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Brief • September 22, 1997
Macfarlane v. Walter, WA, Order, Report and Recommendations, PLN Ban, 1997 4t.' . .........-' " 1 Flt.ED IN THE us. DISTRICT COUAT 2 EASTERN OISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 3 SE? 2 2 1997 4 JAMES A wa'N 5 YAKIM" c.. ~~ 6 Ul~T~ED 7 DONALD D. MacFARLANE Plaintiff, 10 11 12 …
Brief • August 7, 1997
Humanists of Washington v. Lehman, WA, Complaint, DOC Mail Censorship, 1997 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA HUMANISTS OF WASHINGTON; THE NATIONAL …
Article • July 15, 1997 • from PLN July, 1997
Not All Things Considered by Award-winning poet Martin Espada was commissioned by National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" to compose a poem as part of the radio network's April observance of National Poetry Month. NPR suggested a poem focusing on a news story from one of the cities Espada was …
Article • June 15, 1997 • from PLN June, 1997
Filed under: Editorials, Media, Censorship
From the Editor by Paul Wright The Bad News: In April of this year longtime PLN supporter Jerry Dreva died in his sleep from a heart attack. An artist and revolutionary, Jerry could always be counted on to help. Last year he made possible our 28 page issue commemorating the …
Article • May 15, 1997 • from PLN May, 1997
Virginia Warden Stabbed by Dan Pens In the December 1996 issue of PLN we reported, "Botched Escape Sparks Rebellion," about an attempted escape and prison uprising at the Nottoway Correctional Center in Virginia. Cited in that article was the high level of tension in the Virginia prison system due, in …
Article • April 15, 1997 • from PLN April, 1997
From the Editor by Paul Wright Longtime PLN readers may recall that in early 1994 Ed Mead, PLN's former co-editor, and I filed suit against the Washington State Indeterminate Sentence Review Board (ISRB, aka the parole board). The suit challenged the "no association" parole condition they had placed on Ed …
Article • March 15, 1997 • from PLN March, 1997
Filed under: Media
PNS Suspends US Publication by It is with deep regret that Prison News Service (PNS) is announcing that we are pulling back from the American side of our work. The paper will continue as is, but with a primarily Canadian focus. We will also be cutting the number of copies …
Article • March 15, 1997 • from PLN March, 1997
Media TRO Denied by A federal district court in Missouri held that a television station and prisoners had virtually no likelihood of success in challenging a prison system's ban on video taped interviews. A Missouri TV station began filming interviews with prisoners throughout MO prisons. After initially granting the interview …
Article • March 15, 1997 • from PLN March, 1997
California Bans Media Interviews with Prisoners by Willie Wisely California Governor Pete Wilson issued an executive order banning face to face media interviews with prisoners. The ban comes at a time when most civil rights for the state's 142,000 prisoners have been taken and violence is on the rise in …
Article • December 15, 1996 • from PLN December, 1996
Habeas Required for Disciplinary Hearing Challenges by The court of appeals for the eighth circuit held that prisoners challenging the results of prison disciplinary hearings that result in the loss of good time cannot challenge the hearing result via 42 U.S.C. § 1983, but instead they must present their claim …
Brief • December 11, 1996
Crofton v. Ocanaz, WA, Order re: Cross MSJ, Publication Censorship, 1996 r II 1 ....: ~ 2 .... ' --_ .._---- ---- 3 _. 4 5 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 EASTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 8 CLAYTON CROFTON, 9 Plaintiff, 10 11 v. ) ) ) ) ) ) …
Zimmer Amendment Passed by When president Bill Clinton signed the budget for the Department of Justice it included a rider inserted by Congressman Dick Zimmer (R-NJ). In its entirety it states: "None of the funds made available in this Act shall be used to provide the following amenities or personal …
Article • June 15, 1996 • from PLN June, 1996
Indian Journalist/Ex-Prisoner Denied Travel by M.N. Ravunni is the secretary of the Central Propaganda Committee of the Communist Party of Kerala in India. He is also the chief editor of the magazine Munnanipo-rali. In July, 1995, Mr. Ravunni applied for a passport to visit other countries, including the U.S. and …
Article • May 15, 1996 • from PLN May, 1996
Prison Rape Opponents Sue to Protect Award-Winning Web Site from Internet Censors by Stop Prisoner Rape, Inc., a nationally organized group dedicated to fighting against the rape of incarcerated persons of all genders and ages, joined the American Civil Liberties Union and 19 other plaintiffs today (Feb. 7, 1996) in …
Retaliation Claims Survive Sandin, but PI Reversed by The court of appeals for the ninth circuit has held that prisoner retaliation claims have survived the supreme court ruling in Sandin but that prisoners bear a heavy burden when seeking a preliminary injunction (PI) on a retaliation claim. In the December, …
Article • January 15, 1996 • from PLN January, 1996
Filed under: Political Prisoners, Media
NBC Slanders Freedom Fighter by Jaan Laaman On Oct. 1, NBC's Sunday Night Movie was titled, 'In The Line Of Duty: The Hunt For Justice." It was billed as the "true story" of the decade long government hunt for a group of anti-imperialist political fugitives who, when finally captured in …
Article • January 15, 1996 • from PLN January, 1996
From the Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to another issue of PLN . Readers who have been with us for awhile may recall that Ed Mead and I have a suit pending against the Washington State Indeterminate Sentence Review Board (ISRB), AKA the parole board. Ed was the co-editor of …
Outgoing Mail Censorship Illegal by A district court has reaffirmed the long-standing principle that the censorship of outgoing prisoner mail rarely implicates prison security interests. Donald Gee, a Wyoming state prisoner, wrote a letter to his brother about his conditions of confinement, that he was being retaliated against by prison …
Article • August 15, 1995 • from PLN August, 1995
From The Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor By Paul Wright Welcome to another issue of PLN. Readers may recall that in the July, 1994, issue we ran an article concerning the suit filed by Ed Mead (PLN's former co-editor) and myself against the Washington state parole board. After …
Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
Filed under: Media, Access to Media
Silencing the Oppressed: No Freedom of Speech for Those Behind the Walls by Ronald Kuby by Ronald Kuby and William Kunstler Introduction On any given day in America, more than a million and a half people[1], in prisons and jails[2] spend their days subjected to the most rigorous censorship, denied …
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