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Article • April 15, 1991 • from PLN April, 1991
Beating in the MANCI Control Unit by John Perotti Beating In The MANCI Control Unit By John Perroti MANSFIELD, OHIO - On February 8, 1991, in the super-max administrative control unit (AC-Isolation) at the Mansfield Correctional Institution (MANCI) high tech prison, designed after the U.S. Penitentiary at Marion, II, 35 …
Article • April 15, 1991 • from PLN April, 1991
Filed under: Organizing, Hunger Strikes
John Perroti on Hungerstrike by John Perotti John Perroti On Hungerstrike John Perroti and his partner, Linda Leisure, have been on a hunger strike since February 14, 1991. Perroti has been held on a one-man isolation tier supposedly only until MANCI's AC unit opened. His visits have been restricted to …
Article • April 15, 1991 • from PLN April, 1991
Women's Report by F L Prisoner's Legal News is an excellent monthly magazine that I sincerely hope is generating interest and financial support, to which I will soon be adding. The major concern among most women in prison is the welfare of their children, many of whom were declared to …
Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
Women Prisoner's Hunger Strike in Texas by Ana Lucia Gelabert Women Prisoner's Hunger Strike In Texas By Ana Lucia Gelabert Gatesville, Texas, November 28, 1990. At 12 midnight tonight at least eight women prisoners at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Mountain View unit will begin an indefinite hunger strike …
Article • January 15, 1991 • from PLN January, 1991
The Price of Resistance - Is It Worth It? by John Perotti By John Perotti A comrade and brother, Ed Mead, recently wrote his opinion and analysis of the definition of POW and the continuing controversy of "Freedom Now." In it he raised the issue of how political prisoners traditionally …
Article • January 15, 1991 • from PLN January, 1991
Filed under: Organizing, Parole
Prison/Community Alliance by An organization, the Prison/Community Alliance will be registering with the State of Washington as a non-profit organization in January. The people involved in this organization have several objectives in mind. The first and most important objective is to be the contact group for the upcoming initiative to …
Article • January 15, 1991 • from PLN January, 1991
Failure to Disassociate Noninfractable by A prisoner sought judicial review of a disciplinary hearing finding him guilty of advocating, creating, engaging in or promoting a disturbance. There was indeed a disturbance, the court found, but a violation of the rule is only shown by an inmate engaging in "some affirmative …
Article • December 15, 1990 • from PLN December, 1990
Filed under: Organizing, Overcrowding
Demonstration Against Double Bunking at Twin Rivers Prison by About a dozen members of the outside community held a demonstration in front of the Twin Rivers Correctional Center on October 21st. The protest was sponsored by the Ethnic Minority and Prison Task Force (PO Box 667, Edmonds, WA 98020), and …
Article • November 15, 1990 • from PLN November, 1990
Filed under: Organizing
Let's Get Educated by M Bottom I liked the PLN's proposal concerning getting outside people and prisoners together to lobby the legislature to change the laws in that state. I have done similar work here (in New York), to the point of actually writing a legislative bill and having it …
Article • October 15, 1990 • from PLN October, 1990
Russian Prisoners Revolting by Russian prisoners gave up after a riot in the Dnepropetrovsk prison in the USSR's Ukraine. The surrender took place on June 19, ending a rebellion that left the prison in smoking ruins and four prisoners dead. Of the four dead, one hanged himself, another overdosed on …
Article • October 15, 1990 • from PLN October, 1990
Private Gulags in England by Mike Vukasinovic Private Gulags In England By Mike Vukasinovic Following the de-nationalized policies of the Tory government of the UK, plans are afoot to privatize new remand centers and the escort of prisoners to and from court. This announcement comes as a prison officer's revolt …
Article • September 15, 1990 • from PLN September, 1990
Filed under: Organizing, Crime
Let's Come Together by Dawud Halisi Malik By Dawud H. Malik The ole adage about there's only two kinds of power in the world; money power and people power, with the latter being much stronger than the former is true. Across all racial groups, prisoners are drawn from the poorest …
Article • August 15, 1990 • from PLN August, 1990
In Defense of the Struggle Against Sexism by Ed Mead In Defense Of The Struggle Against Sexism With this issue of the PLN I conclude my three part series on sex offenders. And while I am writing this before the first installment of the series has been mailed out to …
Article • August 15, 1990 • from PLN August, 1990
GRAPO Prisoner Dies by In Issue #1 of PLN we reported the hunger strike by GRAPO (Anti-Fascist Resistance Groups, First of October) in Spain who seek to end the governments policy of placing them in control units, dispersing them in different prisons, beating them, censoring their mail, prohibiting visits, etc. …
Article • June 15, 1990 • from PLN June, 1990
Filed under: Prison Rebellion, Media
Clallam Bay Disturbance Update by Paul Wright Paul Wright As reported in the last issue of the PLN, there were 32 prisoners shipped from Clallam Bay to the Intensive Management Unit (IMU) at Shelton. The mainstream media reported that prison officials had told them there was a "brawl" between one …
Article • May 15, 1990 • from PLN May, 1990
One Day School Boycott at Monroe by ONE DAY SCHOOL BOYCOTT AT MONROE The statewide practice for enforcing attendance at prison schools is simple: three unexcused absences and they drop you. Well, some prisoncrat decided that inmate attendance at the Reformatory was not up to par with those at other …
$241,000 Damages Upheld in Beating by $241,000 DAMAGES UPHELD IN BEATING A prisoner riot broke out when thirty prisoners forced their way into an area where they fought guards who were trying to remove a drunken prisoner. During the fight, one guard was fatally stabbed and several others wounded. When …
Article • May 15, 1990 • from PLN May, 1990
Prison Revolt in England by Prisoners in the horribly overcrowded Strangeways prison in Manchester, England rose in revolt on 1 April, 1990 protesting the conditions that had 1,660 men in a prison built in 1868 for 970 men. The prison does not have plumbing in the cells and the prisoners …
Hungerstrike in Spain by Since November 30, 1989, 42 political prisoners in Spain, mainly members of GRAPO (October 1st Revolutionary Anti-Fascist Groups) have been on hunger strikes demanding their release from isolation and control units and an end to the campaign of repression against them, which includes dispersion through the …
Article • May 15, 1990 • from PLN May, 1990
Mark LaRue Gets 14 More Years by MARK LARUE GETS 14 MORE YEARS After spending more than five years in Walla Walla's segregation unit as a result of his political work on the inside, Mark LaRue was subjected to an involuntary out-of-state transfer. He was then bounced from one jurisdiction …
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