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Illinois KKK Guard Loses Lawsuits, Goes to Prison

Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Racial Discrimination, Guards/Staff, Employee Litigation

Illinois KKK Guard Loses Lawsuits, Goes to Prison by Paul Wright On December 4, 1998, former Illinois prison sergeant Wallace Scott Weicherding (64) was sentenced to 5 years, 10 months ...

California Changes Shooting Policy

Article • November 15, 1999 • from PLN November, 1999

Filed under: Excessive Force, Shootings

California Changes Shooting Policy by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely In the past ten years, California prison guards have shot and killed 39 prisoners, wounding over 200, with high powered ...

The Cultural Commodification of Prisons

Article • November 15, 1999 • from PLN November, 1999

Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Prison Tourism/Consumerism

-cons, are the millions of people who feed and maintain the imprisonment machine: the lawyers, police, judges, courtroom personnel, prison and jail guards and administrators, police state bureaucrats, etc ...

Urban Redo: Lorton, Virginia Prison Recreated as Liberty Village

Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021

Filed under: Rural Prisons

for office space. All of this surrounded by existing structures of the defunct prison, including several guard towers. Advertisements for the development read: “The unique community incorporates ...

PLN in Court

Article • July 15, 2005 • from PLN July, 2005

Filed under: Disclosure of Records, Parole, Publications/Books, Due Process, Postage, Catalogs, Media, PLN Litigation, Censorship

by Rhonda Brownstein and Catherine Smith of the Southern Poverty Law Center. See: PLN v. Haley. Washington Nazi Guard Censorship: The May, 1999, issue of PLN was censored in all Washington prisons because ...

Federal Watchdog Calls Out BOP for Spiking Suicide Risk at Pennsylvania Lockup

Article • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025

Filed under: Suicides, Bureau of Prisons (BOP)

the mental health issues” can result from “being sometimes in lockdown 23 hours a day.” This presents “a cascading series of issues” for both prisoners and guards, “because ...

CBCC Prisoners Struggle

Article • January 15, 1996 • from PLN January, 1996

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, DOC/BOP misconduct, Prison Rebellion

CBCC Prisoners Struggle by On September 26, 1995, some 25 prisoners in A unit of the Clallam Bay Corrections center (CBCC) attacked two guards and then attempted to barricade themselves ...

Trouble Coming Every Day; ADX-The First Year

Article • July 15, 1997 • from PLN July, 1997

Filed under: Prison Industries, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement

to the boxcar cell 157 hours of each 168 hour week. Eleven hours each week I'm allowed into the barren area adjacent to this cell. Each morning begins with the noisy rumble of the steel door opening. A guard ...

Pennsylvania Jail Mired in Scandal ... Again

Article • October 15, 2009 • from PLN October, 2009

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Sexual Harassment, Staff-Prisoner Harassment, Guard Misconduct, Jail Misconduct, Escapes

was accompanied by a directive to investigate a February 26, 2009 conversation between Mauro and Thomas in the MCCF lunchroom. Thomas reportedly made a disparaging remark to Mauro about a guard at the facility ...

No Death Penalty for Maine Prisoner

Article • April 15, 2014 • from PLN April, 2014

Filed under: Death Penalty

visitors’ room, where he allegedly planned to kill guards and anyone else in his way during the breakout. After a prisoner tipped off authorities, Susan Watland was apprehended with the loaded gun ...

CBCC Warden Fired in Telemarketing Hoopla

Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, DOC/BOP misconduct, Prison Industries

of prisoners; blatant brutality and racism by his staff; repression and much more. While one mid level Washington DOC official once commented that CBCC was run "like a Nazi concentration camp," Wright's ...

A Rare Look Inside the Maine State Prison's "Supermax"

Article • March 15, 2014 • from PLN March, 2014

Filed under: Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement

. The cell faintly stank of shit. Mentally ill prisoners and those made mentally ill by prolonged solitary confinement are driven to cut themselves and to try to throw their feces at guards. In one ...

Perpetuating Crime, Consolidating Power, 1999

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Filed under: Media, Articles About PLN

the government's priorities? Prison Guard Brutality How prevalent are things like sexual assaults, beatings and racial antagonism in prisons today, and why haven't they been stopped? • HIV Behind Bars What ...

CA Prison Guards - A Potent Political Interest Group

Article • March 15, 1995 • from PLN March, 1995

Filed under: Guards/Staff, Guard Unions, State Legislation

CA Prison Guards - A Potent Political Interest Group by Dan Pens By Dan Pens There is a well fed political interest group feasting at the California public trough, and most taxpayers ...

News in Brief

Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000

Filed under: News, News in Brief

guards injured. The guards were treated for smoke inhalation, one prisoner suffered burns and two others were treated for smoke inhalation. Fifty prisoners in the One East housing unit were temporarily ...

News In Brief

Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011

Filed under: News, News in Brief

News In Brief by Arizona: A Maricopa County deputy and two jail guards were arrested in May 2011 and charged with drug offenses, money laundering and human trafficking. One of the guards ...

From the Editor

Article • December 31, 2015 • from PLN January, 2016

Filed under: Editorials

both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union at the height of communist power in the 1930s. Not only do the police kill with impunity, their level of impunity is such that they don’t even need to conceal ...

Medical Care Still Deficient in Texas Prisons

Article • December 15, 2002 • from PLN December, 2002

Filed under: Medical, HIV/AIDS, Medication, Medical Experiments/Exploitation, Systemic Medical Neglect, Private Contractors, Medical Records, Disclosure of Records, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

human beings either have been or are currently involved in experimental testing. Some have drawn the parallel between current medical studies involving prisoners and the experiments conducted in Nazi ...

Churchill Pacifism as Pathology

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Filed under: Military

no physical opposition to the consolidation of the nazi state.[7] To the contrary, there is strong evidence that orthodox Jewish leaders counseled “social responsibility” as the best antidote to nazism, while ...

Fire to the Prisons Issue 9 Anarchist Quarterly 2010

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Filed under: Magazines, Fire to the Prisons Magazine

another device that was not detonated near the school as well. August 2009February 2010Spartanburg, South Carolina of the guard and grabbed his keys. On the way out, they had to fight and beat another ...