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Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Sheriff Can't Release AIDS Test Results by Sheriff Can't Release Aids Test Results While awaiting transfer from a county jail to an Alabama prison, a convicted prisoner was given the opportunity to voluntarily submit to an AIDS test. he did so, but only after being assured by the county health …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Right to Practice Religious Beliefs by Right To Practice Religious Beliefs C.D. Mosier, an Oklahoma state prisoner, is a practitioner of Native American religious beliefs which prohibit him from cutting his hair. The Oklahoma DOC has a grooming code which requires that it's prisoners have short hair, however, exemptions can …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Prison Guards: Victims or Villains? by Paul Wright Prison Guards: Victims Or Villains? Review By Paul Wright This is the title of one of two articles in the latest issue [o]f "Blueprint for Social Justice." Both articles are written by female former prison guards who describe their experiences working as …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Washington Supreme Court Rules on Lifers by John Midgley Washington Supreme Court Rules On Lifers John Midgley, Attorney At Law As most prisoners in the system now know, the Washington Supreme Court in August handed down its decision in the " lifer" case, In re Powell, et al., 117 Wn.2d …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Info on Free by Info on FREE Salutation and congratulations.... Yesterday I received my first copy of the Prisoners' Legal News, a victory all the same. I was impressed. [PLN only recently overturned a statewide ban on the newsletter in Texas.] I have been active in several ongoing litigations here …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Can't Search Visitor Leaving Prison by Prison officials suspected that an inmate's minor sister had been smuggling marijuana in to him during her regular visits. An officer was posted to watch the inmate and his sister during the next visit. He did not see them pass anything. At the close …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Editorial by Ed Mead Editorial Comments By Ed Mead Welcome to another issue of our little newsletter. The first thing I want to do this month is extend a hearty expression of good wishes to one of our favorite outside readers, Jonathan Nelson, who is today serving 30 days in …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
Reviews by AUTONOMI is an English language magazine published in Denmark with an autonomous and anti-imperialist outlook. The latest issue, number 6, has articles on political prisoners in the U.S., an update on the trial of members of the Communist Workers Group in Denmark who were convicted of committing various …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Attention Former PAP Members by Jane Kuja If you are a former member of the PAP or know the whereabouts of any past members, we'd appreciate hearing from you. Send any correspondence to: Jane Kuja, P.O. Box 507, Auburn, WA 98071.
Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
Materials for Imprisoned Parents by Materials For Imprisoned Parents The Clearinghouse at Pacific Oaks has a large number of publications and materials available at very low costs that deal with children who have parents in prison and prisoners with children. Many of the materials are bilingual (English and Spanish) and …
Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
NCADP Conference in Seattle by NCADP Conference In Seattle The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (NCADP) will be holding it's annual convention in Seattle on Friday, November 1st through Monday, Nov. 5, 1991. The conference will be held at the Meany Hotel in the University District and will …
Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
Remembering Attica Correction by Beryl Sanders by Beryl P. Sanders, Community-Help Foundation Unlimited I think I should first make a few points clear before I start. This article is to make a couple of corrections because this much needed newsletter gets into the hands of many readers. For fear that …
Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
Getting Counsel Appointed in Civil Rights Cases by Paul Wright Getting Counsel Appointed In Civil Rights Cases By Paul Wright The vast majority of prisoner rights cases are initiated and filed by prisoners representing themselves. This is due to a variety of reasons but the primary one is that most …
Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
Prison Repression in Spain by Jose Jimenez Fernandez Prison Repression In Spain The prison Meco is 30 kilometers from Madrid. It is a maximum security super prison where torture is most of ten practiced against the prisoners. Currently they have stopped beating prisoners a little but there is all kinds …
Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
Notary Update by I'm writing in response to the letter from Lucasville, Ohio, about notarization. I'm copying this as I have it written down in my legal file: Prison Law Monitor, 3PLM, February 1981 - Expense of notarizing statement can be avoided. Also includes ideas that are easily seen as …
Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
Filed under: Reviews, Sentencing, Probation
Community Service Sentencing Found Effective by Requiring criminal offenders to perform a certain number of hours of community service is a sentencing option that can be administered effectively and which appears to produce recidivism rates no worse than those produced by terms of incarceration, according to a study by Malcolm …
Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
Tim Anderson Free by PLN readers may recall previous stories concerning Tim Anderson. Tim was convicted in 1979 of bombing the Hilton hotel in Sydney, Australia in a failed assassination attempt of the Indian prime minister, killed instead were a policeman and two sanitation workers. In 1986 Tim was released …
Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
Death Penalty Resources by Paul Wright By Paul Wright With the NCADP conference being held in Seattle this is a good chance for citizens to learn more about the death penalty and its inherent injustice. One of the often overlooked aspects of the death penalty is that in the criminal …
Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
Search of Prison Visitors Without Probable Cause Illegal by Search Of Prison Visitors Without Probable Cause Illegal Lenora Daugherty is the wife of a Tennessee prisoner who was subjected to a visual body cavity search and a search of her vehicle in 1988 as a condition to be able to …
Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
Filed under: Organizing
Resistance to Oppression by F T Resistance To Oppression The struggle to maintain principles that we live our lives by. The conscious support of our political beliefs in the face of calculated deterrence. Refusal to conform to standards set by the controlling parties, despite coercion. Any political prisoner, politicized social …
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