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Search Victory for Women Cons by Gini Faller By Gini Faller The long-awaited decision in Jordan v. Gardner, et. al. came down on February 25, 1993. The Ninth Circuit, sitting en banc held 7-4 that cross-gender non-suspicion clothed body searches violate the 8th Amendment: In this case we are presented …
Article • May 15, 1993 • from PLN May, 1993
Criminal Justice System Unfair to Radical Activist by Jon George By Jon George "Toiling for the searching ones, on their speechless, seeking trail, An' for each unharmful, gentle soul misplaced inside a jail." Bob Dylan, Chimes of Freedom In 1978, Ed Mead said, "I feel a lot of interior conflicts. …
Article • May 15, 1993 • from PLN May, 1993
Editorial by Ed Mead Editorial Comments With this issue we start our fourth calendar year of printing PLN (we began our fourth publishing year back in January). Paul and I have been looking back on what we've been able to accomplish during this period and we feel pretty good about …
Inquiry Stepped up in Georgia Prison Sex Case by Authorities in Georgia said they have intensified an investigation into alleged sexual abuse at a Georgia women's prison after 14 current and former state corrections employees were indicted on rape and sexual assault charges. A grand jury returned the indictments after …
Article • April 15, 1993 • from PLN April, 1993
Peruvian Political Prisoners Mistreated by Paul Wright In past issues of PLN we have reported on events in Peru affecting the political prisoners of the Communist Party of Peru (PCP). In May of 1992 the Peruvian government stormed the Canto Grande maximum security prison killing and wounding dozens of PCP …
Release Not Appropriate Relief for Beatings by Samuel Brown is a New York state prisoner. Brown was convicted of three counts of felony murder arising from an armored car robbery in upstate New York by the Revolutionary Armed Task Force. Brown became an FBI informant and was later tried and …
Article • April 15, 1993 • from PLN April, 1993
New Video Tape Available by Last October over a thousand people attended the International Tribunal of Indigenous Peoples and Oppressed Nations in the USA. The event, sponsored and organized by a coalition of 30 organizations, was part of the counter-Columbus quincentennial activities throughout the country. The Tribunal put the U.S. …
Blind Pretrial Detainees Entitled to Treatment by Anthony Harris was a pretrial detainee in the Cook county jail (Chicago). He is legally blind. While at the jail he repeatedly requested medical treatment for his blindness and frequent eye infections. He also requested special handicapped housing to prevent dangerous situations. Jail …
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
Battered Women in Prison by Every fifteen seconds a woman in the U.S. is beaten. One California state prison study found that 93 percent of women who had killed their mates had been battered by them. There are approximately 650 women in California state prisons for killing their abusers. The …
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
Ex-Louisiana Officials Fined for Racial Segregation by Two former Louisiana corrections officials must pay $4,000 in fines for segregating inmates by race, a federal judge said. In his ruling October 27th in Baton rouge, a U.S. District judge lowered the judgment from $10,000 recommended by a federal magistrate earlier in …
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
Disabled Executed by On January 19, 1993, the state of Virginia executed Charles Stamper. Stamper had been confined to a wheelchair since his spinal cord was injured in a prison brawl. Stamper was denied permission to walk to the electric chair in leg braces and a walker. Instead, prison guards …
Crisis in the French Gulag by Jean-Marc Rouillan As you may know, the French prison system is one of the worst in Western Europe; its conditions and facilities of confinement are the same as those of bloody Turkey! In the 1980's things only worsened. Each year there are more prisoners …
Article • February 15, 1993 • from PLN February, 1993
Freedom for Gerhard Bogelein by On May 18, 1992, the 22nd tribunal of the Provincial Court in Bamburg, Germany, condemned Gerhard Bögelein to life in prison without parole; he is 69 years old. The judge's reason: the murder, in 1947, of a former judge of the Nazi army. This sentence …
Article • February 15, 1993 • from PLN February, 1993
Letter from Exile by Ray Luc Levasseur Remember Eugene Debs? One of the first Socialists I ever read, before I moved on to the hard-core. I used to quote him in letters - "where there is a lower class I am of it, where there is a criminal element, I …
Article • February 15, 1993 • from PLN February, 1993
Sundiata Acoli Needs Letters by In 1973 Black Panther members Sundiata Acoli and Assata Shakur were captured after a shootout with New Jersey state troopers. One of their comrades, Zayd Shakur, and a police officer were killed. Now, twenty years later, Sundiata is up for parole (Assata escaped from custody …
Article • January 15, 1993 • from PLN January, 1993
Prisoners Support Guzman Defense by Jaan Laaman After the capture of Abimael Guzman, some friends of the Peruvian revolution contacted us and informed us of the worldwide effort to protect his life. A few revolutionaries here in Leavanworth federal penitentiary then got together to figure out what we could do. …
Aborigines Have High Jail Death Rate by Nineteen Australian Aborigines died in police cells and prisons in 1990 and 1991 despite a multimillion dollar inquiry aimed at stopping aboriginal deaths in custody, according to a recent report. The continued over-representation of Aborigines in Australian prisons was a major contributing factor, …
Article • January 15, 1993 • from PLN January, 1993
Free Speech for Whom? by Mumia Abu-Jamal [EDITOR'S NOTE: In the Dec., 1992 issue of PLN we reported that supporters of Mumia Abu Jamal, the former Black Panther on death row in Pennsylvania accused of killing a cop, had shouted down Penn. Governor Casey at a forum in New York …
Article • January 15, 1993 • from PLN January, 1993
A Nation in Chains by "Presidents Reagan and Bush have ensured that the federal courts will not be representative. Instead, they are a bastion of White America. They stand as a symbol of White Power." Can you guess who said these words? I'll wager most folks missed the identity of …
Article • January 15, 1993 • from PLN January, 1993
Hunger Strike Ends After 19 Days by Muna Muhaisen By Muna Muhaisen Palestinian political prisoners ended their hunger strike last week after the Israeli Prison Authority entered negotiations with prisoner representatives and agreed to establish an investigative committee to look into the prisoners' demands. The strike, which began Sept. 27, …
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