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Article • March 15, 1999 • from PLN March, 1999
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News in Brief by Costa Rica : On December 3, 1998, 500 prisoners at La Reforma prison in San Jose rioted to protest the shooting death of one prisoner and wounding of six others who had attempted to escape. The escapees had dug a tunnel outside the prison. Waiting guards …
Article • February 15, 1999 • from PLN February, 1999
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News in Brief by CA : On October 1, 1998, about 100 prisoners at the privately run Victor Valley Community Correctional Facility were involved in a fight. Three prisoners required hospital treatment for minor injuries. The prison is run by Maranatha Private Corrections. CA : On September 19, 1998, the …
Article • January 15, 1999 • from PLN January, 1999
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News in Brief by AL : In September, 1998, Madison county (Huntsville) prisoners Rodney Baker, Antonio Davidson, Steven Dillard and Nara Lemons, were charged with murder for allegedly beating prisoner Robert Sevigny to death. AL : Mario Centobe (32) is the Mississippi prisoner who escaped from a prison van when …
Article • December 15, 1998 • from PLN December, 1998
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News in Brief by AZ : On July 30, 1998, Tempe Jailer Chris Perry was suspended for 16 hours after an internal investigation found he had punched prisoner Jon M. Harding on the head three times after Harding bit him. Perry was cleared of excessive force charges arising from two …
Article • December 15, 1998 • from PLN December, 1998
Prisoners' Legal Services of NY Victim of Budget Ax by Dan Pens September 13, 1971 Bloody Monday. New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller unleashes a firestorm of bullets and shotgun blasts into Attica's D-Yard. Eight minutes and 3,000 rounds of ammo later, 29 prisoners and 10 hostages lay fatally gunshot in …
Article • November 15, 1998 • from PLN November, 1998
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News in Brief by CA: Effective September 1, 1998, smoking and tobacco possession by prisoners is banned at the California Rehabilitation Center in Norco and 12 state prison reception centers. The tobacco ban was ordered by Governor Pete Wilson as a first step towards ending smoking by prisoners throughout the …
Article • October 15, 1998 • from PLN October, 1998
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News in Brief by AZ : In early 1998, 16 DOC guards were fired or quit for sexually harassing other employees or engaging in sexual misconduct with other employees at the Florence prison complex. Eight other guards were disciplined. The misconduct included guards having sex with each other in towers; …
Article • October 15, 1998 • from PLN October, 1998
Loompanics Unlimited by Paul Wright Loompanics modestly bills itself as "the best book catalog in the world." If it's not the best it is certainly the most diverse, having all the books you've heard about but probably haven't seen in the neighborhood bookstore. Loompanics is a publisher and vendor that …
Article • September 15, 1998 • from PLN September, 1998
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News in Brief by AZ : In July, 1998, a jury acquitted Bruce Howell, a Perryville prisoner, of murder and all charges but one related to the killing of prison guard Brent Lumley. Howell faces a second trial on a single charge of deadly assault by a prisoner. AZ : …
Tennessee Prison Privatization Bill Fails to Pass by Alex Friedmann Adramatic confrontation between the private corrections industry and opponents of prison privatization played out in Tennessee earlier this year, ending in an embarrassing defeat for the prison profiteers. Similar struggles can be expected in other states as privatization continues to …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
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News in Brief by Brazil: On May 28, 1998, 22 prisoners were killed by other prisoners at the Barretto Campelo prison. Designed to hold 400 prisoners, the prison held 1,200 at the time of the incident. Police claim the killings occured as a group of prisoners sought to avenge the …
Article • July 15, 1998 • from PLN July, 1998
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News in Brief by AZ : On March 17, 1998, Michael Garvey, executive director of the Arizona Board of Executive Clemency was fired for sexually and racially harassing employees. Francine Williams, a former board employee, filed suit claiming Garvey had repeatedly and frequently made sexually offensive and suggestive remarks. Williams, …
Article • June 15, 1998 • from PLN June, 1998
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News in Brief by AZ : On April 1, 1998, former Perryville prison warden Thomas Sullivan was convicted by a Maricopa county jury of raping three girls, ages 8-16. A 16 year Arizona DOC employee, Sullivan was arrested in March, 1996, when DOC employees reported the allegations to superiors. One …
Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998
Oregon's Prison Slavocracy by Dan Pens What I propose is, that as we embark on this massive prison construction program, we try a new approach -- convert our "warehouses" into factories with fences around them. To do that we must change our thinking and change the reactionary statutes that stand …
Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998
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News in Brief by CA : On January 8, 1998, Lancaster state prison guard Elizabeth Begaren was shot and killed by four men while driving on a freeway. The assailants chased Bergaren's vehicle and forced it to stop on an on ramp in Anaheim where she was shot in front …
Article • April 15, 1998 • from PLN April, 1998
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News in Brief by Brazil: On January 10, 1998, eight prisoners at the Linhares prison in Espirito Santo state were killed in a brawl. Francisco Assis Rangel, the prison operations chief, said "They killed one another with metal bars and pieces of wood." No details were given as to the …
Article • April 15, 1998 • from PLN April, 1998
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Texas Warden Not Victim of Staff Assault by T.Q. Texas Warden not Victim of Staff Assault In your July 1997 News in Brief section, you reported an incident on the French Robertson Unit [a Texas state prison near Abilene]. The News in Brief item erroneously stated that Ron Drewery [who …
Article • March 15, 1998 • from PLN March, 1998
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News in Brief by AZ : In November, 1997, the state DOC announced that the construction of a 4,150-bed prison complex at Gila Bend, a 200-bed juvenile prison at the same location and an 800-bed addition to a Yuma prison was $19 million over budget. The combined projects were supposed …
Article • February 15, 1998 • from PLN February, 1998
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News in Brief by CA : Joe Sandoval, 60, resigned as secretary of California's Youth an Adult Correctional Agency on August 15, 1997, saying he wanted to spend more time with his family. Upon his resignation governor Pete Wilson appointed Sandoval to the state's Narcotic Addict Evaluation Authority. The position …
Article • January 15, 1998 • from PLN January, 1998
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News in Brief by AL : On October 3, 1997, a fight between two unidentified prisoners at the Holman prison in Atmore escalated into a brawl involving 18 prisoners that left two seriously injured and five slightly injured. Prison spokesman Tom Gilkson said the fight began as a dispute over …
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