Prisoners'
Guerrilla Handbook ![](/web/20110122090935im_/http://www.prisonersolidarity.org/guerillahandbook.jpg)
Numerous prisons have
eliminated or defunded prison education programs, limiting incarcerated
individuals' ability to pursue a GED or higher education while incarcerated.
To respond to this situation, the third edition of Prisoners'
Guerrilla Handbook to Correspondence Programs in the U.S. and Canada,
has been published, written by Missouri prisoner Jon Marc Taylor,
who has successfully completed a B.S. degree, an M.A. degree and
a Doctorate by mail while incarcerated.
Prison Profiteers![](/web/20110122090935im_/http://www.prisonersolidarity.org/prisonprofiteers.jpg)
Locking
up 2.3 million people isnt cheap. Each year federal, state,
and local governments spend over $185 billion annually in tax dollars
to ensure that one out of every 137 Americans is imprisoned. Prison
Profiteers
looks at the private prison companies, investment banks, churches,
guard unions, medical corporations, and other industries and individuals
that benefit from this experiment with mass imprisonment.
-The
New Press, 2007
Lucasville
Uprising Anniversary
All About Lucasville
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15th anniversary of the 1993 Lucasville Prison Uprising.
Ten men died. Five men are on Death Row and many more are serving
additional sentences.
The story of the Lucasville Five is a textbook case for what is
wrong with the death penalty. The ease with which the state has
been able to bring these men to the point of execution will make
any viewer want to rethink not only the justification for these
convictions, but the legitimacy of the death penalty itself!
“Lucasville: The
Play
Martin
Luther King Day Rally at Ohio's Death Row
In what is becoming an annual event to oppose
Ohio’s death penalty, the family members, the Lucasville Five
Defense Committee out of Cleveland and other prisoner-advocacy groups
openly protested executions and prisoner treatment in general inside
the walls of the facility that now houses most of the death row
inmates.
Warren
Tribune Chronicle
Staughton
Lynd on Amy Goodman's Democracy Now!
Nine prisoners and a hostage officer were killed. A surrender was
negotiated, and no sooner was the surrender negotiated with various
prisoner spokespersons than the state of Ohio turned around and
began to build death penalty cases against those very leaders and
spokespersons. They didnt care who had really done things.
They wanted to nail the leaders so that no prisoner would ever have
this idea again.
new!
Blue
Rage, Black Redemption
Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir by Stanley
Tookie Williams is a first-hand account of Williams' personal journey
from co-founding the notorious Crips gang to becoming a reformed
prisoner and activist for youth from behind bars on California's
death row.
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Rethinking
Ohio's Death Penalty
YOUNGSTOWN
- About 50 opponents of the death penalty gathered outside the Ohio
State Penitentiary to send a message. "We have a new governor,"
said Susan Schnur, 49, of Cleveland. "We're hoping this is
a starting point. We want Governor Strickland to see us." Full
article
Prison Forum Coverage
June 10 , 2006, Youngstown State University
Keynote speech,
news coverage, conference
photos, and more
"Have
something to say?"
Here are our submission guidelines
No
Parole Rule Rescinded in Ohio!
Alice Lynd, Prisonersolidarity.org
May 18, 2007
Prisoner-assisted
homicide - more volunteer executions loom
Amnesty International USA
May 17, 2007
Physicians
resist push for execution involvement
By
Kevin B. O'Reilly, American Medical News
May 14, 2007
Tennessee
Carries Out First Execution
Since Lethal Injection Review
By Theo Emery, The New York Times
May 9, 2007
Calls
to abolish the death penalty emerge nationwide
By
Stephanie Hoops, The Ventura County Star
May 7, 2007
Raising
the quality of justice
The Cleveland Plain Dealer (Editorial)
May 6, 2007
My
Heart Aches Like the Black Ghetto,
The Big Black Ancient Ghetto
By Kamau Tebogo Zulu Damali, Prisonersolidarity.org
May 5, 2007
Why Are Muslims Being Discriminated
Against?
Ali Khalid Abdullah, Prisonersolidarity.org
May 5, 2007
Worthy
and Unworthy Victims
By Stephen Lendman, Z Magazine
May 3, 2007
The
Lethal Injection Quandary: How Medicine Has Dismantled the Death Penalty
By
Deborah W. Denno, Fordham Legal Studies Research Paper# 983732
May 1, 2007
Felony
sentencing philosophy reflects community values
Jack Palmer, Defiance Crescent-News
April 30, 2007
Doctor:
Lethal injections are 'catastrophically flawed'
But state prison officials testify inmates will be fully
sedated before execution
By Jon Murray, Indianapolis Star
April 27, 2007
Aftermath
of New Castle riot reroutes prisoners
By Kristine Brite, Hendricks County Flyer (Avon,
Ind.)
April 26, 2007
Civil
rights attorney Staughton Lynd co-wrote the play
By Guy D'Astolfo, The Vindicator
April 26, 2007
Locked Down But Not Out:
Inmate Activists Strive Toward Prison Reform
By Maya Schenwar, Punk Planet
March-April 2007
Play
challenges death penalty views; local man plays killer in Lucasville
By Joe Pinchot, The Sharon Herald
April 25, 2007
Lethal Injection - Ohio's Shame
By Jonathan I. Groner MD, OSU Children's Hospital
April 25, 2007
Darrows
birthday celebrated
By
Angelique McKowan, The Warren Tribune Chronicle
April 19, 2007
Speed
Bumps (From Ohio Death Row)
By Vernon Brown, Prisonersolidarity.org
April 17, 2007
Life
in Solitary Confinement: 12,775 Days Alone
By Brooke Shelby Biggs, AlterNet
April 17, 2007
Smith state Prison Officials Discriminate
Against Muslim Prisoners
By Abdus-Salam Karim, Prisonersolidarity.org
April 16, 2007
Plays
about Lucasville riot, Clarence Darrow spotlight death penalty
By Daniel Sturm, The Athens News
April 16, 2007
The
politics of life and death
An inmate's fate often hinges on luck of the draw
By Dan Horn, The Cincinnati Enquirer
April 15, 2007
Crime, Punishment,
and Vengeance in the Age of Mass Imprisonment
By
Prema Polit, AlterNet
April 14, 2007
Referendum to End the Death Penalty
in Ohio
Letter to 195 Prisoners on Ohio's Death Row
Kunta Kenyatta & Laurie Hoover, Prisonersolidarity.org
April 14, 2007
Support
Education And Not Death Row
By James Conway, Prisonersolidarity.org
April 14, 2007
Letter in Support of a Referendum
By Alva E. Campbell, Prisonersolidarity.org
April 14, 2007
Averting
the Criminalization of Communities
By Thomasina W. James, Prisonersolidarity.org
April 14, 2007
Guard's
family speaks out on play
By Ryan Scott Ottney, The Portsmouth Daily News
April 12, 2007
Play commemorates SOCF riot
By Ryan Scott Ottney,
The
Portsmouth Daily News
April 11, 2007
Staging
an appeal
New play invites another look at convictions that followed
rioting at Lucasville in 1993
By
Michael Grossberg, The Columbus Dispatch
April 11, 2007
Death
on Stage
The truth about the Lucasville uprising
By Daniel Sturm, The Cincinnati City Beat
April 11, 2007
Play
about Lucasville riot touches a nerve
John Caniglia, The Cleveland Plain Dealer
April
11, 2007
Mortality
Play
By Rick Claypool, The Toledo City Paper
April
11, 2007
Play
depicting Lucasville uprising on tour
La Prensa (Ohio
& Michigan Latino newspaper)
April 10, 2007
Darrow
Day
The (Youngstown) Vindicator
April 9, 2007
Many
states rethinking attitude on executions
Kenneth Biros, of Brookfield, is one of 191 killers on Ohio's
Death Row.
By Tim Jones, The Chicago Tribune
April 8, 2007
Rome
rally against death penalty
Press TV (Italy)
April 8, 2007
Columbia
play focuses on SOCF riot
By Jeff Barron, The Portsmouth Daily News
April 7, 2007
Story
of Lucasville Prison Riot Made Into Theatrical Production
New Play Reveals 'Untold Story' From Inmates Point of View
Jim Otte, WHIO-TV Dayton
April 6, 2007
Desperately
Seeking Justice
A Handful of Supporters Re-examines the Conviction of the
Lucasville Five
By Charu Gupta, The Cleveland Free Times
April 4, 2007
Former
Black Panther Party leader to speak on case of Ohio death row inmate
By Rick Claypool, The Toledo City Paper
April 4, 2007
Plays
examine death penalty
Cincinnati Enquirer
April 2, 2007
Fourteen years
since the seizure of L-Block
Interview with Siddique Abdullah Hasan (Part I)
By Martha Grevatt, Workers World
March 29, 2007
Fair
and impartial aggravated murder
By Staughton Lynd, The Columbus Free
Press
March 28, 2007
The
American Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
By Sam Provance, ConsortiumNews.com
March 27, 2007
Governor
grants Spirko reprieve
By Alan Johnson, The Columbus Dispatch
March 27, 2007
N.H.
House rejects repeal of death penalty
By Norma Love, Associated Press
March 27, 2007
Abolish the death
penalty
The Chicago Tribune (Editorial)
March 25, 2007
Governor
faced with life, death decisions
Capital penalty a heavy burden'
Aaron Marshall, The Cleveland Plain Dealer
March 23, 2007
The
Woman Who Wore Her Hijab
By Mary Uloho, Prisonersolidarity.org
March 23, 2007
Supreme Court blocks Ohio inmate's execution
By Erica Ryan, The Associated Press
March 20, 2007
YSU
graduate faces execution
Federal appeals court postpones Trumbull County man's death
sentence for 1991 murder
By Ashley Tate, The Jambar
March 20, 2007
Court
rules to stop Ohio execution; state appeals
By Dan Sewell, The Associated Press
March 19, 2007
Letter of Rage
By Ali Khalid Abdullah, Prisonersolidarity.org
March 16, 2007
Abolitionists
See Victory in View
Adrianne Appel, IPS
March 16, 2007
Governor
denies clemency to death row inmate
The Associated Press
March 16, 2007
Strickland
not cutting budget for Ohio prisons
By Mark Niquette, The Columbus Dispatch
March 13, 2007
Assistant
AG asks House to end death penalty (Montana)
The Associated Press
March 10, 2007
Ohio
attorney general requests 6th reprieve for
condemned inmate
The Associated Press
March
5, 2007
A
Word to the People
By Kamau T. Zulu Damali (Raynell D. Morgan), Prisonersolidarity.org
March 4, 2007
Reverse
Reparations: Race, Place, and the Vicious Circle
of Mass Incarceration*
by Paul Street, ZNet
March 4, 2007
Lethal
injection challenge dismissed
Regina Fields, The Cleveland Plain Dealer
March 3, 2007
A Vast Tapestry
of Lies
By Bomani Shakur (AKA Keith LaMar), Prisonersolidarity.org
March 3, 2007
A Federal Witchhunt:
The Persecution of Sami Al-Arian
By
Alexander Cockburn, Counterpunch.org
March 3/4, 2007
Federal appellate court rules Ohio death row
inmate waited too long to file appeal
By
Jim Provance, The Toledo Blade
March 2, 2007
A
Trial for Thousands Denied Trial
Naomi
Klein, The Nation
Feb. 26, 2007
Federal
Prosecutors Widen Pursuit Of Death Penalty
as States Ease Off
By Christopher Conkey and Gary Fields, The Wallstreet
Journal
Feb. 3, 2007
Executions
in state halted to fix process
Opponents applaud governor's order
By
Sheila Burke, The Nashville Tennessean
Feb. 2, 2007
Prison
Sanitation Crisis at Ohio State Penitentiary - Update
By Robert Reed, Prisonersolidarity.org
Feb. 2, 2007
Death
Penalty: Abolition, a Capital Issue
By Marie-Laure Colson, Liberation
Feb. 1, 2007
Nebraska's
death penalty could be debated
North Platte Telegraph
Feb. 1, 2007
Parole
board recommends against clemency for Filiaggi
Associated Press
Feb.
1, 2007
Governor denies moratorium plan for executions
3 scheduled have been delayed
By Jim Provance, The Toledo Blade
Feb. 1, 2007
Doctors
& Executions: A complex dilemma of medicine,
ethics and law
By Nathan Crabbe, The Gainsville Sun
Jan. 28, 2007
Staying
above Ground
By Rashid Junaid, Prisonersolidarity.org
Jan. 28, 2007
Companys
monopoly: prison care packages
Alan Johnson, The Columbus Dispatch
Jan. 28, 2007
Is death row slowing down?
Decision is 'probably the toughest' Strickland faces in
job
By Jon Craig and Sharon Coolidge, The Cincinnati Enquirer
Jan. 28, 2007
Ohio
death penalty defended
Prosecutors fight study, say system works; critics see bad
convictions
Alan Johnson, The Columbus Dispatch
Jan. 27, 2007
Death
Row Briton hopes for freedom
Press Association
Jan. 27, 2007
Killer
says he's ready for execution
Filiaggi discusses shooting ex-wife
Reginald Fields and Mark Puente, The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Jan. 26, 2007
Are
Prisons Driving Prisoners Mad?
By Jeffery Kluger, TIME Magazine
Jan. 26, 2007
Death
penalty needs closer look
Regina Brett, The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Jan. 26, 2007
The
quality of Ohio's justice: Are we comfortable with executions?
Cleveland Plain Dealer (Editorial)
Jan. 26, 2007
Death
penalty repeal sought
O'Malley backs bills to replace executions with life without parole
Jennifer Skalka, The Baltimore Sun
Jan. 26, 2007
I came to Prison For Punishment -
Not Inhumane Treatment
By Carmen Stavole, Prisonersolidarity.org
Jan. 24, 2007
Death penalty needs re-examination
Jeff Gamso, The Dayton Daily News (Letter to the
Editor)
Jan. 23, 2007
An Anatomy of a Failed Black Manhood
By Abdul Olugbala Shakur, Prisonersolidarity.org
Jan. 23, 2007
2
inmates, state legislators ask to stop executions
The Associated Press
Jan 23, 2007
Prison,
a growth industry
The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Jan. 22, 2007
Marine's
last stand on death row
Kenny Richey has faced execution in the US for 20 years. Tomorrow
will be his final appeal
By David Rose, The Observer (UK)
Jan. 21, 2007
Prisonersolidarity
Winter 2007 Newsletter
Prisonersolidarity.org
Jan. 20, 2007
3
Ohio executions on hold
Strickland doesn't want to make hasty decisions
By Reginald Fields, The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Jan. 20, 2007
RealPolitics 101: Hussein's
Execution Follows Political Tradition
By Dennis Boatwright, Prisonersolidarity.org
Jan. 20, 2007
Governor
delays next 3 Ohio executions for more review
By Mark Niquette, The Columbus Dispatch
Jan. 19, 2007
Determined
protesters say 'Stop the executions'
By Sharon Danann, Cleveland Workers World
Jan. 18, 2007
Justices
Scrutinize Death Penalty in Texas
Linda Greenhouse, The New York Times
Jan. 18, 2007
A
penalty nobody should pay
By John Watson, Edinburgh Evening News (UK)
Jan. 18, 2007
Inmate surge predicted
Officials debate need to build prisons vs. expanding services
By John Caniglia, The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Jan. 17, 2007
America's
Slave Labor
Inmates are being forced to work in toxic 'e-waste' sweatshops
By Christopher Moraff, In These Times
Jan. 17, 2007
Black Mirror
By Adam Spells, Prisonersolidarity.org
Jan. 16, 2007
Lethal Injection: A Closer
Look
The Death Penalty Procedure Now Under Review
Opinion By Jonathan Groner, M.D., ABC News
Jan. 16, 2007
Benge
v. Johnson, U.S. Court
of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Case No. 05-3122.
Judge
Martin's dissent: Pages 16-19
(PDF)
Southern District of Ohio at Cincinnati
Jan. 16, 2007
Death
penalty opponents protest at state prison
Protesters promoted the cause of prisoners charged
in the Lucasville riot.
By Don Shilling, The Youngstown Vindicator
Jan. 15, 2007
Ohio's
death penalty subject to review
By
Laura A. Bischoff, The Dayton Daily News
Jan. 15, 2007
Desolation
Rows
The execution of Saddam Hussein
By Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker
Jan. 15, 2007
Baby! Let
Momma Kiss Your Pain
By Mary Uloho, Prisonersolidarity.org
Jan. 13, 2007
Is lethal injection barbaric?
Ohio revisits the ethics of execution
By
Daniel Sturm, The Athens News
Jan. 11, 2007
Surgeon
cites link between lethal injection, Nazis
By Daniel Sturm, The Athens News
Jan. 11, 2007
Victims
parents: Spare her killer
Daughter wasnt for death penalty, family will argue
By Alan Johnson, The Columbus Dispatch
Jan. 11, 2007
An Appeal for
Advice
By Enrique Akil Diaz, Prisonersolidarity.org
Jan. 10, 2007
3
prisoners scheduled to die in 3-week period
By Andrea Weigl, The News and Observer (N. Carolina)
Jan. 10, 2007
Parole
Board recommends no clemency for killer
The Associated Press
Jan. 10, 2007
Strickland
gets first death penalty case from parole board
By Alan Johnson, The Columbus Dispatch
Jan. 10, 2007
WE NEED a REVOLUTION in ORDER
to HAVE a REVOLUTION
By Ali Khalid Abdullah, Prisonersolidarity.org
Jan. 8, 2007
Possible Goals for 2007
By Franz Kurz, Prisonersolidarity.org
Jan. 8, 2007
Tortured
in the death chamber
Marlene Martin, Counterpunch.org
Jan. 7, 2007
Death penalty partisans try to read Strickland
Julie Carr Smyth, Associated Press
Jan. 6, 2007
Botched
executions incite fight against death penalty
By Sharon Danann, Workers World
Jan. 6, 2007
Everyday Struggles of a (Self-Defined) Political Prisoner: An Interview
with Jason Goudlock
By Siddique A. Hasan, Prisonersolidarity
Co-Founder
Jan. 4, 2007
Mold, Staph Infections and Broken Utilities
at the
Ohio State Penitentiary
By Robert Reed, Prisonersolidarity.org
Jan. 1, 2007
Why I Oppose "Life Without Parole"
By Alice Lynd,
Prisonersolidarity.Org
Dec. 30, 2006
Inmate
says paroled prisoner lied about Lucasville riot
The Associated Press
Dec. 29, 2006
The Psychology of the "N-Word"
by Raynell D. Morgan (aka, Kamau Tebogo Zulu Damali), Prisonersolidarity.org
Dec. 29, 2006
Maryland's
Death Penalty
It's time to discuss giving it up.
The Washington Post (Editorial)
Dec. 27, 2006
Lawuits putting executions in doubt
Associated Press (Cincinnati Post)
Dec. 25, 2006
Ruling
opens possibility of indefinite end to executions
By J. McMenamin and J. Mitchell, Baltimore Sun
Dec. 22, 2006
SERIES (Part I-X)
Creating More
Victims: How Executions Hurt the
Families Left Behind
National Coaltion to Abolish the Death Penalty
Dec. 18, 2006 - Jan. 3, 2007
Maryland
Executions Halted
State court finds procedures established improperly
By Jennifer McMenamin,
The Baltimore Sun
Dec. 20, 2006
"Unjust, Cruel and Irrational"
The United States of Punishment
By WILLIAM BLUM, Counterpunch
Dec. 18, 2006
A Victim of Ohio State Penitentiary
Prisoner Abuse
Seeks Pro Bono Legal Representation
By Jason Goudlock, Prisonersolidarity.org
Dec. 17, 2006
2-Dose
Fla. Execution Sparks Criticism
By
Ron Word, Associated Press
Dec. 14, 2006
Prosecutor
Admits Mumia Had No "True Defense"
By Dave Lindorff, Counterpunch.org
Dec. 7, 2006
Inside
the $37 billion prison economy
By Michael Myser, Business 2.0 Magazine
Dec. 6, 2006
MORE NEWS IN
THE ARCHIVE
Prisonersolidarity
IN THE NEWS
WBAI,
New York
- 99.5 FM Pacifica Radio
Radio
journalist Mimi Rosenberg read Daniel McCauley's Prisonersolidarity
essay in a show that was dedicated to his memory, which focused
on youth incarceration, rehabilitation, prison reform, and the inhumane
conditions at supermax prisons (a comparison is made between Youngstown's
Ohio State Penitentiary and Guantanamo). The interviewed guests
were Staughton and Alice Lynd. Rosenberg's report aired on WBAI
New York, on the nationally syndicated morning show, "Wakeup
Call." You may listen to
and download the interview at WBAI's program archive: It is
the June 6, 7 a.m. "Wakeup Call." - Prisonersolidarity.org
The
Cleveland Free Times
Though
Hasan is still in jail, he's busier than ever. The 44-year-old writes
and receives dozens of letters in his supermax cell. He needs to
convince more people that he was convicted on jailhouse snitch testimony
that's since been recanted or contradicted, and without the advantage
of alternative witness accounts.
So almost every day, Hasan writes. He posts regular missives
on a Web portal, prisonersolidarity.org (which he also edits),
to communicate between prisoners and those on the outside. And he
constantly sends letters to possible supporters. Read
full article
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