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Article • September 3, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
by Floridians for a Fair Democracy, which collected over 800,000 petition signatures to put it on the ballot as a state constitutional amendment. “The gravity of what has just been accomplished has not sunk ...
Article • February 6, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
and solutions. Allies knew that “those closest to the problem are the ones closest to the solution.” These arrangements kept prisoners and their allies informed about what was happening inside ...
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
said. At last week’s committee meeting, Sears invited current and former CCAG members to offer suggestions on what a newly constituted CCAG should look like. He also called on DOC staffers to research ...
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
restitution payments from offenders, only a small fraction of tens of millions of dollars in restitution has been collected, which has left crime victims upset at what they perceive as a continuing injustice ...
Article • September 20, 2014 • from PLN September, 2014
Filed under: Prison Labor
” that all large retailers must contend with, according to Al Norman, the founder of Sprawl Busters. What separates Wal-Mart from other retailers is its use of what amounts to taxpayer-subsidized ...
the traditional government role of transporting prisoners from place to place. Critics say it’s an example of what can happen when public agencies turn to private-sector, profit-driven companies in an effort ...
Article • December 1, 2015 • from PLN December, 2015
of prisoner healthcare at the jail, instead pointing out inadequacies based on what the audit found in the county’s monitoring of the Corizon contract. “Evaluating the quality of care provided ...
Article • December 1, 2015 • from PLN December, 2015
law fashioned by the Texas legislature was written in such a way that a public official could not know what was political maneuvering and what was an illegal threat. The court cited an earlier case ...
Article • January 1, 2016 • from PLN January, 2016
police have killed unarmed black men in the last year. Part of the foundation’s Safety and Justice Challenge, this plan is certainly ambitious. “At the end of the day, what we’re talking ...
Article • January 1, 2016 • from PLN January, 2016
and for an end to preventive detention, which he referred to as a “hidden, illegal punishment.” Expanding on his remarks, Pope Francis denounced what he termed “the deplorable conditions ...
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
, state-of-the-art, turn-key minimum-security prison on 30 acres of land in the cotton-farming town of Littlefield, Texas. The tiny town, with a population of 6,500, agreed to build what was originally ...
Article • January 15, 2013 • from PLN January, 2013
track our donations and pay the bills to publish and mail what was, at that time, a hand-typed ten-page newsletter. Our initial volunteer proved to be unreliable and so did the next one. As Ed noted ...
Article • January 15, 2014 • from PLN January, 2014
Filed under: Military, Veterans
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression. “It’s really unique,” Darr stated. “What we’re bringing together is a lot of resources.” He added, “If [veterans] are not dealing with issues ...
Article • May 6, 2015 • from PLN May, 2015
Filed under: Editorials, Prisoner Media
, things tend to get better. And so it has been with PLN. What has not improved is the state of the prison press. When we started publishing 25 years ago there were over 50 different independent prisoners ...
Article • April 8, 2015 • from PLN April, 2015
Filed under: Editorials
hearings. The first step to asserting your rights is knowing what they are. Lastly, as long-time PLN readers know, for the past 25 years we have been in the vanguard of opposition to the financial ...
Article • May 6, 2015 • from PLN May, 2015
Filed under: Police Misconduct
Davidson. “The county took 50 times what Karina received. The commissioners, the sheriff, the jail administrator, everyone was using that account improperly. As the clerk, Karina didn’t make any ...
to replace warehousing and punishing prisoners with what they need to turn their lives around. When he took over the DOC he saw how well that approach worked at Maine’s two youth centers, where the recidivism ...
Article • February 15, 2014 • from PLN February, 2014
abuse for what it is: torture. by Five Oman Mualimm-ak As kids, many of us imagine having superpowers. An avid comic book reader, I often imagined being invisible. I never thought I would actually ...
Article • March 15, 2014 • from PLN March, 2014
A Rare Look Inside the Maine State Prison's "Supermax" by Lance Tapley An almost-clean version of hell by Lance Tapley There was a stain of what looked like blood on the floor ...
Article • June 3, 2015 • from PLN June, 2015
program, which substitutes dialogue and understanding for punitive measures when dealing with student conflicts. “That is what I worked on every day in prison ... freeing my mind and doing my best ...
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