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New Mexico Blood Money by For two days in February, 1980, New Mexico prisoners seized control of the state penitentiary in Santa Fe. When it was over, 33 prisoners were dead, hundreds more were hurt, the gym was burned to a shell and the cell blocks, offices and other areas …
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
TX Death Row Protest by On June 28, 1995, two wings of Texas death row prisoners demonstrated for an hour against a scheduled execution. The prisoners shouted, set fires and banged on the bars. The execution was stayed by a court order. One hundred prisoners have been executed in Texas …
10,000 Kurdish POWs on Hungerstrike by Since 1984 the Kurdish people in Turkey led by the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) have been engaged in a war for an independent socialist homeland. The Turkish government has responded with a brutal military and political campaign of terror and genocide, similar to that …
Article • October 15, 1995 • from PLN October, 1995
AZ Chain Gangs Protested by When Arizona became the second state to reinstate the use of prison chain gangs, Donna Hamm wasn't going to allow it to happen without her voice of protest being heard. On June 12, 1995, Ms. Hamm, a long time prisoner rights activist, PLN supporter, former …
Article • October 15, 1995 • from PLN October, 1995
Strangeways 1990: A Serious Disturbance by Reviewed by Bowden, John Review by John Bowden >On 1 April 1990, the British prison system was shaken to its very foundations by an uprising of prisoners at Strangeways in Manchester; an uprising so prolonged and visible that it acted as a catalyst for …
Article • September 15, 1995 • from PLN September, 1995
Filed under: Organizing
Ohio Prison Activist Conference by On April 29th and 30th, 1995, prison activists from around the state attended the Ohio Prison Activist Conference. The theme was "Struggling on the Outside for Those Struggling on the Inside." This conference was organized by Oberlin Action Against Prisons (OAAP) working in conjunction with …
Article • September 15, 1995 • from PLN September, 1995
CA Prisoners Assault Prison Office by Dan Pens On May 5, 1995, at 9:45 am, five prisoners at the Calipatria maximum security prison walked into an "A Facility" program office and stabbed a sergeant. Three other guards rushed to her aid and they too were stabbed in a brawl that …
Article • September 15, 1995 • from PLN September, 1995
INS Detainees Trash Private Prison by On June 18, 1995, some 300 im migrants being held at the privately-run Esmor Immigration Detention Center in Elizabeth, New Jersey, chased out the guards, trashed the facility and held off federal, state and local law enforcement agents for nearly six hours. Police finally …
Article • August 15, 1995 • from PLN August, 1995
From Senegal in Struggle by Demba Diop The West-African state of Senegal was created by it's former French colonial rulers, who upon granting "Independance" to the country, set up a puppet government subservient to both its former French masters and the multinational corporations, who perpetuate the looting of Senegal's raw …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
Filed under: Organizing
Raze the Walls Burned by Raze the Walls (RTW) is a Seattle based anti-prison collective that has supported prison activists (including PLN), published a prisoner resource directory among other activities. On May 12, 1995, they suffered a big setback when the squatted house they occupied burned to the ground. Not …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
Filed under: Organizing, Hunger Strikes
FL Prisoner Has Right to Die by In 1972 Florida prisoner Michael Costello filed a lawsuit that eventually turned into a class action suit that resulted in improving living conditions, court access and medical care for state prisoners. Governor Lawton Chiles estimated that the costs to the state for litigating …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
Books Available: The Penitentiary in Crisis: From Accomodation to Riot in NM by Mark Calvin The author is a former New Mexico assistant attorney general who was involved in investigating the causes and effects of the Santa Fe prison riot in 1980. The book takes a fairly objective analysis of …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
SC Prisoners Protest Haircut Policy by In February, 1995, Michael Moore, a prison administrator from Texas, was appointed head of the South Carolina DOC. He promptly implemented the Aget tough on prisoners policies of recently elected Republican governor David Beasley. To date this has included cutting back on work release …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
Filed under: Reviews, Organizing
The Rise and Fall of California's Radical Prison Movement (Book Review) by Mark Cummins This is a history of the California prison movement from 1950 to 1980, focusing on San Quentin state prison and highlighting the role that prison reading and writing played in the creation of radical prisoner ideology …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
Book Review: Prison Violence in America by M Braswell by M. Braswell, R. Montgomery and L. Lombardy. The book opens with a letter from George Jackson, excerpted from Soledad Brothers. What follows is a rather detailed and scholarly examination of numerous aspects of prison violence. Included are chapters on the …
Article • June 15, 1995 • from PLN June, 1995
Trailer Visits Curtailed at CBCC by Reader Mail Editor's Note; In the March, 95 issue of PLN we wrote about the Clallam Bay, WA (CBCC) prisoner who stabbed his wife during a trailer visit We got this update from a CBCC reader. Now that the trailers have been reinstated with …
WA Prisoners Protest HB 2010 by The May, 1995, issue of PLN detailed the March 20, 1995, protest by prisoner's family members and prisoner rights supporters in front of the King County jail in Seattle. It also mentioned that women prisoners at Purdy had staged a one day strike in …
Article • June 15, 1995 • from PLN June, 1995
Attention Prisoners Convicted of Drug Offenses! by The PLN has often stated that in terms of political power prisoners don't have a voice that anyone in power has to listen to. A PLN reader in USP Lewisburg disagrees and submitted the following. Inform everyone you know (your spouse, children, family …
Winds of Unrest Blowing Over Arizona by Rainman In the August 1994 issue of PLN it was reported that many oppressive policies were being instituted in the Arizona prison system ("Oppression on the Rise in Arizona"). These changes, for the most part, are nothing more than a return to the …
Publication • 1995
Filed under: Prison Reform
Prison Reform Enhancing the Effectiveness of Incarceration, Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, 1995 s. HR.a. 1~73 PRISON REFORM: ENHANCING THE EFECTIVENFSS OF INCARCERATION HEARING BEFORE THE COlvIMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY UNITED STATES SENATE ONE HlJNDRED FOURTH CONGRESS I FIRST SESSION ON s. 3 s. 38 TO CO!'.'TROL CRIME, …
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