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Article • May 6, 2015 • from PLN May, 2015
Twenty-Five Years of Prison Legal News by Paul Wright The first issue of Prisoners’ Legal News (PLN) was published in May 1990. It was hand-typed, photocopied and ten pages long, and mailed to 75 potential subscribers with a budget of $50. The first three issues were banned in all Washington …
Article • May 6, 2015 • from PLN May, 2015
Filed under: Editorials, Prisoner Media
From the Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor by Paul Wright It doesn’t seem like this is the 301st issue of Prison Legal News. When we published our first issue in 1990 I didn’t have an expectation of how long the publication would last nor did I think about …
Article • April 8, 2015 • from PLN April, 2015
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor by Paul Wright In 25 years of publishing Prison Legal News, we have reported a number of recurring themes where the only specifics that change are the names, dates and locations. But the broader issues – prison slavery, government corruption, guards …
Article • March 4, 2015 • from PLN March, 2015
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor by Paul Wright This month’s cover story reports on the relatively recent phenomenon of video visitation. While video visits are technologically new, the underlying principle upon which they are being implemented is not. PLN has reported extensively on the prison telephone …
Article • February 4, 2015 • from PLN February, 2015
From the Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor by Paul Wright It has been said that freedom of the press is neither free nor cheap. On January 5, 2015, a trial commenced in the courtroom of U.S. District Court Judge Mark Walker in Tallahassee, Florida. Prison Legal News is …
Article • January 10, 2015 • from PLN January, 2015
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to the first issue of Prison Legal News for the New Year! By now you should have received our fundraiser packet with our last annual report. First, I would like to thank everyone who has donated to …
Article • December 3, 2014 • from PLN December, 2014
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to the last issue of Prison Legal News for 2014. By now, all PLN subscribers should have received our annual fundraiser letter, which includes our last annual report. If you have not yet made a donation, please …
Article • November 8, 2014 • from PLN November, 2014
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor by Paul Wright Over the past 24 years PLN has reported extensively on the structural dynamics of the American police state, which have resulted in the imprisonment of over 2.3 million people on any given day. Critical to mass incarceration is …
Article • October 10, 2014 • from PLN October, 2014
Filed under: Editorials, PLN Litigation
From the Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor by Paul Wright This month’s cover story about the Washington Department of Corrections killing prisoner Ricardo Mejia through medical neglect is in many ways an old one. Over the past 24 years, PLN has run hundreds of articles about prisons and …
Article • September 12, 2014 • from PLN September, 2014
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor by Paul Wright Since its inception, Prison Legal News has been reporting on prison slavery and the exploitation of prison slave labor. This month’s cover story continues that tradition. As we have repeatedly noted, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution …
Article • August 7, 2014 • from PLN August, 2014
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor by Paul Wright I have long observed that it costs a lot of money to be poor in America. Since our criminal justice system falls almost exclusively on those who are poor, it should be no surprise that a great deal …
Article • July 9, 2014 • from PLN July, 2014
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor by Paul Wright Since we began publishing PLN in 1990 we have documented the horrific effects of solitary confinement and its overall goal and purpose of psychologically destroying prisoners subjected to long-term isolation. It’s not a coincidence that the rise of …
Article • June 5, 2014 • from PLN June, 2014
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor by Paul Wright When Prison Legal News first started publishing in 1990, the Internet only existed for the military and a few academic institutions. PLN made its first online appearance in 1998 on what was a fairly simple website by today’s …
Article • May 19, 2014 • from PLN May, 2014
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor   by Paul Wright   This month’s issue of Prison Legal News marks 24 years and 284 issues, which makes PLN the longest continuously-published prisoners’ rights publication in U.S. history. We have grown significantly from a ten-page, hand-typed newsletter to our …
Article • April 15, 2014 • from PLN April, 2014
From the Editor by Paul Wright This month’s interview with Noam Chomsky is part of PLN’s ongoing series of interviews with notable people who have diverse views of the U.S. criminal justice system. Prior interviews have been conducted with well-known actor Danny Trejo, media mogul and millionaire Conrad Black, and …
Article • March 15, 2014 • from PLN March, 2014
From the Editor by Paul Wright This month’s cover story on Corizon, the company formed by the merger of Prison Health Services and Correctional Medical Services, is our most recent reporting on an issue that has been ongoing for the past several decades. Namely, the prison HMO model whereby corrections …
Article • February 15, 2014 • from PLN February, 2014
From the Editor by Paul Wright In 2011, the Human Rights Defense Center – the parent organization of Prison Legal News – co-founded the national Campaign for Prison Phone Justice to eliminate the high costs of prison phone calls. We had success before the Federal Communications Commission, which voted in …
Article • January 15, 2014 • from PLN January, 2014
From the Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to the first issue of PLN for 2014. If you have not donated to our annual fundraiser, please do so now; it is not too late and we need your support to continue our advocacy work on issues like the Campaign for Prison …
Article • December 15, 2013 • from PLN December, 2013
From the Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to the last issue of PLN for 2013. As the year closes we can look back and see we have accomplished a great deal, including expanding the magazine to 64 pages, successfully urging the FCC to cap the cost of interstate prison phone …
Article • November 15, 2013 • from PLN November, 2013
From the Editor by Paul Wright By now all PLN subscribers should have received their annual fundraising letter. Subscription and advertising income alone does not cover the cost of producing each month’s issue. Most importantly, it does not cover the cost of the advocacy we do on behalf of prisoners …
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