Florida Governor Lawton Chiles announced that the state was ending its gain time program. The program was instituted in 1987 by then Governor Bob Martinez (R) to comply with a federal court order designed to limit Floridas extreme prison overcrowding. Under …
Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
The Political Base of the Death Penalty by Monica Zucker The experiences of murder and punishment change enormously in different places and different times. All of us know that in our time the United States ranks very high in number of murders and prisoners, in length of incarceration, and in …
Armed and Dangerous by Ray Luc Levasseur By Raymond Luc Levasseur When I was transferred to the U.S. penitentiary in Marion, Illinois in December, 1989, Panama was being invaded by U.S. forces. Amidst the wholesale destruction, mass graves, and lies by U.S. politicians and military leaders was an awesome display …
Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
Tommy's Jobs Program by Adrian Lomax Gov. Tommy Thompson recently unveiled his startling plan to put inmates to work in Wisconsin prisons. Thompson wants to allow private businesses to construct production facilities inside state prisons and employ inmates as laborers. The Governor assures us that his plan will accomplish several …
Retaliatory Threats Illegal by Leon Burgess is a Missouri state prisoner. Burgess disrupted a prison disciplinary hearing and guards responded by holding him down, while he was handcuffed, as another guard tried to force a towel into his mouth. When that failed the guard wrapped the towel around Burgess neck …
Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
Special Prison for Military Criminals in Chile by The Chilean government is faced with the prospect of some high ranking military and police officials going to prison for committing crimes against humanity during almost 20 years of U.S. backed fascist military rule. In response, it has announced plans to build …
Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
Venezuelan Prison Crisis Continues by Past issues of PLN have reported the massive crisis overwhelming the Venezuelan prison system. This has ranged from riots leaving hundreds of dead, mass escapes, protests and more. Human rights groups claim that Venezuela has the worst prisons in the hemisphere. On December 19, 1994, …
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