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PLN Writer Exiled by CCA by PLN Writer Exiled by CCA Alex Friedmann is a prisoner and a journalist. Until recently he also warmed a for-profit bunk at the Corrections Corporation of America's (CCA) South Central Correctional Facility in Clifton, Tennessee. That is, until his corporate warders decided that Alex …
Article • February 15, 1998 • from PLN February, 1998
Rhode Island Ban on Royalties to Felon Authors Struck Down by The supreme court of Rhode Island held that the state's Criminal Royalties Distribution Act (CRDA) of 1983, Title 12, chapter 25.1 of the general laws of Rhode Island, is unconstitutional. The CRDA requires that any funds felons receive from …
Bureau of Prisons Gag Rule Enacted by Effective June 20, 1997, the Department of Justice and its Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) enacted changes to 28 CFR (chapter V, subchapter A, Part 501) governing general management and administration of BOP prisons. The new rules allow the federal government to target …
Washington "Bulk Mail" Ban of PLN Struck Down by Since PLN began publishing in 1990 it has experienced sporadic attempts at censorship by the Washington DOC. This has ranged from a statewide ban of the first three issues to harassment of the editors. Unable to articulate a threat to "legitimate …
Article • November 15, 1997 • from PLN November, 1997
Media Allowed Access to CA Executions by A federal district court in California held that media witnesses who attend state executions must be allowed to witness the entire proceeding. When California began lethal injection executions in 1996, it did not allow witnesses to enter the observation room adjoining the execution …
Article • October 15, 1997 • from PLN October, 1997
Clemency Letter Ban Questioned by The court of appeals for the seventh circuit held that an Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) policy prohibiting employees from writing directly to the Prisoner Review Board (PRB) on behalf of prisoners seeking clemency may be unconstitutional. Larry Shimer filed a petition for clemency and …
Brief • September 22, 1997
Macfarlane v. Walter, WA, Court Order, PLN Ban, 1997 1 2 FILED IN ME U.S.DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 3 SEP 2 2 1997 4 JAMES A LAFIIIGN CaFt4 5 YAKI1AA 6 UNITED STATS DISTRICT COURT 7 EASTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 8 9 DONALD D. MacFARLANE Plaintiff, 10 11 …
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 …
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