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Article • July 15, 1996 • from PLN July, 1996
From the Editor by Paul Wright In recent issues Dan and I have mentioned that we were seeking funding to pay a staff person until PLN was able to cover a staff salary on its own. So far we haven't had much luck at getting any grants in the amount …
Article • June 15, 1996 • from PLN June, 1996
Report on Japanese Prisons Released by Human Rights Watch Asia has recently released a booklet titled Prison Conditions in Japan. The 93 page booklet gives a detailed overview of the Japanese prison system. Organized by topic the booklet includes a summary with chapters covering police detention, physical conditions, communication between …
Article • June 15, 1996 • from PLN June, 1996
From the Editor by Dan Pens I welcome you to the 74th consecutive monthly issue of PLN. When we first published in 1990, the state of Washington attempted to deny delivery of PLN to every prisoner in the state. PLN made it clear that we'd challenge the ban in court, …
Article • May 15, 1996 • from PLN May, 1996
From the Editor by Paul Wright This issue marks PLN's sixth year of publishing and 72 consecutive issues. For anyone familiar with alternative publications in general and prison publications in particular this is a significant milestone. Ed Mead and I started PLN on a trial basis in 1990, we decided …
Article • April 15, 1996 • from PLN April, 1996
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
The Keepers and the Caged: Heroes and Necromancers in the Prison System Today (Book Review) by Michael Spencer by Jean Marie Christenson; Kendall/Hunt Publishing 241 pages. $14.95 The Keepers and the Caged is a compilation of 21 personal interviews conducted by the author with Washington State prisoners, prison administrators, and …
Article • April 15, 1996 • from PLN April, 1996
From the Editor by Dan Pens We want to thank the Southern Poverty Law Center for awarding a $5,000 grant to PLN. We still need $30,000 over the next two years to fund what amounts to a full-time staff position. The $5,000 grant from SPLC will give us breathing room …
Article • March 15, 1996 • from PLN March, 1996
Filed under: Reviews, Resources, Organizing
Legal Materials Available by The Prisoners Self Help Legal Clinic (PSHLC) in New Jersey is a volunteer project of the ACLU and is made up of attorneys, former prisoner paralegals, law students, civil rights advocates and other members of the community who assist pro se prisoner litigants. The PSHLC's concept …
Article • March 15, 1996 • from PLN March, 1996
Filed under: Resources, Organizing
National Convocation May 18-22 by The 1996 National Convocation of Jail and Prison Ministry will be held May 18-22, 1996 at the National 4-H Center, 7100 Connecticut Avenue, Chevy Chase, Maryland. The theme of this year's gathering is "Fear and Violence in America: Building Bridges in a Prison Society." Keynote …
Article • March 15, 1996 • from PLN March, 1996
Soledad Brother by Reviewed by Schulte, Elizabeth Review by Elizabeth Schulte This is a particularly relevant time to reissue Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson. This collection of letters that prisoner and activist George Jackson wrote from 1964 to 1970 speaks strongly of the brutality in the U.S. …
Article • March 15, 1996 • from PLN March, 1996
Filed under: Editorials, Organizing
From the Editor by Paul Wright In my October editorial I asked readers what they would like to see more of in PLN as well as any suggestions on how we could improve our content. One of the respondents, Richard Barker, said he would like to see more case law. …
Article • February 15, 1996 • from PLN February, 1996
It's About Time: Americas Imprisonment Binge by Linda Wilson It's About Time: America's Imprisonment Binge, by John Irwin and James Austin, Wadsorth Publishing Co. (1994), provides an excellent critical analysis of the American prison system and makes a very strong case against America's excessive reliance on the use of imprisonment …
Article • February 15, 1996 • from PLN February, 1996
Weight Lifting Info Available on the Internet by Past issues of PLN have reported on the efforts to halt or curtail weight lifting in prison. Strength Tech, Inc., a supplier to the prison weight lifting industry, has created and dedicated an Internet web site to the issue of prison weight …
Irish POWs in the US by Most people are well aware of the fact that the British government holds hundreds of Irish Republican prisoners of war and political prisoners as a result of its efforts to crush the Irish independence movement. Less well know is the fact that Irish republican …
Article • February 15, 1996 • from PLN February, 1996
Peru Political Materials by Since 1980 the Communist Party of Peru (PCP) has led a people's war against the US backed government in that country. Despite the capture of the party's chairman in 1992 the war has continued as the party recovered from the setbacks it suffered that year. PLN …
Article • February 15, 1996 • from PLN February, 1996
From the Editor by Dan Pens PLN has reached the point where we need at least one full time staff person on the outside. The amount of work that needs to be done is beginning to overwhelm our volunteers. The trouble with the idea that we pay someone is simple: …
Article • January 15, 1996 • from PLN January, 1996
From the Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to another issue of PLN . Readers who have been with us for awhile may recall that Ed Mead and I have a suit pending against the Washington State Indeterminate Sentence Review Board (ISRB), AKA the parole board. Ed was the co-editor of …
Article • December 15, 1995 • from PLN December, 1995
HIV/AIDS in Prison and Jail by The Department of Justice has released its latest statistics on the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in prison and jail facilities for 1993. As of that year 21,538 out of the 880,101 prisoners in state and federal prisons, 2.4% of the total, were known to be …
Article • December 15, 1995 • from PLN December, 1995
From the Editor by Dan Pens Welcome to another edition of PLN. We have published continuously for five and a half years now. A lot of people write and ask the same question, "Gee, how did you guys do it?" The answer is simple, hard work and persistence. It's pretty …
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
Surveys by - Prisoners Convicted by Drugging is conducting a survey to determine the number of criminal defendants who have gone to trial or been tried while they were under the influence of psychotropic drugs. Anyone desiring a questionnaire should write: B. Buechler, 825 Battery St. 1st Fl. San Francisco, …
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
From the Editor by Dan Pens Thanksgiving can be a tough holiday to celebrate inside a prison cage. This will be my fifteenth. The first few were mostly about self-pity. As I became more politically conscious, however, Thanksgiving took on a different meaning. It traditionally commemorates starving European conquerors giving …
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