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Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
Filed under: Editorials
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, …
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
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From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright For all the talk of criminal justice reform. the reality of daily life for millions of caged American prisoners is amply summed up this month’s cover story reprinted from the Texas Observer which reports on the death toll of jail prisoners …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
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From the Editor by Paul Wright This issue of PLN marks our 32nd anniversary. Having published 384 issues since May 1990, we have been reporting on the growth of the American police state for 32 years as its prison and jail population has more than doubled from one million to …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
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From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright This month’s cover story is part of our ongoing coverage from the killing fields of Southern prisons, where Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida are vying for the title of deadliest prison system in America. The political and moral bankruptcy of …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
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From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright This month’s cover story on Wellpath treads a familiar road for PLN readers of how profit-driven medical care has resulted in a huge expense for taxpayers and extremely low quality health care for hundreds of thousands of prisoners around the country. …
Article • February 1, 2022 • from PLN February, 2022
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From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright This month’s cover story on Rikers Island is one of dozens of articles we have run on the New York City jail over the past 32 years, and it shows the entrenched nature of police state power in America. Located in …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
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From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright Welcome to the first issue of PLN for the new year, as we enter 2022 and our 32nd year of publication. Last year we published an article in the June edition on the worst sheriffs in America, but like many things, …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
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From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright This is the last issue of Prison Legal News for 2021 and it is ending pretty much where it started in terms of widespread COVID outbreaks in prisons and jails across the country. The good news is there are now vaccines …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
What’s in a Name? by Jeffrey Ross Exconvict, formerly incarcerated, or returning citizen? by Jeffrey Ian Ross In the field of corrections, there are lots of labels, names, and terms that the public frequently applies to people who are housed in, live in, and are processed by jails and prison …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
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Language Matters: Why We Use the Words We Do by Paul Wright by Paul Wright   Recent years have seen efforts by a lot of well-meaning people referring to prisoners as “people in prison” or “incarcerated people,” former prisoners as “returning citizens,” “formerly incarcerated people” and more. Pretty much since …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
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From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright After editing PLN for over 31 years now, it seems like all 370-plus issues of the magazine kind of blend together in my mind like one big, long magazine. A lot of stories don’t have a beginning, middle or an end …
Article • October 1, 2021 • from PLN October, 2021
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From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright For long time readers of PLN, this month’s issue may seem like déjà vu all over again with its national coverage of prisoners being raped, especially by guards and prison staff. For many years I wrote the “News in Brief” column …
Article • September 1, 2021 • from PLN September, 2021
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From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright This month’s cover story on prison’s using doctors with revoked or suspended medical licenses is an ongoing story for PLN readers. Given the six figure salaries prison doctors are paid it seems odd that the government can’t find any medical staff …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
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From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright This year marks the 25th anniversaries of both the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) and the Anti Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) which were both signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1996. We have been reporting extensively …
Article • July 1, 2021 • from PLN July, 2021
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From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright The good news seems to be that COVID-19 rates in prisons and jails, like the rest of the country, appear to be decreasing as vaccination rates increase. Visiting is being restored in many states and there seems to be some return …
Article • June 1, 2021 • from PLN June, 2021
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From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright The past year and a half has consumed news coverage with the coronavirus pandemic. Since March of last year Prison Legal News has shifted its news coverage to COVID-19 and its impact on prisoners and the criminal justice system. With the …
Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021
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From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright This issue of Prison Legal News marks our 31st anniversary since we first began publishing in May, 1990. During that time period we have witnessed many changes in the criminal justice system, pretty much all of them negative for prisoners and …
Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021
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From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright This month’s cover story is on jail suicides, with a particular focus on Massachusetts. Sadly, this is a topic we have covered extensively over the past 30 years. Despite extensive study and research on the causes of suicide, rates generally increased …
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