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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 …
Article • February 15, 1995 • from PLN February, 1995
Immigration Detainees Rebel by On November 14, 1994, 100 illegal aliens detained at the Federal Corrections Facility in Eloy, AZ, rebelled to protest bad food and onerous prison restrictions. A prison spokesperson said the detainees were "carrying baseball bats when they came into the cafeteria for supper." It took prison …
Article • January 15, 1995 • from PLN January, 1995
Lucasville 1994 "Spilt Milk" by John Perotti By John W. Perotti It's been almost two years since the 11-day siege at the southern Ohio Correctional Facility located in Lucasville, Ohio. The problem? "Spilt milk" is just the beginning. Millions of dollars have been spent on reconstruction of the prison and …
Did Warden Seek SOCF Riot? by In April, 1993, prisoners at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF) rebelled in what became the longest 2>prison siege in US history that left 10 dead. PLN has provided extensive coverage of the rebellion, its origins and its aftermath. Some SOCF prisoners have claimed …
Article • December 15, 1994 • from PLN December, 1994
VA Repressive Sentencing Law Results in Uprisings by Dan Pens The feature attraction in this summer's media/political crime-hype circus in Virginia was the coverage of "Proposal X," Republican Gov. George Allen's repressive new sentencing bill. The bill, signed into law by Allen on October 17th, 1994, calls for tougher sentencing, …
Article • December 15, 1994 • from PLN December, 1994
Kurdish Prisoners Resist by Kurdish political prisoners at the Diyarbakir maximum security prison in Turkey battled soldiers on October 4, 1994, in an attempt to block the torture and interrogation of another prisoner. Turkish soldiers fired shots into the air and tear gassed the prisoners, who responded by throwing broken …
Article • November 15, 1994 • from PLN November, 1994
Crisis Continues in Salvadoran Prison System by As reported in the October, 1994, issue of PLN, the prison system of El Salvador remains locked in a crisis of overcrowding, spiraling violence and unrest. This trend continues. On September 13, 1994, prisoners at the Central Penitentiary in San Vicente, in the …
Peruvian Government to Stand Trial for Prison Massacres by On June 19, 1986, political prisoners of the Communist Party of Peru (PCP) held at three prisons revolted demanding government compliance with agreements previously reached governing the prisoners' conditions of confinement. The Peruvian government of then President Alan Garcia refused to …
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
PR Prisoners Rebel by On July 10, 1994, more than 8,000 prisoners in 16 prisons across the US occupied island of Puerto Rico went on strike to protest overcrowding and bad living conditions. Puerto Rico's 34 prisons hold almost 11,000 prisoners. For the first ten days of the strike prisoners …
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
El Salvador Prison System in Crisis by On August 4, 1994, 300 prisoners at the San Miguel prison in El Salvador took a judge and his secretary hostage to protest prison conditions. The hostages were freed a few hours later after judicial officials signed an agreement to study the prisoners' …
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