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Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Filed under: Editorials
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 • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
The Gun of Incarceration by Cristian Farias by Cristian Farias New Jersey has been hailed for its approach to decarceration, including a bail reform law that some advocates see as a national model. And yet the state still supervises more than 120,000 of its residents under some form of probation …
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 …
Publication • 2023
Filed under: Resources
2023 PARC National Prisoner Resource Directory PARC National Prisoner Resource Directory Dear Community, June 2023 Welcome to the June 2023 edition of PARC’s National Prisoner Resource Directory. We are happy to share this valuable set of resources with you. We have added many new organizations, so many that for the …
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 • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023
Filed under: Reviews
“Acres of Skin” – Redux by Gregory J. Dober by Gregory J. Dober In December 2022, the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) offered an apology for unethical research conducted on prisoners during the 1960s and 70s led by two of their researchers: Howard Maibach, MD, and William Epstein, …
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 …
Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
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From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright This month’s cover story reports on developments in the Georgia prison system, which continues from bad to worse in terms of its rising body count of dead prisoners. This fits into the pattern of massive, systemic neglect, brutality and violence that …
Article • August 1, 2022 • from PLN August, 2022
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From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright If this month’s cover story appears to be another case of déjà vu all over again, it is because we have been reporting on murder, mayhem and misery in the Philadelphia jail system for decades. As we have for many other …
Article • June 27, 2022
The Impact of Criminalizing Abortion on Prisoners and Mass Incarceration by Paul Wright By Paul Wright Over the course of its 233-year history, the United States Supreme Court (USSC) has reversed its prior decisions on occasion. Until now those reversals have generally been to expand constitutional rights for the populace, …
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