Prison news service - No. 27
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Prisons
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subject: Prisoners--Legal status, laws, etc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077155
subject: Marion Penitentiary (Ill.)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/611366
subject: Authority
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821653
subject: Prisoners
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077103
subject: Anarchism--Periodicals
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808394
subject: Prison periodicals
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077063
subject: Prison administration
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077006
subject: Anarchism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808387
subject: Anarchists
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808401
subject: Correctional institutions
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subject: Prisoners' writings, American
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subject: Political prisoners' writings
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1069664
subject: Political prisoners
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1069636
subject: Prisoners--Social conditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077200
subject: Prisoners' writings
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077268

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. 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.