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, 2011Prisoners’ hunger strike enters second week
By Workers World Cleveland bureau
Jan. 14, 2011Prisoners say they are denied rights given to others on Death Row
By Alan Johnson, The Columbus Dispatch
Jan. 13, 2011Prisoners 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
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