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Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
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From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright This month’s cover story is the latest installment on the prison profiteering industry monetizing how prisoners are fed. Perhaps not surprisingly, the cost of feeding prisoners is one of the lowest operating costs involved in caging people, with staffing being 80% …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
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From the Editor by Paul Wright By Paul Wright Karl Marx wrote that history repeats itself, first as tragedy then as farce. Sadly, the history of prison privatization in America is anything but farcical. Through much of the 19th century many prisons and jails in the US were privately operated …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
From the Editor by Paul Wright By Paul Wright Probably the biggest threat to the credibility of the American police state is that of wrongful convictions. American history has plenty of examples of prisoners being freed from lengthy prison sentences after being wrongfully convicted of crimes they did not commit. …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
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From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright The financial exploitation of prisoners and their family is nothing new for readers of PLN. In the 34 years we have been publishing we have seen it spread across pretty much every interaction prisoners have with the outside world. But perhaps …
The Good That Prisoner Rights Lawyers Do by On April 23, 2022, UCLA law professor Sharon Dolovich delivered the keynote address at a Prisoner Rights and Prison Conditions symposium. She cited the challenges faced by attorneys who pursue prisoners’ rights litigation—an area of law “stacked a mile high against plaintiffs”—including …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
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From the Editor by Paul Wright By Paul Wright The abysmal state of detention facility healthcare has been a staple of PLN coverage since our inception in 1990. If anything, it has steadily gotten worse over the years, but one factor that has driven the decrease in care has been …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
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From the Editor by Paul Wright By Paul Wright As we close out the last issue of the year, our cover story on the Oregon prison nurse who was eventually convicted and sentenced to prison for raping women prisoners in his care illustrates the confluence of medical neglect and sexual …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
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From the Editor by Paul Wright By Paul Wright For almost a century the United States has waged its war on poor drug users, illegalizing alcohol, marijuana, opiates, cocaine, stimulants, hallucinogenic and other consciousness altering substances. I have never called this long running “war on drugs” either a failure or …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
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From the Editor by Paul Wright By Paul Wright The modern era of prison reform began in 1971 with the Attica Rebellion. Many Americans were horrified when New York state police and prison guards stormed the prison 52 years ago, in the process killing dozens of prisoners and hostages and …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
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From the Editor by Paul Wright By Paul Wright As summer winds down our cover story reports on the impact of extreme heat on Texas prisons; in the next few months we will report more on what the heat did this summer in American prisons. For decades now Prison Legal …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
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From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright The most striking thing about the American criminal justice system is its class-based nature. With one system of non-policing, lackluster prosecutions, lenient sentences and minimal consequences for the wealthy and another system of militarized policing, scorched earth prosecutions, draconian sentences and …
Article • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
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From the Editor by Paul Wright By Paul Wright One thing that has remained a constant in the past 33 years of publishing PLN has been the woefully inadequate medical care that prisoners receive around the country. A significant portion of our coverage involves reporting on healthcare that ranges from …
Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
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From the Editor by Paul Wright By Paul Wright This issue of PLN marks our 33rd anniversary of publishing. Since we published our first issue in May 1990 we have seen massive changes in the American gulag, starting with its sheer growth from a million prisoners to over 2 million …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
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From the Editor by Paul Wright By Paul Wright This month’s cover story continues our ongoing coverage of solitary confinement. Since our inception in 1990 PLN has reported on the use and growth of solitary confinement as a means of torture against prisoners. As the physical torture of prisoners was …
Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023
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From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright In this month’s cover story, we report on misconduct and abuse in the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). Despite being the largest prison system in the United States, and one of the largest in the world, the BOP does not receive …
Article • February 1, 2023 • from PLN February, 2023
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From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright As we enter PLN’s 33rd year ofpublishing, the most obvious thing about reporting on the American gulag all these years is how much it is really an ongoing story. Unlike fiction novels, movies or plays, which have a beginning, middle and …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
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From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright This month’s cover story on electronicmonitoring (EM) is reporting relatively modern developments with regards to the technology being used to surveil people. But the premise is as old as mass incarceration itself, going back to the early 1980s. Just as some …
Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022
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From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright Welcome to the last issue of PLN for the year. This month’s cover story reports the landmark court ruling in Parsons v. Ryan —  now known as Jensen v. Shinn —  the class-action lawsuit over inadequate medical care and conditions of …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
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From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright Most of PLN’s prisoner readers are housed in state or federal prisons and serving a sentence after being convicted of a crime. On any given day at least 500,000 people are being held in jails around the country, operated by cities, …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
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From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright The United States bills itself as a country that values free speech. For over 30 years I have watched as prison and jail officials around the country censor Prison Legal News (PLN), Criminal Legal News (CLN),and some or all of the …
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