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HRDC Wins Summary Judgment in North Carolina Prison Censorship Case by On March 27, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina granted in part and denied in part the Human Rights Defense Center’s (HRDC) motion for summary judgment in a civil rights action it filed …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Writing on the Prison Wall: How Prisons Suppress Prison Journalism by On June 15, 2023, Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) published a report on suppression of prison journalism from the inside. The bottom line? Practicing journalism while imprisoned in most states is “extremely difficult and sometimes risky.” News reporting by prisoners …
Article • February 1, 2024 • from PLN February, 2024
Champion of Death Row Prisoners Accused of Spoiling Oklahoman’s Clemency by When Oklahoma prisoner Anthony Sanchez, 44, was executed on September 21, 2023, for the 1996 killing of University of Oklahoma dance student Juli Busken, Rev. Jeff Hood was by his side. But the attorneys that Sanchez had by then …
See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Treat No Evil: Centurion and the Curse of For-Profit Prison Healthcare by J.D. Schmidt by J.D. Schmidt On November 14, 2022, the Florida arm of Centurion Health, one of the nation’s largest private prison and jail healthcare companies, filed a lawsuit in Putnam County …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Ed Mead: Rest in Power by Paul Wright by Paul Wright Over the years the saddest duty I have as PLN’s editor is noting the passing of our friends and supporters. As PLN gets older, we are entering our 34th year of publishing with this issue, it seems like more …
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
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Milestone: Thirty Years of Prison Legal News and the Human Rights Defense Center by Paul Wright by Paul Wright Originally we were planning to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Prison Legal News (PLN) in the May 2020 issue. However, with the COVID-19 pandemic impacting prisoners and the criminal justice system …
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
The Cost of Prison Censorship: Florida Taxpayers to Pay $1.2 Million in HRDC Case by On October 22, 2019, a federal district court in Tallahassee awarded almost $1.2 million in attorneys’ fees and costs in a censorship lawsuit against the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC). The suit, filed in 2011 …
CoreCivic Prisons in Tennessee Have Twice as Many Murders, Four Times the Homicide Rate as State-Run Facilities by On June 10, 2019, the Human Rights Defense Center and No Exceptions Prison Collective reported that from 2014 through June 2019, there were twice as many murders in the four Tennessee prisons …
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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 …
HRDC Litigation Project Update – 25th Anniversary Edition by Lance Weber HRDC Litigation Project Update – 25th Anniversary Edition by Lance Weber After 25 years of publishing Prison Legal News and nearly as many years of litigation over PLN’s right to send its magazine and books to prisoners, the right …
Article • March 5, 2015 • from PLN March, 2015
PLN Partly Prevails in Censorship Suit against Georgia Jail; $10,000 in Damages by PLN Partly Prevails in Censorship Suit against Georgia Jail; $10,000 in Damages In March 2013, a federal district court granted a preliminary injunction to Prison Legal News that prohibited jail officials in Walton County, Georgia from refusing …
Prison Legal News Prevails in Tennessee Public Records Suit in Spite of Sheriff’s Antics by As part of its news reporting, Prison Legal News routinely submits public records requests and Freedom of Information Act requests to government agencies. Most of the time they comply with the law and produce the …
Article • December 6, 2014
Celebrating Human Rights Day on Dec 10th by calling for an end to mass incarceration by For Immediate Release   Contacts Paul Wright (561) 360-2523, Executive Director, HRDC Judy Cohen, (561) 360-2523, Office Manager, HRDC   Celebrating Human Rights Day on Dec 10th by calling for an end to mass incarceration   Community …
Article • August 7, 2014 • from PLN August, 2014
Temple University Acts on Complaint Against Authors of Private Prison Study by Temple University Acts on Complaint Against Authors of Private Prison Study In response to an ethics complaint filed against Temple University professors Simon Hakim and Erwin A. Blackstone, a Temple official wrote in July 2014 that she had …
Publication • October 11, 2012
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Brief • September 22, 1997
Macfarlane v. Walter, WA, Court Order, PLN Ban, 1997 1 2 FILED IN ME U.S.DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 3 SEP 2 2 1997 4 JAMES A LAFIIIGN CaFt4 5 YAKI1AA 6 UNITED STATS DISTRICT COURT 7 EASTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 8 9 DONALD D. MacFARLANE Plaintiff, 10 11 …
Brief • September 22, 1997
Macfarlane v. Walter, WA, Order, Report and Recommendations, PLN Ban, 1997 4t.' . .........-' " 1 Flt.ED IN THE us. DISTRICT COUAT 2 EASTERN OISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 3 SE? 2 2 1997 4 JAMES A wa'N 5 YAKIM" c.. ~~ 6 Ul~T~ED 7 DONALD D. MacFARLANE Plaintiff, 10 11 12 …
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Wappj Job Description JOB DESRIPTION: Washington Prison Phone Justice Campaign Coordinator The Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC) is seeking a full-time campaign coordinator for its statewide Prison Phone Justice Campaign based in Seattle, Washington. HRDC publishes Prison Legal News and was founded in Washington state in 1990. It currently is …
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