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Article • January 15, 1999 • from PLN January, 1999
Arizona Jail Slave Labor Used to Stuff Ballot Envelopes by Prisoners at the Maricopa County Jail (home of "America's Meanest Sheriff") were used to stuff 400,000 envelopes with ballots for early voting in the 1998 elections. Maricopa County Elections Director Karen Osborne said that jail inmates received community service credit …
New Mexico CCA Disturbance Not Reported for Hours by The warden of a private prison in New Mexico said that prison staff may have delayed notifying state police about a disturbance that sent five guards to a hospital August 7, 1998. "It may be my fault we didn't respond quickly …
Article • December 15, 1998 • from PLN December, 1998
Filed under: Organizing
Critical Resistance: A Step Forward by Micah Holmquist Critical Resistance: A Step Forward in the Struggle Against Prisons by Micah Holmquist In the mid 1960s the Berkeley campus of the University of California was home to Free Speech Movement which set the stage for many of the social movements that …
Article • December 15, 1998 • from PLN December, 1998
SWAT Team Ends Juvenile Center Standoff by SWAT teams were called in to saw through a 3- to 4-inch thick steel door to reach four teens who had barricaded themselves in an office after allegedly leading an uprising at a juvenile detention center. The power saw cut through the door …
Rehabilitation or Corporate Profit by Peaceful efforts, by Alaskan prisoners, on August 30, 1998, to address grievances and concerns repeatedly ignored at the Central Arizona Detention Center, in Florence, Arizona, were mercilessly squashed following a sit down demonstration in the prison exercise yard. What was initially a peaceful, sit-down demonstration …
Article • December 15, 1998 • from PLN December, 1998
Filed under: Organizing
Bay Area Students Protest Prison Spending by About 2,500 high school students from throughout the San Francisco Bay Area left class on Thursday, October 1, 1998 to attend a rally. They converged on a Bayfair train station in San Leandro. From there, protesters marched to an Alameda County Sheriff's Department …
Article • December 15, 1998 • from PLN December, 1998
Filed under: Organizing
Notes From Other Conference Participants by Notes from Other Conference Participants The conference was many things to many people. Perhaps, its biggest fault was that it tried to be all things to all people. The opening plenary, attended by more than 800 participants, had some inspiring moments. Unfortunately, it trailed …
MT Prisoners Win Damages and Fees in Riot Suit by On April 2, 1998, a federal jury in Montana ruled that state prison officials had violated the Eighth amendment rights of 13 prisoners. In September, 1991, a riot occurred at the Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge. Five prisoners in …
Article • November 15, 1998 • from PLN November, 1998
Filed under: Organizing, Work Strikes
With Advocates Lke These: Capitulation, Collaboration and CURE-Ohio by Paul Wright In the May, 1998, issue of PLN we reported on the November 1, 1997, statewide work strike in Ohio. The purpose of this article isn't to rehash last year's events but to examine basic questions of advocacy versus activism, …
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, …
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