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Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Deal to Release Cuban Prisoners Upended by Among a raft of executive orders issued the day of his inauguration on January 20, 2025, Pres. Donald J. Trump (R) signed one reversing a decision by his predecessor to remove Cuba from a “blacklist” of nations accused of sponsoring terrorism. Though cheered …
These Men Fought White Supremacists and Got Sentenced to Over 200 Years by Victoria Law by Victoria Law How the criminal legal system slammed two Black men for standing up to white supremacist guards in an Indiana prison. This article was originally published by Truthout on March 12, 2023. It …
Article • April 26, 2024
Filed under: Political Prisoners
Young Hong Kong Protestors Held in “Deradicalization” Camps by Gregory Teixeira by Gregory P. Teixeira   In Hong Kong, young arrestees incarcerated during mass protests four years ago are being held in detention centers where they are subjected to a “deradicalization” program to suppress their political activism and instill outward …
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 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Filed under: Political Prisoners
Imprisoned Putin Critic Claims He’s Subjected to “Re-Education” by Alexei Navalny, the incarcerated political rival of Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin, alleged on May 30, 2023, that he was forced to listen to pro-war and anti-Semitic songs as part of “re-education” efforts at the IK-6 prison, where he is serving a …
Menchaca v. Michigan DOC, MI, Amended Complaint, LGBT Discrimination, 2018 Case 2:18-cv-10874-TGB-EAS ECF No. 13 filed 06/08/18 PageID.111 Page 1 of 33 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION Case No. 18-cv-10874 Hon. Terrence G. Berg Mag. Elizabeth A Stafford ASHLEY MENCHACA, Plaintiff, vs. MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF …
Article • August 30, 2017 • from PLN September, 2017
American University Removes Statue of Imprisoned Native American Activist by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna American University, a private college in Washington, D.C., bowed to pressure from a federal law enforcement group and removed a statue of Native American activist and prisoner Leonard Peltier, who was convicted of the 1975 …
Article • February 8, 2017 • from PLN February, 2017
Pennsylvania DOC Ordered to Evaluate Mumia Abu-Jamal for Hep C Treatment by Derek Gilna Pennsylvania state prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, serving a life sentence for murder and diagnosed with hepatitis C, sued the state’s Department of Corrections (DOC) in federal court when he was refused treatment for that life-threatening disease. On …
Pennsylvania: $99,000 Settlement for 22 Years in Solitary Confinement by David Reutter A Pennsylvania federal district court held that general issues of material fact required a jury to determine whether a prisoner’s Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated when he was held in solitary confinement for over 22 years. …
Publication • February 12, 2016
10. Political Prisoners in the United States, ICCPR Coalition Report GRASSROOTS MOVEMENT Submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee on the occasion of its review of the U.S. Government’s Second & Third Periodic Report concerning its compliance with the ICCPR Political Prisoners in the United States Introduction Political prisoners …
Brief • December 16, 2015
Sale v. Anderson et al, CO, Complaint, out of state transfer political prisoner, 2015 Case 1:15-cv-02728-LTB Document 1 Filed 12/16/15 USDC Colorado Page 1 of 28 Case 1:15-cv-02728-LTB Document 1 Filed 12/16/15 USDC Colorado Page 2 of 28 Case 1:15-cv-02728-LTB Document 1 Filed 12/16/15 USDC Colorado Page 3 of 28 …
Abu-Jamal v. Kerestes, PA, Amended Complaint, Black Panther death row wrongful imprisonment 1st Am medical neglect, 2015 Case 3:15-cv-00967-RDM-KM Document 21-1 Filed 08/03/15 Page 1 of 22 Exhibit A – Plaintiff’s First Amended and Supplemental Complaint 1 Case 3:15-cv-00967-RDM-KM Document 21-1 Filed 08/03/15 Page 2 of 22 IN THE UNITED …
Article • November 15, 2013
Voices from Solitary: A Prison Where the Building Becomes the Shackles by Ray Luc Lavasseur By Ray Luc Levasseur Former political prisoner Ray Luc Levasseur was raised in Maine, born to a working-class family of Quebecois origin. He became politically radicalized at a young age, first after serving a term …
Article • November 15, 2013
This Draconian System of Punishment and Abuse: An Interview with Former Political Prisoner Ray Luc Levasseur by Aviva Stahl By Aviva Stahl The following is a partial transcript of an interview with Ray Luc Levasseur, a former political prisoner who spent over fifteen years in solitary confinement, primarily at USP …
ADX Prisoner Not Allowed to Communicate with Family Members or Receive Publications under SAMs by Christopher Zoukis In another series of court rulings upholding the use of Special Administrative Measures (SAMs), a prisoner at the federal ADX supermax facility in Florence, Colorado was prohibited from receiving certain publications and communicating …
Guantanamo Detainees Cost $800,000 Annually by The U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba has become the world’s most expensive prison, at around 30 times the average cost to house prisoners in detention facilities in the United States. Each year the Department of Defense “spends approximately ... $800,000 per detainee,” …
Solitary Confinement Subject of Unprecedented Congressional Hearing by Alex Friedmann by Alex Friedmann1 It’s an awful thing, solitary. It crushes your spirit and weakens your resistance more effectively than any other form of mistreatment. — U.S. Senator John McCain, on his treatment as a P.O.W.2 On June 19, 2012, the …
Bureau of Prisons Houses More “Terrorists” than Guantanamo by Derek Gilna According to the New York Times, the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) confines more than twice as many prisoners for “terrorism-related” offenses than the controversial and oft-maligned U.S. military detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. “As of October 1, …
California Syndicalism Statute Not an Act of Congress; Appeals Court Injunction Reversed by The U.S. Supreme Court determined that California Criminal Syndicalism statute stands short of an Act of Congress. John Harris was indicted in a California state court of violating California’s Criminal Syndicalism statute (see Cal. Penal code § …
Business is Booming for Prison Profiteers by James Kilgore Private corrections company The GEO Group celebrated the holiday season by opening a new 1,500-bed prison in Milledgeville, Georgia on December 12, 2011. The $80 million facility is expected to generate approximately $28 million in annual revenues. Though GEO (formerly Wackenhut …
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