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Brief • October 27, 1992
Filed under: Discrimination
Uribe v. Riveland, WA, First Amendment to Complaint, Discrimination, 1992 RECEIVED '92 OCT 27 Prl Y 17 1 ATTORNEY GENERAL OF WASHINGTON ·ORRr-CTIO '-1'-:' ~. " '!t ':', 1(.)\1 C ' ,'C ......... • .:. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON 2 3 I. 4 IN AND …
Article • October 15, 1992 • from PLN October, 1992
Wash. DOC Given $15 Million by The Washington state DOC has been given an additional $15 million in emergency funding to ease overcrowding in state prisons. Even after the money is spent to open new prisons and add beds in existing prisons, the system is likely to be operating well …
Brief • September 17, 1992
Filed under: Sexual Assault, Parole
Watters v. State of Washington, WA, Complaint, Parole Rape, 1992 . ( " . I .... : ;:~AL'S --,." ,.'\; 'v'. 1 .... . ~':!,~rIA ~ 2 3 SEP I 7 1992 I L .. •• ... __ IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR …
Article • September 15, 1992 • from PLN September, 1992
Filed under: Medical, HIV/AIDS, STDs
D.C. Changes Jail Condom Policy by Washington, D.C., Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly recently unveiled a plan to combat AIDS that includes distributing condoms to the city's inmates. The plan, which was scheduled to take effect in July, will combine condom distribution with educational AIDS programming. A voluntary course for inmates …
Washington Feces Watch and Visiting Policy Create Liberty Interest by Rogaciano Mendoza was a prisoner at the Washington State Penitentiary (WSP) at Walla Walla in 1989 when prison officials discovered a broken balloon containing a white substance in the visiting room bathroom being used by Mendozas 6 children. Mendoza was …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Court Rules on Service and Venue by Arnold Huskey is a BOP (Bureau of Prisons) prisoner confined at the US Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. He filed suit in the District of Columbia claiming BOP officials had violated his constitutional rights by misclassifying him under 28 C.F.R. § 524.72 (h) resulting …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Study Finds Sentencing Bias in Washington State by Anew study has found that Hispanics in Yakima County are more likely to receive long prison sentences than whites. The study was performed by political scientist David Hood and sociologist Ruey-Lin Lin, both of Eastern Montana College in Billings. It was based …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
Washington's DOC Boss Talks That Talk. Can He Walk That Walk? by Amonth or so ago Chase Riveland, the Washington state's chief corrections officer, went to Washington, D.C. for what he thought would be a dialogue, an exchange of ideas about crime and punishment. Instead he got a U.S. Justice …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Three Strikes, You're Out by Ed Mead By Ed Mead Those short sighted anti-crime proponents in Washington state are at it again. This time the conservatives are circulating a citizen's initiative, The Persistent Offender Accountability Act (Initiative 590) that would provide two major changes to punishment: mandatory life in prison …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Washington Lifers Litigation Update by John Midgley By John Midgley This is a further update on the "lifers" litigation. The current status of the Powell case is as follows: US District Court Judge Thomas Zilly has held that SHB 1457 is ex post facto as applied to Mr. Powell. The …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Rectal Search Upheld by James Terrovona is a Washington state prisoner who was transferred from IMU (Intensive Management Unit) in Walla Walla to IMU in Shelton. Upon arrival at Shelton and before being put in the IMU there Terrovona was subjected to a digital rectal search by DOC officials. He …
Article • July 15, 1992 • from PLN July, 1992
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
Disgruntled Reader Needs Barf Bag by After reading your March 1992 issue of the PLN I was thoroughly disillusioned, disgusted, and very disappointed that PLN would allow a prisoners' news source to be used to propagate something very harmful to everyone incarcerated [in this state]. I am speaking of the …
Article • July 15, 1992 • from PLN July, 1992
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
The Pen is Mightier Than The Sword by John Adams By John Adams I'm a prisoner at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla; Washington. I've been incarcerated for more than a decade. In 1984, 1 began studying the law while fighting for my life after stabbing another inmate to …
Article • July 15, 1992 • from PLN July, 1992
CBCC Guard Arrested by Edward Fulleton, 4-1 guard at the Clallam Bay Corrections Center (CBCC) in Clallam Bay, WA, was arrested at the prison and led away in handcuffs on April 17, 1992. Fulleton was a former foster parent who is charged in Lewis county with one count each of …
Article • July 15, 1992 • from PLN July, 1992
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
We Are Making Progress by Barbara Dority A year ago, when the HOW board voted to make a donation to Prisoner's Legal News, we wrote to tell you how crucial we believe prison reform is in our country today and how excited we were about your ground breaking work. We …
Article • July 15, 1992 • from PLN July, 1992
42% of DC Young Black Men Said to Be in Justice System by More then 40 percent of the black men age 18 to 35 in the District of Columbia were "firmly in the grip of the criminal justice system" on an average day last year, according to a study …
Article • July 15, 1992 • from PLN July, 1992
Suit Being Filed Over CBCC Conditions by JD Enquist On April 1, 1992, Troy Talbot, a prisoner here at the Clallam Bay IMU [Intensive Management Unit], was taken to the shower handcuffed and on a doggie leash. Prison guards had left the supply closet in the shower unlocked and Troy …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Looking Back, Learning Lessons, PLN's Early Days by Ed Mead By Ed Mead When the PLN first started out we experienced a lot of banning at various prisons, both in Washington State and elsewhere. One such event took place when the second issue of the paper was banned from both …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Washington Lifers Prevail in District Court by John Midgley By John Midgley, Attorney At Law U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Zilly has ruled in the Powell case that SHB 1457 is ex post facto as applied to Mr. Powell's first-degree murder sentence. The state has been directed to determine Mr. …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Washington's Prisons to Reach 10,000 by Washington's Prisons To Reach 10,000 Washington State's jammed prisons soon will hold a record 10,000 inmates, and the state is stepping up construction of more cells to head off the unrest that often comes with overcrowding. "We've been pretty lucky that we haven't had …
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