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Wisconsin Transfers Spark Protest by On Sunday June 28, 1998, prisoners at the Fox Lake Correctional Institution staged a protest against the scheduled transfer of 160 Wisconsin prisoners to a private prison in Oklahoma. According to eye-witnesses, about 155 prisoners refused orders to return to their cells from a recreation …
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 • September 15, 1998 • from PLN September, 1998
Filed under: Organizing
Critical Resistance Conference by Critical Resistance: Beyond the Prison-Industrial Complex is a national conference and strategy session that will occur at the University of California in Berkeley, September 25-27. There is still time for outside activists to register to attend the conference. If you are among the 1.8 million who …
Article • September 15, 1998 • from PLN September, 1998
Washington Felon Voting Suit Proceeds by In the October, 1997, issue of PLN we reported Farrakhan v. Locke , a lawsuit challenging the felon disenfranchisement provisions of the Washington state constitution which prohibit convicted felons from voting. The defendants filed a motion to dismiss under Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6), arguing the suit …
Article • September 15, 1998 • from PLN September, 1998
Filed under: Reviews, Organizing
The Razor Wire by Paul Wright The Razor Wire is a 24 page bi-monthly tabloid published by the November Coalition. Its focus is on federal drug policy issues, specifically mandatory minimums and sentencing issues. A grassroots movement, the November Coalition encompasses prisoners, their families, as well as academics and other …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
Mock Prison Riot Staged by On April 25 and 26, 1998, there was a weekend-long riot at the old West Virginia State Penitentiary. This wasn't your typical prison riot, though. First of all, it was anything but spontaneous. Rather, the two-day event was meticulously planned, and carried out by prison …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
Notes from the Unrepenitentiary by Laura Whitehorn On June 1, Rosalind Simpson Moore-Bey died at home in Washington, D.C. To anyone who has passed through the D.C. Jail or CTF (Central Treatment Facility), Roz's name is not only familiar it is well-known. Her name is known, as well, to many …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
NJ Prisoners Refuse to Swallow PINs by Approximately two years ago, the entire NJ prison system switched to an "automated call" phone system. Despite a predicted hike in costs to family and friends of prisoners, very few prisoners objected in a short-lasting boycott. On September 15, 1997, the prison population …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
Jericho '98 March and Rally by Between 5,000 and 7,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C. on March 27, 1998 to protest the Big Lie: The U.S. has no political prisoners. And like Joshua at the legendary battle of Jericho, the marchers circled the citadel of their foes -- the White …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
Jericho: Thoughts From Political Prisoners in Leavenworth by Jaan Laaman JERICHO 98 -- as many people already know and we hope many more soon will know, is the nationwide March 27th rally in Washington DC, calling for the recognition and release of all political prisoners in America. Here are some …
Article • July 15, 1998 • from PLN July, 1998
Filed under: Reviews, Organizing
DARK NIGHT Field Notes by Dan Pens DARK NIGHT field notes DARK NIGHT field notes is a most excellent quarterly magazine chronicling progressive struggle. Why I had never been exposed to this zine before, I don't know. Issue #11 (its focus on prison struggle) found its way to my desk, …
Behind Closed Doors: Struggle in Washington IMU's by Jennifer Vogel In the "Intensive Management Unit" at the state prison in Shelton, WA a man who looks to be in his 50s is wearing an orange plastic rain jacket and pacing the parameter of the "yard." The yard is really just …
Article • July 15, 1998 • from PLN July, 1998
Filed under: Organizing, Censorship
Wisconsin Joins the Control-Unit Fraternity by Wisconsin Joins The Control-Unit Fraternity On the morning of December 17, 1997, as thirty protesters gathered in a parking lot in Boscobel, a small farm town isolated in the rural southwest corner of Wisconsin, police squad cars wheeled into the lot. Sheriff's deputies informed …
Article • June 15, 1998 • from PLN June, 1998
Descent Into Madness: An Inmate's Experience in the New Mexico State Prison Riot by Daniel Burton-Rose by Mike Rolland, 1997 If the 1971 rebellion at Attica typified the internal cohesion, strength, and political awareness of the U.S. prison movement in the late 60s and early 70s, the 1980 riot at …
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 …
Article • June 15, 1998 • from PLN June, 1998
Filed under: Resources, Organizing
Attention Veteran Prisoner Activists by Celling of America co-editor Daniel Burton-Rose is working on a book about prisoner activism in the 1960s and 70s. Daniel is seeking contacts with veterans from that period. Rememberances of involvement in work stoppages, anti-racist organizing, prisoner unions, etc. are especially welcome. Send letters to: …
Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998
Notes from the Unrepenitentiary by Laura Whitehorn Notes From The Unrepenitentiary By Laura Whitehorn The Jericho '98 rally in Washington, D.C. on March 27th was, I hope, a step in the direction of freeing all u.s.-held political prisoners and Prisoners of War. Vigorous action of all kinds both domestic and …
Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998
Filed under: Prison Labor, Organizing
Texas Prison Labor Union by The Texas Prison Labor Union (TPLU) was established in 1995 by Texas prisoners and outside supporters. The state had just completed a $1.5 billion prison expansion program, and it now incarcerates close to 150,000 prisoners in a vast network of more than 100 prisons. One-hundred …
Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998
Filed under: Organizing, Work Strikes, Parole
Work Strike Suppressed and Sabotaged in Ohio by Daniel Burton-Rose The October 16th, 1997, issue of the Cleveland black community newspaper The Call and Post printed a letter announcing a statewide work strike by Ohio prisoners on November 1st. The letter was signed by Prisoners United For Equal Justice. The …
Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998
Filed under: Organizing
CURE-Ohio and the Aftermath by [Editor's Note: The following information reaches PLN by mail from an Ohio reader whose name and initials we are withholding at our discretion.] The situation with CURE-Ohio is getting worse! CURE has formed a "coalition" of outside support groups, and is dictating policy to them. …
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