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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, …
Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
WA Prisoners Help Elect Republican by Paul Wright By Paul Wright From 1981 to 1993 Jack Metcalf held office in the Washington state Senate. In 1994 he was elected on the Republican ticket to represent Washingtons second congressional district. This is a story about prison slave labor, opportunism and hypocrisy …
Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
Venezuelan Prison Crisis Continues by Past issues of PLN have reported the massive crisis overwhelming the Venezuelan prison system. This has ranged from riots leaving hundreds of dead, mass escapes, protests and more. Human rights groups claim that Venezuela has the worst prisons in the hemisphere. On December 19, 1994, …
Harsher Prison Measures Opposed: "Family Values" Stop Here by Davis Oldham By Dan Tennenbaum and Davis Oldham Seattle WA -- On March 20th, about 30 people braved a heavy downpour and strong winds to demonstrate against state Republican efforts to curtail prisoner rights. Friends and family members of prisoners, as …
Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
MS Prison Rights Litigator Threatened by Julio Wicks is a pro se litigator who has been struggling for years to improve conditions at Mississippis Parchman Penitentiary, which he characterizes as a "Plantation." As he puts it, "There are 8,000 Black slaves [of a total prison population of 10,000] on this …
Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
Ohio Activist Needs Help by John Perotti Readers of this paper will recall my article "Spilt Milk", detailing human rights abuses at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (Luke) located in Lucasville, OH and how I was set up in retaliation for witnessing the beating of an inmate and writing about …
Article • April 15, 1995 • from PLN April, 1995
IN Prisoner and Guard Executed by On December 8,1994, Gregory Resnover was executed by the state of Indiana. Governor Evan Bayh denied Resnover's request for clemency. Resnover was convicted and sentenced in 1984 for the 1980 killing of an Indianapolis police sergeant and in connection with the robbery and slaying …
$157,000 Awarded in Retaliation Suit by Jory Lowrance is a Muslim New York state prisoner. In a seven year period he was transferred a total of 17 times to different state prisons. He filed suit under 42 U.S. C. § 1983 claiming that the transfers were in retaliation for his …
CA Legislative Horror Show by Dan Pens Due to our very long lead time (I write this on March 7th) it's difficult to report on fast moving stories like the goings on in the state house. As you read this, who knows what may have happened since this story was …
Article • April 15, 1995 • from PLN April, 1995
Filed under: Editorials, Organizing
From The Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor By Paul Wright Welcome to another issue of PLN. Recently the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) Prison Law Project (PLP) held elections in order to elect five prisoners to its steering committee board. I was nominated for one of the slots and …
Article • February 15, 1995 • from PLN February, 1995
Brutality Protested by On October 10, 1994, more than 25 protesters marched on the Oak Park Heights state prison in Minnesota The demonstrators entered the prison lobby and demanded to meet with warden Erik Skon, who declined. The march was organized by the Love & Rage Anarchist Federation of Minneapolis …
Rikers Island Detainees in Struggle by Rikers Island is the largest penal colony in the world, holding more than 19,000 prisoners on a 410 acre island. Most of them are New York City pretrial detainees not convicted of any crime. The number of detainees is expected to increase to as …
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