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Article • November 15, 1999 • from PLN November, 1999
Filed under: Organizing, Hunger Strikes
California Visits Reinstated after Food Boycott (Letter) by D.R. D.R., Vacaville, CA. On December 17, 1998, an attempted homicide occurred in building 7 of Facility II of the Solano State Prison in Vacaville, California. The incident involved two white prisoners who were celled together. All white prisoners were immediately placed …
Article • September 15, 1999 • from PLN September, 1999
The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground, by Ron Jacobs (Review) by Paul Wright Verso. 216 pages. $17 Reviewed by Paul Wright The United States is unique among modern nations in that its government has never experienced a serious revolutionary challenge. Opposition movements in the U.S. …
New Mexico Riot Rooted in Religious Rights by On April 6, 1999, up to 400 prisoners at the Wackenhut-oper- ated Lea County Correctional Facility in Hobbs, New Mexico, rioted and ransacked the prison's kitchen and dining areas. Thirteen guards, including two state employees, and one prisoner were injured in the …
Article • August 15, 1999 • from PLN August, 1999
Filed under: Organizing
Prison-Industrial Complex Conferences Are Spreading the Word by Hans Sherrer Awareness of the devastatingly negative impact of the politically driven criminal justice system on American society continues to grow. On the week-end of April 10th, there were two conferences in the U. S. dedicated to exposing its normally hidden aspects …
Wisconsin Prisoners Stage Food Protest by On January 18 and 19, 1999, Wisconsin prisoners housed at a private prison in Sayre, Oklahoma, refused to show up at the prison's chow hall for meals. John Wisener, chief of security at the North Fork Correctional Center, said that only 75-80 of the …
Article • July 15, 1999 • from PLN July, 1999
Florida Prison Erupts by On March 17, 1998, shortly after Hendry Correctional Institution (HCI) began feeding the prisoners supper, a melee broke out on the yard in front of the chowhall. Within moments, several guards, including the shift supervisor, were lying unconscious in the dirt. The seeds of discord were …
Washington Prisoners Damage Colorado Private Prison by Amajor prisoner uprising rolled through a for-profit prison at Olney Springs, Colorado, for six hours, causing extensive damage. State prison SWAT teams were called in from as far as 200 miles away to regain control of the prison. The incident took place Friday, …
Washington Prisoners Brutalized in Colorado Private Prison by Waldo Waldron-Ramsey [Editor's Note: The corporate media in Colorado and Washington alike reported on the uprising by Washington prisoners at the Olney Springs prison. They uniformly parroted the line by prison officials that the prisoners had revolted because they were unhappy at …
The Lucasville Trials by Staughton Lynd [Editors' note: The identity of persons who provided information to the author confidentially has been withheld. ] On April 21, 1993, 407 prisoners who for eleven days had occupied the L cell block at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF) in Lucasville, Ohio, surrendered …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
5th Circuit Upholds Mississippi Disenfranchisement Law by The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed a district court's denial of a Mississippi state prisoner's claim that he is improperly being denied the right to vote. The Mississippi Constitution denies the right to vote to any person "convicted of murder, …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
Filed under: Organizing, Voting
New Hampshire Prisoners Gain the Vote by ANew Hampshire Superior Court ruled that state laws prohibiting all incarcerated felons from voting violate the state constitution. On September 4, 1998, state prisoner David J. Fischer sent a letter to the Rochester City Clerk to request "that you register me to vote …
Article • April 15, 1999 • from PLN April, 1999
Losing the Vote: The Impact of Felony Disenfranchisement Laws in the United States (Book Review) by Alex Friedmann Review by Alex Friedmann "The expansion of suffrage toall sectors of the population is one of the United States' most important political triumphs .... Today, all mentally competent adults have the right …
Trouble in Mind: ADX – The Fourth Year by Ray Luc Levasseur for Skip Martin "I will hold the candle, til it burns down my arm, I'll keep taking punches until their will grows tired, I will watch the sundown until my eyes go blind, oh I will make my …
Article • March 15, 1999 • from PLN March, 1999
Former 'Guinea Pigs' Protest by Fifty former Pennsylvania state prisoners protested outside the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania on a cold December morning in 1998 to draw attention to the pain and suffering they say resulted from medical experiments performed on them in Holmesburg prison "We are the experimentation …
Wisconsin Resists Out-of-State Transfers by In October, 1996, Wisconsin's legislature granted the Department of Corrections (WDOC) authorization to house 700 prisoners in Texas County Jails. WDOC Secretary Michael Sullivan overcame the opposition to that first prisoner-export proposal by assuring the public that the crossborder option was merely a stop-gap measure …
Article • March 15, 1999 • from PLN March, 1999
Work-Release Prisoners Eligible to Vote on Union Representation by Apanel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), upon reconsideration of its original determination, has held that four work-release employees share a sufficient "community of interest" with the regular "free-world" unit employees, so they are eligible to vote in union representation …
Article • February 15, 1999 • from PLN February, 1999
Campaign to End Slavery in American Prisons by Campaign to End Slavery In American Prisons The purposes of the Campaign to End Slavery in American Prisons (CTES) are To identify a socially responsible prison labor standard. To assess working conditions in various prisons and identify those that meet or exceed …
Article • February 15, 1999 • from PLN February, 1999
Book Review: Breaking the Walls of Silence by Laura Whitehorn Book review by Laura Whitehorn Breaking The Walls Of Silence: AIDS and Women in a New Youk State Maximum Security Prison was written by the members of the ACE Program (AIDS Counseling and Education) of Bedford Hills Women's Prison. It …
Article • February 15, 1999 • from PLN February, 1999
Notes from the Unrepenitentiary by Laura Whitehorn If all goes well, and my 6-month halfway house is approved, this will be my last column as a prisoner contributor to PLN . This column will be written in the future by my co-defendants and comrades, Marilyn Buck and Linda Evans, both …
Juvenile Crime Still Pays -- But at What Cost? by Alex Friedmann Juvenile Crime Still Pays – But at What Cost? by Alex Friedmann [Last February, PLN published a cover article, "Juvenile Crime Pays," concerning the proliferation of for-profit juvenile justice services. This month we revisit the topic following recent …
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