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Article • March 15, 1994 • from PLN March, 1994
100 Plus Killed in Venezuelan Prison Riots by At least l09 prisoners have died and 54 remain injured after a group of inmates started a fire at Sabaneta prison in Maracaibo, Venezuela, on Jan. 3. Sabaneta prison is racially segregated, with about 800 Guajiro Indians on one side and some …
Article • February 15, 1994 • from PLN February, 1994
Twenty-Seven Cons Die in El Salvador Riot by On November 19, 1993, prisoners at the San Francisco Javier prison in eastern El Salvador rioted. The four hour battle between rival gangs left 27 prisoners dead and thirty wounded, they were hacked, beaten or burned to death. Autopsy reports showed the …
Article • February 15, 1994 • from PLN February, 1994
Attorneys File Briefs for Peruvian POW's by Paul Wright By Paul Wright On October 5, 1993, National Lawyers Guild (NLG) president Peter Erlinder and attorney Leonard Weinglass filed petitions with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on behalf of Abimael Guzman, the imprisoned chairman of the Communist Party of Peru …
Irish POWs Battle Extradition by Paul Wright By Paul Wright For several hundred years the Irish people have battled the English occupation of their country. In more recent years the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) and Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) have continued this tradition of struggle by militarily engaging …
Stop the Forced Psychiatric Treatment of Georges Cipriani by Stop the Forced Psychiatric Treatment of Georges Cipriani! Georges Cipriani was captured in February, 1987 together with three other militants of Action Directe in France. The French government charged them with several armed actions against the military industrial complex and NATO. …
Article • November 15, 1993 • from PLN November, 1993
700 Moroccan Prisoners Escape by Close to 700 Prisoners of the Utita prison, about 60 miles east of the Moroccan capital of Rabat, escaped on May 22, 1993. The escape took place after the prisoners rioted and burned down virtually the entire prison. The 1,600 prisoners rioted when one of …
Article • November 15, 1993 • from PLN November, 1993
Brazil's Final Solution to the Crime Problem by The American media has recently reported on the massacre of street children in Brazil by policemen paid by merchants to "get rid of" their crime problem. Due to massive poverty there are hundreds of thousands of homeless children in Brazil who survive …
Article • November 15, 1993 • from PLN November, 1993
Political Prisoner Information Wanted by We are an autonomist collective in Spain. Right now we are working on releasing a compilation tape of music to help fund the distribution of a booklet on political prisoners. We would like to receive as much information as possible from political prisoners and groups …
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
Guatemalan Prison Riot by Some 1,000 prisoners of Pavocinto penitentiary near Guatemala City who took over the prison grounds on April 11, 1993, allowed authorities back in on April 13, 1993, after a 30 hour standoff. In exchange, the government promised that living conditions in the prison would be improved. …
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
German Geriatric Prison by Germany may have the most humanitarian prison in existence today. [ Editors note: They may also have the most inhumane prison as well, the notorious Stammheim prison is where the sensory deprivation isolation now in widespread use across the world was first developed in the mid-70's …
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
Death Squads and Prison Protests in Ecuador by According to a note sent to the police in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on April 12, 1993, a death squad called the "Anti-Crime Clean Up Squad" has claimed responsibility for the death of six common criminals and promised the shooting of another seven. The …
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
Prison Privatization in England by The British government's "privatization program" for prisons and prison service is proceeding fast. After the contracting out of the Wolds prison in Humberside to Group 4 security, Blakehurst, a new prison in Worcestshire, has been tendered out to UK Detention Services. Meanwhile bids have just …
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
The Collapse of the Brazilian Penal System by Jayme Brenner By Jayme Brenner [Editors Note: This article was translated by Paul Wright from El Dia Latinoamericano , a regional bi-weekly published in Mexico. While most American readers of PLN are familiar with the prison crisis facing the US, the fact …
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
Solidarity with Revolutionary Prisoners by Solidarity With Revolutionary Prisoners We are a committee formed by two Italian political groups (Il Bollettino and Solidarieta Proletaria), which have been focusing on revolutionary political prisoners for a number of years, since the early eighties. Our activity of support for political prisoners not disassociated …
Article • August 15, 1993 • from PLN August, 1993
Texas Studies Housing Prisoners in Foreign Countries by F Lee Weiss by F. Lee Weiss The Texas Senate approved a measure calling for a study to investigate the desirability of housing state inmates in foreign countries. State Senator John Leedom, a Republican from Dallas, said that his proposal could save …
Article • July 15, 1993 • from PLN July, 1993
Prison Riot in Argentina by One prisoner was killed and several were injured by gunfire and several others managed to escape from Batan prison outside Mar de Plata, Argentina, when a riot erupted after a Feb. 8, 1993, break out attempt. According to differing reports, either 23 or 18 of …
Article • July 15, 1993 • from PLN July, 1993
Prison Breakout in Peru by On March 27, 1993, some 70 prisoners from the Cuzco jail in the Southern Andes of Peru escaped after at least 20 presumed members of the Communist Party of Peru (PCP) destroyed a back wall by exploding a vehicle loaded with explosives, according to a …
Palestinian Political Prisoners by Israeli prisons are in many respects a microcosm of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As places of detention and physical and psychological suffering, they represent in starkest terms the violent essence of occupation. On the other hand, Palestinian prisoners have turned them into fronts of struggle and steadfastness. …
Control Units and Democratic Repression in Chile by In December of 1992 the Chilean government began building an "anti terrorist" prison which is part of that country's new policy in the so called "struggle against violent extremism." This new prison will have a capacity to hold more than one hundred …
Article • July 15, 1993 • from PLN July, 1993
Letter from Spain by by Pablo Serrano Zaragoza, Spain The only thing new is an important increase in the prisoner population. They are filling the prisons to the roof. They have built various new prisons that are already full. Aside from this process, which follows even greater social injustice and …
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