Prison news service - No. 48

Public

PNS editor: Bulldozer Collective. Articles include: "Prison for women & B range"; "Little Rock Reed update - got bond re-arrested for extradition to Ohio"; "The release of Mark Cook: it's a question of justice"; "Puerto Rican POWs/PPs - it is time for parole!"; "Deplorable conditions in local holding centres"; "Prisons are above the law?! - making the CSC accountable"; "Guerrilla theatre"; "Why prisons?"; "Alert: danger in using bleach to clean needles"; "The last mile - a near-death experience in Ohio"; "Sisters & brothers behind bars - update from League for Lesbian and Gay Prisoners"; "Connecticut catches up with a super max"; "Death chambers: Tennessee 1969-1971"; "Update on the killing of Robert Gentles"; "Gomez leaves PWA to die in prison"; "A viable revolutionary strategy"; "A.C.A. accreditation - Lucasville style"; "FBI bomb school linked to attack on Earth first! activists"; Iron House Drum. "The native experience - from Indian country to federal dungeons"; "A message to the people from Standing Deer"; "Our children are not the problem!"; "New Afrikan prisoners in Pelican Bay call for support"; "The armageddon of prisoners"; "Control unit madness"; "The rise and fall of Vichy politics: a response to Eric Cummins's book, The Rise and fall of California's radical prison movement"; "San Quentin - a mini history"; Resources.

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.

In Collection:
Contributor Subject Publisher Language Date created Resource type Rights statement Extent
  • 19 p. : ill. ; 43 x 29 cm., folded to 29 x 22 cm.
Alternative title
  • Iron House Drum
  • Prison news service. No. 48
  • Prisoners' newsletter of Marion Penitentiary
  • Bulldozer Prison news service
Geographic coverage Coordinates
  • 38.64959, -88.91897
  • 60.10867, -113.64258
  • 39.76, -98.5
Physical repository Collection
  • Jim Campbell (Julie Thiers) Collection
Provenance
  • Donor: Julie Thiers
Provider Genre Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • April 5, 2012
Technical note
  • 200 dpi jpeg. Digitized by CDW, KM, SC; metadata by JTP 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.
DOI

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