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Article • June 16, 2015
Buddha of the Blues by St Clair, Jeffrey Buddha of the Blues by Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch In the summer of 1998, Alexander Cockburn and I spent a few days in North Richmond, California, a battered industrial city just outside of Berkeley. We had just published our book Whiteout on the CIA and …
Article • September 15, 2013 • from PLN September, 2013
Second Circuit Establishes Property Seizure Standards for Civilly Committed Persons by As a matter of first impression, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has undertaken a Fourth Amendment balancing analysis with regard to the right of a civilly committed person to be free from unreasonable seizures under the Fourth Amendment. …
Article • February 15, 2013 • from PLN February, 2013
Johnny Cash and His Prison Reform Campaign by Danny Robins On July 26, 1972, three grizzled-looking men dressed uneasily in suits gave evidence at a U.S. Senate subcommittee on prison reform. Two of the men were former prisoners of some of the toughest prisons in the U.S. – the third …
Article • December 15, 2012 • from PLN December, 2012
Virginia Prison Policy Prohibiting Secular, Non-Religious CDs Held Unconstitutional by On February 7, 2012, a U.S. District Court held that a Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) policy prohibiting prisoners from purchasing or possessing secular spoken-word compact discs was unconstitutional. The court invalidated the policy but also granted qualified immunity to …
Article • October 15, 2012
Filed under: Media, Tapes/Music
From Rock & Rap Confidential: Johnny Cash and Mark Collie by Lee Ballinger From Rock & Rap Confidential: Johnny Cash and Mark Collie HELLO WALLS ... In the early 1890s coal miners began a war against the use of convict labor in the mines of eastern Tennessee. They burned down …
Article • October 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2011
Jail Guitar Doors, USA Offers Free Musical Instruments to Prisons by Bruce Reilly Long before words there was the drum, the beat, the foundation of all communication. Some drummers and musicians communicate through the most finely crafted instruments of their day. For the prisoner it is typically the sound of …
Article • November 15, 2009 • from PLN November, 2009
Prison Radio Beams Love, Hope and News through the Bars by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Radio broadcasts aimed at prisoners are an uncommon media phenomenon in the United States. For prisoners incarcerated far from home with limited language skills and resources it can represent the only lifeline to family …
Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008
Filed under: Media, Tapes/Music
Ruling Against Expression is No Music to Prisoners’ Ears by David Hudson ??by David L. Hudson, Jr.? “Prison walls do not form a barrier separating the inmate from the protections of the Constitution.” So wrote Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in the 1987 decision Turner v. Safley. But the statement has …
Article • May 15, 2007
No Right to Radio by The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit held that an Arkansas prisoner had no right to possess a radio in prison. The court accepted prison officials claim that radios pose a security threat in prison. No other court has held that prisoners have a …
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