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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 …
Prison Activist Resource Center - PARC National Prisoner Resource Directory, 2018 PARC National Prisoner Resource Directory Core Volunteers Jessie Backer Greetings, Marka Ellertson Welcome to the June 2018 edition of PARC’s National Prisoner Resource Directory. We have updated information on organizations that are new to us, and on ones that …
Article • May 7, 2018 • from PLN May, 2018
Filed under: Eulogies, Prisoner Media
San Quentin Newspaper Editor Arnulfo Garcia Leaves a Legacy by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Arnulfo Garcia, sentenced to 25 years to life in prison, turned his life around and received a second chance when he was released on July 24, 2017 after serving 16 years. Two months later he …
Article • May 7, 2018 • from PLN May, 2018
Filed under: Reviews
“Survivors Guide to Prison,” by Matthew Cooke, director (Gravitas Ventures, February 2018); 102 minutes by Steve Horn Movie review by Steve Horn A newly-released film that serves as an informative guide to surviving a stint in a U.S. jail or prison has hit the screens, and is streaming for a …
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 • May 5, 2017 • from PLN May, 2017
Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World, by Baz Dreisinger by Matthew Clarke book review by Matt Clarke Incarceration Nations by Baz Dreisinger (Other Press, 2016). 325 pages, $19.00 (hardcover). When John Jay College of Criminal Justice Professor Baz Dreisinger began her two-year pilgrimage to prisons …
PLN Interviews CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou by John Kiriakou is a former CIA officer, former senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and former counterterrorism consultant. He left the CIA in March 2004, later serving as a senior investigator on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and senior intelligence advisor …
Article • April 1, 2017 • from PLN April, 2017
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Paul Wright This month’s cover story, an interview with former CIA officer John Kiriakou, is part of our ongoing series of interviews with interesting people who have experience with the U.S. criminal justice system. The interview with John is around 8,000 words. A …
Prison Legal News Interviews CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou - Full Interview by   Note: This is the full PLN interview with John Kiriakou; a shorter version was published as our April 2017 cover story, here. John Kiriakou is a former CIA officer, former senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee …
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 …
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