Prison News Update A great rally, a great victory for the Lucasville hunger strikers
By Denis O'Hearn, The San Francisco Bay View
Jan. 15, 2011
Prisoners' hunger strike enters second week
By Workers World Cleveland bureau
Jan. 14, 2011
Prisoners say they are denied rights given to others on Death Row
By Alan Johnson, The Columbus Dispatch
Jan. 13, 2011
Prisoners at Supermax Ohio Penitentiary Begin Hunger Strike to Protest 17+ Year Solitary Confinement Democracy Now
Jan. 4, 2011
Hunger strike of the Lucasville uprising prisoners starting Monday, Jan. 3
By the Lucasville Uprising Freedom Network
Dec. 31, 2010
A Welcome Prison Victory at Youngstown
By Denis O'Hearn, The Monthly Review Zine
Jan. 19, 2011
Lucasville prison uprising leaders go on hunger strike
By Sharon Danann, The Workers World
Jan 3, 2011
The Largest Prison Strike in American History Goes Ignored by US Media
By Joe Weber, Death and Taxes Magazine
Dec. 16, 2010
The Worst of the Worst: Supermax Torture in America
Lance Tapley, The Boston Review
November/December 2010
Economic prison zones
By Sam Bahour, Ha'aretz
Nov. 26, 2010
Growth of Ex-Offender Population in United States Is a Dramatic Drag on Economy
Center for Economic and Policy Research
Nov. 15, 2010
Eight Years of Guantanamo: What's Changed? By Frida Berrigan, CommonDreams.org
Jan. 11, 2010
Death Penalty News - Critical Legal Group's Abandonment
of Death Penalty Draws Attention Abolition Times Jan. 5, 2010
States Release Inmates Early To Cut Prison Costs By Cheryl Corley, NPR
Dec. 13, 2009
New Execution Method Is Used in Ohio By Ian Urbina, The New York Times
Dec. 9, 2009
Is the Death Penalty on the Decline in America? Jesse Hicks, Research Penn State
Dec. 6, 2009
Ohio's execution of Kenneth Biros an experiment on involuntary human subject By Richard Dieter, Jurist Legal News & Research
Dec. 1, 2009
Solitary disgrace. Prisons should abolish long-term solitary confinement.
TheWashington Post Editorial
Nov. 28, 2009
Ohio launches new non-DNA innocence initiative By Andrew Welsh-Huggins, The Associated Press
Nov. 19, 2009
American Youth in the 21st Century: Pathologized, Criminalized and Disposable By Henry A. Giroux, AlterNet
Nov. 16, 2009
Ohio to switch to 1 drug for lethal injection The Associated Press Nov. 13, 2009
4 Prisoners Facing Executions or Serving Extreme Jail Sentences Who Very Well May Be Innocent
By Liliana Segura, AlterNet
Oct. 26, 2009
After Three Strikes, Ohio's Death Penalty Should be Out By Mike Brickner, The ACLU of Ohio
Sept. 17, 2009
The Denial of My Parole. I Am Barack Obama's Political Prisoner Now By Leonard Peltier, Counterpunch.org
Sept. 11-13, 2009
Exposing 'Little Guantanamo:' Inside the CMU" Daniel McGowan, U.S. Penitentiary Marion, Illinois
Sept. 9, 2009
The Real Cost of Prisons Comix By Jenna M. Lloyd, ColorLines
Sept. 2, 2009
Publisher Sues Corrections Corporation of America Over Censorship of Books Sent to Prisoners ACLU
Sept. 2, 2009
Ohio can't stop EMTs working as executioners The Associated Press Aug. 20, 2009
Troy Davis and the Meaning of Actual Innocence By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
Aug. 19, 2009
Michael Vick found work; others don't The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Aug. 17, 2009
Prison guards try to incite riots to keep their jobs The San Francisco Bay View
Aug. 11, 2009
Missile-protesting priest arrested in Weld Co. By Kieran Nicholson, The Denver Post
Aug. 6, 2009
California Prisons Must Cut Inmate Population By The New York Times
Aug. 5, 2009
The Fiscal Crisis in Corrections: Rethinking Policies and Practices The Vera Institute of Justice
July 29, 2009
Children as young as 7 can be prosecuted as adults and serve adult prison terms, report finds The Sentencing Project News July 28, 2009
Home at last after years wrongly imprisoned The Socialist Worker June 30, 2009
The War Against the 'War on Drugs' By Sasha Abramsky, The Nation
June 17, 2009
Behind Bars ... Sort Of By Jim Lewis, The New York Times
June 10, 2009
Court: Suspects Can Be Interrogated Without Lawyer By Jesse J. Holland, The Associated Press
May 26, 2009
Growing up is even harder when mom is in prison CNN May 7, 2009
A new Texas? Ohio's death penalty examined By Travis Schulze, The Lantern
May 5, 2009
Re-entry Documentary, "The Released," Airs Tuesday on PBS PBS April 23, 2009
The Fall of the Presidential Pardon By Maya Schenwar, t r u t h o u t
April 2, 2009
New Prison and Jail Figures Show Record Incarceration,
Bureau of Justice Statistics Reports
The Sentencing Project News March 31, 2009
Why We Must Fix Our Prisons By Senator Jim Webb, Parade Magazine
March 29, 2009
Board Opposes Inmate's Execution The Associated Press
Feb. 8, 2009
Top US lawyer warns of deaths at Guantánamo The Guardian (UK)
Feb. 8, 2009
Iraqis await Guantanamo son, whereabouts unknown Reuters Feb. 8, 2009
Guantanamo inmates pose challenge for Europe By Sebastian Rotella, Los Angeles Times
Feb. 8, 2009
Activists oppose new Seattle jail proposal
By Emily Holt, The Seattle University Spectator
Feb. 4, 2009
Don't add to pain for Emma Dee Hill's family By Regina Brett, The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Jan. 28, 2009
What do Casey Anthony -- and other inmates -- buy behind bars? By Sarah Lundy, The Orlando Sentinel
Jan. 10, 2009
The Poor Are Enslaved In American Prisons By Nancy Lockhart, The Dissident Voice
Jan. 1, 2009
They cant kill a revolutionary: Showing solidarity with Ikemba (Marritte Funches) San Francisco Bay View Jan. 1, 2009
Webb Sets His Sights On Prison Reform
Senator Proposes National Panel
By Sandhya Somashekhar, The Washington Post
Dec. 29, 2008
Washington prison doctor quits over death penalty By Adam Wilson, The Olympian
Dec. 25, 2008
Mark seven years of Detention and Torture at Guantanamo Witness Against Torture Prisoner Procession on Jan. 11, 2009
Dec. 23, 2008
Maryland Commission Recommends Abolition
of Death Penalty in Final Report Death Penalty Information Center
Dec. 12, 2008
Should a Terminally Ill Prisoner Have to Die Behind Bars? By Liliana Segura, AlterNet
Dec 5, 2008
US Interrogator in Iraq Says Torture Policy Has
Led to Deaths of Thousands of American Soldiers Democracy Now!
Dec. 3, 2008
Out Of The Frying Pan Into The Fire By Dom Apollon, Color Lines
November/December 2008
Coming home. A report on re-entry TimeBanks, D.C.
November 2008
Organizing against the injustice system
By Michael Hoffman, Socialist Worker
Oct. 8, 2008
Winning the Fight of Our Lives:
Immigrant Rights and Prison-Industrial Complex By Subhash Kateel, Left Turn Magazine
Oct. 1, 2008
Critical Resistance Conference 2008 Sept. 26-28, 2008 in Oakland, Calif.
Program Schedule
Troy Davis Deserves a New Trial By Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate
Sept. 25, 2008
"Enough is Enough" A Death Row Visit with Troy A. Davis
By Patrick Dyer, Counterpunch
Sept. 23, 2008
New prisons seldom a lock on prosperity
By Robin Acton, The Pittsburgh Tribune Review
Sept. 22, 2008
I Spent 16 Years in Jail for a Crime I Didn't Commit.
Here's What Should Be Done By Jeffrey Deskovic, AlterNet
Sept. 16, 2008
Mumia Abu-Jamal, Welfare Poets Join National Tour! Live From Death Row
The Campaign to End the Death Penalty's 2008-09 speaking tour
The Executioners By Eric Lyttle, The Other Paper
Aug. 14, 2008
StopMax: The Fight Against Supermax Prisons Heats Up By Jessica Pupovac, AlterNet
Aug. 11, 2008
Lucasville: The Untold Story of a Prison Uprising By Kimberly Wadsworth, nytheatre.com
Aug 8, 2008
Europe's Role in Rendition and Secret Detention Amnesty International
Believe Me, It's Torture By Christopher Hitchens, Vanity Fair Magazine
August 2008
What Do Prisoners Make for Victoria's Secret? By Caroline Winter, Mother Jones Magazine
July/August 2008 Issue
The man who can't escape death row After 21 years in prison, Kenny Richey was freed last year. But life on the outside has been marked by alcoholism, violence and despair.
By Mark Hughes, The Independent (UK)
July 30, 2008
Torture and the Strategic Helplessness of the American Psychological Association By Stephen Soldz, Cageprisoners
July 25, 2008
Staging Controversy - "Lucasville" raises awareness of questions about 1993 uprising By John Patrick Gatta, The Youngstown Metro Monthly
July 2008
THE UNTOLD STORY: How a Deadly Prison Riot Becomes a Play Documentary by Mockrevolution
Lucasville prison riot. Guard's killer can die, too, court rules
By James Nash, The Columbus Dispatch
June 18, 2008
Judge Orders Ohio to Alter Its Method of Execution Adam Liptak, The New York Times
June 11, 2008
Local play 'Lucasville' slated for NYC Fringe Fest The Youngstown Vindicator
June 8, 2008
The Birth of Proof: May 19, 1925 By Jason Goudlock, Prisonersolidarity.org
May 29, 2008
A once ailing private-prison sector is now a revenue maker By Leslie Berestein, Copley News Service
May 22, 2008
Remember the Lucasville Five The Cleveland Free Times
May 21, 2008
Justice is overdue for Mumia By S. A. Hasan, The Socialist Worker
May 16, 2008
Lucasville State of Mind By Jason Goudlock, Prisonersolidarity.org
May 12, 2008
Arthur Tyler Is Awaiting Execution -- When The Actual Murderer Is Known And Being Protected By Ohio Law Enforcement
By Rick Kerger, Esq.*, Justice Denied Magazine
May 2008
What if 5.3 Million More Americans Could Vote? By Erika Wood, AlterNet
April 21, 2008.
After Hiatus, States Set Wave of Executions By Ralph Blumenthal, The New York Times
May 3, 2008
Play about Lucasville prisoners cheered By Sharon Danann, The Workers World
Apr. 25, 2008
EU urges US not to resume executions The Age, Australia
April 25, 2008
Cruel and Unusual History By Gilbert King, The New York Times (Op-Ed)
April 23, 2008
The Supreme Court Brings Back the Death Penalty By Liliana Segura, AlterNet
April 17, 2008.
Supreme Court upholds executions by lethal injection
Los Angeles Times
April 16, 2008
Ohio's Use of Lethal Injection is Unconstitutional ACLU Ohio Press Release
April 3, 2008
Torture in Our Own Backyards: The Fight Against Supermax Prisons By Jessica Pupovac, AlterNet
March 24, 2008
Record-High Ratio of Americans in Prison By David Crary, The Associated Press
Feb. 28, 2008
Meet Bush's Prison Nominee By Stephanie Mencimer, Mother Jones Magazine
Feb. 20, 2008
Nationwide call demands Ohio's governor pardon
Lucasville prisoners By Sharon Danann, Workers World
Feb. 10, 2008
Is being Muslim a capital crime in Ohio? Feb. 1, 2008
The Socialist Worker
Protest on death row Family members want more contact with inmates
By Christopher Bobby, The Warren Tribune Chronicle
Jan. 20, 2008
Panel wants contact rights for death row inmates The Youngstown Vindicator Jan. 20, 2008
Photos of the 2008 Ohio State Penitentiary MLK Rally The Warren Tribune Chronicle
Inmate rights group plans conference, rally The Youngstown Vindicator Jan. 17, 2008
The man who spent 21 years on Death Row reveals his extraordinary journey to freedom The London Evening Standard Jan. 13, 2008
Scot who aided Richey reflects on his release The Toledo Blade Jan. 13, 2008
In New Orleans: The Struggle for Affordable Housing Met With Tasers, Pepper Spray, and Arrests
By Bill Quigley, Special to the NNPA from the Louisiana Weekly Jan. 14, 2008
Protest demands: Overturn Lucasville 5 convictions By Caleb T. Maupin, Workers World
Jan. 10, 2008
Mom plans Richey's return to Scotland National dish, diet to welcome son
Jan. 6, 2008
By Jim Provance and Jennifer Feehan, The Toledo Blade
It Ain't Easy (a song) By Damone "Monebone" Johnson, Prisonersolidarity.org
Jan. 3, 2008
How the Police Create Crimes Criminals With Badges
By Paul Craig Roberts, Counterpunch
Jan. 2, 2008
The Biases of Ohio's Adult Parole Authority: A Call for Action By Jason Goudlock, Prisonersolidarity.org Jan. 1, 2008
State prisons out of room
By Sharon Coolidge, The Cincinnati Enquirer
Dec. 22, 2007
Inside the CIA's Notorious "Black Sites" By Mark Benjamin, Salon.com
Dec. 14, 2007
Activists hail 'landmark' New Jersey death penalty ban Agence France Presse
Dec. 14, 2007
Lorain County Judge James Burge gets details of Ohio's lethal-injection process The Cleveland Plain Dealer Dec. 13, 2007
Report Cites International Human Rights Treaties to Recommend Amnesty for Prisoners of Katrina By Marina Sideris and the Critical Resitance Working Group
Dec. 10, 2007
Sentencing Commission Votes in Favor of Crack Cocaine Retroactivity Families against mandatory minimums
Dec. 10, 2007
Hanging Hate By David A Love, In These Times
Dec. 10, 2007
Poems from Guantanamo. Interview with Marc Falkoff Cagesprisoners.org Dec. 9, 2007
"What's needed is a clear mind" An interview with Keith LaMar (AKA Bomani Shakur) By Kevin Lowery, Prisonersolidarity.org
Dec. 5, 2007
Human Rights Crusader Michael Ratner: We'll Keep Going After Bush and Cheney When They Leave Office By Joshua Holland, Alternet
Dec. 4, 2007
Deadly Staph Infection 'Superbug' Has a Dangerous Foothold in U.S. Jails By Silja J.A. Talvi, AlterNet Dec. 4, 2007
When the D.A. Screws With a Sixteen-Year-Old's Life,
He Gets Away with It By Daniel Lee Wilt, Prisonersolidarity.org
Dec. 4, 2007
Interview with the Arizona Tower Taker, Ricky Wassenaar By H.A. Hasan, Prisonersolidarity.org
Nov. 24, 2007
Hasan: 'Our struggles are the same' PART 3
By Sharon Danann, The Workers World
Nov 21, 2007
WW inverviews member of Lucasville 5 PART 2
The Workers World
Nov 11, 2007
After Innocence," then what? Documentary follows exonerees who turn activists
By Dana Dugan, Idaho Mountain Express
Nov. 9, 2007
Ohio's Adult Parole Authority Continues Its Illegal 'Unjust Practices'. An Interview with Jason Goudlock By Siddique A. Hasan, Prisonersolidarity Co-Founder
Nov. 5, 2007
Is The Government Finally Scrutinizing The Death Penalty? Matthew Blake, The Nation Blog
Nov. 2, 2007
Former prison guard challenges new sex offender registry rules By Reginald Fields, The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Nov. 1, 2007
Forum reveals a 'broken system' By Sharon Danann, The Workers World
Nov 1, 2007
In Memory of My Mother Thelma Campbell By Ali Khalid Abdulla, Alikhalidabdullah.org
Oct. 19, 2007
'Torture Puts Our Society at Grave Risk.'
Interview with Filmmaker Alex Gibney Spiegel Online
Oct. 17, 2007
Sex offenders' rights defended By Mary Beth Lane, The Columbus Dispatch
Oct. 11, 2007
What Makes Criminal Suspects Give a False Confession? By Liliana Segura, AlterNet
Oct. 2, 2007
Evaluating Fairness and Accuracy in State Death Penalty Systems: The Ohio Death Penalty Assessment Report American Bar Association September 2007
ABA Death Penalty Assessment Team Calls for Suspension of Executions in Ohio Jeff Coryell, The Cleveland Plain Dealers Wide Open Blog
Sep. 24, 2007
American Bar Association calls for Ohio to cease executions until it fixes problems By Jim Provance, The Toledo Blade
Sep. 24, 2007
Judicial System Gone Awry By George Skatzes (One of the Lucasville 5), Torley.org
Sept. 22 2007
Tennessee bans lethal injection BBC
Sept. 20, 2007
"My first days off death row have given me a new taste for freedom in Scotland." The Scotsman (UK)
Sept. 20, 2007
Richey to leave Death Row
Edinburgh Evening News Sept. 14, 2007
Judge allows 5 more death row inmates to fight injection process Associated Press Sept. 12, 2007
Diplomatic Assurances Once Again Prove Inadequate By Human Rights Watch
Sept. 9, 2007
Death is Different
McClatchy News Service investigates lawyers who are required by law -- but often fail -- to defend their clients' lives in death penalty cases.
PBS
Sept. 7, 2007
Hope for Texas? Kenneth Foster petition drive video thank you message regarding the recent YouTube petition drive undertaken.
Sept. 1, 2007
Ohio Abolitionists See Light at End of Tunnel By Adrianne Appel, IPS News
Aug. 30, 2007
Revenge begins to seem less sweet The Economist Aug. 30, 2007
State to retry Kenneth Richey for 1986 arson murder By Jim Provance, The Columbus Dispatch Aug. 27, 2007
Execution delayed for seventh time Strickland bumps date to January '08; life without parole remains a possibility
By Alan Johnson, The Columbus Dispatch
July 31, 2007
Study of Wrongful Convictions Raises Questions Beyond DNA By Adam Liptak, The New York Times
July 23, 2007
Complete study
Lucasville 5 prosecutor cross-examined at hearing By Sharon Danann, Workers World
July 22, 2007
My Imprisonment in Kenya and America
By Daniel Joseph Maldonado, Cageprisoners.org
July 9, 2007
Family sues over botched Ohio execution 2006 procedure lasted 86 minutes
By Erica Blake, The Toledo Blade
July 3, 2007
6 more join lethal injection fight
Suit aims to halt Ohio execution method
Reginald Fields, The Cleveland Plain Dealer June 27, 2007
Federal judge allows 6 inmates to join injection suit Associated Press June 27, 2007
Getsy joins lawsuit
The Warren Tribune Chronicle
June 27, 2007
Death Row Scot launches new campaign Scotland Today
June 25, 2007
Waiting to Be Killed Death Row helps a man make sense of life
By Margo Pierce, Cincinnati CityBeat June 19, 2007
Why We Can't Let Them Tamper with Habeas Corpus By Staughton Lynd, History News Network
June 11, 2007
Non-Existence!
By Kamau Tebogo Zulu Damali, Prisonersolidarity.org
June 9, 2007
The Hypocrisy of Ted Strickland A Democrat Revs Up Ohio's Death Machine
By Patrick Dyer, Counterpunch.org
June 9, 2007
Understanding the Role of Prisoner Intellectuals By Dennis S. Boatwright, Prisonersolidarity.org
June 7, 2007
In Memory of Daniel McCauley WBAI, New York Radio journalist Mimi Rosenberg read Daniel McCauley's Prisonersolidarity essay in a report that was dedicated to his memory You may download the interview at WBAI's program archive: It is the June 6,
7 a.m. "Wakeup Call."
June 6, 2007
It was a healing process for both of us An interview with Rodney Bowser, who forgave his sisters murderer
By Ines Aubert, Prisonersolidarity.org
June 4, 2007
ACLU pulls Ohio into debate over executioners' ID Julie Carr Smyth, Associated Press
June 4, 2007
Executions unlikely the rest of the year By Henry Weinstein, Los Angeles Times
June 2, 2007
ACLU seeks execution records; inmate suffocated,
doctor says Alan Johnson, The Columbus Dispatch June 1, 2007
Prison Helps No One Daniel Sturm Interviews Staughton Lynd
By Daniel Sturm, Z Magazine
June 1, 2007
US appeals court declines to review lawsuit over
lethal injection Associated Press June 1, 2007
ACLU Launches Investigation into Newton Execution ACLU of Ohio, Press Release
May 31, 2007
Don't turn blind eye to botched executions The Dayton Daily News May 30, 2007
DDN's video tour of the Lucasville death house
Time To Kill Death Penalty By Gabe Pressman, WNBC-TV
May 29, 2007
State killed Newton, erased his victim By Matt Westerhold, The Sandusky Register
May 27, 2007
Ohio draws criticism for drawn-out executions State's lethal-injection process seriously flawed, expert says
Alan Johnson, The Columbus Dispatch
May 26, 2007
Ohio Inmate took twice as long to die By Julie Carr Smyth and Andrew Welsh-Huggins, The Associated Press
May 26, 2007
Timeline of Newton execution The Associated Press May 25, 2007
Hour-Plus Delay in Ohio Lethal Injection By Julie Carr Smyth, The Guardian (UK)
May 25, 2007
Ohio draws criticism for drawn-out executions State's lethal-injection process seriously flawed, expert says
Alan Johnson, The Columbus Dispatch
May 26, 2007
Timeline of Newton execution The Associated Press May 25, 2007
Hour-Plus Delay in Ohio Lethal Injection By Julie Carr Smyth, The Guardian (UK)
May 25, 2007
Shamed Again - Another Botched Execution in Ohio By Jonathan I. Groner MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery, OSU
May 25, 2007
Huron man executed
Includes video witness acounts
By Waynbe Baker, The Sandusky Register
May 25, 2007
Prisoner executed after IV lines cause delay By Alan Johnson, The Columbus Dispatch
May 25, 2007
Shamed Again - Another Botched Execution in Ohio By Jonathan I. Groner MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery, OSU
May 25, 2007
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