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Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Filed under: Editorials
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 • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Federal Watchdog Slams BOP for Lapses in Epstein Death, Pushes Back Against Rumors It Wasn’t Suicide by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On June 27, 2023, the Office of U.S. Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz (OIG) released a report corroborating a New York City medical examiner’s conclusion that …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Regarding Death Penalty, Biden’s Actions Don’t Align with His Mouth by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In an 1829 letter, Pres. Andrew Jackson (D) told the Creek Nation of Indigenous Americans that he was speaking “straight, and not with a forked tongue” when he promised those who evacuated from Alabama …
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 …
Parole and Probation Accused of Driving Prison Growth by David Reutter David M. Reutter One alternative to incarceration that criminal justice reformers clamor for is probation or parole. A May 2023 report by Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) counted nearly 3.7 million people in the U.S. under some form of community …
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 • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Redemption Songs: The Forgotten History of American Prison Music by Maurice Chammah Maurice Chammah One morning in 2019, Kenyatta Emmanuel Hughes was released from Fishkill Correctional Facility in Beacon, New York, and traveled 70 miles south to Carnegie Hall. That night, he stood before a crowd—flanked by a horn section, …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Senators Grill BOP Chief—Then Say They’ll Toss Her More Money by A little over a year after becoming director of the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Colette Peters faced questions on September 13, 2023, from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who hammered her about transparency, unfulfilled promises and missing …
Sick Georgia Prisoners Forced to Choose Between Treatment and Early Release by As reported by The Appeal on September 25, 2023, a Georgia prisoner with Hepatitis C was forced to pass up placement in a work-release program in order to maintain his medical care, which was not available to him …
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
Hurdles to Voting for Ex-Felons Rise in Tennessee and Virginia, Fall in Mississippi by On July 21, 2023, Tennessee announced a tough new rule for ex-felons seeking to exercise their voting rights. State Coordinator of Elections Mark Goins said that anyone with a felony conviction in another state whose voting …
How “Big Capital” Learned to Love Mass Incarceration by How “Big Capital” Learned to Love Mass Incarceration “Who is accountable for the imposition of punishment in our carceral system?” asked Laura I. Appleman, Professor of Law at Willamette University, in an article published on April 13, 2023. An answer is …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Ed Mead: Rest in Power by Paul Wright by Paul Wright Over the years the saddest duty I have as PLN’s editor is noting the passing of our friends and supporters. As PLN gets older, we are entering our 34th year of publishing with this issue, it seems like more …
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 • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Deaths While Incarcerated Up 18% in Louisiana by A June 2023 report by Loyola University College of Law found that annual deaths behind bars in Louisiana jumped over 18% to an average of 187.5 in the period 2020-21. That’s up from an average of 158.6 between 2015 and 2019. Of …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Private Prisons Hold Almost 100,000 Prisoners, 8% of Total U.S. Prison Population by According to a report published by The Sentencing Project on June 15, 2023, the federal government and 27 states incarcerated 96,370 people in private prisons in 2021, amounting to 8% of America’s prison population. Private prisons are …
153 Killed in Custody in Salvadorian Gang Crackdown by A report by human rights group Cristosal on May 29, 2023, detailed how lethal El Salvador’s war on the Central American country’s gangs has been: 153 people have died in custody since Pres. Nayib Bukele’s campaign began in March 2022. Targeting …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Another Report Verifies That Prison Deaths Soared During COVID-19 Pandemic by A mortality study released on December 1, 2023, found that the death rate in U.S. prisons spiked 77% during 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, not all the increase was directly attributable to the disease. The …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Despite “Ban the Box” Laws, Most Prisoners Still Unemployed a Year After Release by In July 2023, the U.S. unemployment rate stood at 3.6%, among the lowest levels seen in 60 years. With nearly two openings for everyone unemployed, all that most Americans need to get a job is to …
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