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Outside Strip Search Constitutes Excessive Force by Michael Cornwell is an Ohio state prisoner. In February, 1987, while in prison in Mansfield, he participated in a sit down strike with 76 other prisoners protesting a cutback in recreation time. Dahlberg, the prison warden, ordered guards to use force to terminate …
Article • October 15, 1992 • from PLN October, 1992
Uprising at Military Prison by Carolyn Dock By Carolyn Dock Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas- On May 11, 1992, the military prisoners at the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks (USDB) at Ft. Leavenworth [Editors Note: the USDB is a separate prison from the federal prison also located in Leavenworth.] revolted in protest against the …
Guard Killed - MANCI Madness by John Perotti By John Perotti MANSFIELD, OHIO - On June 27, 1992, a black guard named Davis was beaten and stabbed. A white prisoner named Roy Slieber was picked up for the assault, beaten and shipped to the J1 SuperMax control unit in Lucasville, …
Article • September 15, 1992 • from PLN September, 1992
Bill Clinton's Blood Sacrifice by Paul Wright By Paul Wright Recently the media has been awash in allegations by Gennifer Flowers, a nightclub singer, that she had carried on a 12 year love affair with Democratic Party presidential candidate Bill Clinton. Clinton and his wife have both appeared on TV …
Article • September 15, 1992 • from PLN September, 1992
Freedom Sought for Spanish Political Prisoner by Juan Manuel Perez Hernandez is a 40 year old telecommunications engineer serving a 30 year sentence for his militancy in GRAPO (Anti Fascist Resistance Group, First of October, a communist organization). He is married and has a daughter. He has been in prison …
Article • September 15, 1992 • from PLN September, 1992
Filed under: Resources, Organizing
New Jersey Prisoners Support Network by Prisoners, ex prisoners, friends and family members of prisoners and community activists in New Jersey have begun forming a Prisoner Support Network. So far two meetings have been held to discuss ways to end various forms of repression and discrimination in the New Jersey …
Article • September 15, 1992 • from PLN September, 1992
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Voting
On the Upcoming Presidential Elections by Ed Mead During the next several months the mass media will be pulling the wool over the eyes of working people in America. They will be doing this by using Gulf War type saturation coverage of the elections. In many ways it is all …
Indiana Control Unit Prisoners File Suit and Strike by Paul Wright On May 4, 1992, the Indiana Civil Liberties Union filed a class action suit in the Marion County, Indiana, Superior Court. The action is Taifa Vs. Bayh, and challenges numerous conditions of confinement at the Westville, IN, Maximum Control …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Wisconsin Lockdown by Adrian Lomax In the middle of May, 1992, the Wisconsin DOC distributed a new set of property rules to all prisoners. It contained a lot of new restrictions but the most significant is that the total amount of property a prisoner may possess must fit into a …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Lompoc Prison Strike by Immediately following the Los Angeles uprising, prisoners at FCI (Federal Correctional Institution) Lompoc, North of LA, joined in a prison wide general strike for 3 days. Prison officials were greatly threatened by the unity of the prisoners: hundreds of men were put in the hole and …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Prison Chief Gains Right to Counter-Sue Cons for Riot Damage by Prison Chief Gains Right to Counter-sue Cons for Riot Damage Pennsylvania Corrections Commissioner Joseph D. Lehman has been granted standing by a federal district court to litigate against inmates for extensive property damages caused by rioting at the Camp …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Filed under: Editorials, Organizing
From The Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to another issue of PLN. Please check your mailing label. If it says "Aug. 92" this means this is your next to last issue and unless we receive a donation you will be dropped from the mailing list. When your label says "final …
Article • July 15, 1992 • from PLN July, 1992
Suit Being Filed Over CBCC Conditions by JD Enquist On April 1, 1992, Troy Talbot, a prisoner here at the Clallam Bay IMU [Intensive Management Unit], was taken to the shower handcuffed and on a doggie leash. Prison guards had left the supply closet in the shower unlocked and Troy …
Article • April 15, 1992 • from PLN April, 1992
PLN Reader Sends ACLU Finger by Recently the PLN received a letter from Kataza Taifa, imprisoned at the Westville Control Unit in Indiana. It included a copy of the following letter he has sent to the Indiana branch of the American Civil Liberties Union: "Dear ACLU Board Members, Since for …
'Partial Victory' In Attica Prisoners' Case by From: Workers World Newspaper A bitterly divided jury returned a mixed verdict Feb. 4 in the lawsuit by former inmates at Attica Prison against four former New York state officials. The suit by the Attica Defense Committee grew out of the bloody, murderous …
Article • March 15, 1992 • from PLN March, 1992
Filed under: Editorials, Organizing
Editorial by Ed Mead Editorial Comments By Ed Mead Don't be discouraged if not much in the way of struggle is taking place at your prison, as it isn't happening here either. The political situation in your joint is probably pretty much the same as it is at institutions all …
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
CBCC IMU Hungerstrike by Did you happened to hear about the 2-1/2 day hungerstrike? They brought 10 of us here from WSP (Walla Walla) IMU to supply bodies to justify opening an IMU at CBCC. We got here and F unit isn't even prepared to accept IMU prisoners. 8 out …
Article • January 15, 1992 • from PLN January, 1992
Chilean Political Prisoners End Hungerstrike by On November 13, 1991, four Chilean political prisoners ended a 44-day hungerstrike. 24 hours after a street demonstration supporting them had culminated with the detention of 252 people by police. The announcement was formulated by the hungerstrikers themselves in the hospital where they were …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Filed under: Organizing, Voting
Universal Suffrage: Give Us A Voice! by Tom Sparks Universal Suffrage was originally created to provide assistance to those convicted in the American justice system in the defense of those constitutional rights that are supposed to exist, and in regaining those rights that have been unjustly lost. Our intention is …
Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
Remembering Attica Correction by Beryl Sanders by Beryl P. Sanders, Community-Help Foundation Unlimited I think I should first make a few points clear before I start. This article is to make a couple of corrections because this much needed newsletter gets into the hands of many readers. For fear that …
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