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S.Ct. to Hear Quayle Retaliation Claim by On January 20, 1995, the US Supreme Court announced that it had granted certiori to hear a prison retaliation case and it may have an interesting effect on the 1996 presidential campaign if Dan Quayle, George Bush's former vice president, changes his mind …
Article • November 15, 1994 • from PLN November, 1994
Filed under: Media, Access to Media
Committing Journalism - The Prison Writings of Red Hog (Book Review) by Bill Jeffcott By Dannie M. Martin & Peter Y. Sussman Review by Bill Jeffcott "I committed bank robbery and they put me in prison, and that was right. Then I committed journalism and they put me in the …
Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994
Help Get Mumia Abu-Jamal Back on the Air! by Noelle Hanrahan By Noelle Hanrahan Sunday May 15th, 1994: The New York Times ran an AP article "From Death Row: A Radio Show" highlighting the next day's premier of Mumia Abu-Jamal's radio commentaries on All Things Considered (ATC). Most major dailies …
PLN Suit Filed Against ISRB by Paul Wright By Paul Wright Readers may recall that former PLN coeditor Ed Mead was released from prison in October, 1993, after serving nearly 18 years in prison. The day after he was released he was required to sign a standard conditions of release …
Article • February 15, 1994 • from PLN February, 1994
No Right to TV Interviews by Walter Johnson is a Kansas state prisoner. The television news program Hard Copy sought to conduct a face-to-face interview with Johnson. Johnson had communicated with the program by phone and mail. After initially being denied access to the prison, Hard Copy reiterated its request …
Article • February 15, 1994 • from PLN February, 1994
More Censorship and Repression in Indiana by On November 7, 1993, guards at the Maximum Control Complex (MCC) in Westville, Indiana, searched the cell of Shaka Shakur seeking to confiscate all copies of Human Rights Held Hostage , a civil/human rights publication. Not finding any copies they searched the other …
Court Upholds Silencing of Dan Quayle's Drug Supplier by Brett Kimberlin is a federal prisoner serving a 51 year sentence on drug and weapons charges. He briefly gained a bit of notoriety during the 1988 presidential campaign when he claimed that he had supplied drugs to George Bush's vice-presidential running …
Article • December 15, 1993 • from PLN December, 1993
No Right to Unmonitored Mail to Media, Clergy by Astate prison regulation that requires inspection of outgoing mail directed to members of the media and the clergy does not violate inmates' first amendment rights, a majority of the U.S. court of appeals for the eighth circuit recently held. The majority …
Article • October 15, 1993 • from PLN October, 1993
Bar on Access to Court Records Struck Down by The Massachusetts legislature passed the Criminal Offender Record Information System (CORI) which changed the conditions by which the public gained access to court records in the state criminal justice system. The state courts used this law to prohibit unrestricted access to …
Article • June 15, 1993 • from PLN June, 1993
Filed under: Editorials, Media, Censorship
From The Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor Welcome to another issue of PLN. As you will have noticed, PLN has a new look. We are trying out this new, expanded format because we had pretty much exhausted the newsletter format and had a backlog of material. This new …
Article • May 15, 1993 • from PLN May, 1993
Prison Rule Banning Media Mail/Visits Held Unconstitutional by Sabil Mujahid is a Hawaii state prisoner. He filed suit under § 1983 claiming that Hawaii prison regulations which prohibit prisoners from visiting or corresponding with members of the media, unless they knew each other on a personal basis prior to incarceration, …
Article • February 15, 1993 • from PLN February, 1993
Prison Journalist Punished by Adrian Lomax Letters from Readers [One of the objectives of the PLN is to become a forum through which readers can express opinions on what they've read, or to point out issues we should be addressing. Paul and I feel it is important for there to …
Article • January 15, 1993 • from PLN January, 1993
Free Speech for Whom? by Mumia Abu-Jamal [EDITOR'S NOTE: In the Dec., 1992 issue of PLN we reported that supporters of Mumia Abu Jamal, the former Black Panther on death row in Pennsylvania accused of killing a cop, had shouted down Penn. Governor Casey at a forum in New York …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Looking Back, Learning Lessons, PLN's Early Days by Ed Mead By Ed Mead When the PLN first started out we experienced a lot of banning at various prisons, both in Washington State and elsewhere. One such event took place when the second issue of the paper was banned from both …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Filed under: Gay/Lesbian, Media
Gay/Lesbian Prisoner Anthology Seeks Submissions by Cold Iron , an anthology of writing and art by and about lesbian, gay and queer prisoners, is seeking submissions. Any work that reflects the experiences and concerns of lesbian, gay and queer prisoners, their lovers, families or friends will be considered. "I am …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Filed under: Editorials, Media, Censorship
From The Editor by Paul Wright By Paul Wright Welcome to another issue of the PLN. We encourage our readers to submit articles and information about happenings in their areas so we can publish them in the paper. However, what some folks have done recently is send us bundles of …
Article • May 15, 1992 • from PLN May, 1992
Guards Can't Be Prevented From Making Positive Recommendations To Parole Board by A policy prohibiting correctional employees from making recommendations directly to the parole board could be challenged by inmate asserting correctional employee's first amendment rights; such communications were not "purely personal," the court held, but rather involved matters of …
Article • April 15, 1992 • from PLN April, 1992
Son of Sam Law Struck Down by New York's "Son of Sam" law provided that those accused or convicted of a crime could not profit from such a crime by writing a book describing the offense. If such a book was written, the proceeds of same were to be given …
Prison Guards May Not Be Fired for Testifying on Prisoner's behalf by Prison Guards May Not Be Fired For Testifying On Prisoner's Behalf Salvatore Ziccarelli was employed as a guard at the Cook County (Chicago) jail in Illinois. While there he became acquainted with a prisoner facing the death penalty. …
Article • August 15, 1991 • from PLN August, 1991
PLN Banned in France by Paul Wright PLN Banned In France By Paul Wright PLN reader Jean Marc Rouillain, a political prisoner in France, has written and informed us that the April, 1991, issue of PLN (which just happened to have his article about the worsening prison conditions in France …
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