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From the Editor
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2012
by Paul Wright
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2012, page 18
Over the past 22 years Prison Legal News has been represented by dozens of lawyers around the country in a variety of cases, mostly dealing with censorship and public records requests. We have met many if not most of our attorneys because they subscribed to PLN, based on their interest …
Filed under:
Eulogies,
Editorials,
Telephone Rates,
Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement.
Location:
United States of America.
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- Solitary Confinement Subject of Unprecedented Congressional Hearing, by Alex Friedmann
- Solitary Confinement: Bad for Chimps, Okay for Humans?, by Lance Tapley
- California Female Prisoners Eligible for Early Release, but Disqualified Due to Lack of Local Rehabilitative Services
- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
- Ninth Circuit Judge Who Co-Authored “Torture Memos” Discloses Receipt of $3.4 Million in Legal and Consulting Help
- The Price to Call Home: State-Sanctioned Monopolization in the Prison Phone Industry, by Drew Kukorowski
- Ninth Circuit Holds CAFRA Attorney Fees Should be Paid to Claimant, not Attorney
- Fifth Circuit Holds Louisiana Prisons Can’t Ban Nation of Islam Newspaper
- New York Court Upholds Law Requiring Census Count to Use Prisoners’ Pre-Incarceration Address
- Texas Abolishes Last Meals for Death Row Prisoners, Reduces Weekend Meals, by Matthew Clarke
- Manhattan Prosecutor Who Moonlights as Dominatrix Suspended, Resigns, by Matthew Clarke
- Report Cites Rising Violence, Other Problems at Illinois Maximum-Security Prison, by David Reutter
- Private Prison Monopolies, by Christopher Petrella
- 46 California Prisoners Injured in Disturbance at CCA-run Oklahoma Facility
- Washington State Post-Judgment Interest Award Required when Judgment Increased by Appellate Court in Records Case
- Violence in Tennessee Prisons up 20 Percent Under New Commissioner, by Alex Friedmann
- Mug Shot Websites Based on Extortion Business Model, by David Reutter
- Advanced Criminal Procedure in a Nutshell, 2nd Ed., by Mark E. Cammack and Norman M. Garland (Thomson West, 2006). 505 pages, $38.00, by John Dannenberg
- Florida: Two Men Sentenced in Prison Canteen Kickback Scheme
- California Federal Judge Denies Habeas Petitions after Sitting on Them for Years
- California’s Experiment with Community Correctional Facilities Coming to an End?
- UTMB Challenges Texas State Audit, while Legislature Imposes $100 Prisoner Health Care Co-Pay, by Matthew Clarke
- Oregon Adopts 5% Prison Trust Fund Account “Service Fee”
- North Dakota Farmers Help Flush Out Escaped Florida Sex Offender
- New Hampshire Court Invalidates City’s Sex Offender Residency Ordinance
- Texas Compensates Exonerees Unequally, by Matthew Clarke
- Fourth Circuit Upholds North Carolina Sheriff’s Bribery Conviction
- Criminal Law in a Nutshell, 5th Ed., by Arnold H. Loewy (West Law School, 2009). 387 pages, $38.00, by John Dannenberg
- Former Delaware Prisoner Settles Sexual Assault Suit for $287,500 and Policy Changes, by Derek Gilna
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- Oregon Passes Legislation to Move Juveniles Out of Adult Jails
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- News in Brief
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- Court Shuts Down Arizona Attempt to Fill Medical Staff Vacancies with Under-Qualified Providers, Sept. 1, 2026. Systemic Medical Neglect, Staffing, Injunctions, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness).
- Oregon Agrees to $2.3 Million Settlement After Guards Toss Mentally Ill Prisoner in Solitary, Taunt Him Until He Kills Himself, Aug. 1, 2026. Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides, 42 U.S. Code § 1983, civil action for deprivation of rights, Deliberate Indifference.
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- From the Editor, July 1, 2026. Editorials.
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