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Article • July 15, 2012 • from PLN July, 2012
From the Editor by Paul Wright The Prison Phone Justice Campaign is gaining momentum nationally. As announced in last month’s issue, a number of organizations, including the Human Rights Defense Center (the parent organization of Prison Legal News) have launched a campaign to end the practice of price gouging prisoners …
Article • June 15, 2012 • from PLN June, 2012
From the Editor by Paul Wright For the past 22 years, PLN has been at the forefront of reporting on the gouging of prisoners’ families by prisons, jails and the telecommunications industry as prisoncrats and corporations profit by charging families exorbitant phone rates for the ability to communicate with their …
Article • May 15, 2012 • from PLN May, 2012
From the Editor by Paul Wright This month celebrates PLN’s 22nd year of publication. One constant in our news coverage for the duration of our existence has been the exploitation of prison slave labor. Some things change, others do not. Until fairly recently most farm work in the U.S. was …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
From the Editor by Paul Wright The rights of prisoners and victims are generally depicted as being antagonistic and contradictory, in that one comes at the expense of the other. The reason for this, of course, is that for the past 30 years “victim rights” has been a façade used …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
From the Editor by Paul Wright I would like to thank everyone who donated to our end-of-year fundraiser. It was very successful, and I am pleased to announce that we have added a second staff attorney to join Lance Weber, our chief counsel, as part of our legal team. Alissa …
Article • January 15, 2012 • from PLN January, 2012
From the Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to the first issue of Prison Legal News for 2012. If you have not yet donated to our annual fundraiser, it is not too late to do so. We rely on donations from our readers to fund the work we do on behalf …
Article • December 15, 2011 • from PLN December, 2011
From the Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to the last issue of PLN for 2011. Since we began publishing PLN, the issue of prisoner rape and sexual assault has been an important priority. There has been some improvement, at least as far as raising public awareness around this issue, over …
Article • November 15, 2011 • from PLN November, 2011
From the Editor by Paul Wright In April 1990, the month before PLN published its first issue, Washington state enacted the nation’s first civil commitment law targeting sex offenders for indefinite imprisonment once they had completed their criminal sentences. Our results-oriented judiciary has upheld civil commitment against assorted legal challenges, …
Article • October 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2011
From the Editor by Paul Wright Tropical storm Irene caused serious damage in Vermont on August 27 and 28, including in Brattleboro where our offices are located. We received a lot of phone calls, e-mails and inquiries asking if we were okay, and the good news is that our office …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
From the Editor by Paul Wright The modern era of prison reform in the United States was ushered in 40 years ago this month in a hail of blood and gunfire at Attica State Prison in New York. Afterwards the refrain was that every prison was Attica and Attica was …
Article • August 15, 2011 • from PLN August, 2011
From the Editor by Paul Wright Over the years some readers have said they find Prison Legal News depressing because we don’t report any good news, or not much anyway. One reason for that, of course, is because there has been precious little “good news” emanating from the American criminal …
Article • July 15, 2011 • from PLN July, 2011
From the Editor by Paul Wright Over the past 20 years PLN has reported the various conditions class-action lawsuits in California concerning the lethal health care administered to prisoners. After decades of non-compliance with dozens of court orders the prison system’s health care was put into a federal receivership, yet …
Article • June 15, 2011 • from PLN June, 2011
From the Editor by Paul Wright As this issue of PLN goes to press, the U.S. Supreme Court has just released its opinion in Brown v. Plata affirming the three-judge district court ruling ordering that the State of California must reduce its prison population in order to comply with a …
Article • May 15, 2011 • from PLN May, 2011
From the Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to the 21st anniversary issue of Prison Legal News. Since we started publishing 21 years ago, one thing has remained constant: prison and jail officials really don’t like PLN and try their best to censor us. The first three issues of PLN were …
Article • April 15, 2011 • from PLN April, 2011
From the Editor by Paul Wright The gouging of prisoner’s families and friends by prison and jail officials and the telephone industry is a well-known phenomenon but also one that is fairly recent. Telephones were not introduced into prisons and jails until the 1970s (the state of Texas was the …
Article • March 15, 2011 • from PLN March, 2011
From the Editor by Paul Wright On an ongoing basis PLN conducts sample mailings to the mailing lists of other organizations and publications as part of our efforts to reach new potential subscribers who may not be aware of us and to encourage them to subscribe. Occasionally this causes some …
Article • February 15, 2011 • from PLN February, 2011
From the Editor by by Paul Wright As we move into the New Year we are striving to increase our circulation. We mail sample copies of PLN as well as information packs on an almost daily basis. But that is expensive and not as efficient as we would like. No …
Article • January 15, 2011 • from PLN January, 2011
From the Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to our first issue of 2011. As we noted in last month’s issue, our second book, The Habeas Citebook: Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, was printed and started shipping. We have already received a lot of very positive feedback from readers and reviewers alike. …
Article • December 15, 2010 • from PLN December, 2010
From the Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to the last issue of Prison Legal News for 2010. By now subscribers should have received our annual fundraiser letter requesting donations. Unlike other non-profit organizations, we do not bombard our subscribers with dozens of beg letters a year; we only send out …
Article • November 15, 2010 • from PLN November, 2010
From the Editor by Paul Wright As we near the end of the year we are doing PLN’s annual fundraiser and this one is especially crucial because it is our 20th anniversary. Most publications never publish 10 issues, much less 240. Twenty years is a milestone for any organization and …
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