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Struggling Against the Death Machine by Dan Pens Imagine your entire life concentrated within one tiny cage. Twenty-four hours, by seven days, times three-hundred sixty-five. The state of Pennsylvania owns the cage. Everything you own, everything you do, is squeezed into that suffocating space. There is nothing else. The State …
Article • June 15, 1998 • from PLN June, 1998
Refusal of Non-Lethal Injection Kills Arizona Prisoner by Arizona prisoner Teshome Abate, 39, died Jan. 3, 1998, after a four month hunger strike. In 1989 Abate brought suit against the department of corrections seeking to acquire his Ethiopian Orthodox Christian diet. Ethiopian Orthodox leaders had informed officials their faith requires …
Kafka in the Desert: Palestinian Detainees Struggle by Imagine, if you will, an isolated prison in the desert. Surrounding the one conventional prison building is a large compound, divided into barbed wire enclosures, each holding several dozen prisoners in tents. The compound is walled in, and guarded by military police. …
Twelve Political Prisoners Gave their Lives in a Death Fast in Turkey by When Aygun Ugur, an imprisoned militant from the outlawed Turkish Communist Party/Marxist-Leninist (TKP/ML), died on the 63rd day of a hungerstrike, Turkey was shocked. In a nation which is continually rocked by political crises and rebellion, this …
Article • December 15, 1996 • from PLN December, 1996
Hungry for Justice in L.A. Jail by More than 50 detainees at the Men's Central Jail in Los Angeles participated in a hunger strike, protesting a lack of legal reference materials and law library access, in August 1996. The hunger strike appears to have been confined to one section of …
Prisoner Has Right to Hunger Strike by James Quigley A Florida appellate court has ruled that a prisoner has a right to refuse forced feeding or medical treatment based on an interpretation of the privacy clause of the Florida State constitution. In late 1994 Michael V. Costello, a Florida state …
South Korean Political Prisoners Protest by In early August, 1995, hundreds of political prisoners began a hunger strike to demand their freedom and the end of national security laws that prohibit contact with people in North Korea. The government denied the strike was taking place and stated that anyone taking …
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
TX Death Row Protest by On June 28, 1995, two wings of Texas death row prisoners demonstrated for an hour against a scheduled execution. The prisoners shouted, set fires and banged on the bars. The execution was stayed by a court order. One hundred prisoners have been executed in Texas …
10,000 Kurdish POWs on Hungerstrike by Since 1984 the Kurdish people in Turkey led by the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) have been engaged in a war for an independent socialist homeland. The Turkish government has responded with a brutal military and political campaign of terror and genocide, similar to that …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
Filed under: Organizing, Hunger Strikes
FL Prisoner Has Right to Die by In 1972 Florida prisoner Michael Costello filed a lawsuit that eventually turned into a class action suit that resulted in improving living conditions, court access and medical care for state prisoners. Governor Lawton Chiles estimated that the costs to the state for litigating …
Rikers Island Detainees in Struggle by Rikers Island is the largest penal colony in the world, holding more than 19,000 prisoners on a 410 acre island. Most of them are New York City pretrial detainees not convicted of any crime. The number of detainees is expected to increase to as …
Article • September 15, 1994 • from PLN September, 1994
South American Prison News by Brazil: According to the Brazilian Ministry of Justice there are an average of two and a half riots a day in Brazilian prisons and jails. The Brazilian prison crisis became evident on March 15-16, 1994, when the Archbishop of Fortaleza was taken hostage by prisoners, …
Article • June 15, 1994 • from PLN June, 1994
Repression Ohio Style by John Perotti By John Perotti On April 14, 1994, the 60th day of a hungerstrike by Danny Cahill (see PLN, April, 1994), state representatives Rhine McLin and Samuel Bateman ordered Lebanon Correctional Institution officials to take them to Danny's isolation cell. Danny had been experiencing daily …
Article • October 15, 1993 • from PLN October, 1993
Right to Die Rulings Grow by A quadriplegic prisoner and a woman imprisoned in a persistent vegetative state occasioned recent "right to die" rulings in two states. The California Supreme Court ruled unanimously that a quadriplegic prisoner who is not terminally ill but who must be assisted by others to …
Palestinian Political Prisoners by Israeli prisons are in many respects a microcosm of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As places of detention and physical and psychological suffering, they represent in starkest terms the violent essence of occupation. On the other hand, Palestinian prisoners have turned them into fronts of struggle and steadfastness. …
Article • June 15, 1993 • from PLN June, 1993
Basque Prisoners On Hunger Strike by On January 31, 1993, five Basque political prisoners in the Spanish prison of Caceres-2 began a hunger strike protesting their abysmal conditions of confinement. They have presented prison officials with a list of 22 demands, all of them relating to their living conditions. After …
Pre-Trial Detainees Don't Have to Work by Jorge Martinez is a federal pre-trial detainee. He filed suit claiming that while he was held at the US Medical Center for federal prisoners he was denied proper medical care for a dislocated shoulder, was force fed after seven days on hunger strike, …
Article • January 15, 1993 • from PLN January, 1993
Hunger Strike Ends After 19 Days by Muna Muhaisen By Muna Muhaisen Palestinian political prisoners ended their hunger strike last week after the Israeli Prison Authority entered negotiations with prisoner representatives and agreed to establish an investigative committee to look into the prisoners' demands. The strike, which began Sept. 27, …
Article • January 15, 1993 • from PLN January, 1993
Filed under: Organizing, Hunger Strikes
Editorial by Ed Mead Editorial Comments My, how time's fun when you're having flies. Here we are opening the new year with the start of our fourth volume of the PLN. It doesn't seem that long. Publishing the newsletter has been a good experience for Paul and me. We've already …
Article • December 15, 1992 • from PLN December, 1992
Texas Death Row Prisoners on Hunger Strike by Texas Death Row Prisoners On Hunger Strike Since July 19, 1992, more that 50 condemned prisoners on Texas's death row commenced a chain hunger strike. They are fasting in pairs for three days at a time, consuming only liquids, when the strike …
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