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Beaten Attica Prisoner Awarded $70,000 by After a two-week trial during July 1999, a jury ruled in favor of plaintiff Wayne Ford and awarded him $70,000 in a suit against Attica guards for using excessive force. Wayne, 32, who acted as his own attorney through much of the proceedings, said …
Article • November 15, 1999 • from PLN November, 1999
California Governor Vetoes Parole Reform Bill by California Governor Gray Davis vetoed a bill that would have diverted "low-risk" parole violators into community-based programs rather than send them back through a "revolving door" to an already overcrowded state prison system. Some critics call the veto quid pro quo for the …
CCPOA Pimping in the California State Assembly by Dan Pens A self-proclaimed "whore" for the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA) in July 1999 helped kill Attorney General Bill Lockyer's proposed legislation for forming a state-level prosecutorial unit to investigate alleged crimes by state prison guards. As it stands now, …
CDC Whistleblower Gets $1.7 Million by A former California Department of Corrections (CDC) guard who reported the Corcoran State Prison "gladiator fight" shootings to the FBI, resulting in the indictment of eight other Corcoran guards, has been paid $1.7 million by the state. Richard Caruso, 35, sued the CDC in …
Article • August 15, 1999 • from PLN August, 1999
California Guard Union Doles Out Millions to Politicians by The California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA) is the union which represents California's 28,000 prison guards. The union is also one of the most powerful political players in state politics. The union supports mandatory sentencing, including "three strikes" laws; increased prison …
Detainee Beaten to Death at Nassau County Jail by Alex Friedmann When Thomas Pizzuto entered the Nassau Co. jail in East Meadow, New York to serve 90 days for traffic violations, he didn't know the jail term would become a death sentence. Pizzuto, 38, a recovering heroin user who was …
Article • December 15, 1998 • from PLN December, 1998
Prisoners' Legal Services of NY Victim of Budget Ax by Dan Pens September 13, 1971 Bloody Monday. New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller unleashes a firestorm of bullets and shotgun blasts into Attica's D-Yard. Eight minutes and 3,000 rounds of ammo later, 29 prisoners and 10 hostages lay fatally gunshot in …
Article • November 15, 1998 • from PLN November, 1998
Fired SCI Greene Guards Regain Jobs by After months of negotiation with the union, the Pennsylvania DOC agreed to reinstate two guards who were fired from its Greene County prison. George Reposky and Mark Powell were fired and other guards were disciplined in May 1998 for using excessive force against …
Corcoran Prison Sex, Lies, and Videotape by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely Iheard yelling and screaming. I heard batons hitting," Connie Foster told California lawmakers at a joint legislative hearing into brutality at Corcoran prison July 28, 1998. Foster, who worked at the prison from 1987 to 1996, spoke quietly …
Union Reverses Position on Private Prisons by Last May, when a bill was introduced in the Tennessee legislature to privatize the state's entire corrections system, the private prison industry achieved a major coup by winning the support of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, a 1.3 million-member …
NJ Guards Threaten Walkout Over Vests by On July 31, 1997, New Jersey state prisons were locked down after a guard was fatally stabbed and angry union leaders told guards for the next shift not to report for work unless the state agreed to purchase body armor vests. Bayside State …
Article • December 15, 1997 • from PLN December, 1997
Ohio Overtime Gravy by According to a report in the Columbus Dispatch, overtime pay for Ohio state employees is expected to reach an all-time high of $72 million in 1997. Among the 68 Ohio state agencies, employees of the state's burgeoning prison system account for $23.7 million, about a third …
CCA Unveils Aggressive New Marketing Ploy by The Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) plans to build a 2,000-bed prison in California's Mojave Desert -- on speculation. CCA President David L. Meyers said his private prison corporation has no guarantee the California Department of Corrections (CDC) will send prisoners the proposed …
Article • October 15, 1997 • from PLN October, 1997
California Limits Prison Appeals by Willie Wisely Continuing the agenda of the prison guards union, the California Department of Corrections issued a notice of changes to prison administrative regulations governing appeals of conditions of confinement by prisoners. The changes include doubling the time limits prison staff have to respond to …
Article • May 15, 1997 • from PLN May, 1997
Guard Tower Scam by A.L. In the January PLN, Paul Wright described the ordeal of the guards' union in Washington state successfully fighting the DOC's effort to reduce staffing of the guard towers in Washington's prisons. While it's clear that the public-employee unions representing turnkeys fight tooth-and-nail to keep positions …
Article • April 15, 1997 • from PLN April, 1997
California Slashes Family Visits by Willie Wisely The young Hispanic woman, juggling a squirming infant under each arm, began to cry as she read the notice posted on the wall of the visitor processing building at Lancaster prison. For months prisoner rights advocates had been warning visitors, trying to organize …
Article • March 15, 1997 • from PLN March, 1997
CDC Trying to Polish Tarnished Image by Dan Pens The editors of PLN receive newspaper clippings from all over the U.S. We recently received articles clipped from about a dozen California newspapers. The articles appeared in the same week and all were strikingly similar. They were about how California Department …
Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN January, 1997
Washington Pork Refuses to Be Trimmed: Guard Towers Stay by Paul Wright In the August and November, 1995, issues of PLN we reported the passage of House Bill (HB) 2010 and the DOC's 1996-97 budget by the Washington state legislature. Among HB 2010's provisions were instructions for the DOC to …
Corcoran Prison Cover-up by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely On October 7, 1994, former California prison guard Richard Caruso decided he had enough. The frequent shooting of prisoners forced into fights staged, then covered up, by guards at Corcoran prison's Security Housing Unit (SHU) weighed on his conscience. So, Caruso …
Retaliatory Transfer and Discipline Unconstitutional by The court of appeals for the eighth circuit affirmed an award of damages and attorney fees to an Iowa prisoner who was infracted and transferred after he cooperated with an investigation into guard misconduct. Robert Cornell was contacted in 1987 by DOC internal affairs …
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