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Article • January 15, 2001 • from PLN January, 2001
States of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons by Mumia Abu-Jamal Edited by Joy James. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000). 352 Pages Reviewed by Mumia AbuJamal Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky once opined that the nature of a civilization could be discerned by examining its prisons. If that is so, James …
Article • December 15, 2000 • from PLN December, 2000
Perpetuating Crime, Consolidating Power by Janet Stanton Perpetuating Crime, Consolidating Power: The Race & Class Logic of Mass Incarceration An Interview with Paul Wright by Janet Stanton Arthur Stamoulis's (Common Courage Press) audiotaped interview with Paul Wright offers the listener a concise overview of the most disturbing issue confronting our …
Actual Innocence--Five Days to Execution and other Dispatches From the Wrongly Convicted by Roger Hummel By Barry Scheck, Peter Nuefeld, and Jim Dwyer Review by Roger Hummel Since 1963, at least 381 murder convictions across the nation have been reversed because of police or prosecutorial misconduct yet not one of …
Article • November 15, 2000 • from PLN November, 2000
From the Editor by Paul Wright By Paul Wright PLN recently gained the ability to process credit card orders for books, subscriptions, and donations. PLN's office phone number is on page two of every issue for those who wish to subscribe, renew their subscriptions, purchase books or just make a …
Crack in the Federal Scheme: The October Rebellion of 1995 by Bill Dunne By Bill Dunne Between October 19 and October 26, 1995, the U. S. Bureau of Prisons (federal prison system) experienced a series of largely spontaneous but causally related uprisings in its then 84 prison, 100,000 prisoner gulag …
Article • October 15, 2000 • from PLN October, 2000
Filed under: Editorials, Organizing, Voting
From the Editor by Paul Wright Paul Wright Recent issues of PLN have reported on criminal justice news in Texas and the response from Republican presidential candidate, George Bush Jr., to these events. PLN has reported on Bush's supervision of the Texas plantation-like prison system and death machine to duly …
Article • September 15, 2000 • from PLN September, 2000
Bush's Conservative Compassion: Allowing a Life Sentence for Three Bounced Checks by by Matthew T. Clarke Texas Governor George Bush has based his presidential aspirations on the questionable concept of compassionate conservatism, but how compassionate is the Texas criminal justice system in dealing with its citizens under the Bush regime. …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
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 many prisons in such a short time. Each of those prisons is a school or a hospital …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
Notes From the Unrepenitentiary: Transcending Hell by Marilyn Buck Notes From The Unrepenitentiary: Transcending Hell By Marilyn Buck Nuh Albert Washington was a friend, brother and comrade to me and many others. He died this Spring. He was a Black Panther, a Muslim and a soldier of the revolutionary Black …
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
Filed under: Editorials, Media, Censorship
From the Editor by Paul Wright Remember that effective August 1, 2000, PLN's prisoner subscription rate will be $18 for 12 issues, and $9 for six issues. Prisoner subscriptions will be prorated at $1.50 per issue. Rates for non prisoners will remain the same, as those were raised two years …
Article • July 15, 2000 • from PLN July, 2000
The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade by Rick Card By Alfred W. McCoy Lawrence Hill Books, 1991 Review by Rick D. Card Imagine America, the great crusader against illicit drugs, a nation willing to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of its citizens in the name of …
Article • July 15, 2000 • from PLN July, 2000
Filed under: Resources, Organizing
The Western Prison Project by The Western Prison Project exists to help build a movement for progressive prison and criminal justice reform in our region (OR, WA, ID, MT, WY, UT, NV). We help support grassroots organizations work¬ing on prison issues (through research, coordination of joint projects, and tech¬nical assistance), …
Article • July 15, 2000 • from PLN July, 2000
From the Editor by Paul Wright On May 16, 2000, the Prison Activist Resource Center in Berkeley sponsored a fundraiser party for PLN in San Francisco. The hip hop/dance party featured DJ Neta, Bamudhi, Local 1200 DJs, Vine Folks and Emma Said. PLN co-founder Ed Mead spoke at the party …
Article • June 15, 2000 • from PLN June, 2000
From the Editor by Paul Wright By Paul Wright As the article in this issue mentions, PLN contributing writer Mark Cook was recently released from prison after 24 years. We wish Mark the best. Former contributing writer O'Neil Stough was recently released from prison and, unfortunately, did not do very …
Women in Prison: GAO Report by Julia Lutsky Reviewed by Julia Lutsky During the calendar years 1995 to 1998, approximately 31,400 women prisoners in the three largest U.S. jurisdictions made a total of 506 allegations of staff sexual misconduct; of these only 92, or 18 percent, were sustained. "Because many …
Article • June 15, 2000 • from PLN June, 2000
Marijuana Law, 2nd Edition by Allan Parmelee By Richard Glen Boire, Ronin, 271 pages Review by Allan Parmelee This book is must reading for anyone interested in knowing what their rights are when dealing with police in general as well as every aspect of the law as it concerns the …
Article • June 15, 2000 • from PLN June, 2000
Defiant Texas Death Row Activist Executed by On March 15, 2000, the state of Texas killed Kamau (Ponchai) Wilkerson. He proved to be a fighter to the end. Kamau was among seven Texas death row prisoners who stunned the world with a bold escape attempt on Thanksgiving Day 1998 [See: …
Article • June 15, 2000 • from PLN June, 2000
My Statement in Response to the State by by Kamau "Ponchai" Wilkerson [The following is an excerpt from "My Statement in Response to the Setting of an Execution Date and the State of Texas' Plan to Murder Me," by Ponchai Kamau Wilkerson] The 13th Amendment abolished slavery "...except as punishment …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
From the Editor by Paul Wright By now the observant reader will have noticed that this issue of Prison Legal News is 48 pages in length rather than 40. PLN recently switched printers which offered a variety of services, including higher quality newsprint and also allows us to expand in …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Book Review: Inmate Litigation by John E Dannenberg by Assistant Professor Margo Schlanger, Reprinted (soft back) from the Harvard Law Review, Vol. 116, No.6, April 2003; 151 pp. Review by John E. Dannenberg Inmate Litigation is a scholarly analysis on the effectiveness of prisoner civil rights litigation filed under 42 …
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