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Schmolke v. State of Washington, WA, Complaint, 1992
Brief • June 4, 1992
Schmolke v. State of Washington, WA, Complaint, 1992 - . - '\1-:'::-:: ":2 JUH 1.\ Pr1 1 20 JUH - '-:' \<":lO? .",-- , :.?AL'S ,0\ I • ~. I _ l ,., 1... ?iA 3 4 5 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT, THURSTON COUNTY, STATE OF WASHINGTON ROBERT RYAN SCBMOLKE, …
Delay of Legal Files States Claim
Article • May 15, 1992 • from PLN May, 1992
Filed under: Court Access, Legal Property, Complaints, Qualified Immunity
Delay of Legal Files States Claim by Delay Of Legal Files States Claim A Washington D.C. prisoner was transferred to various state and federal prisons. In the course of the transfers Lorton prison officials delayed and refused to send the plaintiff, Crawford El, his property containing his legal materials. Crawford …
Prison Officials Cannot Delay Access to Case Law
Article • May 15, 1992 • from PLN May, 1992
Filed under: Classification, Out of State Transfers, Law Library Access/Adequacy, Qualified Immunity
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 …
The Parole Board, a Step Nearer to Gone?
Article • May 15, 1992 • from PLN May, 1992
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
The Parole Board, a Step Nearer to Gone? by The Parole Board, A Step Nearer To Gone? In 1981 Washington State legislature passed the Sentencing Reform Act. The SRA implemented determinate sentencing for all, and fixed a date for abolishing the parole board. The original principles of the SRA were …
Community Help Foundation Unlimited
Article • May 15, 1992 • from PLN May, 1992
Filed under: Discrimination, Racial Discrimination, Parole
Community Help Foundation Unlimited by Beryl Sanders Community Help foundation Unlimited By Beryl P. Sanders Director This article is in response to the March 1992 Prisoners' Legal News article, "The continuing Racism Against Black Pre-SRA Offenders," By Leland Jordan. As prisoners advocates and leaders of the African-American community, we have …
Court Reporters Entitled to Absolute Immunity
Article • April 15, 1992 • from PLN April, 1992
Filed under: Judicial Misconduct, Immunity/Liability, Judicial Immunity
Court Reporters Entitled to Absolute Immunity by Court Reporters Entitled To Absolute Immunity Jeffrey Antoine was charged with bank robbery and tried in US district court in Tacoma, WA. Shanna Ruggenberg was the court reporter at trial and was responsible for producing the transcript for Antoine's appeal after he was …
Corrections Costs to Soar, Study Warns
Article • April 15, 1992 • from PLN April, 1992
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Statistics/Trends
Corrections Costs to Soar, Study Warns by Ed Penhale Corrections Costs To Soar, Study Warns By Ed Penhale, P-I Reporter Annual costs for running Washington's state and local corrections operations will rise by 50 percent over the next four years, adding $182 million a year to that expense by 1996, …
Lifers Litigation Update
Article • April 15, 1992 • from PLN April, 1992
Filed under: Sentencing, Ex Post Facto, Parole
Lifers Litigation Update by John Midgley By John Midgely Evergreen Legal Services This is to update all interested persons on the progress of the Powell case in federal court. Recently, United States Magistrate Judge Sweigert made a recommendation to Judge Zilly that SHB 1457 be found ex post facto as …
CBCC Publisher Only Rule Upheld on Qualified Immunity Grounds
Article • April 15, 1992 • from PLN April, 1992
Filed under: Transfers, Law Library Access/Adequacy, Photocopies, Injunctions, Qualified Immunity, Mail, Publications/Books
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 …
The Death of HB 2834
Article • April 15, 1992 • from PLN April, 1992
Filed under: Parole, News, State Legislation
The Death of HB 2834 by The Death Of HB 2834 HB 2834 is dead. It almost made it through the legislative process but died when the Senate bogged down on the health care issue. Originally the bill read that the Indeterminate Sentence Review Board (ISRB) would be eliminated as …
Cross Gender Pat Search Policy Upheld
Article • April 15, 1992 • from PLN April, 1992
Filed under: Gender Discrimination -- Women, Searches, Pat Searches
Cross Gender Pat Search Policy Upheld by A Washington prison's policy of subjecting fully clothed female inmates to random "pat searches" by male as well as female guards does not violate the first, fourth, or eighth amendments, a majority of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held. The Jan. 10th …
Uribe v. Riveland, WA, Complaint, Discrimination, 1992
Brief • March 22, 1992
Filed under: Racial Discrimination
Uribe v. Riveland, WA, Complaint, Discrimination, 1992 ...... ~ J. 9.970 t: ~ ~'.'~' ," " J j *"'" " '2-lr ;--: ,'!!• . ' : : IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF 1 THUR~~QNA I LARRY URIBE, 4 vs. 5 6 7 …
The Continuing Racism Against Black Pre-SRA Offenders
Article • March 15, 1992 • from PLN March, 1992
Filed under: Discrimination, Racial Discrimination, Parole
The Continuing Racism Against Black Pre-SRA Offenders by Leland Jordan By Leland Jordan As most readers know, effective in July of 1984, the State of Washington moved from an indeterminate sentencing scheme to a determinate one. It did so in part on the basis of the conclusions reached by numerous …
Legislative Update
Article • March 15, 1992 • from PLN March, 1992
Filed under: Parole, News, State Legislation
Legislative Update by Carrie Roth By Carrie Roth, Prison/Community Alliance As most of you already know, until last November we were planning on trying an initiative to the people which would eliminate the Indeterminate Sentence Review Board. If we had gotten 150,001 signatures within a specified period of time, we …
Status of Monroe's Litigation Against Double Bunking
Article • March 15, 1992 • from PLN March, 1992
Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Overcrowding, Consent Decrees
Status of Monroe's Litigation Against Double Bunking by Ed Mead By Ed Mead Bob Stalker, the Washington state attorney for Monroe prisoners on their suit against double bunking, recently visited that prison to discuss the current status of the Litigation with inmate club heads and the Resident advisory Council (RAG). …
Bush Campaign Silences Prisoner
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
Filed under: Retaliation, Retaliation for Media Contact, Qualified Immunity
Bush Campaign Silences Prisoner by Brett Kimberlin is a federal prisoner serving time for drug and weapons charges. In November, 1988, a few days before the presidential elections, he was going to have a press conference where he was going to relate his account of having sold marijuana to now …
Prison/Community Alliance Update
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
Filed under: Parole, News, State Legislation
Prison/Community Alliance Update by Carrie Roth By Carrie Roth The Prisoner/Community Alliance received a phone call from former Rep. Doug Sayan on Jan. 21, 1992. He said that the draft bill is now at the Code Revisors Office. The bill is an Omnibus bill which will include several aspects of …
Ex-Mayor Barry Having Sex in Visiting Room?
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Government Misconduct
Ex-Mayor Barry Having Sex in Visiting Room? by Ex-Mayor Barry Having Sex In Visiting Room? From: Seattle Times, January 6, 1992 Washington - Former Washington Mayor Marion Barry denied an allegation published in The Washington Post that a woman performed oral sex on him in a prison visiting room in …
CBCC IMU Hungerstrike
Article • February 15, 1992 • from PLN February, 1992
Filed under: Prison Rebellion, Hunger Strikes, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement
CBCC IMU Hungerstrike by Did you happened to hear about the 2-1/2 day hungerstrike? They brought 10 of us here from WSP (Walla Walla) IMU to supply bodies to justify opening an IMU at CBCC. We got here and F unit isn't even prepared to accept IMU prisoners. 8 out …
Prison/Community Alliance Update
Article • January 15, 1992 • from PLN January, 1992
Filed under: Parole, News, State Legislation
Prison/Community Alliance Update by Carrie Roth The Prison/Community Alliance (P/CA) has made progress. It now appears we will be able to have legislation proposed directly to the legislature this January. If this happens we will not be doing the initiative for the November 1992 election. A sequence of events has …
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