Prison news service - No. 26
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Anarchists
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subject: Authority
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subject: Anarchism
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subject: Prisoners' writings
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subject: Political prisoners
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subject: Anarchism--Periodicals
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subject: Prisoners
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subject: Prisoners--Legal status, laws, etc.
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subject: Political prisoners' writings
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subject: Prisoners' writings, American
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subject: Prison periodicals
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subject: Marion Penitentiary (Ill.)
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subject: Prisons
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subject: Prisoners--Social conditions
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subject: Correctional institutions
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subject: Prison administration
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description: PNS editor: Bulldozer Collective. Article topics include: The DC Resistance Conspiracy Case (Marilyn Buck, Tim Blunk, Susan Rosenberg, Alan Berkman, Linda Evans, Laura Whitehorn) ("Hostages at home: Resistance Conspiracy Case", by Bill Dunne) -- Prisoner journalist Dannie Martin censored ("Freedom to be pressed", by Bill Dunne) -- War on drugs used to maintain the imbalance of power between the white ruling class and people of color ("Let them eat crack!", from Bara) -- Bill HR-4079, the National Drug and Crime Emergency Act, is now the the House and Senate ("100 steps backward: HR-4079") -- New super-max prison to be built at Florence, CO ("Colorado confinement resistance", by Bill Dunne) -- Call for an independent investigation and inspection of New York prisons ("Congressional investigation and inspection of prisons needed", by Kenya Nkrumah) -- Personal account of the realities of the death penalty ("One day in November", by James L. Beathard (reprinted from Endeavor)) -- Backlash to Mohawk protests in Kanesatake and Kahnawake ("Mohawks surrounded by police, armed forces: all this for a golf course?, by S. Harrison) -- Government ignoring racist harrassment, send military in ("Governments of Canada and Quebec declare war on Mohawk Nation and all indigenous people", from the Leonard Peltier Defence Committee (Canada)) -- "Extracts from the sovereignty position of the Kanienkahaka (Mohawk Nation) Territory of the Haudenosaunee Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy, presented to the Government of Canada, Province of Quebec and the International Human Rights Federation, August 20, 1990" -- Indigenous people continue their fight for land, culture, language, self-determination and dignity ("Land thieves to face Native justice", by S. Harrison) -- "Solidarity with Mohawks gives state new troubles", by Jim Campbell -- "A distinct society faces a distinct challenge: Mohawks in Quebec", by S. Harrison -- Pierre Maltais held in isolation at Archambault maximum-security penitentiary in Quebec ("HIV+ prisoner harassed in Montreal") -- Bill Dunne and Freedom Now! continue to disagree ("Tribunal bound", "FN! still not so free with answers" ) (Note: p. 6-7 is a double-page spread). Marionette, No. 50, July-August 1990. Editor: Bill Dunne. Article topics include: Susan Lehman writes article on USP Marion lockdown for Wigwag ("Another look at the lockdown", by Bill Dunne) -- Findings from the report issued by the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Administration of Justice, which oversees the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) ("Blind oversight") -- Emotions manipulated? ("Mind control", by Corey Micenheimer) -- Money spent for new prison at Florence, CO, should be spent for drug treatment centers and education instead ("All shook up", by Hanif Shabazz-Bey) -- "Canada's AIDS strategy: nothing for prisoners, not much for anyone". "You have not missed as issue, if the last issue you saw was May/June 1990. We are changing the dating methods of the PNS to the months when the magazine comes out, rather than the months in which the events occurred. There was no PNS July-August 1990 even though 6 issues will come out this year." --Back cover.
description: 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.