Supporters of prisoners’ rights and freedom of the press continue to speak urging Florida prison officials to overturn the ban on four recent issues of the Militant. “The Militant has a right to publish factual information, and Florida prisoners have…
Florida prison officials have banned four recent issues of the Militant, preventing them from reaching dozens of subscribers behind bars there. They claim each issue contains an article that is “dangerously inflammatory” and “advocates or encourages riot insurrection, rebellion, organized…
Florida prison authorities continue to ban issue after issue of the Militant, most recently for articles that report on these impoundments and the efforts of supporters of political rights to get them to reverse this. They banned four of the…
Authorities at the Florida State Prison have now banned three of four issues of the Militant since July 31, falsely charging that each one contains an article that is “dangerously inflammatory” and “advocates or encourages riot, insurrection, rebellion, organized prison…
After the Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee upheld the banning of Militant issue no. 30, David Goldstein, the paper’s attorney, filed an appeal Aug. 24 challenging the ruling. The Militant was also informed that authorities at the same…
The Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee “voted to uphold the impoundment of ‘The Militant, Vol. 84, No. 30,’” LRC chair Dean Peterson wrote David Goldstein, the Militant ’s attorney, Aug. 17, “which means the issue is rejected and…
In a victory for the rights of workers behind bars and freedom of the press, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections on Aug. 3 overturned a ban on the Militant at the Camp Hill State Correctional Institution. Five days later, the…
In an important victory for the rights of workers behind bars and of the press, Pennsylvania state prison officials overturned Camp Hill State Correctional Institution’s ban on issue no. 28 of the Militant on Aug. 3. The paper’s attorney, David…
The Militant received a letter from a subscriber in Pennsylvania’s State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill July 23, saying that prison officials there banned issue no. 28 of the Militant because of “security issues.” The inmate sent the form prison…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Over 100 people drove past Gov. Gavin Newsom’s house and rallied in nearby Banister Park here July 5 to demand the state government respond to the increasingly dangerous conditions facing inmates in California’s prisons. Some 5,800 inmates…
