Prison news service - No. 32
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: Bulldozer Collective. Article topics include: "Manitoba's aboriginal justice inquiry condemns racism in the justice system", by Jim Campbell -- Two Americans, Charles Ng and Joseph Kindler, deported to U.S. in face of possible execution ("Court decision favours death") -- Prison activists met in Chicago for the 20th anniversary of the Attica Rebellion ("Campaign against Control Units begins: Chicago meeting to commemorate Attica") -- On Aug. 21, 1991 detainees from the 1980 Mariel boatlift from Cuba seized the Alpha Unit of the Federal Correctional Institute (FCI) at Talledega, AL ("Mas de la Cubanos", by Bill Dunne) -- U.S. rise in incarcerations revealed by Sentencing Project ("A state of death, a state of repression", by Mumia abu-Jamal) -- "Killing the value of life", by Paul Jorgesen -- Two Vancouver activists, Christine Lamont and Dave Spencer, were convicted in the Dec. 1989 kidnapping of Abilio Diniz in Sao Paulo, Brazil ("Update on Brazil kidnapping case") -- "New Jersey prisons repress ...". by Jim Campbell -- "... The prisoners resist", an open letter from Clifford "Dharuba" Roberts -- "Is the Black Liberation Army still in existence?", by Sekou Imarobge-Mussaui -- Remembering the Attica rebellion, Sept. 9, 1971 ("Attica=Resistance", "From Attica to Marion: it's closer than you think", "In commemoration of Jonathan Jackson", by Karimu U. Diop, and "Voices from the inside: In memory, August 21, 1971") -- "Linking anti-racist and lesbian'gay struggles" -- "AIDS issue is in our hands" -- Discussion of the article "The crime of black imprisonment" by Steve Whitman published in PNS no. 31 ("The root of all evil", by Bill Dunne) -- "Political prisoners: segregation or integration", by Paul Wright. (Note: p. 6-7 is a double-page spread.) Marionette, No. 56, July-August, 1991. Editor: Bill Dunne. Article topics include: Commission of Correction has released its investigation report on the death of James Charles, a prisoner in Attica State Prison ("Corrections Commission white washes prisoner's death", by Kenya Nkrumah) -- "Prison officials use transfers to harass political prisoner", by Lawrence Williams -- Prisoners at USP Marion required to work for UNICOR ("Means of destruction") -- Educational opportunities few at Marion ("Institutionalizing ignorance").
- In Collection:
- Authority
- Anarchism
- Marion Penitentiary (Ill.)
- Prisoners
- Prisoners' writings
- Political prisoners
- Prisoners' writings, American
- Prison periodicals
- Correctional institutions
- Anarchism--Periodicals
- Anarchists
- Prisoners--Social conditions
- Prisoners--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Political prisoners' writings
- Prisons
- Prison administration
- 9 p. : ill. ; 43 x 29 cm., folded to 29 x 22 cm.
- Prisoners' newsletter of Marion Penitentiary
- Bulldozer Prison news service
- Marionette, No. 56, July-August 1991
- Prison news service. No. 32
- 60.10867, -113.64258
- 38.64959, -88.91897
- 39.76, -98.5
- 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, 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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