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Article • August 31, 2015 • from PLN September, 2015
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor by Paul Wright Since PLN first began publishing in 1990 we have reported on parole systems and their inherent arbitrariness and cruelty. Today there is a lot of rhetoric about a “liberal-conservative alliance” on criminal justice issues and the need for …
Article • August 4, 2015
Filed under: Editorials, Prison Reform
Consumption Restrictions in a Maximum Security Prison: Perspectives of Incarcerated Men by Ronald Paul Hill Consumption Restrictions in a Maximum Security Prison: Perspectives of Incarcerated Men By Ronald Paul Hill, Ph.D., Villanova School of Business Both President Obama and former President Clinton have recently stated that mass incarceration is a …
Article • July 31, 2015 • from PLN August, 2015
From the Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor by Paul Wright For several decades PLN has reported on the intersections between mass imprisonment, the criminal justice system and the environment. Most specifically, the environmental destruction and degradation that prisons impose on surrounding communities – whether it entails building prisons …
Article • July 7, 2015 • from PLN July, 2015
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor by Paul Wright Over the past 25 years of publishing PLN we have run numerous stories about the Rikers Island jail complex in New York City, generally dealing with guard brutality and medical neglect. Despite several major class-action suits and hundreds …
Article • June 16, 2015
Buddha of the Blues by St Clair, Jeffrey Buddha of the Blues by Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch In the summer of 1998, Alexander Cockburn and I spent a few days in North Richmond, California, a battered industrial city just outside of Berkeley. We had just published our book Whiteout on the CIA and …
Article • June 3, 2015 • from PLN June, 2015
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor by Paul Wright The one area of American life where no one is calling for gender equality or parity is that of mass incarceration. Prisons are and remain a tool of social control aimed primarily at men, who make up 91% …
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 …
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