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Police State: How America’s Cops Get Away with Murder (Book Review) by Bill Trine Police State: How America’s Cops Get Away with Murder, by Gerry Spence (St. Martin’s Press, 2015). 338 pages, hard cover. $19.40 Book review by Bill Trine In recent years, the American public has witnessed shocking videos, …
Article • February 2, 2016 • from PLN February, 2016
From the Editor by Paul Wright For the past 26 years PLN has reported on conditions within the Florida Department of Corrections that have generally ranged from horrible to abysmal in a system long characterized by medical neglect, brutality, corruption and murder by prison officials, and long-time indifference or outright …
Article • December 31, 2015 • from PLN January, 2016
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to the first issue of PLN for 2016 as we enter our 26th year of continuous publishing. This month’s cover story about the rise of mass incarceration is something of a road map to how we got …
Article • December 17, 2015
Georgia: Op-Ed: County Commission delay poses health threats by Mary Sidney K. Harbert Georgia: Op-Ed: County Commission delay poses health threats   Fulton County Commissioners are dragging their feet in making a decision about who should provide healthcare at the Fulton County Jail, posing a public health threat to jail …
Article • December 1, 2015 • from PLN December, 2015
Filed under: Editorials
From the Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor by Paul Wright With the holidays upon us, people outside of prison often think of holiday meals as times of joy and thankfulness for what they have in their lives. Where a shared meal around a dinner table with family and …
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 …
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