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Crisis in the French Gulag by Jean-Marc Rouillan As you may know, the French prison system is one of the worst in Western Europe; its conditions and facilities of confinement are the same as those of bloody Turkey! In the 1980's things only worsened. Each year there are more prisoners …
Pre-Trial Detainees Don't Have to Work by Jorge Martinez is a federal pre-trial detainee. He filed suit claiming that while he was held at the US Medical Center for federal prisoners he was denied proper medical care for a dislocated shoulder, was force fed after seven days on hunger strike, …
Article • January 15, 1993 • from PLN January, 1993
Hunger Strike Ends After 19 Days by Muna Muhaisen By Muna Muhaisen Palestinian political prisoners ended their hunger strike last week after the Israeli Prison Authority entered negotiations with prisoner representatives and agreed to establish an investigative committee to look into the prisoners' demands. The strike, which began Sept. 27, …
Article • January 15, 1993 • from PLN January, 1993
Filed under: Organizing, Hunger Strikes
Editorial by Ed Mead Editorial Comments My, how time's fun when you're having flies. Here we are opening the new year with the start of our fourth volume of the PLN. It doesn't seem that long. Publishing the newsletter has been a good experience for Paul and me. We've already …
Article • December 15, 1992 • from PLN December, 1992
Death Penalty Foes Boo Pennsylvania Governor by Paul Wright By Paul Wright Robert Casey is the governor of Pennsylvania. He claims to be "pro-life" because he opposes a woman's right to choose abortion and has signed into law one of the more restrictive abortion laws in the U.S. (which was …
Article • December 15, 1992 • from PLN December, 1992
Filed under: Organizing, Crime
Officials Seek to End Politicization of Crime Debate by Hundreds of public officials have signed a statement urging political candidates to refrain from "appeals to base human instincts and demagoguery" when discussing crime this election year. Furthermore, the statement criticizes past approaches to crime control, which it says have relied …
Article • December 15, 1992 • from PLN December, 1992
Article Clarification by J.D., Lompoc, CA Received your August issue and as good as ever, but one story had me a little uncomfortable. The article about the Lompoc Prison Strike...the source Out of Time (3543 18th St. San Francisco, CA) [ PLN , vol. 3, #8 August] The United States …
Article • December 15, 1992 • from PLN December, 1992
Texas Death Row Prisoners on Hunger Strike by Texas Death Row Prisoners On Hunger Strike Since July 19, 1992, more that 50 condemned prisoners on Texas's death row commenced a chain hunger strike. They are fasting in pairs for three days at a time, consuming only liquids, when the strike …
Article • November 15, 1992 • from PLN November, 1992
Resistance at Lexington by Laura Whitehorn On August 12-14, the first sustained act of resistance by women prisoners in the u.s. federal prison system in 20 years took place. On Wednesday night, August 12, there was an argument between two prisoners in the central yard area ("Central Park") at about …
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 …
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