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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. …
Article • April 15, 1998 • from PLN April, 1998
Folsom New Year's Riot Over Haircut Policy by by W. Wisely Over 1,000 prisoners at California's medium security Folsom prison threw flaming toilet paper and sheets over the tiers, banged cell doors, and refused to eat on New Year's Day in protest over new grooming restrictions the Department of Corrections …
Conditions in Camden County Jail Unconstitutional by In 1992 and 1993 numerous' present and former CCJ prisoners filed civil rights complaints in federal court alleging an assortment of constitutional violations. Because the issues mirrored those involved in Camden County Jail Inmates v. Parker , 123 F.R.D. 490 (DNJ 1988), a …
Ohio Death Row Uprising by In the November '97 PLN , we reported "Tensions Rise in Ohio Prisons." Our coverage of the September 5, 1997 uprising on Ohio's death row at the Mansfield Correctional Institution (MANCI) was based entirely on published press reports, and as such was woefully inadequate. PLN …
Article • March 15, 1998 • from PLN March, 1998
Filed under: Organizing
Ohio Students Rally in DC by Students from Dayton Ohio's Colonel White High School were outraged when they read about Kemba Smith in Emerge magazine. Smith, a 24-year-old Virginia woman, was sentenced to 24 years in federal prison without the possibility of parole for refusing to cooperate with federal prosecutors …
Kafka in the Desert: Palestinian Detainees Struggle by Imagine, if you will, an isolated prison in the desert. Surrounding the one conventional prison building is a large compound, divided into barbed wire enclosures, each holding several dozen prisoners in tents. The compound is walled in, and guarded by military police. …
Article • March 15, 1998 • from PLN March, 1998
Struggle at Folsom by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely On August 11, 1997, almost 400 prisoners in California's New Folsom prison staged a one-day work strike to protest continuing elimination of privileges and programs. Six members of the Men's Advisory Committee were placed in administrative segregation, suspected of leading the …
Article • March 15, 1998 • from PLN March, 1998
Tales from the Washington IMU Crypt by M L Reader Mail In case you'd like to report on recent events at Shelton [in one of Washington state's three "IMU" Control Units] here are the basics. In the first week of September [1997] a female guard told guys on F-tier to …
Reaching the Breaking Point by M L A guy was mad over having his letter rejected because his girlfriend said something [in the letter] about sex. He was also tired of being lied to about getting out of IMU [Intensive Management Unit, Washington state's version of a 23/7 Control Unit]. …
Article • December 15, 1997 • from PLN December, 1997
Filed under: Organizing, Voting
Prisoner PAC Announces Formation by We are proud to announce the creation of the Massachusetts Prisoners Association, a newly registered Political Action Committee working on behalf of the more than 20,000 prisoners currently confined within the Massachusetts Prisons and Houses of Correction and their family members, addressing the concerns of …
Article • December 15, 1997 • from PLN December, 1997
Massachusetts Prisoner PAC Assailed by Governor, DOC by Dan Pens In mid-August, Acting Massachusetts Governor Paul Cellucci personally directed prison guards to conduct a shakedown of several state prisons. And what contraband were the guards instructed to root out? Weapons? Drugs? No, something much more sinister and threatening to public …
Uprisings in New York State Prisons by Julia Lutsky By Julia Lutsky Brutality by guards lay behind a major uprising at the Mohawk Correctional Facility in upstate New York in July 1997. Josea Benefield, a 22 year-old African-American prisoner in solitary confinement was reported to have hung himself with a …
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