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Article • February 15, 2000 • from PLN February, 2000
Filed under: Reviews, Crime, Media, Prisoner Media
Reviews: Voices From Within the Prison Walls by Rick Card by D.A. Shelton, News and Letters, 71 pages Reviewed by Rick Card "Criminals have become the 'bogeyman' so that corporate America can continue to commit atrocities against the proletariat throughout the nation and around the world," says David Shelton in …
Article • January 15, 2000 • from PLN January, 2000
California Governor Vetoes Media Access Bill by In September, 1999 California Governor Gray Davis vetoed legislation that would have rescinded his predecessor's policy of barring reporters from interviewing state prisoners. The measure was supported by the California Correctional Peace Officers' Association (CCPOA) which said that barring reporters from prison makes …
Valdes Murder Witness Exiled, Muzzled by On the cover of the October 1999 PLN was an article describing the July 9, 1999 beating death of "X-Wing" prisoner Frank Valdes at the hands of Florida State Prison (FSP) guards. The day of the killing Valdes' partner and fellow X-Wing prisoner William …
PLN Sues Washington DOC over Censorship of Nazi Guard Exposé by PLN Sues Washington DOC over Censorship of Nazi Guard Exposé On August 27, 1999, Prison Legal News filed suit in federal court in Spokane, Washington, seeking a court injunction to ensure the delivery of the May, 1999, issue of …
Media Interview Protected Free Speech by A federal district court in Pennsylvania held that the transfer of a prisoner for his participation in a pre-authorized media interview and his subsequent correspondence with the newspaper reporter violated the prisoner's constitutional rights. Prison officials were denied qualified immunity and the prisoner was …
Article • August 15, 1999 • from PLN August, 1999
PLN Sues Alabama DOC Over Gift Subscription Ban by 0n May 13, 1999, Prison Legal News (PLN) filed suit in the U. S. District Court for the middle district of Alabama against the Alabama Department of Corrections (DOC). The Alabama DOC has Administrative Regulation 303 which states: "Inmates may receive …
Article • August 15, 1999 • from PLN August, 1999
PLN Sues Utah Jail over "Bulk Mail" Ban by PLN Sues Utah Jail over "Bulk Mail" Ban 0n March 30, 1999, PLN sued the San Juan county jail in Utah over its ban on third class mail (AKA "bulk mail"). The jail has a policy under which it refuses to …
Article • August 15, 1999 • from PLN August, 1999
Iowa Ban on Tapes with Parental Warning Upheld by Paul Wright By Paul Wight The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit held that an Iowa prison's ban on cassette tapes with parental advisory notices due to "explicit lyrics" was permissible. Michael Herlein, a former Iowa state prisoner, filed suit …
Article • July 15, 1999 • from PLN July, 1999
Filed under: Editorials, Media, Censorship
From the Editor by Dan Pens Greetings and welcome to another issue of PLN . I'd like to bring to your attention a slight change in PLN 's mailing address. The U.S. Postal Services decided that mail addressed to "private mail boxes" (those handy mail centers that offer friendlier and …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
Public Access to Documents Resources by Paul Wright The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is a trade organization of journalists. The Committee publishes a number of very reasonably priced, authoritative and comprehensive publication that are invaluable to journalists, muckrakers, those seeking access to government information and those litigating …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
Filed under: Media, Access to Media
Pennsylvania Ban on Writing by Mumia Abu-Jamal Enjoined by The court of appeals for the Third circuit held that a district court erred when it refused to grant a Preliminary Injunction (PI) to PLN columnist Mumia Abu-Jamal to enjoin a Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) rule prohibiting him from writing. …
Article • April 15, 1999 • from PLN April, 1999
Filed under: Reviews, Media, Prisoner Media
Jailhouse Journalism: The Fourth Estate Behind Bars by James McGrath (Book Review) by Paul Wright Reviewed By Paul Wright Little has been written about the prison press. Jailhouse Journalism is a first step in chronicling the history of prison publications. The book is organized largely in chronological order combined with …
Article • April 15, 1999 • from PLN April, 1999
PLN Sues Michigan DOC over Censorship of The Celling of America by On February 8, 1999, PLN sued the Michigan Department of Corrections in U.S. District Court in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In April, 1998, prison officials at the Huron Valley Men's Facility censored a copy of PLN 's critically acclaimed …
Brief • March 30, 1999
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Article • March 15, 1999 • from PLN March, 1999
PLN Sues Utah Jail Over Publication Ban; Suit Settled by The Box Elder county jail in Brigham City, Utah, had a policy prohibiting its prisoners from receiving books and magazines from any sources outside the jail. Eric Piper, a Utah state prisoner and PLN subscriber, was transferred to the Jail …
Article • March 15, 1999 • from PLN March, 1999
AHCC Bulk Mail Ban in Miniken Settled by In the February, 1998, issue of PLN we reported Miniken v. Walter, 978 F. Supp. 1356 (ED WA 1997). In that ruling the court held that the Airway Heights Corrections Center's (AHCC) in Washington, ban on third class mail was unconstitutional as …
Article • January 15, 1999 • from PLN January, 1999
California Parolee Gag Order Lifted by The California Department of Corrections (CDC) admits it made a mistake when one of its agents tossed a parolee in jail for refusing to sign off on a parole condition banning him from talking to the media. Arthur Putney, 52, was jailed after parole …
Article • January 15, 1999 • from PLN January, 1999
PLN Sues Oregon DOC Over Bulk Mail Ban by On October 29, 1998, Prison Legal News ( PLN ) sued the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) in federal district court for damages and declaratory and injunctive relief. Since at least 1991 the Oregon DOC has had a policy requiring that …
Article • December 15, 1998 • from PLN December, 1998
No Right For Media to Witness Execution by In the November, 1997, issue of PLN we reported California First Amendment Coalition v. Calderon , 956 F. Supp. 883 (ND CA 1997), where a district court in California issued an injunction requiring that California execution witnesses be given an opportunity to …
Article • December 15, 1998 • from PLN December, 1998
Filed under: Reviews, Media, Prisoner Media
Prison Writing in 20th-Century America (Book Review) by Daniel Burton-Rose H. Bruce Franklin,Editor, Penguin, 1998 by Daniel Burton-Rose Closing a conversation about how hideous and abysmal prisons are these days, the great ex-con sociologist John Irwin remarked to me with a muted note of pleasure which I found somewhat unethical …
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