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News in Brief
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
News in Brief by Alabama: Clarke County Jail guard Larissa Thompson was arrested on December 5, 2024, for plotting to smuggle drugs into the lockup, the Thomasville Times reported. An investigation by state law enforcement, the office of County Sheriff DeWayne Smith, and Jackson Police uncovered evidence that Thompson planned …
German High Court Finds Low Prisoner Wages Unconstitutional
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Filed under: Prison Labor, Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
German High Court Finds Low Prisoner Wages Unconstitutional by Quietly, the Second Senate of Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court made history on June 20, 2023, in a ruling that found laws capping compensation that prisoners receive for work in two German states violate the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of …
Prison Administrators and Criminology Students Study Radical New Approach: Treat Prisoners Like Human Beings
Article • April 2, 2018 • from PLN April, 2018
Filed under: Prison Reform, Criminal justice system reform, Conditions of Confinement
Prison Administrators and Criminology Students Study Radical New Approach: Treat Prisoners Like Human Beings by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Attorney Donald Specter has spent his career working to bring change to the American carceral system. He began as a volunteer at the Prison Law Office – a Berkeley, California-based …
Institute for Criminal Policy Research - World Prison Population List, 2018
Publication • January 1, 2018
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Institute for Criminal Policy Research - World Prison Population List, 2018 World Prison Population List twelfth edition Roy Walmsley Introduction This twelfth edition of the World Prison Population List gives details of the number of prisoners held in 223 prison systems in independent countries and dependent territories. It shows the …
News in Brief
Article • October 9, 2017 • from PLN October, 2017
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Kenyatta Ervin was arrested in early March 2017 on a felony fraud charge. She worked as a guard at the Calhoun County jail, and was accused of using a prisoner’s jail-issued debit card. According to investigators, Ervin failed to provide a card to an offender …
News in Brief
Article • December 7, 2016 • from PLN December, 2016
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: St. Clair Correctional Facility guard Deandre Price resigned just after his July 5, 2016 arrest for possession of a controlled substance and promoting contraband within a state correctional facility. Price was caught with drugs and other contraband as he reported for work; Alabama Department of …
German Prisoners Form Union, Seek Minimum Wage and Pension
Article • August 2, 2016 • from PLN August, 2016
Filed under: Retaliation for Organizing, Prison Labor, Organizing, Hunger Strikes, Work Strikes, Lobbying, Advocacy, Prison Reform
German Prisoners Form Union, Seek Minimum Wage and Pension by Joe Watson A group of prisoners in Germany has accomplished what American prisoners have long been prohibited from doing: They formed a labor union for incarcerated workers, to advocate for minimum wage pay so they can earn enough for a …
German Economics Minister Comments on U.S. Prison Labor
Article • October 15, 2002 • from PLN October, 2002
Filed under: Work, Prison Labor
German Economics Minister Comments on U.S. Prison Labor by In February 2002, German economics minister Werner Mueller was questioned by reporters about Germany's unemployment rate, which is over 10%. Many observers believed that Germany's unemployment rate hurt the reelection chances of German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. Mueller responded that Germany's unemployment …
World Court Upholds Foreigners' Right to Contact Their Embassies
Article • January 15, 2002 • from PLN January, 2002
Filed under: International Law, Death Penalty/Death Row, Death Penalty
World Court Upholds Foreigners' Right to Contact Their Embassies by Gerardo Valdez, a Mexican citizen who had been scheduled for execution this fall in Oklahoma, was granted an indefinite stay by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals in September due to a recent decision from the International Court of Justice, …
German Court Legalizes Soft Drugs
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime, Prisoners-International
German Court Legalizes Soft Drugs by On April 28, 1994, the Federal Constitutional Court, Germany's highest court, ruled that possession of small quantities of hashish and marijuana should no longer be the subject of criminal penalties. The ruling came as the court affirmed the 1992 lower court ruling by Lubeck …
Freedom for Political Prisoners
Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994
Filed under: Political Prisoners, International, Prisoners-International
Freedom for Political Prisoners by In July, 1992, different groups from around the world meeting in Munich, Germany over the 500th anniversary of the Columbus Encounter, formed a group called "Libertad!" around the goal of organizing an International Day of Action around the issue of political prisoners. The primary organizers …
German Geriatric Prison
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
Filed under: Classification, Geriatric Classification, Prisoners-International
German Geriatric Prison by Germany may have the most humanitarian prison in existence today. [ Editors note: They may also have the most inhumane prison as well, the notorious Stammheim prison is where the sensory deprivation isolation now in widespread use across the world was first developed in the mid-70's …
German Prison Destroyed
Article • July 15, 1993 • from PLN July, 1993
Filed under: Political Prisoners, Prison Rebellion, Prisoners-International, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement
German Prison Destroyed by Many people in Germany had good reason to celebrate in March. Early on Saturday, March 27, a series of explosions destroyed most of a newly completed high-tech prison that was to be put to use in May, 1993. The prison in Weiterstadt, close to Frankfurt, took …
Bombed-out German Prison to be Razed and then Rebuilt
Article • May 15, 1993 • from PLN May, 1993
Filed under: Prison Rebellion, International, Prisoners-International
Bombed-out German Prison to be Razed and then Rebuilt by Darmstadt, Germany - Bombs set off by guerrillas on March 26th at a new prison in Darmstadt caused such extensive damage that it will have to be razed, a justice official said. There were no injuries. The federal prosecutor's office …
Freedom for Gerhard Bogelein
Article • February 15, 1993 • from PLN February, 1993
Filed under: Political Prisoners, International, Prisoners-International
Freedom for Gerhard Bogelein by On May 18, 1992, the 22nd tribunal of the Provincial Court in Bamburg, Germany, condemned Gerhard Bögelein to life in prison without parole; he is 69 years old. The judge's reason: the murder, in 1947, of a former judge of the Nazi army. This sentence …
Reply from Germany
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
Filed under: Political Prisoners, International, Prisoners-International
Reply from Germany by Families of Political Prisoners Reply From Germany We are referring to the readers letter from Germany in your issue from November 1991.The writer, D.D., is giving the misleading impression that all RAF prisoners were betraying each other for personal gain. This is applying only to those …
Plea for Help
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
Filed under: Political Prisoners, International, Prisoners-International
Plea for Help by Plea For Help Demba Diop is a Mauritanian expatriate confined at the Rheinbach prison in Germany on fabricated charges. Demba is the only black prisoner of the 500 prisoners at Rheinbach. Demba has been an active participant of the FLAM (Forces de Liberation Africaine de Mauritanie) …
Letter from Germany
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Filed under: Political Prisoners, International, Prisoners-International
Letter from Germany by Letter From Germany I can't understand why these pigs have no courage to oblige their own masters to share the lot with them, instead harassing prisoners. I've read also the story about the T-shirt that the pigs didn't want to give to Paul. Pigs are like …
Foreign Letter
Article • January 15, 1991 • from PLN January, 1991
Filed under: Political Prisoners, International, Prisoners-International
Foreign Letter by I see the continuing of PLN; the paper is fairly legible. It seems, the malignity of the rulers in Walla Walla and Monroe with their quest to delay, restrict or even destroy the PLN are banned. In any case there are some news lately which are of …
Prisoners in Struggle
Article • August 15, 1990 • from PLN August, 1990
Filed under: Political Prisoners, International, Prisoners-International
Prisoners in Struggle by Paul Wright PRISONERS IN STRUGGLE By: Paul Wright We have recently received information about the following prisoners in West Germany the US and England who are being persecuted because of their political beliefs. To help, I have a packet of pre-typed letters addressed to the authorities …