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Article • March 15, 1995 • from PLN March, 1995
Prison Weight Lifting is a Nonsense Issue by Paul Wright Across the country Republicans have seized on prison weigh-lifting as a no risk political "issue" to make big hoopla over. The corporate media has abetted this by running sensationalist stories of prisoners bulking up by pumping iron. So far Mississippi …
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 …
Fear and Loathing in California by Willie Wisely As the campaign of hatred against people in prison reaches a frenzied crescendo in this era of reactionary politics, several draconian measure were passed by California legislators in the 1994 session vying with each other for the title, "Toughest On Crime." A …
Article • February 15, 1995 • from PLN February, 1995
Unconstitutional Jail Conditions Don't Need to be Relitigated by Chris Hall was a pretrial detainee in the Little Rock, Arkansas, city jail. He filed suit under 42 U.S.A. § 1983 claiming that jail conditions had violated his constitutional rights. Arrested for shoplifting, Hall spent 40 days in the jail, confined …
Article • January 15, 1995 • from PLN January, 1995
Unconstitutionality of Florida's Outdoor Yard Policies for Close Management Prisoners by Van Poyck, William by William Van Poyck The constitutional right, based upon the Eighth Amendment's proscription of cruel and unusual punishment, of long term Close Management (C.M.) prisoners to outdoor recreation exercise yard is long and well established, nation …
MS Bans Appliances by In August, 1994, the Mississippi state legislature held a special session to deal with prison overcrowding. Rather than deal with that issue, the legislature soon became embroiled in a debate on how to worsen prison conditions even more. Proposals were made to "restore fear to prison," …
Article • November 15, 1994 • from PLN November, 1994
WI Removes Weights and Tennis Courts by Wisconsin's hard-line Republican Governor Tommy Thompson, apparently concerned about his upcoming re-election bid, has ordered all weights and tennis courts removed from the Wisconsin prison system by October 1, 1994. Wisconsin prison officials were in the process of conducting an inventory of weights …
Ninth Circuit Approves Oregon Control Unit Conditions by Paul Wright By Paul Wright This is a case which challenged numerous conditions of confinement at the Oregon State Penitentiary's Disciplinary Segregation Unit (DSU), which is a control unit. The ruling does not bode well for prisoners seeking to question such conditions. …
Choice Between Exercise and Access Struck Down by The message in this case is that both the right of access to the courts and the right to outdoor exercise are important ones. "To sanction the policy of forcing a prisoner to choose between two important, indeed fundamental, rights," the court …
Sanders v. CoreCivic, NM, Complaint, Failure to Protect, 2012 FILED IN MY OFFICI DISTRICTCOURTCLER 11/12/2012 6:56:37 Pl GREGORYT. IRELAN State of New Mexico County of Bernalillo Second Judicial District Court Christina Villa Roger G. Sanders Plaintiff No. D-202-CV-2012-10468 v. Corrections Corporation of America and Tim Morgan Defendants Complaint for Personal …
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