What is Prison Legal News's Revenue?
Prison Legal News's estimated revenue for 2024 is $0.
What does Prison Legal News do?
Prison Legal News (PLN) is a 72-page monthly magazine that reports on criminal justice issues and prison and jail-related civil litigation, with an emphasis on prisoners’ rights. It is a project of the non-profit Human Rights Defense Center.
It covers a wide range of topics that include prison labor, rape and sexual abuse, misconduct by prison and jail staff, prisoners’ constitutional rights, racial and socioeconomic disparities in the criminal justice system, medical and mental health care for prisoners, disenfranchisement, rehabilitation and recidivism, prison privatization, prison and jail phone rates, women prisoners, the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), prison censorship, the death penalty, HIV and hep C, solitary confinement and control units, and more.
The monthly magazine is a subscription-based publication. It also offers website subscriptions that provide full access to all content on its website, which includes all of PLN’s articles plus thousands of other articles, case reports, publications, and pleadings.
PLN also distributes a number of criminal justice, legal, and self-help books through its book store.
In 2013, PLN received the First Amendment Award from the Society of Professional Journalists.
Prison Legal News was launched in 1990 and its operations are based in Lake Worth, Florida.
