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Prisoners'
Guerrilla Handbook 
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
Locking
up 2.3 million people isn’t 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
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 didn’t 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.
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
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photos, and more
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ACLU in Ohio calls
delayed execution intolerable, demands halt
The
Canton Repository
May 25, 2007
Toledo Attorney
Angry Over Botched Executions
WTOL-TV in Toledo
May
25, 2007
Behind the Curtain -
How Modern Day Executioners
Botch Their Job
By Jessica Ablamsky, The New College Clarion
May 24, 2007
Prisonersolidarity Spring
2007 Newsletter
Prisonersolidarity.org
May 20, 2007
We All
Have Diamonds that are Undiscovered
By Damone "Monebone"
Johnson, Prisonersolidarity.org
May 19, 2007
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
Darrow’s
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
Company’s
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
Victim’s parents: Spare
her killer
Daughter wasn’t 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
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