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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 …
Article • December 5, 2017 • from PLN December, 2017
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright Welcome to the last issue of PLN for 2017. We have had an exciting year with many notable accomplishments. By now everyone on PLN’s mailing list should have received the first issue of Criminal Legal News, and if you are interested …
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright By now all PLN subscribers should have received our fundraiser mailing which includes our 2016 annual report and details our many activities, ranging from publishing and litigation to advocacy and media outreach. This provides a great overview of the depth and …
Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright This issue’s cover story on release debit cards continues our coverage of this relatively recent phenomenon which exploits prisoners and arrestees by charging them fees to access their own money and all too often takes all or most of their funds when they are …
Article • January 10, 2017 • from PLN January, 2017
From the Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to the first issue of PLN for 2017. If you have not yet donated to our annual fundraiser, it is not too late to do so! All donations help, from the smallest to the largest. It is your donations that allow us to …
Article • November 7, 2016 • from PLN November, 2016
From the Editor by Paul Wright By now everyone should have received our special fundraiser issue, which includes our 2015 annual report. We don’t get many visitors to our office in Lake Worth, Florida, and when we do reactions tend to fall into two categories when people realize we have …
From the Editor by Paul Wright PLN has opposed the private prison industry since we began publishing in 1990; back then the industry was in its infancy, having started in 1983 in its modern incarnation. Besides the political and moral implications of farming out correctional functions to for-profit corporations, there …
From the Editor by Paul Wright A lot has been written about mass incarceration and the role drug laws have played in boosting the nation’s prison and jail population. While it is intuitive to expect prisoners to be accused or convicted of criminal offenses, the reality is that tens of …
From the Editor by Paul Wright The Campaign for Prison Phone Justice, co-founded by the Human Rights Defense Center, has led the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to curb some of the more egregious abuses of the prison telecom industry. It has also helped focus increased attention from all sources, including …
From the Editor by Paul Wright Over the years PLN has reported extensively on the ACA and NCCHC, and the “accreditation” scams they run using taxpayer money to promote mass incarceration and the prison industry. They are not alone; many other groups like the American Jail Association and National Sheriffs’ …
From the Editor by Paul Wright Criminologist Jonathan Simon refers to prisons as human toxic waste dumps where the ruling class dumps its human waste: out of sight and out of mind. Sadly, toxic waste is not just a literary analogy when discussing American prisons and jails. As PLN has …
Article • December 31, 2015 • from PLN January, 2016
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to the first issue of PLN for 2016 as we enter our 26th year of continuous publishing. This month’s cover story about the rise of mass incarceration is something of a road map to how we got …
Article • December 17, 2015
Georgia: Op-Ed: County Commission delay poses health threats by Mary Sidney K. Harbert Georgia: Op-Ed: County Commission delay poses health threats   Fulton County Commissioners are dragging their feet in making a decision about who should provide healthcare at the Fulton County Jail, posing a public health threat to jail …
Article • December 1, 2015 • from PLN December, 2015
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor by Paul Wright With the holidays upon us, people outside of prison often think of holiday meals as times of joy and thankfulness for what they have in their lives. Where a shared meal around a dinner table with family and …
Article • September 24, 2015 • from PLN October, 2015
Filed under: Editorials, PLRA
From the Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor by Paul Wright Next April will mark the 20th anniversary of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) – the continuing legacy of President Clinton and Congress which has done more to undermine the rule of law and constitutional rights since the …
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