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Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
Venezuelan Prison Crisis Continues by Past issues of PLN have reported the massive crisis overwhelming the Venezuelan prison system. This has ranged from riots leaving hundreds of dead, mass escapes, protests and more. Human rights groups claim that Venezuela has the worst prisons in the hemisphere. On December 19, 1994, …
Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
Prisoners as NAFTA Export? by Worried about the cost of California's new Three Strikes And You're In Law--recently made a constitutional amendment by the success of Prop 184? Some say it will bankrupt California as we convert the State into a 21st Century Gulag. The voters pamphlet conservatively predicted that …
Death Penalty Sought for Kurdish Legislators by On August 3, 1994, the trial of eight Turkish Members of Parliament (MP) began in a special state security court in Ankara. Seven of the legislators are members of the now banned Democratic Party, one is an independent. They are charged with capital …
Purdy Medical Suit Settled by In the April, 1994, issue of PLN we reported Hallet v. Payne, No. 93-5496(T)D, the class action suit by women prisoners in federal court in Tacoma against prison officials at the Washington Corrections Center for Women, also known as Purdy. The suit alleged that medical …
Article • February 15, 1995 • from PLN February, 1995
Immigration Detainees Rebel by On November 14, 1994, 100 illegal aliens detained at the Federal Corrections Facility in Eloy, AZ, rebelled to protest bad food and onerous prison restrictions. A prison spokesperson said the detainees were "carrying baseball bats when they came into the cafeteria for supper." It took prison …
Article • January 15, 1995 • from PLN January, 1995
Algerian Prison Uprising by On November 13, 1994, 700 fundamentalist Muslim prisoners on death row, joined by 100 other prisoners, seized control of the Berrouaghia prison for several hours and tried to take guards hostage. The prison, located outside the capital of Algiers, holds several thousand prisoners. Many of the …
Article • January 15, 1995 • from PLN January, 1995
Conditions in Thai Prisons for US Prisoners by Reader Mail Right now there are 31 American women and approximately the same number of men incarcerated in Thailand prisons on drug charges. Justice and impartial legal representation are not part of the equation here. Trials take years; guilt is assumed upon …
Ban on Japanese Publications Struck Down by Yu Kikumura is a member of the Japanese Red Army held at the US Penitentiary in Marion, IL. A Japanese national, he can read, speak or write very little English and Japanese remains his primary language. On more than 20 occasions Marion prison …
Article • January 15, 1995 • from PLN January, 1995
Japan Uses Prison Slave Labor by While the use of prison slave labor by China has been widely criticized by the US, less well known is the fact that Japan also has a similar system. In July, 1994, congressman Gary Ackerman (NY Dem), head of the foreign affairs subcommittee on …
Article • January 15, 1995 • from PLN January, 1995
U.S. Prisoner in Thailand Needs Info by I was arrested in June of 199l and charged with possession of narcotics and intent to export. The drugs weighed slightly more than five kilos. I was given "legal counsel" - I think. I was told by a man who spoke very little …
Federal Crime Bill Passes by Paul Wright By Paul Wright In the October and November, 1993, issues of PLN, I wrote articles about the "anti-crime" proposals that had been submitted in the US Congress by democrats and republicans, respectively. I predicted then the most repressive aspects of both proposals would …
Article • December 15, 1994 • from PLN December, 1994
Ex-Prison Boss Assassinated in Turkey by Mehmet Topac was a former minister of justice from 1988-89 in Turkey as a member of the right wing Motherland Party. While he held that position, which controls the Turkish prison system, he instituted rules requiring leftist political prisoners to wear uniforms and limiting …
Article • December 15, 1994 • from PLN December, 1994
Kurdish Prisoners Resist by Kurdish political prisoners at the Diyarbakir maximum security prison in Turkey battled soldiers on October 4, 1994, in an attempt to block the torture and interrogation of another prisoner. Turkish soldiers fired shots into the air and tear gassed the prisoners, who responded by throwing broken …
Article • December 15, 1994 • from PLN December, 1994
Russian Jails in Crisis by For decades the United States government used its propaganda machine to rail about the former Soviet Union's prison system. That the American government is silent about the new Russian prison system is more an indication of the fact that Russia has formally restored capitalism and …
Article • November 15, 1994 • from PLN November, 1994
Crisis Continues in Salvadoran Prison System by As reported in the October, 1994, issue of PLN, the prison system of El Salvador remains locked in a crisis of overcrowding, spiraling violence and unrest. This trend continues. On September 13, 1994, prisoners at the Central Penitentiary in San Vicente, in the …
Article • November 15, 1994 • from PLN November, 1994
The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the 18th Century (Book Review) by Sandy Judd by Peter Linebaugh (Cambridge University Press, 1992) Review by Sandy Judd A title like The London Hanged might make a person think this is another book about death--an 18th century version of those true …
Peruvian Government to Stand Trial for Prison Massacres by On June 19, 1986, political prisoners of the Communist Party of Peru (PCP) held at three prisons revolted demanding government compliance with agreements previously reached governing the prisoners' conditions of confinement. The Peruvian government of then President Alan Garcia refused to …
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
PR Prisoners Rebel by On July 10, 1994, more than 8,000 prisoners in 16 prisons across the US occupied island of Puerto Rico went on strike to protest overcrowding and bad living conditions. Puerto Rico's 34 prisons hold almost 11,000 prisoners. For the first ten days of the strike prisoners …
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
El Salvador Prison System in Crisis by On August 4, 1994, 300 prisoners at the San Miguel prison in El Salvador took a judge and his secretary hostage to protest prison conditions. The hostages were freed a few hours later after judicial officials signed an agreement to study the prisoners' …
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
German Court Legalizes Soft Drugs by On April 28, 1994, the Federal Constitutional Court, Germany's highest court, ruled that possession of small quantities of hashish and marijuana should no longer be the subject of criminal penalties. The ruling came as the court affirmed the 1992 lower court ruling by Lubeck …
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