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Trouble in Mind: ADX – The Fourth Year
Loaded on April 15, 1999
by Ray Luc Levasseur
published in Prison Legal News
April, 1999, page 10
for Skip Martin
Filed under:
Prison Industries,
Organizing,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness).
Location:
Colorado.
"I will hold the candle, til it burns down my arm, I'll keep taking punches until their will grows tired, I will watch the sundown until my eyes go blind, oh I will make my way through one more day." Pearl Jam
I've been locked in ADX ...
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- Medical Care Unconstitutional in Puerto Rico Prisons
- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
- PLN Sues Michigan DOC over Censorship of The Celling of America
- Michigan Department of Corrections Fined $300,000 in Contempt Case
- Former Jail Prisoner Awarded $8,000 for Abuse; PLRA Attorney Fee Limit Inapplicable to Juveniles
- Jailhouse Journalism: The Fourth Estate Behind Bars by James McGrath (Book Review), by Paul Wright
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- PLRA Fee Provisions Apply to All Pending Cases in the Fifth Circuit
- Eighth Circuit Upholds, Defines IFP Provisions
- IFP Application Not Required When Suit Filed
- Physical Injury Requirement Not Retroactive
- No Leave to Amend Complaint for IFP Litigants
- PLRA Doesn't Ban Class Actions
- Trouble in Mind: ADX – The Fourth Year, by Ray Luc Levasseur
- Daring Death Row Escape Shakes up Texas
- Oregon "Predatory Sex Offender" Label Requires Notice and Hearing
- De Facto Ban on Live Testimony Unconstitutional
- South Carolina Parole Elimination Violates Ex Post Facto
- Illegal Detention Violates Substantive Due Process
- Jury Awards $8,000 in California Prison Assault
- New York Prisoners Have Right to Staff Assistance and Witness Testimony
- Seventh Circuit Defines Court Access Claims Involving Property
- Failure to Give Summary Judgement Notice is Reversible Error
- Indiana May Not Deny Pay and Educational Programs to Protective Custody Prisoners
- No Appeal Allowed in Louisiana Consent Decree Dissolution
- U.S. District Courts Have No Authority To Grant Or Deny Credit Toward Sentence
- Denial of Good Time Because of Jury Sentencing Choice Violates Equal Protection
- $45,000 Award in BOP Tort Claim Medical Neglect Suit
- Released Sex Offender Not "In Custody" for Habeas
- New York Jail Brutality Suit Settled for $3,500
- Timothy "Little Rock" Reed Released on Parole
- $1,500 in Disabled Prisoner Work Suit
- $355,000 Verdict in New York Asthma Death
- Mauro Vacated for Rehearing
- Parole Change May Violate Ex Post Facto; Change Can Be Challenged Via § 1983
- BOP Violent Offender Notification Policy Overinclusive
- Twenty-Four Hour Notice of Disciplinary Charges Required
- Seizure of Trust Account Interest Violates Takings Clause
- Denial of Handicapped Jail Facilities Set for Trial
- News in Brief
- Cane Seizure Can Violate Eighth Amendment
- $250,000 FTCA Beating Judgment Reversed
More from Ray Luc Levasseur:
- Trouble in Mind: ADX – The Fourth Year, April 15, 1999
- Sewing Our Own Destruction, Nov. 15, 1997
- Trouble Coming Every Day; ADX-The First Year, July 15, 1997
- Armed and Dangerous, May 15, 1995
- The Fire Inside, Oct. 15, 1994
- RICO Expanded by Supreme Court, June 15, 1994
- Marion Prisoners to be Moved Soon, May 15, 1994
- Letter from Exile, Feb. 15, 1993
- Prison's Water Contaminated, Feb. 15, 1991
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