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High Court to Decide if Convict Group is "Person" for IFP Status
Loaded on Aug. 15, 1992
published in Prison Legal News
August, 1992, page 5
High Court To Decide If Convict Group Is "Person" For IFP Status A prisoners' association, elected by the general prison population, filed a federal civil rights suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against prison authorities, alleging violations of the eighth and fourteenth amendment rights of prisoners based on a Department …
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- Washington Lifers Litigation Update, by John Midgley
- 1991 Prison Population Up 6.2%
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- Interstate Compact Does Not Create Liberty Interest
- High AIDS Rate Behind Bars
- Study Finds Sentencing Bias in Washington State
- Prison Chief Gains Right to Counter-Sue Cons for Riot Damage
- Guards Need Not Disclose Identity Of HIV-Positive Cons
- Supreme Court Defines "Frivolous" Lawsuits
- Three Strikes, You're Out, by Ed Mead
- ABA Says Use of Prisons Not Effective Way to Fight Crime
- NCCHC Asks Congress to Improve Prison Health Care
- Infracting Cop Cannot Hear Own Infraction
- High Court to Decide if Convict Group is "Person" for IFP Status
- Supreme Court To Define "Prevailing Party" for Purposes of Attorney Fees
- Criticism of Peru Articles
- Federal Prisoner Must Exhaust BOP Remedies Before Seeking Habeas Corpus Relief
- Prison Costs More than Harvard, by Ralph Hakim Walker
- Adverse Change in Board Rules is Ex Post Facto
- Detroit's Former Chief Guilty of Embezzling
- Washington's DOC Boss Talks That Talk. Can He Walk That Walk?
- Virginia Sets Guidelines for Terminally-Ill Prisoners
- Lompoc Prison Strike
- From The Editor, by Paul Wright
- Court Bans Double Celling
- Censoring Mail From Courts Violates Due Process
- DOC Must Provide Involuntarily Committed With Treatment
- Rectal Search Upheld
- Wisconsin Lockdown, by Adrian Lomax
- Indiana Control Unit Prisoners File Suit and Strike, by Paul Wright
- Transfer Violates Access Rights
- Prisoner Entitled to Protection and Toilet Access
- Court Rules on Service and Venue
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