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Author John Grisham Pens Editorial Criticizing Death Penalty in North Carolina by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer On October 11, 2018, world-famous author and attorney John Grisham published an editorial in a North Carolina newspaper regarding capital punishment in that state. “Today, there are 141 people on North Carolina’s death …
Article • September 5, 2019 • from PLN September, 2019
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
Book Excerpt: Lessons of “The Birdman” by Marc Mauer, Ashley Nellis by Marc Mauer and Ashley Nellis In the early part of the last century, Robert Stroud was considered one of the most notorious and dangerous individuals in the U.S. prison system. Born in Seattle, Stroud ran away from his …
Article • June 4, 2019 • from PLN June, 2019
Filed under: Interviews
PLN Interviews Randy Berg, Director of the Florida Justice Institute by Paul Wright by Paul Wright On December 27, 2018, Prison Legal News editor Paul Wright interviewed Randall C. Berg, Jr., executive director of the Florida Justice Institute (FJI) in Miami. It is fair to say that no one has …
Former Prisoner, Jailhouse Lawyer Mujahid Farid Has Died by Laura Whitehorn by Laura Whitehorn This issue of Prison Legal News is dedicated to Mujahid Farid. Farid, 69, who died of cancer on November 20, 2018 in the Bronx, New York, often said he was only one of many people who …
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Former Jailhouse Lawyer Bobby Battle Dies at Age 80 by Monte McCoin by Monte McCoin Former prisoner Bobby Battle, an Oklahoma City native with a sixth-grade education who filed a lawsuit that ultimately led to historic reforms and the desegregation of Oklahoma prisons, died on December 25, 2017 at the …
Article • December 5, 2018 • from PLN December, 2018
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright You are reading the last issue of Prison Legal News for 2018. This month’s cover story reports on the widespread practice of prison and jail officials censoring books, magazines and correspondence sent to prisoners. Increasingly, that includes restrictions or bans on …
Article • November 6, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright For the past 28 years, Prison Legal News has reported on prison and jail medical care that ranges from abysmal to the barbaric. With the possible exception of California, whose prison system’s health care is under federal receivership, medical and mental …
Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Editorial: The Case Against Florida’s Amendment 4 on Felon Voting Rights by Paul Wright by Paul Wright Florida leads the nation with over 1 million citizens disenfranchised and unable to vote due to felony convictions. The path to having their voting rights restored is long and difficult, and has been …
Article • October 9, 2018 • from PLN October, 2018
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright In 1992, the Washington Department of Corrections signed its first prison phone contract with AT&T that required the company to give the DOC a “commission” kickback in exchange for the monopoly contract. Previously, AT&T provided phone services to the DOC with …
Article • September 3, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
New CNN Film, “American Jail,” Shows How the Poor Get – and Stay – Incarcerated by Steve Horn by Steve Horn On July 1, 2018, the film “American Jail” made its premiere screening before a cable television audience on CNN. Given how seldom criminal justice-related issues – let alone the …
Article • September 3, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright Welcome to another issue of PLN! We have been reporting on the federal ADX supermax since it opened in 1994 as the U.S. government’s highest-security prison dedicated to destroying human beings through total isolation. Over the years we have covered the …
Article • August 5, 2018 • from PLN August, 2018
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright For anyone who has done time, the obscene prices at the prison or jail commissary are always a source of complaint and wonder. Complaint because they are so high, and wonder because they are so untethered from any reasonable level of …
Publication • August 1, 2018
New York State Parole Board - Failures in Staffing and Performance - A Report by the Parole Preparation Project and The Release Aging People in Prison Campaign, 2018 New York State Parole Board: Failures A Report and in by the Staffing and Performance Parole Preparation Project The Release Aging People …
Publication • August 1, 2018
Parole Preparation Project, New York State Parole Board: Failures in Staffing and Performance, 2018 New York State Parole Board: Failures A Report and in by the Staffing and Performance Parole Preparation Project The Release Aging People in Prison Campaign AUGUST 2018 New York State Parole Board: Failures in A Report …
Article • July 2, 2018 • from PLN July, 2018
The Magnificent Seven by Mumia Abu-Jamal by Mumia Abu-Jamal They are a cross section of Amer­ican men: Black, white, Greek (apparently), Italian. Seven men – George R. Efthimiou; Mark Johnson; George T. McHale; John Shnipes, Jr.; Jeffery T. Staff; Paul J. Voglino; and James J. Walsh – seven guards at …
Article • July 1, 2018 • from PLN July, 2018
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright Each summer there is a wave of heat-related deaths in American prisons, mostly in the southern states of the former confederacy where the government has adopted a policy of explicit cruelty by building prisons without air conditioning to ensure the misery …
Article • June 27, 2018
Exclusive! Prison Legal News Interviews South Carolina DOC Director Bryan Stirling by   Prison Legal News Interviews South Carolina DOC Director Bryan Stirling On May 25, 2018, Prison Legal News conducted a phone interview with South Carolina Department of Corrections Director Bryan Stirling. The interview took place less than two …
The Inside Story of a Legendary Prison Debate Team by Daniel S. Throop Our victories over college students weren’t just for us—they were for incarcerated people everywhere. by Daniel S. Throop, The Marshall Project, in collaboration with Vice “I can’t believe they lost!” I blurted out to confused looks from …
Article • June 5, 2018 • from PLN June, 2018
Filed under: Reviews
Solitary: The Inside Story of Supermax Isolation and How We Can Abolish It, by Dr. Terry Allen Kupers (University of California Press, September 2017). 304 pages, $29.95 hardcover by Christopher Zoukis Solitary: The Inside Story of Supermax Isolation and How We Can Abolish It, by Dr. Terry Allen Kupers (University …
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 …
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