http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/ellens/PLN/pln.html (World Wide Web Directory, 06/1995)
The PLN reports on court decisions affecting prisoners and contains information designed to help prisoners vindicate their rights in the judicial system. PLN is aimed at prisoners and their friends and loved ones on the outside, with the goal of helping prisoners and their supporters organize themselves to have a voice, and to be a progressive force in developing a public policy debate around the issue of crime and punishment. With those objectives in mind, the PLN motto is: "Working to Extend Democracy to All."
The PLN is produced and mailed entirely by volunteers and is completely non-profit. The paper relies on donations from readers in order to continue publishing. There is no set subscription rate for most people. This is because many PLN readers are on death row or in control units and are thus unable to make any contribution at all. Prisoners in the general population are expected to donate something, as are family members and friends on the outside. The editors themselves are prisoners who, in order to publish, have to make up any shortfall in contributions from their own pockets.
Send $1.00 to the address below if you would like to receive a sample copy of the PLN. The suggested donation for a one-year subscription is $12.00, or even more if you can afford it. Check the PLN out for yourself and see what a great little publication it is. For state agencies, such as prison law libraries, the institutional subscription rate is $35.00 per year.
Make checks or money orders payable to Prison Legal News and send to the following address. New (unused) stamps can also be sent as payment. Please reproduce this notice and let more people know about the PLN. All contributions are deductible from the federal income taxes of any who pay them.
Prison Legal News PO Box 1684 Lake Worth, FL 33460
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