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Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Champion of Death Row Prisoners Accused of Spoiling Oklahoman’s Clemency by When Oklahoma prisoner Anthony Sanchez, 44, was executed on September 21, 2023, for the 1996 killing of University of Oklahoma dance student Juli Busken, Rev. Jeff Hood was by his side. But the attorneys that Sanchez had by then …
See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Treat No Evil: Centurion and the Curse of For-Profit Prison Healthcare by J.D. Schmidt by J.D. Schmidt On November 14, 2022, the Florida arm of Centurion Health, one of the nation’s largest private prison and jail healthcare companies, filed a lawsuit in Putnam County …
Misadventures in Mail Censorship by Robert Schaeffer by K. Robert Schaeffer How an incarcerated writer is fighting a sad new normal of censorship and mail obstruction in Pennsylvania prisons This essay originally appeared in Inquest on October 19, 2023. The original can be found at https://inquest.org/misadventures-in-mail-censorship/ From August into September …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
New Head of “Constitutional Sheriffs” Calls MLK a “Thug” by On June 19, 2023, the 158th anniversary of the “Juneteenth” enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation on the last Texas slavers, Sam Bushman, the owner of Liberty News Radio, used his show to broadcast his belief that the late Rev. Dr. …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Ed Mead: Rest in Power by Paul Wright by Paul Wright Over the years the saddest duty I have as PLN’s editor is noting the passing of our friends and supporters. As PLN gets older, we are entering our 34th year of publishing with this issue, it seems like more …
Publication • December 7, 2023
LSPC-CDCR- Public Comments Re Ncr 23-12 Mail Processing - Dec. 2023 Legal Services for Prisoners with Children 4400 Market Street, Oakland, CA 94608 Regulation and Policy Management Branch Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation P.O. Box 942883 Sacramento, CA, 94283-0001 December 7, 2023 Re: Public Comment on NCR 23-12 Dear Regulation …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Filed under: Censorship
The Surreal Prison Censorship Regime by Dylan Jeffrey by Dylan Jeffrey Society isn’t being done any favors keeping literature out of the hands of incarcerated people. Prison is horrible, violent and degrading and stagnant. Really the only good thing about it is that there’s plenty of time for reading. Prison …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
HRDC Wins Motion to Compel North Carolina Prison Officials to Answer for Censorship Policy by On April 7, 2023, the federal court for the Eastern District of North Carolina granted a motion by PLN’s publisher, theHuman Rights Defense Center (HRDC), to compel the state Department of Public Safety (DPS) “to …
Brief • November 1, 2023
Filed under: Censorship
Bauer v. Washington DOC, Washington, Settlement Agreement, Censorship, 2023 Case 2:21-cv-00453-RAJ-SKV Document 55-1 Filed 11/01/23 Page 1 of 21 EXHIBIT 1 Case 2:21-cv-00453-RAJ-SKV Document 55-1 Filed 11/01/23 Page 2 of 21 The Honorable Richard A. Jones Magistrate S. Kate Vaughan 1 2 3 4 5 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT …
CoreCivic Fails to Defeat California’s Anti-SLAPP Law at Ninth Circuit, Must Pay $45,630 in Attorney Fees by In November 2022 the federal court for the Northern District of California shot down a suit by private prison giant CoreCivic which sought to weaponize anti-defamation law against one of the company’s more …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
San Francisco Jail First in Nation to Provide Detainees Tablets With Totally Free Content by The jail in San Francisco County is the first in the nation to provide its detainees with tablets and free access to content, such as legal resources, e-books and music. The county Sheriff’s Office (SFSO) …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Citing Improvements at Mississippi State Prison at Parchman, Rappers Drop Suit by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In January 2023, rappers Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter and Mario “Yo Gotti” Mims agreed to dismiss the lawsuit they had brought on behalf of 227 prisoners challenging conditions at Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman. …
Shocking Video Footage Reveals Rampant Violence and Neglect in Los Angeles County Jails by A collection of graphic videos reported by the Los Angeles Times on June 24, 2023, pulled back the curtain on rampant violence and chaos inside Los Angeles County jails. The footage, saved on a discarded thumb …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
HRDC Granted Injunction to End Censorship in Arkansas Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On March 31, 2023, the federal court for the Western District of Arkansas concluded that a “postcard-only” policy at the Baxter County Correctional Center (BCCC) constituted a de facto blanket ban on publications, in …
Brief • September 1, 2023
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Article • July 14, 2023
Filed under: Prisoner Media
Shocking Video Footage Reveals Rampant Violence and Neglect in Los Angeles County Jails by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman A collection of graphic videos reported by the Los Angeles Times on June 24, 2023, pulled back the curtain on rampant violence and chaos inside Los Angeles County jails. The footage, …
Article • June 22, 2023
California Appeal Court Won’t Let Prisoner Use Legal Mail to Send “Kites” by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On January 12, 2023, California&rsquo;s Sixth District Court of Appeal concluded that attorney-client privilege did not apply to a state prisoner&rsquo;s &ldquo;kites,&rdquo; even when included in an envelope addressed to his …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Second Circuit Upholds Connecticut Prison Porn Ban, Sets Up Circuit Split Over “Vagueness” Test by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On October 3, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to issue a writ of certiorari to hear an appeal by a group of Connecticut prisoners, who lost a challenge to …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Ninth Circuit Says Arizona DOC Policy Cannot Be Used to Censor Prisoner’s Free Expression by David Reutter by David Reutter&nbsp; An Arizona prisoner&rsquo;s civil rights claim is headed to trial in June 2023, after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reinstated it, saying his prison&rsquo;s policy on …
Brief • May 17, 2023
Filed under: Censorship
Pen American Center, Inc v. Escambia County School District, FL, Complaint, Censorship, 2023 Case 3:23-cv-10385-TKW-ZCB Document 1 Filed 05/17/23 Page 1 of 59 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA PENSACOLA DIVISION PEN AMERICAN CENTER, INC., SARAH BRANNEN, LINDSAY DURTSCHI, on behalf of herself and …
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