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Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
Filed under: Education, Art, Tapes/Music
Lights, Camera, Action! “Dead Man Walking” Comes to Sing Sing by When a new production of “Dead Man Walking,” the opera based on the 1993 memoir of Louisiana death penalty abolitionist Sister Helen Prejean, opened at New York City’s Metropolitan Opera in September 2023, there was a rare offsite performance—at …
Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Filed under: Art, Child Pornography
Federal Prisoner in Virginia Convicted on Fresh Kiddie Porn Charges After Drawing His Own by In a stunning example of government overreach, a federal judge in Virginia handed an additional child pornography conviction to a prisoner at the Federal Correctional Complex in Petersburg on August 7, 2023—not for possessing images …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Filed under: Art
California Prisoners Embracing Arts by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss In November 2022, about 20 prisoners at California Institution for Men (CIM) in Chino staged a dance show. You read that right. Smashing what New York Times reporter Brian Selbert called “prison culture codes of masculine behavior,” the men …
Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
Filed under: Art, Prisoner Media, TV/Movies
MTV Documentary Shines Light on Art Behind Bars by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Etymology, the study of word origins, provides insight into commonly used words. For instance, ‘cell’ and ‘hell’ share an ancient root meaning ‘hide’: A resident of either is unseen, hidden away from society and the realm …
Article • June 1, 2021 • from PLN June, 2021
Filed under: Advocacy, Art
Activism and Art Team Up to Abolish Mass Incarceration by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders Imagine a future in America that is radically different than it is today—an America where police do not brutalize and kill people, a society without institutionalized racism and classism, a country where jails and prisons …
Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021
Filed under: Art
Banksy Artwork Appears on Jail in England by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Artwork that appeared on the side of Reading Prison in Berkshire, England, according to curator Vince John, appears to be a “new Banksy.” The painting shows a prisoner in stripped garb escaping on a rope made …
Article • March 1, 2021 • from PLN March, 2021
Filed under: Art
Prisoner Art on Display in New York City Exhibition by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Whether in a jail or a prison, the sight of a person drawing cards or decorating envelopes and even doing portraits is not uncommon. Art is a major part of prison life, a way of …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
New Book on Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Anyone who has done time in a jail or prison has seen that one lone person, or sometimes two, who sits at a dayroom table for hours on end with pencil and paper. A …
Article • October 1, 2020 • from PLN October, 2020
Filed under: Education, Art
Poetry for the Prisoners’ Soul by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Among the few organizations intrepid enough to reach out to prisoners is a group called the Worker Writers School (WWS). From its beginning as a poetry workshop for traumatized prisoners in the aftermath of the slaughter of prisoners at …
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
Filed under: Education, Art
Prison Plays Go on the Road, Teach Prisoners Life Skills by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The Colorado Department of Corrections (DOC) teamed up with the University of Denver’s Prison Arts Initiative and took some prison plays on the road last December. It’s the first time a prison play has …
Article • April 19, 2019
Washington Officials Violated First Amendment by Removing Prisoner’s Art from Exhibit Due to Criticism by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson A Washington federal court denied state officials’ summary judgment on a claim that they violated a Native American prisoner’s First Amendment rights by prematurely removing his paintings from an art …
Prison Rodeos: A Bunch of Bull? by David Reutter Rarely does the public find anything entertaining about a person who has been convicted of a crime and sent to prison. That is not the case with prison rodeos, however, which draw people from all over the U.S. and even other …
Article • May 13, 2016
Connecticut State Prisoner Settles with DOC, Receives Cash and Art Supplies by Derek Gilna Ian Cooke, a Connecticut state prisoner, filed a federal action under 42 U.S.C. 1983 to protest his lack of medical and psychiatric treatment while he was in custody awaiting trial, has settled with the Connecticut Department …
Article • November 6, 2015
Court Rules National Geographic and Naturist Catalogue Pictures Not Child Pornography by Court Rules National Geographic and Naturist Catalogue Pictures Not Child Pornography John Rex is a prisoner at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk. On August 31, 2011, after a search of Rex's cell, guards found an envelope containing …
Brief • March 30, 2015
Barrett v. Premo, OR, Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law, ODOC mail policy envelope art, 2015 Case 6:11-cv-06358-HZ Document 173 Filed 03/30/15 Page 1 of 28 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF OREGON JACOB BARRETT, No. 6:11-CV-06358-HZ Plaintiff, FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW …
Article • February 4, 2015 • from PLN February, 2015
Prison Legal News Interviews Musician Wayne Kramer by Paul Wright Prison Legal News Interviews Musician Wayne Kramer On October 13, 2014, PLN editor Paul Wright interviewed Wayne Kramer at his office in Los Angeles. Mr. Kramer is a musician, singer, songwriter and producer; he also served more than two years …
Article • May 20, 2014 • from PLN May, 2014
Liberty Interest Necessary to Trigger Arkansas Judicial Review by Mark Wilson Liberty Interest Necessary to Trigger Arkansas Judicial Review   by Mark Wilson   The Arkansas Supreme Court has upheld the dismissal of a prisoner’s state judicial review action because he failed to assert a constitutional violation. Arkansas Department of …
Article • August 15, 2012 • from PLN August, 2012
Federal BOP to Let Prisoners Have MP3 Players by The U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has announced that it will allow federal prisoners to purchase MP3 music players, which were first tested at Federal Prison Camp Alderson, a women’s facility in West Virginia. The policy change, expected to be implemented …
Article • October 15, 2011 • from PLN October, 2011
Jail Guitar Doors, USA Offers Free Musical Instruments to Prisons by Bruce Reilly Long before words there was the drum, the beat, the foundation of all communication. Some drummers and musicians communicate through the most finely crafted instruments of their day. For the prisoner it is typically the sound of …
Article • November 15, 2009 • from PLN November, 2009
Refusal to Mail Nebraska Prisoner’s Artwork Violates First Amendment by A Nebraska district court has held that prison officials violated a prisoner’s First Amendment right to send and receive mail when they refused to let him mail his drawings. The court’s ruling came on a motion for judgment as a …
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