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Article • September 15, 1995 • from PLN September, 1995
Spitting by HIV+ Prisoner Results in Attempted Murder Conviction by Paul Wright By Paul Wright Curtis Weeks, an HIV+ Texas prisoner, spit on a guard and was convicted of attempted murder. PLN rarely reports on criminal law cases and even more rarely do we do so under a by line. …
Article • September 15, 1995 • from PLN September, 1995
Medical Care Ordered by If a prisoner sustains a serious injury they are entitled to competent medical attention. Richard Sappington is a Texas state prisoner. He injured his foot playing basketball and x-rays revealed multiple fractures in the foot. The prison hospital lacked resources to treat the injuries and his …
Guard Gets 10 Years for Beating Prisoner to Death by On May 23, 1995, Joel Lambright was sentenced to a 2 to 10 year sentence after being convicted of manslaughter for beating and kicking to death Michael McCoy, a prisoner. [See PLN Jan., 1995] Initially charged with murder, Lambright was …
Detainee Entitled to Medical Care by The mere fact that a prisoner is "seen" by a doctor does not, by itself, constitute "medical care." Terry Guidry was a pretrial detainee in the Jefferson County Detention Center in Texas when he got into a fight with another prisoner. Instead of trying …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
TDCJ Selling Counterfeit Meat by The Texas Department of Criminal Justice(TDCJ) is getting into the fast food business. This is a new and different type of fast food, though. What makes it a fast is how fast prisoners whisk their trays to the garbage can to dump the fake soy-based …
Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
TDCJ Grows & Grows by The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) had a 1994 budget of $1.84 million dollars. According to the Texas Comptroller that is slated to grow to $3 billion by the year 2000. Texas currently has an incarceration rate of 553 per 100,000 (the highest in …
Article • March 15, 1995 • from PLN March, 1995
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
TX Parole Board Can't Use Voided Priors by John Cook is a Texas state prisoner. In 1964 he was convicted of burglary. In 1982 he was convicted of indecency with a child and received a 20 year sentence which included a ten year enhancement for the 1964 conviction. In 1987 …
Article • February 15, 1995 • from PLN February, 1995
Former TX Parole Board Chairman Sentenced by Former Texas slate parole board chairman, James Granberry, pleaded guilty in April of 1994 to charges that he committed perjury during an investigation of independent "parole consultants." After Granberry resigned from the Board of Pardons and Parole in May 1991, he set himself …
Article • February 15, 1995 • from PLN February, 1995
Texas DOC to Ban Tobacco Use by Texas DOC To Ban Tobacco Use On November 18, 1994, Texas prison officials voted to ban all tobacco use throughout the states criminal justice system. The ban, unanimously approved by the state Board of Criminal Justice, covers all tobacco products and all property …
Article • January 15, 1995 • from PLN January, 1995
Jail Population Cap Affirmed by Prisoners and detainees in the Angelina county jail in Texas filed a class action suit claiming that overcrowding at the jail violated their constitutional rights. The district court agreed and entered an injunction imposing a population cap on the jail. The defendant county jail and …
TX Guards Charged in Beating Murder by On October 7, 1994, 15 of about 300 prisoners in the recreation yard of the Terrell Prison Unit in Livingston, TX, attacked prison staff. One guard suffered a broken nose. Prison guards beat several prisoners in retaliation for the attack. On October 9, …
Article • December 15, 1994 • from PLN December, 1994
Houston - Death Penalty Capital of USA by Dan Pens In one week this September, six separate capital murder cases were being tried in Harris County, Texas, of which Houston is the main city. Some legal observers consider this to be a national record. "They may have done this in …
Article • December 15, 1994 • from PLN December, 1994
Fast Food Style Death Penalty Defense by Harris County, Texas, which encompasses Houston, is the death-penalty capital of the U.S. [See: Houston, Death Penalty Capital of USA on page 15 of this issue]. What better place for a lawyer to develop and market the same techniques that made fast food …
Article • November 15, 1994 • from PLN November, 1994
Overcrowding Leads to Pneumonia by On September 8, 1994, the New England Journal of Medicine published the report of an investigation conducted by the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention into the outbreak of a deadly form of pneumonia in the Harris County (Houston) jail in Texas in …
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
Name Change Statute Upheld by Kevin Mathews is a Texas state prisoner who filed suit under § 1983 challenging the constitutionality of § 32.22 of the Texas Family Code. The statute in question prohibits convicted felons from changing their names unless the person has been discharged from parole or probation, …
Article • September 15, 1994 • from PLN September, 1994
Disciplinary Guilty Plea No Waiver to Suit by Joe Reeves is a Texas state prisoner. He was infracted for placing his food tray outside his cell in the segregation unit. A prison rule required that food trays remain inside prisoner's cells until collected by guards. Reeves had received no notice …
Article • July 15, 1994 • from PLN July, 1994
Administrative Exhaustion May Be Required by Leopold Pedraza is a Texas state prisoner. He filed suit under § 1983 claiming prison officials harassed him because of his race, national origin and prior litigation. At no time did Pedraza file grievances or complaints with prison officials concerning his allegations. A magistrate …
Article • July 15, 1994 • from PLN July, 1994
Texas Prison Reform Suit May Reopen by Tim Queen In 1972, a Texas state prisoner, David Ruiz, filed a lawsuit in Federal Court alleging many conditions in the Texas prison system violated the constitutional rights of those incarcerated. The suit was consolidated with other Texas prisoners' complaints and certified as …
Article • July 15, 1994 • from PLN July, 1994
Lockdown May Be Unconstitutional by Danny Eason is a Texas state prisoner. After two disturbances, in which he was not involved, the prison he was housed in was locked down for a total of 25 days. He claimed that during this period he was denied access to the prison law …
Article • April 15, 1994 • from PLN April, 1994
Wolff Hearing Required Before Detainees Punished by Ernest Walker is a pretrial detainee at the Navarro County Jail in Corsicana, Texas. Walker asked a jail guard to open his cell door so he could get some chips to eat. The guard refused and claimed Walker called him an obscene name. …
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