Prison Legal News
Prison Legal News (PLN), an initiative by the Human Rights Defense Center, is a monthly magazine that spans 72 pages and focuses on the rights of prisoners. This independent publication delivers insightful reviews and analyses of court decisions and news related to the criminal justice system. With a primary focus on U.S. federal and state prison matters, PLN also touches on some international topics. The magazine aims to equip prisoners and other interested parties with knowledge about a wide array of criminal justice issues, particularly those concerning the safeguarding and enforcement of prisoners' rights. Key topics covered include prison labor, the private prison sector, healthcare for inmates—both medical and mental—misconduct by correctional staff, legal settlements involving detention facilities, juvenile justice, the death penalty, the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), censorship in prisons, health issues such as HIV and hepatitis C, solitary confinement, and the racial and socio-economic inequalities present in the criminal justice system. There's a lot more to explore as well!
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2 weeks ago |
prisonlegalnews.org | Paul Wright
Share: Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on G+ Share with email by Paul Wright This issue of PLN marks our 35th anniversary of publishing. Our first 8 issues were hand typed in two different maximum-security prison cells in Washington and sent to an outside volunteer to put together, photocopy and mail to 75 potential subscribers. Our start up budget was $300 for six months.
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2 weeks ago |
prisonlegalnews.org | Paul Wright
Share: Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on G+ Share with email by Paul Wright After reporting on prisons and jails for 35 years now, I have learned that these are the least transparent of American institutions. It is not much exaggeration to say that among American news consumers, they know more about what is happening in North Korea or the Middle East than they do about their local or statewide detention facilities.
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1 month ago |
prisonlegalnews.org | Paul Wright
Share: Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on G+ Share with email by Paul Wright This month’s cover story explores the increasing use of tablets in prisons and jails around the country by the same prison telecom monopolies that have controlled the prison phone “market” for the past 35 years. PLN has been reporting on tablets for a number of years now, since they were first introduced and we are seeing their steady expansion.
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2 months ago |
prisonlegalnews.org | Sam Rutherford
Share: Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on G+ Share with email by Sam Rutherford The United States Courts of Appeals for the Ninth and Tenth Circuits recently held that the government may not immediately appeal a district court’s order extending to new factual scenarios that the exemption to governmental immunity first identified in Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971).
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Feb 27, 2025 |
prisonlegalnews.org | Sam Rutherford
× You have 2 more free articles available this month. Subscribe today. Share: Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on G+ Share with email by Sam Rutherford On July 18, 2024, a physician assistant employed by the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) complied with an order to surrender his medical license by the state’s medical commission, which accused him of multiple instances of incompetent and negligent care of prisoners who were his patients. Richard T.
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