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Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Transfer Violates Access Rights by Stanton Story is a Pennsylvania state prisoner who was transferred to the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to serve his sentence. Story filed suit under § 1983 claiming Pennsylvania DOC officials had violated his right of access to the courts because the BOP prison in …
New Ruling May Impact Prison Law Library Policies by Ed Mead By Ed Mead Arecent decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit could have broad implications on policies governing the operation of inmate law libraries. The case addressed the common problems of proper training for …
Con Awarded $1,500 For Inadequate Book Access by A prisoner housed in a maximum security building at a Delaware prison filed a lawsuit challenging the adequacy of the legal resources available to him. The court found the legal resources provided constitutionally inadequate and awarded him $750 in compensatory and $750 …
Pelican Bay Conditions Suit Filed by The Pelican Bay Information Project (PBIP) is an independent citizens' group that has formed in response to the complaints of prisoners. The group is composed of prison visitors, writers, ex-prisoners, lawyers and human rights advocates. Since Pelican Bay's 1250 cell Security Housing Unit (SHU) …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Prisoner Litigant and Prison Law Library Secondary Resource List by Robert Pierce By Robert Pierce In the field of law, books that deal with an overall view of a topic, those that are used in teaching law, or that are encyclopedic in nature, are known as secondary resource materials. These …
Publication • 1992
Library Standards for Adult Correctional Institutions Am. Library Ass'n 1992 -·~ '/_:,· . ·: . ·. .PS § ;, 'r ...69 ~ .1 992 .LIBRARY STANDARDS FOR ADULT CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS 1992 / LIBRARY STANDARDS ~;. FOR ADULT CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS .. 1992 . Prepared by THE ASSOCIATION OF SPECIAUZED AND COOPERATIVE …
Prison Officials Cannot Delay Access to Case Law by Prison Officials Cannot Delay Access To Case Law Washington state prisoner Mark Larue was transferred out of state to the Illinois DOC while pursuing a collateral attack on his conviction. The lawyer representing Larue withdrew from the case and the state …
CBCC Publisher Only Rule Upheld on Qualified Immunity Grounds by Martin Johnson was a federal prisoner sent to the Clallam Bay Corrections Center (CBCC) in Washington state as a boarder. He filed suit challenging numerous aspects of prison conditions under the due process clause of the federal constitution. The district …
Access and Indigency Expanded by Access And Indigency Expanded A law library rule merely saying prisoners "shall be provided physical access to law library during assigned law library hours," when considered against the backdrop of uncontested allegations of inadequate access, was held not "to provide detailed guidelines to thwart arbitrariness." …
Maximum Security Unit Prisoners Win Access Suit by The U.S. District Court for Delaware ruled in favor of the inmates at the Delaware Correctional center's Maximum Security Unit (MSU). The prisoners claimed in a 1983 action that the law library services provided at the MSU facility were wholly inadequate. The …
Article • January 15, 1992 • from PLN January, 1992
HIV-Positive Cons Win Partial Victory by In a significant victory for prisoners who have been tested positive for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reversed a lower court order in a case that had challenged the prisoners' …
Article • December 15, 1991 • from PLN December, 1991
Prison Law Libraries Must Keep All Books Current by One of the questions presented in this case was whether a prison law library must keep current (update) those books that they are not constitutionally required to have. The case arose when prisoners initiated litigation, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 1983, over …
Article • January 15, 1991 • from PLN January, 1991
Book Request System Inadequate by Many jurisdictions try to meet their constitutional obligation to provide segregated prisoners with adequate access to the courts through some sort of law book request system. This means the locked-down prisoner must send a written request to the prison law library asking for specific volumes …
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