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Coverage
Staging
Controversy - "Lucasville" raises awareness of questions
about 1993 uprising
By
John Patrick Gatta, The Youngstown Metro Monthly
July 2008
Local
play 'Lucasville' slated for NYC Fringe Fest
The Youngstown Vindicator
June 8, 2008
Play
about Lucasville prisoners cheered
By Sharon Danann, The Workers World
Apr. 25, 2008
Take Action!
Get involved in the state-wide
campaign.
Urge Governor Strickland to investigate these wrongful convictions.
Go to www.acluohio.org and Click on Lucasville
Justice Project.
Lucasville
On Tour
Check
out the tour dates
The next national
production of Lucasville will be Sept. 25, 26 & 27 7:30 pm in
The Plymouth United Church of Christ at 424 Monte Vista Ave, Oakland,
CA
For information call: 510-654-5044 or email: americanlegends@sbcglobal.net
THE UNTOLD STORY:
How a Deadly Prison Riot Becomes a Play
Documentary by Mockrevolution
2007
Lucasville Project Events
 Lucasville
- A play by Staughton Lynd and Gary Anderson
In
the tradition of The Exonerated comes Lucasville: The
Untold Story of a Prison Uprising. However, the subjects of
this play are still sentenced to be executed, still struggling against
injustice. Lucasville is written with the cooperation of
the 5 men who were sentenced to death for their alleged roles in
the 1993 uprising that rocked the maximum-security prison in Lucasville,
Ohio.
ACLU
of Ohio
Playing
the five prisoners in Lucasville are (L-R), Christopher Fidram (Jason
Robb), Lessley Harmon (James Were), Sam Perry (George Skatzes),
Clyde Holmes (Siddique Abdullah Hasan) and Kunta Kenyatta (Keith
Lamar).
2007 P lay News &
Reviews
Prison
Helps No One
Daniel Sturm Interviews Staughton Lynd
By Daniel Sturm, Z Magazine
June 1, 2007
Civil rights attorney Staughton Lynd co-wrote the play
By Guy D'Astolfo, The Vindicator
April 26, 2007
'Lucasville'
exposes judicial corruption
By Jamie Fabian, The Youngstown Jambar
April 26, 2007
Play
challenges death penalty views; local man plays killer in ‘Lucasville’
By Joe Pinchot, The Sharon Herald
April 25, 2007
Lethal
Injection - Ohio's Shame
By
Jonathan I. Groner MD, OSU Children's Hospital
April 25, 2007
Lethal
injection is excruciating, study says
By Alan Johnson, The Columbus Dispatch
April 24, 2007
Plays portray courtroom drama
Kathleen Keish, The Athens Post
April 20, 2007
Ghosts
of Lucasville
A divisive new play says five prison rioters have been wrongly sentenced
to death
By Jordan Gentile, The Other Paper
April 19, 2007
OU grads to meet again Tuesday
at one of their executions
By Nick Claussen, The Athens News
April 19, 2007
Elaine
Brown speaks on Lucasville Five case
By Sharon Danann, The Workers World
Apr 19, 2007
Darrow Day: 150th birthday
of fiery rights lawyer honored
By Grant Segall, The Cleveland Plain Dealer
April 19, 2007
Darrow’s
birthday celebrated
By
Angelique McKowan, The Warren Tribune Chronicle
April 19, 2007
Plays
about Lucasville riot, Clarence Darrow spotlight
death penalty
By Daniel Sturm, The Athens News
April 16, 2007
The
politics of life and death
An inmate's fate often hinges on luck of the draw
By Dan Horn, The Cincinnati Enquirer
April 15, 2007
Staged trials
By John Benson, Funcoast Entertainment Guide for Sandusky
April 14, 2007
Referendum to End the Death Penalty
in Ohio
Letter to 195 Prisoners on Ohio's Death Row
Kunta Kenyatta & Laurie Hoover, Prisonersolidarity.org
April 14, 2007
Support Education And Not Death Row
By James Conway, Prisonersolidarity.org
April 14, 2007
Letter in Support of a Referendum
By Alva E. Campbell, Prisonersolidarity.org
April 14, 2007
Averting
the Criminalization of Communities
By Thomasina W. James, Prisonersolidarity.org
April 14, 2007
Guard's
family speaks out on play
By Ryan Scott Ottney, The Portsmouth Daily News
April 12, 2007
Play
commemorates SOCF riot
By Ryan Scott Ottney,
The Portsmouth Daily News
April 11, 2007
Staging
an appeal
New play invites another look at convictions that followed
rioting at Lucasville in 1993
By
Michael Grossberg, The Columbus Dispatch
April 11, 2007
Death on
Stage
The truth about the Lucasville uprising
By Daniel Sturm, The Cincinnati City Beat
April 11, 2007
Play
about Lucasville riot touches a nerve
John Caniglia, The Cleveland Plain Dealer
April
11, 2007
Mortality
Play
By Rick Claypool, The Toledo City Paper
April
11, 2007
Play
depicting Lucasville uprising on tour
La Prensa (Ohio
& Michigan Latino newspaper)
April 10, 2007
Kinsman
to honor Clarence Darrow with day of events
By
Rebecca Sloan, The Vindicator
April 9, 2007
Columbia
play focuses on SOCF riot
By Jeff Barron, The Portsmouth Daily News
April 7, 2007
Story
of Lucasville Prison Riot Made Into Theatrical Production
New Play Reveals 'Untold Story' From Inmates Point of View
Jim Otte, WHIO-TV Dayton
April 6, 2007
Desperately
Seeking Justice
A Handful of Supporters Re-examines the Conviction of the
Lucasville Five
By Charu Gupta, The Cleveland Free Times
April 4, 2007
Former
Black Panther Party leader to speak on case of Ohio death row inmate
By Rick Claypool, The Toledo City Paper
April 4, 2007
Plays
examine death penalty
Cincinnati Enquirer
April 2, 2007
Fourteen
years since the seizure of L-Block
Interview with Siddique Abdullah Hasan (Part I)
By Martha Grevatt, Workers World
March 29, 2007
Fair
and impartial aggravated murder
By Staughton Lynd, The Columbus Free
Press
March 28, 2007
A Vast Tapestry
of Lies
By Bomani Shakur (AKA Keith LaMar), Prisonersolidarity.org
March 3, 2007
Federal
judge trounces Ohio prison system
By Sharon Danann, Workers World
Cleveland
Feb. 22, 2007
To
My Brothers Known As "The Lucasville Five"
By
Ali Khalid Abdullah, Prisonersolidarity.org
Feb. 17, 2007
Death
penalty opponents protest at state prison
Protesters promoted the cause of prisoners charged
in the Lucasville riot.
By Don Shilling, The Youngstown Vindicator
Jan. 15, 2007
Inmate
says paroled prisoner lied about Lucasville riot
The Associated Press
Dec. 29, 2006
A
Condemned Man Speaks Out
TCP’s exclusive interview with Siddique A. Hasan
Rick
Claypool, The Toledo City Paper
Oct. 25, 2006
Life
from Death Row
Rick Claypool, The Toledo City Paper
Oct. 25, 2006
Historian
Staughton Lynd on the
1993 Lucasville Prison Uprising
By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now
Oct. 20, 2006
Staughton
Lynd tells the hidden story of...
The Lucasville Prison revolt
By Patrick Dyer, Socialist Worker
Oct. 20, 2006
Freedom
sought for Lucasville Five
By Sharon Danann, Workers World
Oct. 19, 2006
In
Defense of Siddique Abdullah Hasan
By Staughton Lynd, Prisonersolidarity.org
Oct. 10, 2006
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"Lucasville"
in the News
Cleveland
Plain Dealer
The two-hour play begins in the prison during the riots and
ends in the courtrooms, when five men -- Jason Robb, George Skatzes,
James Were, Carlos Sanders and Keith LaMar -- are convicted. In
it, the authors accuse a key informant, Anthony Lavelle, of killing
Vallandingham with members of his gang. Lavelle’s testimony
eventually convicted Robb, Skatzes, Were and Sanders of that killing. Youngstown
Jambar
"Ninety percent of the play is based on actual court transcripts
and other documents involving the case."
Athens
Post
The two shows are legal dramas, but they carry a message that
criticizes capital punishment policies in the United States. Ohio
has had the second highest execution rate next to Texas since 2004.
Columbus
Other Paper
Lynd got some powerful ammunition to back up his criticism of
the prosecution — most notably the recantations of two Lucasville
inmates whose testimonies the state used to convict some of the
riot leaders of murder. Both witnesses now say the prisoners they
took the stand against are innocent and that they testified to
the contrary only because prosecutors pressured them to do so.
Lucasville
On Tour
Check
out the play dates
The next national
production of Lucasville will be Sept. 25, 26 & 27 7:30 pm in
The Plymouth United Church of Christ at 424 Monte Vista Ave, Oakland,
CA
For information call: 510-654-5044 or email: americanlegends@sbcglobal.net
Staughton
Lynd on Amy Goodman's Democracy Now!
Nine prisoners and a hostage officer were killed. A surrender was
negotiated, and no sooner was the surrender negotiated with various
prisoner spokespersons than the state of Ohio turned around and
began to build death penalty cases against those very leaders and
spokespersons. They didn’t care who had really done things.
They wanted to nail the leaders so that no prisoner would ever have
this idea again.
Focus
Time
to End the Barbarity
By
Siddique A. Hasan, Prisonersolidarity.org
Sept. 18, 2006
Lucasville
killer testified on riot; now he walks
By
John Caniglia, The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Sept. 4, 2006
Who
killed Officer Vallandingham?
By
Staughton Lynd, Prisonersolidarity.org
June 10, 2006
"If
I snooze, I lose my life"
An
interview with Keith LaMar
By Kevin Lowery, Prisonersolidarity.org
May 20, 2006
Why
the Outrage?
By S. A. Hasan, Prisonersolidarity.org
May 3, 2006
New
discoveries about the Lucasville uprising
Staughton Lynd, The Columbus
Free Press
Feb. 7, 2006
Travesties
of Justice: An interview with S.A Hasan
By Daniel Sturm, Columbus
Free Press
Feb. 5, 2006
Induced
Failure
By S.A. Hasan, Monthly Review Zine
Sept. 30, 2005
Interview
with Siddique Abdullah Hasan
By Daniel Sturm, The Free Press
Aug. 18, 2005
The
Lucasville Follies
A Prison Riot Brings Out the Worst in the Press
By Bruce Porter, The Columbia Journalism Review
May/June 1994
Tell
the Governor: No More Executions!
The ACLU of Ohio, together with Ohioans to Stop Executions and other
local anti-death penalty groups, is launching a postcard
campaign to urge Governor Strickland to stop executions.
Ohio draws criticism for drawn-out executions
Alan
Johnson, The Columbus Dispatch
May
26, 2007
Ohio
Inmate took twice as long to die
By
Julie Carr Smyth and Andrew Welsh-Huggins, The Associated Press
May
26, 2007
Prisonersolidarity
Spring 2007 Newsletter
Prisonersolidarity.org
May 20, 2007
No
Parole Rule Rescinded in Ohio!
Alice Lynd, Prisonersolidarity.org
May 18, 2007
Prisoner-assisted
homicide - more ‘volunteer’ executions loom
Amnesty International USA
May 17, 2007
The
American Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
By Sam Provance, ConsortiumNews.com
March 27, 2007
Governor
grants Spirko reprieve
By Alan Johnson, The Columbus Dispatch
March 27, 2007
N.H.
House rejects repeal of death penalty
By Norma Love, Associated Press
March 27, 2007
Abolish
the death penalty
The Chicago Tribune (Editorial)
March 25, 2007
Governor
faced with life, death decisions
Capital penalty a heavy burden'
Aaron Marshall, The Cleveland Plain Dealer
March 23, 2007
Everyday
Struggles of a (Self-Defined) Political Prisoner: An Interview with
Jason Goudlock
By
Siddique A. Hasan, Prisonersolidarity
Co-Founder
Jan. 4, 2007
Race,
geography can mean difference
between life, death
By Andrew Welsh-Huggins, Associated Press
May 6, 2005
Ohio's
Abu Ghraib
By Daniel Sturm, Znet
Aug. 3, 2005
Prison
Advocacy in a Time of Capital Disaccumulation
By Staughton and Alice Lynd, The Monthly Review
August 2001
The
Lucasville Follies
A Prison Riot Brings Out the Worst in the Press
By Bruce Porter, The Columbia Journalism Review
May/June 1994
 Elaine
Brown, former chairwoman of the Black Panther Party, talks on Thursday
in the Student Union Building.
Photo: Sarah
Alfaham
Independent Collegian, The Student Publication of the
University of Toledo
Prison
Forum Coverage
June
10 , 2006, Youngstown State University
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