Prison Legal News

Prison Legal News

Infobox Magazine
title = Prison Legal News
editor = Paul Wright
editor_title = Editor
staff_writer =
frequency = Monthly
total_circulation =6,000*
circulation_year=2007
category = Prisons, Law
publisher =
firstdate =May 1990
country = USA
language = English
website = [http://www.prisonlegalnews.org www.prisonlegalnews.org]

"Prison Legal News" is a black-and-white monthly American magazine and on-line periodical published in Seattle, Washington since May 1990. It is a non-profit corporation and it reports on prison legal cases and prison conditions primarily in the United States.

"Prison Legal News"'s was originally inspired by Vladimir Lenin's "State and Revolution" which advocates organizing activists around a newspaper. Started by Paul Wright and Ed Mead, "Prison Legal News" sought to bring light to the conditions many faced in prison. "Prison Legal News" has both been admired and disliked for its strong advocacy of prisoner rights and was referred to by one law enforcement publication as a "litigation juggernaut."


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