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Article • December 15, 1993 • from PLN December, 1993
From The Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor Welcome to another issue of PLN . The big news at this point is that Ed was recently paroled from the Washington DOC to a federal detainer and from there released by the feds. When we started PLN back in 1990 …
Article • November 15, 1993 • from PLN November, 1993
Pages from a Jailhouse Journal by Nick DiSpoldo By Nick DiSpoldo The present Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, has modified nearly all of the rights granted prisoners under the Warren court (1953 -- 69). Mr. Rehnquist, whom I suspect serves as technical advisor for television's Night Court …
Article • November 15, 1993 • from PLN November, 1993
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Crime
The Politics of Imprisonment by Ed Mead By Ed Mead Peoples' fear of being victimized by crime has steadily risen over the past couple of decades. This has been particularly true for women, the elderly, and minority communities. While there has always been a substantial amount of crime in the …
Article • November 15, 1993 • from PLN November, 1993
Editorial by Ed Mead Editorial Comments By Ed Mead Welcome to another issue of Prison Legal News . This month I want to bring you up-to-date on how we have been doing with our efforts to increase our subscriber base and the number of paying readers. Since last May, every …
Article • October 15, 1993 • from PLN October, 1993
Some Food for Thought: Prisoners Are Not Inmates by Ojore Lutalo By Ojore Lutalo [Ed. Note: Readers will note that PLN rarely refers to prisoners as "inmates" or "residents." We usually change any such terms to "prisoners" when we reprint pieces or publish articles. Ojore, a New Afrikan political prisoner, …
Article • October 15, 1993 • from PLN October, 1993
Research Directory by Keep yourself up-to-date and in the know. Complete list of 1993 federal prison cases published in the Federal Supplement and Federal Reporter 2d is available from: Wayne B. Alexander BSCC/MB: 258 P.O. Box 73 Norfolk, Mass. 02056 Send $2.90 in stamps to cover postage, handling, and costs …
Article • October 15, 1993 • from PLN October, 1993
From The Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor Welcome to another issue of PLN . Lately we have been sending out a lot of sample issues of PLN to encourage new subscribers. In August we sent an issue to every prison law library in the US. If our prison …
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
New Prisoner Resource Guide Available by The Prisoner Rights Union in California has published their 1993-94 Resource Guide. While the guide will be especially useful to prisoners in California it contains a lot of helpful information for prisoners anywhere. It is 56 pages long and literally filled with information. For …
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
CEML Update by [CEML is the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown, an anti-control unit group. PLN recently received the following letter from CEML concerning their activities. ] This has been the busiest of times for CEML. First, work continues to prevent the opening of the new control unit at …
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
Editorial by Ed Mead RESIST GRANT: In my last editorial comments I waxed eloquent on the increased cost of our current publishing format and the need for us to obtain new readers in order to sustain the cost of these increased pages. More paying subscribers, I pointed out, would ensure …
Article • August 15, 1993 • from PLN August, 1993
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
Periodical Reviews by Journal of Prisoners in Prisons is a biannual publication from Canada. Each issue is about 140 pages in length in a bound soft cover book type format. The latest issue (Vol. 4, No. 2) has several excellent articles regarding control units including lengthy, detailed pieces on Marion …
Article • July 15, 1993 • from PLN July, 1993
Men in Prison: A Review by Paul Wright Generally, whenever we review publications in PLN we give you a brief synopsis of their highlights and ordering information. That is because as a newsletter we lack the space to do much more than this. Occasionally a publication will come along that …
Article • July 15, 1993 • from PLN July, 1993
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
The Hot House; Life Inside Leavenworth Prison - A Book Review by Ed Mead By Ed Mead I have just finished a pretty good book. A comrade gave it to me late yesterday afternoon. I went back to my cell and started reading it, and then kept on reading until …
Article • July 15, 1993 • from PLN July, 1993
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Crime
We Need Solutions, Not More Prisons by Ed Mead The state of Washington, like most other states in the U.S., is on an expensive prison building binge. The state's prison population has tripled since the late '70s, yet crime rates continue to soar. The same situation exists elsewhere across the …
Article • July 15, 1993 • from PLN July, 1993
From The Editor by Ed Mead Paul and I have been doing the newsletter with this new 16-paged magazine format for several months now, and in that time we have managed to get a sense of what difference in cost this new printing system will make. By dividing our production …
Article • June 15, 1993 • from PLN June, 1993
Prison Litigation Report Issued by The winter, 1993, issue of the ACLU's National Prison Project contains a status report of nationwide prison litigation for 1992. Forty states plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands are under court order or consent decree to limit population and/or improve …
The Evolution of Criminal Justice by Sandy Judd In twentieth century America, coerced confessions to criminal acts are not technically admissible as evidence in courts of law. Since the 1980's, however, a movement against the enforcement of such "technicalities" has developed within the federal courts. As more forms of questionable …
Article • June 15, 1993 • from PLN June, 1993
Filed under: Editorials, Media, Censorship
From The Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor Welcome to another issue of PLN. As you will have noticed, PLN has a new look. We are trying out this new, expanded format because we had pretty much exhausted the newsletter format and had a backlog of material. This new …
Article • May 15, 1993 • from PLN May, 1993
Editorial by Ed Mead Editorial Comments With this issue we start our fourth calendar year of printing PLN (we began our fourth publishing year back in January). Paul and I have been looking back on what we've been able to accomplish during this period and we feel pretty good about …
Article • April 15, 1993 • from PLN April, 1993
New Video Tape Available by Last October over a thousand people attended the International Tribunal of Indigenous Peoples and Oppressed Nations in the USA. The event, sponsored and organized by a coalition of 30 organizations, was part of the counter-Columbus quincentennial activities throughout the country. The Tribunal put the U.S. …
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