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Article • September 25, 2015 • from PLN October, 2015
Filed under: Reviews
Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People’s Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time, by James Kilgore (The New Press, 2015). 272 pages, $17.95 (paperback) by Russ Immarigeon Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People’s Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time, by James Kilgore (The New Press, …
Article • September 24, 2015 • from PLN October, 2015
Filed under: Editorials, PLRA
From the Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor by Paul Wright Next April will mark the 20th anniversary of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) – the continuing legacy of President Clinton and Congress which has done more to undermine the rule of law and constitutional rights since the …
Article • September 24, 2015 • from PLN October, 2015
Filed under: Resources
Criminal Justice Resources by Criminal Justice Resources Amnesty International Compiles information about prisoner torture, beatings, rape, etc. to include in reports about U.S. prison conditions; also works on death penalty issues. Contact: Amnesty International, 5 Penn Plaza, New York NY 10001 (212) 807-8400. www.amnestyusa.org Black and Pink Black and Pink …
Publication • September 21, 2015
DOJ, Office of Inspector General - Status Review, International Prisoner Transfer Program, 2015 Office of the Inspector General U.S. Department of Justice Status Review on the Department’s International Prisoner Transfer Program Evaluation and Inspections Division 15-07 August 2015 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Introduction This is the second Office of the Inspector General …
Article • September 16, 2015
Why Don't You Ever See TV Interviews With Inmates? by Adrian Shirk Why Don't You Ever See TV Interviews With Inmates? By Adrian Shirk A Supreme Court decision 40 years ago this summer allowed states to block access to specific prisoners. What does that mean for freedom of the press …
Article • August 31, 2015 • from PLN September, 2015
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor by Paul Wright Since PLN first began publishing in 1990 we have reported on parole systems and their inherent arbitrariness and cruelty. Today there is a lot of rhetoric about a “liberal-conservative alliance” on criminal justice issues and the need for …
Article • August 4, 2015
Filed under: Editorials, Prison Reform
Consumption Restrictions in a Maximum Security Prison: Perspectives of Incarcerated Men by Ronald Paul Hill Consumption Restrictions in a Maximum Security Prison: Perspectives of Incarcerated Men By Ronald Paul Hill, Ph.D., Villanova School of Business Both President Obama and former President Clinton have recently stated that mass incarceration is a …
Article • July 31, 2015 • from PLN August, 2015
From the Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor by Paul Wright For several decades PLN has reported on the intersections between mass imprisonment, the criminal justice system and the environment. Most specifically, the environmental destruction and degradation that prisons impose on surrounding communities – whether it entails building prisons …
Article • July 7, 2015 • from PLN July, 2015
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor by Paul Wright Over the past 25 years of publishing PLN we have run numerous stories about the Rikers Island jail complex in New York City, generally dealing with guard brutality and medical neglect. Despite several major class-action suits and hundreds …
Article • June 20, 2015
From Death Row at 16 to Suicide at 45: The Life and Death of Paula Cooper by Liliana Segura From Death Row at 16 to Suicide at 45: The Life and Death of Paula Cooper by Liliana Segura Just before 8 a.m. this past Memorial Day, 45-year-old Paula Cooper decided …
Article • June 16, 2015
Buddha of the Blues by St Clair, Jeffrey Buddha of the Blues by Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch In the summer of 1998, Alexander Cockburn and I spent a few days in North Richmond, California, a battered industrial city just outside of Berkeley. We had just published our book Whiteout on the CIA and …
Article • June 3, 2015 • from PLN June, 2015
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor by Paul Wright The one area of American life where no one is calling for gender equality or parity is that of mass incarceration. Prisons are and remain a tool of social control aimed primarily at men, who make up 91% …
Publication • 2015
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
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Article • May 6, 2015 • from PLN May, 2015
Twenty-Five Years of Prison Legal News by Paul Wright The first issue of Prisoners’ Legal News (PLN) was published in May 1990. It was hand-typed, photocopied and ten pages long, and mailed to 75 potential subscribers with a budget of $50. The first three issues were banned in all Washington …
Article • May 6, 2015 • from PLN May, 2015
Filed under: Editorials, Prisoner Media
From the Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor by Paul Wright It doesn’t seem like this is the 301st issue of Prison Legal News. When we published our first issue in 1990 I didn’t have an expectation of how long the publication would last nor did I think about …
Article • April 9, 2015 • from PLN April, 2015
Filed under: Reviews
Book Review: Abolishing the Broken U.S. Juvenile Justice System by Hannah K. Gold by Hannah K. Gold By the time I was 7 years old I knew drugs were bad. I didn’t need a parent to sit me down on their knee and tell me this because Saturday morning cartoons were …
Article • April 9, 2015 • from PLN April, 2015
Filed under: Reviews
Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn’t Work and How We Can Do Better, by Maya Schenwar by Gary Hunter Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn’t Work and How We Can Do Better, by Maya Schenwar (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2014). 214 pages, $15.00-$25.00 paperback Book review by Gary Hunter Few …
Article • April 8, 2015 • from PLN April, 2015
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor by Paul Wright In 25 years of publishing Prison Legal News, we have reported a number of recurring themes where the only specifics that change are the names, dates and locations. But the broader issues – prison slavery, government corruption, guards …
Article • March 5, 2015 • from PLN March, 2015
Disciplinary Self-Help Litigation Manual, 2d Ed., by Dan Manville by John Dannenberg Disciplinary Self-Help Litigation Manual, 2d Ed., by Dan Manville (PLN Publishing, Dec. 2014). 368 pages, $49.95 paperback Book review by John E. Dannenberg Renowned attorney Dan Manville, co-author of the Prisoners’ Self-Help Litigation Manual, has produced another must-have …
Article • March 4, 2015 • from PLN March, 2015
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor by Paul Wright This month’s cover story reports on the relatively recent phenomenon of video visitation. While video visits are technologically new, the underlying principle upon which they are being implemented is not. PLN has reported extensively on the prison telephone …
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