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A must for all inmates and teachers
I teach at a minimum security prison. One of my students was kind enough to share this publication with me. I practised law for a number of years before teaching and can attest that the legal case reviews are excellent and unbiased. The news from all over at the back pages is wildly entertaining as the staff knows where to place subtle editorial comments. I share these each month with my students. While the magazine is very scholarly and accurate in its reporting it is written for those who may not have a GED but is as easily digested by those of us with a few degrees under our belts. My back issues (the ones that do not get stolen) are read and borrowed daily. I also find that some of the publications advertised and reviews have been helpful. I also must add that when I asked for the inmate rate due to my teaching status I received a kind personal note from the editor letting me know about back issues available. The people who publish this do not jut do a good job, they do it with alot of heart. I will continue to subscribe even after I leave and would recommend that every law library in a criminal lawyer's office have this publication on file.

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Prison Legal News is an independent 36-page monthly magazine that provides a cutting edge
review and analysis of prisoner rights, court rulings and news about prison issues. PLN has a
national (U.S.) focus on both state and federal prison issues, with international coverage as well.
PLN provides information that enables prisoners and other concerned individuals and
organizations to seek the protection and enforcement of prisoner's rights at the grass roots level.
Prison Legal News' coverage includes court access, disciplinary hearings, prison conditions,
excessive force, mail censorship, jail litigation, visiting, telephones, religious freedom, free
speech, prison rape, abuse of women prisoners, retaliation, the Prison Legal Reform Act
(PLRA), medical treatment, AIDS, the death penalty, control units, attorney fees.
PLN is subscribed to by many civil and criminal trial and appellate attorneys, public defender
agencies, journalists, academics, paralegals, university and law school libraries, many prison law
libraries, prison rights activists, students, family members of prisoners and concerned private
individuals. Numerous state-level government officials also subscribe to PLN, including the
Attorneys General of about 25 states, prison wardens, and members of other prisoner-related
agencies. PLN has been published monthly since May 1990.
PLN has a subscription exchange arrangement with scores of other publications, from
well-known alternative magazines to very small, independent newsletters. Another valuable
source of information are the scores of newspaper clippings about prison related matters mailed to
PLN by readers in the U.S. and other countries. Imprisoned PLN readers also regularly send
first person accounts that provide PLN with "inside scoops". Many readers also send
"unpublished" court rulings that are a valuable source of not normally reported information. PLN
also investigates, develops and breaks news stories, some of which have been picked up by
other media.
PLN has "regular" writers and also solicits and publishes articles written by other writers,
many of them in prison. Authors and activists who have published in PLN include: William
Kunstler and Ron Kuby, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Ken Silverstein, Jennifer Vogel, Adrian Lomax,
Raymond Luc Levasseur, John Perotti, Willie Wisely, Christian Parenti, William Greider, Ed
Mead, Noelle Hanrahan.
In addition to the PLN magazine subscription via Amazon, plus the books that PLN publishes,
I recommend the following 121-page trade paperback:
"The Prison Industrial Complex", by John Flateau. It is available from Amazon;
enter this ISBN into the search box: 1888085002
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