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Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
From the Editor by Paul Wright This issue celebrates PLN's tenth anniversary. One thing about PLN is that we have pretty much muddled along and done the best we could. To this day, no one involved in PLN's daily operations has any professional experience in journalism or publishing. We're all …
Article • April 15, 2000 • from PLN April, 2000
From the Editor by Paul Wright As this issue goes to press it is too early to have received any response on the matching grant campaign. Between May and January 2001, each issue of PLN will contain a bar graph showing how much has been donated to date and how …
Article • March 15, 2000 • from PLN March, 2000
From the Editor by Paul Wright Thanks to the response our fundraiser has achieved, PLN was recently able to hire a second staff person, Linda, to help with our essential office tasks. Right now the main thing she has been doing is helping Fred, our office manager, get caught up …
Article • February 15, 2000 • from PLN February, 2000
From the Editor by Paul Wright PLN's fundraiser to pay for the second staff position has raised $5,645 as of January 10, 2000. We need to raise a total of $24,000 above and beyond what we normally bring in so we will be able to pay for a much needed …
Article • January 15, 2000 • from PLN January, 2000
From the Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to another year of PLN. This issue contains our case and subject index for 1999. In 1995 we decided that indexing PLN would greatly enhance its value as a research tool. All of our back issues are indexed and each January we have …
Article • December 15, 1999 • from PLN December, 1999
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright The August issue of PLN had the last column Laura Whitehorn wrote for us before getting out of prison on August 5, 1999. Laura believed it was important that her column be written by current prisoners, as opposed to a former …
Article • November 15, 1999 • from PLN November, 1999
From the Editor by Dan Pens Greetings and welcome to another edition of PLN. Five years ago my first editorial appeared in the October 1994 issue. Sadly, this will be my last. I am stepping down as co-editor, but will remain active with the PLN collective as a contributing writer. …
Article • October 15, 1999 • from PLN October, 1999
From the Editor by Paul Wright A PLN supporter recently commented that I must find editing PLN incredibly depressing given the content of the July, 1999, issue: medical neglect, rape, extrajudicial murders, brutality, sensory deprivation control units, random shootings, etc. As an optimist, I see the prison struggle glass as …
Article • September 15, 1999 • from PLN September, 1999
From the Editor by Dan Pens Greetings and welcome to another issue of PLN. Labor Day is upon us a holiday that used to commemorate workers' struggle. But what does it mean now? Summer's last hurrah? One final barbecue or hiking trip and back home just in time for the …
Article • August 15, 1999 • from PLN August, 1999
From the Editor by Paul Wright Starting with last month's issue of PLN we have expanded the number of books we offer for direct sale. This month we have added some more titles. As funds become available we hope to expand our list of titles further. For years PLN has …
Article • July 15, 1999 • from PLN July, 1999
Filed under: Editorials, Media, Censorship
From the Editor by Dan Pens Greetings and welcome to another issue of PLN . I'd like to bring to your attention a slight change in PLN 's mailing address. The U.S. Postal Services decided that mail addressed to "private mail boxes" (those handy mail centers that offer friendlier and …
Article • June 15, 1999 • from PLN June, 1999
From the Editor by Paul Wright Since the November, 1996, issue of PLN we have had a Prison Litigation Reform Act News section. Starting with next month's issue we will no longer run a separate PLRA News section in PLN . When the PLRA was enacted in April, 1996, it …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
From the Editor by Dan Pens Welcome to the ninth anniversary issue of PLN . Many people, supporters and detractors alike, are amazed by PLN 's longevity. We're not amazed. We're proud, not to mention weary. It takes an incredible amount of commitment and hard work to keep PLN going. …
Article • April 15, 1999 • from PLN April, 1999
From the Editor by Paul Wright In January the Washington prison system implemented new mail censorship rules. This is in line with the national trend by prisons and jails who seek to cut off the flow of information to prisoners and also keep outsiders as ignorant as possible of what …
Article • March 15, 1999 • from PLN March, 1999
From the Editor by Dan Pens Yesterday evening I was walking down the breezeway. A fellow prisoner waved and said, "Hi Dan, how'ya doing?" Without pause I answered, "Well, I'm still standing. Still takin' punches. I guess that's something." That's what being a prisoner involved in The Struggle feels like …
Article • February 15, 1999 • from PLN February, 1999
From the Editor by Paul Wright Since PLN began publishing in 1990 we have had to confront prison censors that have sought to prevent prisoners from receiving PLN . We have usually been able to resolve these problems administratively. In those cases where letters or phone calls prove fruitless we …
Article • January 15, 1999 • from PLN January, 1999
From the Editor by Dan Pens Greetings and welcome to a new year of PLN . Our longevity is a proud accomplishment and one that would not be possible without the continuing support of you our readers. I thank each of you who responded to PLN 's recent fundraiser mailing. …
Article • December 15, 1998 • from PLN December, 1998
From the Editor by Paul Wright By now PLN subscribers should have received a fund raiser letter from PLN . We are requesting donations from our readers in order to upgrade PLN 's aging computer equipment. Two PLN supporters have recently donated up to date software, including a state of …
Article • October 15, 1998 • from PLN October, 1998
From the Editor by Dan Pens Not too long ago I viewed two one-hour Nightline prime-time specials back-to-back. The first hour featured non-stop spin control about the day's Tomahawk cruise missile attacks on "terrorist camps" in Afghanistan and (most mind-boggling of all!) a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan. Just weeks before, …
Article • September 15, 1998 • from PLN September, 1998
From the Editor by Paul Wright PLN 's book, The Celling of America , (TCOA) continues to do well. The first print run of 3,000 copies was sold out by June, less than three months after its official release date of March 1, 1998. All publications that have reviewed TCOA …
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