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Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Filed under: Editorials, COVID-19
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright COVID-19 has not gone away; indeed it seems to be worsening in prisons and jails around the country. But this month’s cover story on prisons in Iceland serves as a reminder that not all countries have, or want, a police state …
Article • August 1, 2020 • from PLN August, 2020
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright As summer wears on, the pandemic continues to take its toll behind bars. Our cover story reports the latest developments on COVID-19 in prisons and jails. Thanks to all the prisoner readers who are sending us reports and updates about coronavirus …
Article • July 1, 2020 • from PLN July, 2020
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright With COVID-19 still dominating prison and jail related news, it is worth keeping in mind that detention conditions did not miraculously improve because of a pandemic. Rather, already bad conditions have gotten steadily worse, inadequate and negligent medical care systems have …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Filed under: Editorials, COVID-19
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright Prison Legal News launched in May 1990, making this the thirtieth anniversary issue. I hand typed five pages, half the issue, in my maximum-security prison cell and Ed Mead, my co-editor, typed the other half in his cell. We sent it …
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
Filed under: Editorials, COVID-19
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. This is one of the very few times in our 30 year history where we have changed a cover story midproduction after the magazine has already been laid out, but that is what we are …
Author John Grisham Pens Editorial Criticizing Death Penalty in North Carolina by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer On October 11, 2018, world-famous author and attorney John Grisham published an editorial in a North Carolina newspaper regarding capital punishment in that state. “Today, there are 141 people on North Carolina’s death …
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright You are reading the last issue of Prison Legal News for 2018. This month’s cover story reports on the widespread practice of prison and jail officials censoring books, magazines and correspondence sent to prisoners. Increasingly, that includes restrictions or bans on …
Article • November 6, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright For the past 28 years, Prison Legal News has reported on prison and jail medical care that ranges from abysmal to the barbaric. With the possible exception of California, whose prison system’s health care is under federal receivership, medical and mental …
Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Editorial: The Case Against Florida’s Amendment 4 on Felon Voting Rights by Paul Wright by Paul Wright Florida leads the nation with over 1 million citizens disenfranchised and unable to vote due to felony convictions. The path to having their voting rights restored is long and difficult, and has been …
Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright In 1992, the Washington Department of Corrections signed its first prison phone contract with AT&T that required the company to give the DOC a “commission” kickback in exchange for the monopoly contract. Previously, AT&T provided phone services to the DOC with …
Article • September 3, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright Welcome to another issue of PLN! We have been reporting on the federal ADX supermax since it opened in 1994 as the U.S. government’s highest-security prison dedicated to destroying human beings through total isolation. Over the years we have covered the …
Article • August 5, 2018 • from PLN August, 2018
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright For anyone who has done time, the obscene prices at the prison or jail commissary are always a source of complaint and wonder. Complaint because they are so high, and wonder because they are so untethered from any reasonable level of …
Article • July 1, 2018 • from PLN July, 2018
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright Each summer there is a wave of heat-related deaths in American prisons, mostly in the southern states of the former confederacy where the government has adopted a policy of explicit cruelty by building prisons without air conditioning to ensure the misery …
The Inside Story of a Legendary Prison Debate Team by Daniel S. Throop Our victories over college students weren’t just for us—they were for incarcerated people everywhere. by Daniel S. Throop, The Marshall Project, in collaboration with Vice “I can’t believe they lost!” I blurted out to confused looks from …
Article • June 5, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright Deaths in jails are all too common in the United States, especially from medical neglect and untreated injuries. They are also usually ignored, as jails have even less oversight than state or federal prisons. Systemic patterns of jail deaths are nothing …
Article • May 4, 2018 • from PLN May, 2018
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright Welcome to the 28th anniversary issue of Prison Legal News. If someone had told me in 1990, when PLN first started, that nearly three decades later we would not only still be publishing but I would still be serving as the …
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright I would like to thank everyone who donated to HRDC’s annual fundraiser last year. When we started our fundraiser, our goal was to raise enough money to be able to hire a full-time investigative reporter. Within a few weeks, though, we …
Article • March 6, 2018 • from PLN March, 2018
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright For the past 27 years we have reported on the private prison industry and its expansion. Despite a lot of rhetoric and dire or optimistic predictions (depending on who was making them at the time and their financial relationship with for-profit …
Article • January 31, 2018 • from PLN February, 2018
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright This month’s cover story delves into the sexual harassment of Missouri DOC employees by their co-workers. As we see from recent news reports, relatively powerful men in the media and entertainment industry resign or get fired because they either can’t or …
Article • January 8, 2018 • from PLN January, 2018
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright Welcome to the first issue of PLN for 2018. By the time you read this we should be moved into our new office in Florida. I would like to thank everyone who donated to help us with the unexpected expense of …
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