The state of Arizona, home of such political extremists as Barry Goldwater and Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, is recognized as a Nazi-like bastion of conservative political dictatorship. The Arizona legislature enacted a sweeping censorship law which punishes prisoners who communicate with advocacy groups which maintain Internet websites, or whose names happen to appear on such websites. The law further seeks to censor websites to forbid them from advocating for prisoners and from using prisoners' names. The law makes it a crime for a website (such as ours) to publish information to help Arizona prisoners! Since 1998, the Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty ("CCADP") (www.ccadp.org) has maintained free webpages for persons sentenced to death in the United States (the only "civilized" country with the death penalty) and around the world. Prisoners are invited to send the CCADP information via snail-mail to be posted on these pages. There are currently over 350 death-row prisoners listed and penpal requests for over 700 more prisoners. About 45 are from Arizona. In July the American Civil Liberties Union's National Prison Project, (www.aclu.org) acting in behalf of the CCADP and others, filed suit (CCADP, et al. v Terry L. Stewart.) The suit is represented by attorney Kara Gotsch (kgotsch@npp- aclu.org, 202-396-4930). With the CCADP, plaintiffs are stop Prison Rape, (www.spr.org) and Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, (www.CUADP.org.) This website, www.prisoners.com, has asked to intervene in the suit as an additional plaintiff. The plaintiffs claim that it's unacceptable that a state government would attempt to silence the voices of human rights advocates who are providing information to the general public about the cases and circumstances of prisoners sentenced to death. Dave Parkinson, Co-Director of the Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty, said "this is not just a local issue. Some of the prisoners represented on the CCADP's Arizona prisoner pages include foreign nationals from Germany, France, Thailand, El Salvador and Mexico." If anyone uses the internet to try to help these prisoners or any Arizona prisoner, the prisoner is subject to prosecution! The lawsuit alleges that Arizona's law has the effect of suppressing the flow of information about prisoners to the outside world in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution. Ironically, the state, at public expense, maintains its own website with propaganda against the prisoners.