Yes. Each issue of PLN contains numerous advertisements from companies and organizations across the country that provide personal and legal services and books to prisoners. PLN only accepts advertising from sources that provide their products or services in a manner consistent with their claims. PLN rejects advertisements for products or services that are not reputable or contrary to PLN`s editorial content. We are not a for-profit publication; Therefore, we can opt out of advertising without having to worry about upsetting shareholders who, unlike many mainstream media publications, expect a satisfactory return on investment. However, like other publishers, we don`t support ads and people have to do their own reviews and research before buying products or services from advertisers in PLN. Our website accepts online advertising for a variety of products and services that are of interest to our users. Yes. PLN directly sells about four dozen prisoner-focused books, including several that we have published ourselves. You can either order on the Internet with your credit card, you can call the PLN office and order with your credit card information, or you can print the pages on your printer and send your order to PLN with the appropriate payment. A flat shipping and handling fee of $6 applies to all book orders under $50. Orders of $50 or more are shipped at no additional cost.
All PLN book orders are shipped with the U.S. Postal Service Multimedia Mail Rate with Tracking; Tracking provides PLN with a record of when a book purchase is delivered to a prison. If an order for a book indicates that it has been delivered to the institution but the prisoner has not received it, he must first inquire at the post office of the institution. For more information, please visit the PLN bookstore. If you wish to change the postal address of your PLN subscription, please use this form. Please note that unless we receive a change of address, we will continue to send PLN subscriptions to the address we have registered. We do not replace missing issues due to address changes, so make sure we receive address changes as soon as possible! Note that the following search options will search for our content in all categories except For Brief Bank, which uses different topic categories. So, if you would like to search for procedural acts (such as complaints, judgments and settlements, claims, etc.) in our memory bank, please click on the Bank of Letters tab above.
To search only for publications, click the Publications tab at the top. In a news cycle dominated by reports on war, plague and insurgency, a single press release from Global Tel*Link (GTL) managed to convey some of the strangest news of all. Flash: The creators of the country`s most popular children`s TV show are partnering with GTL, the. As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, donations to PLN or the Human Rights Defense Center are tax deductible to the extent approved by the IRS. Donations can be made by email or phone (see below on our contact page), or you can donate online via the «Donate» tab in the menu bar. In addition to accepting contributions, PLN organizes an annual fundraiser. Contributions will be used to fund HRDC`s special projects, including the Campaign for Justice by Phone in Prison, Stop Prison Profiteering, the Prison Ecology Project and Private Prison News, and to ensure that prisoners can continue to be offered low-cost subscriptions. PLN subscribes to many online mailing lists for news about prisons and prisons.
PLN also has a subscription exchange agreement with dozens of other publications, ranging from well-known alternative journals to very small independent newsletters. Another valuable source of information is the numerous newspaper clippings on prison-related topics sent to PLN by readers and subscribers. Inmate PLN readers also regularly send us first-person accounts that provide PLN with «insider scoops.» Many readers also send unpublished court decisions, which are a valuable source for cases that are usually not reported. PLN also investigates, develops and disseminates information, some of which has been picked up by other media.
