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Trailer Visits Curtailed at CBCC

Article • June 15, 1995 • from PLN June, 1995

Filed under: Prison Rebellion, Visiting, Extended Family Visiting

Trailer Visits Curtailed at CBCC by Reader Mail Editor's Note; In the March, 95 issue of PLN we wrote about the Clallam Bay, WA (CBCC) prisoner who stabbed his wife during a trailer visit We got this update from a CBCC reader. Now that the trailers have been reinstated with …

WA Powell Update

Article • June 15, 1995 • from PLN June, 1995

Filed under: Sentencing, Ex Post Facto, Parole

WA Powell Update by John Midgley This is to update you on recent developments in the Powell case on retroactive application of SHB 1457 to mandatory life term prisoners. As you know, earlier this year the Ninth Circuit refused to rehear the case. So, on April 10, 1995, we filed …

WA Prisoners Protest HB 2010

Article • June 15, 1995 • from PLN June, 1995

Filed under: Prison Rebellion, Work Strikes, Seizure of Prisoner Funds, Visiting, Extended Family Visiting

WA Prisoners Protest HB 2010 by The May, 1995, issue of PLN detailed the March 20, 1995, protest by prisoner's family members and prisoner rights supporters in front of the King County jail in Seattle. It also mentioned that women prisoners at Purdy had staged a one day strike in …

WA Prisoners Help Elect Republican

Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995

Filed under: Prison Industries, Organizing, Voting, State Legislation

WA Prisoners Help Elect Republican by Paul Wright By Paul Wright From 1981 to 1993 Jack Metcalf held office in the Washington state Senate. In 1994 he was elected on the Republican ticket to represent Washingtons second congressional district. This is a story about prison slave labor, opportunism and hypocrisy …

Harsher Prison Measures Opposed: "Family Values" Stop Here

Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995

Filed under: Prison Rebellion, Work Strikes, Prisoner Privileges, Education, Visiting, Extended Family Visiting, State Legislation

Harsher Prison Measures Opposed: "Family Values" Stop Here by Davis Oldham By Dan Tennenbaum and Davis Oldham Seattle WA -- On March 20th, about 30 people braved a heavy downpour and strong winds to demonstrate against state Republican efforts to curtail prisoner rights. Friends and family members of prisoners, as …

WA Civil Commitment Sham

Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995

Filed under: Mental Health, Sex Offender Treatment, Civil Commitment, State Legislation

WA Civil Commitment Sham by In 1989 Washington State passed a controversial "Sex Predator Law" (RCW 71.09) to allow for the "civil commitment" (indefinite incarceration) of "dangerous sexual predators." The law allows the state to file commitment papers on prisoners who have completed their maximum terms of incarceration and are …

Figueroa v. WA DOC, WA, Tort Claim, Lost Personal Property, 1995

Brief • May 15, 1995

Filed under: Money/Property

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Purdy Medical Suit Settled

Article • April 15, 1995 • from PLN April, 1995

Filed under: Gender Discrimination -- Women, Systemic Medical Neglect, Medical Records, Medical Expenses, Food, Staffing, Settlements, Interpreters, Mental Health, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness)

Purdy Medical Suit Settled by In the April, 1994, issue of PLN we reported Hallet v. Payne, No. 93-5496(T)D, the class action suit by women prisoners in federal court in Tacoma against prison officials at the Washington Corrections Center for Women, also known as Purdy. The suit alleged that medical …

Pierce County Jail Sued

Article • April 15, 1995 • from PLN April, 1995

Filed under: Systemic Medical Neglect, Dental Care, Conditions of Confinement, Totality of Conditions, Overcrowding, Staffing, Sanitation, Guard Brutality/Beatings

Pierce County Jail Sued by On January 19, 1995, a class action suit was filed against Pierce County (Tacoma, Washington) concerning massive overcrowding at its jail. The jail was built in 1984 and designed to hold 470 prisoners, it was later remodeled to hold 628. On January 17, 1995, the …

S.Ct. to Hear Quayle Retaliation Claim

Article • April 15, 1995 • from PLN April, 1995

Filed under: Retaliation, Retaliation for Media Contact, Qualified Immunity, Access to Media

S.Ct. to Hear Quayle Retaliation Claim by On January 20, 1995, the US Supreme Court announced that it had granted certiori to hear a prison retaliation case and it may have an interesting effect on the 1996 presidential campaign if Dan Quayle, George Bush's former vice president, changes his mind …

Horton v. Williams, WA, Cohen Declaration 1, Pepper Spray Youth, 1995

Brief • April 15, 1995

Filed under: Pepper Spray/Tear Gas, Juveniles

Horton v. Williams, WA, Cohen Declaration 1, Pepper Spray Youth, 1995 1 2 3 THE HONORABLE ROBERT J. BRYAN 4 5 6 A?R 1 9 7 PF?()JECf 8 9 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA 10 11 12 13 JAMES HORTON, et al., on behalf of …

WA Special Commitment Center Failing

Article • March 15, 1995 • from PLN March, 1995

Filed under: Mental Health, Sex Offender Treatment, Civil Commitment

WA Special Commitment Center Failing by In 1989 Washington State passed a controversial "civil commitment" law to allow for the indefinite incarceration of "dangerous sexual predators." Opponents of this law point out that although those who are determined to be sexual predators are confined to a "treatment center" until they …

WA "Corrections" Committee

Article • March 15, 1995 • from PLN March, 1995

Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Victims, Prisoner Privileges, State Legislation

WA "Corrections" Committee by Paul Wright By Paul Wright On September 6, 1988, Diane Ballisiotes was killed by Eugene Kane, a prisoner on work release in Seattle, Washington. Kane had been serving time for two assaults on women and was paroled despite DOC psychologists stating he was at high risk …

WA Prisoners Under Attack

Article • March 15, 1995 • from PLN March, 1995

Filed under: Medical Expenses, Exercise, Public Defenders, Prisoner Privileges, Seizure of Prisoner Funds, Sexually Explicit Materials, Civil Commitment, Visiting, Extended Family Visiting, Religious Names, State Legislation

WA Prisoners Under Attack by Paul Wright By Paul Wright Someone once said that no citizen's life, limb or property was safe while the legislature was in session. Substitute "Prisoner" for "citizen" and you have an idea of what things are like in Washington. Fortunately, the Washington state legislature is …

9th Cir Reverses Dismissal of Publisher Only Rule

Article • February 15, 1995 • from PLN February, 1995

Filed under: Mail, Mail Regulations

9th Cir Reverses Dismissal of Publisher Only Rule by PLN rarely reports on unpublished decisions because they cannot be cited as binding precedent. But in some cases prisoner litigants benefit from knowing cases that have been decided by the courts in their relevant circuits as well as new avenues of …

WA DOC Sanctioned in Grievance Mail Case

Article • February 15, 1995 • from PLN February, 1995

Filed under: Civil Procedure, Injunctions, Contempt (Civil Procedure), Sanctions, Mail Regulations, Legal Mail

WA DOC Sanctioned in Grievance Mail Case by In the September, 1994, issue of PLN we reported OKeefe v. Murphy, the unpublished case by US District Judge Alan McDonald which held that prisoners mail to and from different government agencies was entitled to confidential treatment, i.e. being opened only in …

Law Library Access Not "Core" Bounds Requirement

Article • January 15, 1995 • from PLN January, 1995

Filed under: Court Access, Legal Materials, Law Library Access/Adequacy

Law Library Access Not "Core" Bounds Requirement by In a major setback for Washington state prisoners the ninth circuit has held that prisoners do not have a right of access to prison law libraries. William Vandelft was infracted while at the Washington Corrections Center in Shelton. He served a sanction …

WSR Guard Convicted of Soliciting Assault

Article • January 15, 1995 • from PLN January, 1995

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Guard Misconduct

WSR Guard Convicted of Soliciting Assault by On June 3, 1994, Washington State Reformatory (WSR) guard Roger Wallace, 28, was arrested at the Monroe, Washington, prison on charges of soliciting a prisoner, Samuel McNeal, to assault Gerald "J.D." Enquist, another prisoner. On June 9, 1994, Wallace was charged in Snohomish …

Woodley v. WA DOC, WA, Complaint, Race Discrimination, 1994

Brief • December 28, 1994

Filed under: Racial Discrimination

Woodley v. WA DOC, WA, Complaint, Race Discrimination, 1994 1 2 3 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 4 6 7 8 9 10 BILLY G. WOODLEY, Plaintiff, 13 14 ) v. 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 COMPLAINT FOR …

Wright v. Rebiero, WA, Order, Retaliatory Transfer, 1994

Brief • December 23, 1994

Filed under: Retaliatory Transfers

Wright v. Rebiero, WA, Order, Retaliatory Transfer, 1994 1 2 AT SEATTLE OURT CLERIC. US. DC1IS~~~~H1NGT~~ 3 WESteRN DISlRI BY 4 5 6 J ,- 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE 9 10 11 AUL A. WRIGHT, plaintiff, 12 v. NO. C90-396R ORDER ADOPTING …