Prison news service - No. 31

Public

PNS editor: Bulldozer Collective. Article topics include: "Peltier gets new court hearing", by S. Harrison -- Open letter to Senator Inouye from Gerald W. Heaney -- Needless harassment and beatings from guards, bad food, inadequate medical care, and limited visiting sparked prisoners at Southport Correctional Facility in New State to take over a part of the facility in protest ("A rising of the damned", by Bill Dunne) -- U.S. Supreme Court takes hard line on appeals of death sentence ("The murderers among use", by Bill Dunne) -- Television program investigates health services in federal prisons ("60 Minutes lances BOP health services: stuff comes out"), by Tim Blunk) --A brief history of MOVE, a black liberation group founded by John Africa. In 1985, the group made national news when police dropped a bomb on the Osage Avenue house from a helicopter in an attempt to end an armed standoff. The explosion ignited a fire in which 11 people died, including five children and the group's leader, John Africa. Only two occupants survived, Ramona Africa, an adult and Birdie, a child. In addition, 60 homes were destroyed ("May 13th remembered", by Mumia abu-Jamal) -- "A prison within a prison: the Special Handling Unit at Saskatchewan Penitentiary", by Richard Martel) -- An introductory talk welcoming outsiders to a Native Brotherhood social at the federal prison in Renous, New Brunswick ("Sacred circle social") -- Afrikan National Ujama (ANU), a Pan Afrikan Nationalist group has been educating and organizing black prisoners in New Jersey ("New Jersey prisoners under attack", by Jim Campbell) -- "Some policies can not wait!: AIDS in Canadian prisons", by Zoltan Lugosi -- Sentencing Project (Washington, D.C.) reports an enormous increase in imprisonment rates in the United States, especially affecting black men ("The crime of black imprisonment", by Steve Whitman and "Cons in prose: good and bad", by Bill Dunne) -- Interview of Linda Evans of the Resistance Conspiracy Six ("AIDS education and lesbian pride in Pleasanton", interviewed by Sunday Harrison) -- "Letter: Michael Stotts responds to criticism" (Stotts responds to Larry Giddings article in the May/June 1991 issue of PNS). (Note: p. 6-7 is a double-page spread.) Marionette, No. 55, May-June, 1991. Editor: Bill Dunne. Article topics include: Errors in Washington reporter Michael Isikoff's newspaper article about USP Marion ("Washington putz") -- Report on new USP Marion warden C. Allen Turner and his actions at Springfield facility ("Prison warden may be hazardous to prisoners", by Tim Blunk) -- Incident report leads to unwarranted punishment (Trivia that hurts") -- "Stop the legal lynching of Mumia abu-Jamal!: free Mumia abu-Jamal, abolish the death penalty, free all political prisoners and POWs!"

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
  • 11 p. : ill. ; 43 x 29 cm., folded to 29 x 22 cm.
Alternative title
  • Prison news service. No. 31
  • Bulldozer Prison news service
  • Prisoners' newsletter of Marion Penitentiary
  • Marionette, No. 55, May-June 1991
Geographic coverage Coordinates
  • 38.64959, -88.91897
  • 39.76, -98.5
  • 60.10867, -113.64258
Physical repository Collection
  • Jim Campbell (Julie Thiers) Collection
Provenance
  • Donor: Julie Thiers
Provider Genre Fonds title Fonds identifier Is referenced by Date digitized
  • April 8, 2012
Technical note
  • 200 dpi jpeg. Digitized by CDW, KM, SC; 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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