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Article • December 15, 1996 • from PLN December, 1996
Texas Guard Cleared in Controversial Shooting by Last month PLN reported "In Harm's Way: Texas Prisoner Killed," about the fatal shooting of 21-year-old prisoner Daniel Miguel Avellaneda by 35-year-old French Robertson Unit prison guard Neal Harms. Six weeks and one day after the July 8 shooting, a Jones County grand …
Article • November 15, 1996 • from PLN November, 1996
Eight Corcoran Guards Fired, Five Reinstated by On the morning of May 15, 1995, five prisoners at the Calipatria state prison stormed an A Facility program office and stabbed a sergeant. Other guards rushed to help and a wild brawl ensued. Eight guards were injured in the melee. [See: 'CA …
Macing and Restraints State Eighth Amendment Claim by The court of appeals for the fourth circuit held that not allowing a prisoner to wash after being maced and placing him in four point restraints created a fact question requiring a trial to determine if his eighth amendment rights were violated. …
Article • November 15, 1996 • from PLN November, 1996
Disciplinary Records Inadmissible Evidence by The court of appeals for the second circuit vacated a jury verdict in favor of prison guards holding that the prisoner plaintiff's prison disciplinary record should not have been admitted as evidence. Christopher Hynes, a New York state prisoner, filed suit claiming prison guards chained …
Article • October 15, 1996 • from PLN October, 1996
Court Responsible for Jury Demand by The court of appeals for the second circuit held that checking a box on a civil cover sheet constituted a timely demand for a jury trial. Tyrone Wright, a New York state prisoner, filed suit claiming he was beaten by prison guards. When Wright …
Jail Guards File Suit by Five jail guards, disciplined for throwing a blanket over the head of a mentally ill detainee and choking him into a coma, have sued the Santa Clara (Calf.) County Department of Correction and its two highest officials, claiming that they were unjustly scapegoated. The lawsuit, …
Article • October 15, 1996 • from PLN October, 1996
Prisoner Testimony Must Be Considered in Spears Hearing by The court of appeals for the fifth circuit held that a district court abused its discretion when it heard a prisoner's testimony during a Spears hearing and then disregarded it and dismissed the complaint. Danny Eason, a Texas state prisoner, filed …
Challenging Evil That Ills This Society by Ed Kinane The September 1995 New York State Prison Strike [The following is reprinted from Peace Newsletter, 3/96.] Musaa has served 13 years of a 20 year sentence in the NYS penal system. He has earned three degrees with an emphasis on political …
$168,500 Awarded in Prisoner's Death by Gregory Stampley, 46, was convicted in 1993 of kidnapping and making terroristic threats. He was sentenced to eight years and sent to the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Stillwater. Prison doctors who examined him diagnosed paranoid schizophrenia, aggressive-personality disorder and bipolar disorder. According to court …
Canada's Prison Chief Resigns by The head of Canada's prison service resigned immediately after a report was released April 1, 1996, about the abuse of female prisoners at the Kingston Prison for Women in April of 1994. "I have come to the conclusion that a change in leadership would be …
Beating Shackled Prisoners States Claim by A federal district court in Georgia held that the eighth amendment prohibits the beatings of handcuffed and shackled prisoners. Federal prison employees are not immune to state law claims of assault and battery. The case involves two federal prisoners at the US Penitentiary in …
New Jersey Jail Guards Indicted in Beating Death by Analdo Ortega was being held in the Hudson County, N.J., Jail in March of 1989 awaiting trial on burglary charges. According to court testimony, Ortega asked for a blanket and that triggered the anger of some of his captors. Shortly thereafter …
Attorney Fees Awarded in Death Row Brutality Case by A federal district court in South Carolina awarded a prisoner's attorney $29,516.50 in attorney fees and $1,856.17 in costs pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988. Cecil Lucas is a death row prisoner in South Carolina. After becoming drunk and combative with …
Article • July 15, 1996 • from PLN July, 1996
Mysterious New Syndrome Discovered by by Dan Pens The Santa Clara County (Calif.) Board of Supervisors decided to commission a report. They assembled a team of independent corrections specialists to study every aspect of the county jail's operation. The County Supervisors wanted to find out why jail detainees seemed to …
Tenth Anniversary of Peru Prison Massacres by [The following article is excerpted from the book Gloria al Día de Heroísmo, which is an account of the uprising and massacre of Peruvian political prisoners and Prisoners of War on June 19, 1986. This year marks the tenth anniversary of the uprising.] …
$176,000 Awarded in Attorney Fees by A federal district court in Illinois entered an award of $163,276 in attorney fees and $12,398 in costs pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988 to prisoner plaintiffs who won $130,000 in damages at a jury trial after being beaten by prison guards. The court …
Lucas v. White, CA, Complaint, Abuse of Inmates, 1996 1 2 ROSEN, BIEN & ASARO MICHAEL W. BIEN - 096891 DONNA PETRINE - 154833 M.J. TONY PAIKEDAY - 176051 155 Montgomery Street, 8th Floor San Francisco, California 94104 Telephone (415) 433-6830 3 4 5 LAW OFFICES OF GERI L. GREEN …
CDC Mental Health System Ruled Deficient by California's prison system (CDC) was cited by a federal judge for "gross inadequacies" in the delivery of mental health care services to prisoners. On September 13, 1995, U.S. district judge Lawrence Karlton put the bite on the CDC, issuing an 82 page court …
Jail Guards' Convictions Affirmed by On November 29, 1995, the US court of appeals for the sixth circuit issued a ruling affirming the federal conviction of three jail guards for violating prisoners' civil rights. Ulysses Tines, Glynn Bridgeforth and Belinda Marshall were guards employed at the Shelby County jail in …
$460,800 Verdict in Ohio Beating Affirmed by A district court in Ohio denied prison officials' motion for a new trial and affirmed a jury verdict of $460,800 to two Ohio state prisoners who had been beaten by prisoner guards. In the January, 1995, issue of PLN we reported the jury …
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