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Reader Privacy Advocates Welcome Patriot Act Reform Measures
The Campaign for Reader Privacy, a coalition of organizations representing librarians, booksellers, authors, and publishers, welcomed the introduction of legislation that will safeguard the First Amendment reader privacy rights… More
Sick Editor Transferred to Remote Prison; Concerns for Health
International PEN is seriously concerned about the health and well being of Le Canard Déchaîné editor Abdoulaye Tiémogo, who contracted malaria after being imprisoned in August 2009. More
Two Editors Jailed for A Year
International PEN protests the one-year prison sentence handed to newspaper editors Ibrahim Mohamed Ali and Asrat Wedajo on August 24, 2009 for their coverage of sensitive issues. They were… More
Writers Freed in Afghanistan, China
PEN welcomes the release of journalist Sayed Parwez Kambakhsh, who had originally been sentenced to death for blasphemy in Afghanistan, and Ilham Tohti, a member of the Uighur PEN… More
Six Journalists Pardoned and Released
International PEN welcomes the September 3, 2009 release of the six Gambian journalists who were given a two-year prison sentence last month for sedition and defamation after they criticized… More
This Sporting Life: Fish and bicycles
From the tottering Jenga tower of my thoughts, a few notions this week on tennis and on women and on men, on the blonde promise of smooth youth, on… More
Soliloquy In A Cell
Nothing seems to be anything but a total miscarriage lost in the stigma of pronouncing due process. ‘Branded’ Sank’s scars depress a prisoner of society.“A good man can be… More
The Return of Joe Prison
M.D. “Doc” Bass56130Rahway PrisonLockbag RRahway, NJ 07065“…but if the plant is sown and reared in the wrong soil, it will develop every contrary defect…”(Socrates)In spite of the desperate hope… More
Corrections in the 70’s–Only the Names Have Changed
Michael HoganBox B - 28259 Non-Fiction EntryArizona State PrisonFlorence, Arizona 85232It is a common misconception that crime today goes unpunished even if an individual is convicted. The general public… More