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Article • July 15, 1991 • from PLN July, 1991
Racism: The Clouded Lens by Dan Pens By Dan Pens The other day I flipped on the Donahue Show to kill a few minutes before chow. The featured guests were families who raise their children to be racists. Instead of teaching them familiar Mother Goose rhymes, the children are taught …
Article • July 15, 1991 • from PLN July, 1991
Editorial by Ed Mead Editorial Comments By Ed Mead First of all, I would like to share the situation and some of the thoughts of a former Palestinian prisoner, a man who was only recently released after having served l7 years in Israeli prisons. His name is Ali Mohammed Jiddah, …
Still Not the Hilton by Still Not The Hilton From: Out Of Time 2/91 The Bureau of Prison's (BOP) 'mission' to isolate, hide and break the spirit of women political prisoners (a la Lexington High Security Unit, Lexington, KY 198688) continues at Federal Correctional Institute (FCI) Marianna in Florida. The …
Article • June 15, 1991 • from PLN June, 1991
Human Rights in the U.S. Criminal Justice System by Human Rights In The U.S. Criminal Justice System by Equal Justice U.S.A. In addition to it's current use and expansion of the death penalty, the United States enters the 1990's with the highest rate of incarceration in the world. Over one …
Article • June 15, 1991 • from PLN June, 1991
Female Guards Can Pat Search Male Prisoners by Prisoners at a Nebraska state all-male prison brought a civil rights lawsuit complaining that their constitutional right to privacy was violated by pat searches performed by female guards and by female guards observing them nude or partially nude while they showered, used …
Article • May 15, 1991 • from PLN May, 1991
Local Deities, A Book Review by Ed Mead By Ed Mead I've just finished reading a very good novel. And because the experience was so enjoyable, I would like to share a taste of it in the hopes that you, too, will read this book. The novel is Local Deities, …
Article • May 15, 1991 • from PLN May, 1991
Medical Care Chilling At Purdy by TE L The Clinic had me pretty stressed out the last couple of days. My arm, where the stitches were, are starting to form blisters, and to me that is not normal. My belief is that it should be healing - not blistering and …
Article • May 15, 1991 • from PLN May, 1991
Still Stuck in the U.S.A. by From: Out Of Time 2/91 The U.S. department of in-justice denied repatriation to Italy for Silvia Baraldini. Silvia is a political prisoner, presently incarcerated in federal prison in Marianna Florida, serving a forty-three year sentence. Charged in 1982 with five acts, she was convicted …
Article • May 15, 1991 • from PLN May, 1991
News from Dwight Womens' Prison by F L News From Dwight Womens' Prison By L.F. Geraldine Smith is only the third woman to be sentenced to death in the history of the State of Illinois... the first occurring in the 1800s and the second in the 1930s. There was almost …
Update of Canadian Women Prisoners by Paul Wright Update Of Canadian Women Prisoners By Paul Wright In our last issue of PLN (See "Oppression and Resistance at Canada's Prison for Women" page 7) we reported on events at the Prison for Women (P4W) in Kingston, Ontario, in which some 20 …
Article • May 15, 1991 • from PLN May, 1991
GRAPO Hungerstrike Ends by PLN has reported previously on the progress of the hungerstrike in Spain by some 42 imprisoned members of GRAPO (Anti-Fascist Resistance Groups, First of October) and of the PCE(r) (Communist Party of Spain, reconstituted). The strike began on November 30, 1989, and ended February 2, 1991. …
Article • May 15, 1991 • from PLN May, 1991
A Saga of Shame: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal by Equal Justice By Equal Justice U.S.A. Mumia Abu-Jamal is an African American Journalist and advocate for racial and economic justice. He is currently on death row in Pennsylvania. In 1982, Abu-Jamal was convicted of killing a Philadelphia police officer and …
Article • May 15, 1991 • from PLN May, 1991
War Repression by Laura Whitehorn By Laura Whitehorn Revolutionary greetings. Like all progressive people, I've been trying to get news (news, not military advertisements) of the war, and following the anti-war activities around the country that somehow fail to make it onto the TV news. Here at FCI Lexington, you …
Article • April 15, 1991 • from PLN April, 1991
Political Prisoners Hunger Strike in France by Jean-Marc Rouillan By Jean Marc Rouillan [Editors note: this article is translated and based on a letter from Jean Marc to one of PLN's editors.] FRESNES, FRANCE The latest struggle here in France is a rolling hunger strike, one of us will not …
Article • April 15, 1991 • from PLN April, 1991
Non-English Messed Over by Many of our inmates are Mexican and/or Central American citizens. They are called up to legal mail line and receive registered letters from their home countries. These letters usually contain a few well worn, soiled American dollars. The institution counts them and has the inmate sign …
Article • April 15, 1991 • from PLN April, 1991
Oppression and Resistance at Canada's Prison for Women by Oppression And Resistance At Canada's Prison For Women KINGSTON, ONTARIO - On February 12, 1991, Lorna Jones, a native prisoner, was found hanging in her cell. Her's was the fifth suicide by a native prisoner at the Prison for Women (P4W) …
Article • April 15, 1991 • from PLN April, 1991
Women's Report by F L Prisoner's Legal News is an excellent monthly magazine that I sincerely hope is generating interest and financial support, to which I will soon be adding. The major concern among most women in prison is the welfare of their children, many of whom were declared to …
Will The Racists Please Stand Up? by Paul Wright By Paul Wright The 101st Congress has passed the Racial Justice Act (RJA). What the RJA does is prohibit racism in the application of the death penalty. As currently applied a disproportionate number of the men and women on death row …
Article • March 15, 1991 • from PLN March, 1991
Sex Offender "Treatment" in Washington State, In Whose Best Interest? by Dan Pens Sex Offender "Treatment" in Washington State, In Whose Best Interest? By Dan Pens The Washington State Sex Offender Treatment Program (SOTP) currently ensconced in TRCC receives national acclaim. They publish statistics which portray them as an unqualified …
Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
Some Peruvian Prisoners Released by Prisons in Peru are so overcrowded and under financed that two prisoners a day are dying at Lurigancho prison (where 5,900 are housed). As a result of these conditions, prisoners went on a hunger strike for better conditions. The result of this strike was a …
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