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News in Brief

Article • December 15, 2000 • from PLN December, 2000

Filed under: News, News in Brief

News in Brief by NEWS IN BRIEF: AZ: On September 12, 2000, 20 Hawaiian prisoners at a Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) prison in Florence rioted and took a guard hostage. While ...

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Article • March 15, 2005 • from PLN March, 2005

Filed under: News, News in Brief

, in the maximum-security San Martin prison in Cordoba, taking 24 guards and the prison director hostage. The revolt apparently erupted after a prison guard pushed the wife of a prisoner. On February 11, some 1,000 ...

White supremacists working at Florida prison near Alabama line accused of beating inmates

In-the-News Article • November 19, 2021

White supremacists working at Florida prison near Alabama line accused of beating inmates Nov. 19, 2021 Articles with PLN Quotes Al.com In June, three Florida prison guards who boasted of being ...

"Freed Speech" - Post-release interview with PLN editor Paul Wright

In-the-News Article • January 1, 2004

;rdquo; Prison Legal News has only lost one case out of 15 that have gone to trial, says Wright—a case that concerned reprinting a story about neo-Nazi guards that originally ran in Seattle ...

Five Homicides In L.A. County Jail Blamed On Security Lapses; 25 Sheriff's Deputies May Be Disciplined

Article • April 15, 2005 • from PLN April, 2005

Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Prison/Jail Murders, Informants, Failure to Protect (General), Staffing, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death)

, a former Nazi Low Rider gang member with a long record, told interviewers, I'm a big guy, I'm a bad guy." But after testifying in exchange for a lighter sentence, he said I was scared for my life." Less than ...

California Corrections System Officially Declared Dysfunctional" - Redemption Doubtful

Article • March 15, 2005 • from PLN March, 2005

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Criminal Prosecution, Overcrowding, Staffing, Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Special Masters, Sentencing, Parole, Guard Unions, State Legislation

as of the overly influential prison guards union, the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA). This system is in chaos," said Joseph Gunn, executive director of the blue ribbon CIRP, when ...

An Unprecedented Crime: Mass Torture in America. And How to Stop It

Article • November 15, 2007

Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides, Access to Media

walls, floors, and ceilings -- splattered there by the many insane and enraged men. Guards "checking" on prisoners deprive them of sleep, and so does the usual pandemonium; like ghosts, some prisoners ...

Bloated Prison Budget Fuels California's Degenerative Incarceration Spiral

Article • November 15, 2003 • from PLN November, 2003

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Gang Policies, Crime, Victims, Prisoner Privileges, Education, Parole, Guard Unions, State Legislation

of a prison gang - the Nazi Low Riders - an allegation he denies. But because he has not been formally charged, he sits at home at taxpayer expense, while other guards must be hired to replace him. CDC ...

"The Truth Will Set Him Free" - Article about PLN editor Paul Wright

In-the-News Article • January 1, 2001

material -- a report by the Washington State Patrol documenting Aryan leanings on behalf of guards, including white supremacist literature in the prison and Nazi salutes -- to the Weekly; the article ...

News in Brief

Article • May 15, 2002 • from PLN May, 2002

Filed under: News, News in Brief

News in Brief by California: On December 12, 2001, Don Lanier Jr., 34, a guard at the Wasco State Prison and a karate instructor, was sentenced to nine months in the Kern county jail after ...

Gibbs v Bd of Cty Commissioners of Creek Cty Ok Mot to Deny Sj Gang Beating 2005.pdf

Brief • 2005

of Nazi and/or racist symbols. Simons/Hessom Ex. 9; Ex. V. On November 22, 2001, there were handmade confederate flags and a swastika on the walls of Cell #15. Ex. C at ¶4; Toliver Ex. 10 at 92, ll. 20-22 ...

Gibbs v. Creek County, Ok, Failure to Protect, Opp. To Sj

Brief

prisoners. Toliver Ex. 10 at 92, ll. 3-11; Ex. H, EE. Of the twelve white prisoners in Cell #15, at least two had tattoos of Nazi and/or racist symbols. Simons/Hessom Ex. 9; Ex. V. On November 22, 2001 ...

America Behind Bars, video series from Deep Dish TV

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

Filed under: Political Prisoners, Reviews, Organizing, Crime, Education, Death Row, Censorship

America Behind Bars, video series from Deep Dish TV by Janet Stanton AMERICA BEHIND BARS, video series from Deep Dish TV Review By Janet Stanton No society since Nazi Germany has built so ...

Colorado Prison Gang Leader Commits Suicide at Wyoming Prison

Article • August 5, 2018 • from PLN August, 2018

Filed under: Prison Gangs, Suicides

with other white prisoners for protection from black and Hispanic gang members. The group took its name from the California penal code for robbery, adopting Irish, Nazi and Viking gang symbols. [See, e.g.: PLN ...

Are Doctors Complicit in Prison Torture? The Maine Medical Community Looks at Solitary Confinement

Article • October 15, 2010 • from PLN October, 2010

Filed under: Private Prisons, CMS, Medical Misconduct, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness)

. “Twenty years ahead I don’t want to look back and say we were like the Nazi doctors.” When physicians encounter solitary confinement, she says, they “have a duty to speak out.” In the recent legislative ...

Twenty Years of PLN in Court

Article • May 15, 2010 • from PLN May, 2010

Filed under: Media, PLN Litigation

.), Case No. 3:02-cv-00428. Washington Nazi Guard Censorship: The May 1999 issue of PLN was censored in all Washington state prisons because it contained an investigative exposé of Nazi and white ...

"Books Behind Bars" - PLN's efforts against censorship by prison officials

In-the-News Article • January 1, 2011

, such as when it published a 1999 expose of guards in Washington state prisons with ties to white supremacist groups. "When I say Nazi guards, I'm not exaggerating," Wright explains, a necessity ...

Rock Newsletter 4-3, Volume 4, 2015

Publication • February 25, 2016

Filed under: The Rock

to the eyes of any guard or staff member who walked by her cell door, since prison policy prohibits covering the small window on the door at any time. What landed Litwok in solitary? Publicizing the death ...

State of West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Summary and Memo to Governor, Nazi salute, 2019

Publication • December 27, 2019

Filed under: Failure to Train/Supervise

State of West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Summary and Memo to Governor, Nazi salute, 2019 State of West Virginia OFFICE OF THE SECRET ARY DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY AFFAIRS ...

The Sun Never Sets On Torture in American Military Prisons

Article • September 15, 2011

Filed under: Hunger Strikes, Escapes, Conditions of Confinement, Totality of Conditions, Guard Brutality/Beatings, International Law, Prisoners-International, Political Prisoners (International), Terrorism, Military Law, Military Prisons

and involved both soldiers assigned to guard the prisoners and those with other duties. 82,000 Plus Imprisoned in "War on Terror" In November 2005, the U.S. admitted that it had imprisoned more than 82,000 ...