Prison news service - No. 27
The Prison News Network (PNS) focuses on political trials, repressive abuses of imprisonment and the resistance to such oppression. It was joined with another existing prison periodical called Marionette made by prisoners for prisoners and the general public to spread awareness of the conditions prisons, Marion Penitentiary, Illinois in particular. PNS editor: Jim Campbell. Article topics include: Breaking ground on a new maximum security prison in Florence, Colorado ("The proposed prison in Florence, CO: a 'new improved' Marion", by Marial Nanasi) -- Oregon Department of Corrections constructing an Intense Management Unit (IMU) at Oregon State Prison ("Oregon adopts Marion style suppression", by John Trappe) -- Open letter from Republican Socialist POW's, Portlaoise Prison drawing attention to hungerstrriker Dessie Ellis ("Irish prisoner begins hungerstrike") -- Police brutality and torture condoned by police lieutenant Jon Burge of Chicago ("The death squads cometh", by Bill Dunne) -- Open letter to political prisoners, by Gumu Saldki Infomo (aka D.V. Conquest) -- Mohawk resistance at Kanestake ("Arms and the Mohawk", by Jim Campbell) -- Canada's Solicitor-General Pierre Cadieux announced that the Kingston Prison for Women ((P4W), the only federal penitentiary for women in Canada, would be shut down within four years ("P4W closing?", by Ron Shore) -- Several articles about Mumia abu-Jamal, a prisoner on death row at the Huntingdon Prison in Pennsylvania -- Bulldozer, Freedom Now! and its agenda. (Note: p. 6-7 is a double page spread). Marionette, No. 51, September-October 1990. Editor: Bill Dunne. Article topics include: USP Marion's water supply, from Crab Orchard Lake, contaminated ("Toxic troubles", "Seven slimey stretches") -- Review of an article by Cisco Lassiter in Mother Jones, assertibng that Lassiter reveals an anti-prisoner bias in his article ("Robo review") -- Report of claim under the Federal Tort Claim Act negating a civil rights claim ("Doo-doo process") -- WOFPP (Women's Organization for Political Pirisoners) asks for volunteers to correspond with Palestinian women prisoners.
- In Collection:
- Prisons
- Prisoners--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Marion Penitentiary (Ill.)
- Authority
- Prisoners
- Anarchism--Periodicals
- Prison periodicals
- Prison administration
- Anarchism
- Anarchists
- Correctional institutions
- Prisoners' writings, American
- Political prisoners' writings
- Political prisoners
- Prisoners--Social conditions
- Prisoners' writings
- 11 p. : ill. ; 43 x 29 cm., folded to 29 x 22 cm.
- Marionette, No. 51, September/October 1990
- Bulldozer Prison news service
- Prisoners' newsletter of Marion Penitentiary
- Prison news service. No. 27
- 60.10867, -113.64258
- 39.76, -98.5
- 38.64959, -88.91897
- Jim Campbell (Julie Thiers) Collection
- Donor: Julie Thiers
- Finding aid for archival fonds: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/jim-campbell-fonds
- February 17, 2011
- 200 dpi jpeg. Digitized by CDW, KM; metadata by GF and KD.
- Rights
- Contact UVic Archives for access to the original, or ask UVic Archives to make a copy (fee for service). Patrons may look at the material through the Anarchism Digital Research Centre, but may not use images unless they contact UVic Archives.
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