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Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Pelican Bay News by Hello from Pelican Bay State Prison - SHU. I have some legal news. The following prisoners, Bwana Millon, James X. Williamson, Thomas Fetters, and Nicholas X. Delamat have joined in a writ of mandamus petition in state superior court, county of Del Norte (case no. 91-141-X). …
Unlawful Orders Cannot Be Enforced With Violence by A female California state prisoner was ordered to submit to a strip search by male prison guards. She refused to be strip searched and was Tasered. She filed suit under the Fourth, Eighth and Fourteenth amendments. The District Court applied an Eighth …
Article • September 15, 1991 • from PLN September, 1991
Remembering Attica: Twenty Years Later by Ed Mead By Ed Mead On September 13, 1978, prisoners at Walla Walla celebrated Attica Day by holding a sparsely attended memorial talent show in the prison's auditorium. On September 13, 1979, the Washington Coalition Against Prisons (WaCAP) braved heavy rain to stage a …
Article • August 15, 1991 • from PLN August, 1991
Justice for Jimmy Haynes? by John Perotti Justice For Jimmy Haynes?? ? By John Perotti On February 9, 1984, Jimmy Haynes, a black prisoner, was beaten and then murdered by 12 white guards at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF) al Lucasville, Ohio. The cause of death was a crushed …
Mere "Institutional Security" Claim Not Enough by Mere "Institutional Security" Claim Not Enough A former prisoner of the Nevada State Prison brought a federal civil rights complaint against guards claiming that his fourth, eighth and fourteenth amendment rights were violated. He contended the violation occurred when guards forced him to …
Article • June 15, 1991 • from PLN June, 1991
Aftermath MANCI Control Unit & Perotti Update by Numerous organizations inquired into the beatings of six prisoners in the AC Control Unit at Mansfield, Ohio prison by 35 guards. The Cleveland ACLU has requested a written explanation and investigation into the matter. A civil rights complaint was filed by a …
Prisoner Victims of Guard Assault Win Damages by Prisoner Victims Of Guard Assault Win Damages Ten prisoners in the D.C. jail learned they were being transferred to another facility. A number of the inmates passively resisted the transfer. They alleged that after the transfer, they were beaten by correctional officers. …
Article • June 15, 1991 • from PLN June, 1991
Inhumane Living at CCI by Angelo Crimi Inhumane Living At CCI By Angelo Crimi CHILLICOTHE, OHIO - Prisoners at Chillicothe Correctional Institution (CCI) confined in the segregation unit are constantly subjected to cruel and unusual punishment. Prisoners are confined to a building that is over 100 years old and the …
Article • April 15, 1991 • from PLN April, 1991
Beating in the MANCI Control Unit by John Perotti Beating In The MANCI Control Unit By John Perroti MANSFIELD, OHIO - On February 8, 1991, in the super-max administrative control unit (AC-Isolation) at the Mansfield Correctional Institution (MANCI) high tech prison, designed after the U.S. Penitentiary at Marion, II, 35 …
Article • March 15, 1991 • from PLN March, 1991
Prison Discipline Study by The Prisoner Rights Union (PRU) in California in 1989 started a survey to determine the prevalence of extreme forms of discipline in the American prison system. To do so they mailed out questionnaires to prisoners in 41 states across the U.S. Based on useable returns from …
Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
Prisoner Assaulted by Guard by Prisoner Assaulted By Guard A prison employee was held liable for $1,000 after sticking the barrel of his revolver in the inmate's mouth and cocking the trigger. The prisoner had sought damages for assault in a federal civil rights suit against the prison employee. He …
Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
Clallam Bay Prisoner Brutalized by Paul Wright By Paul Wright On December 17, 1990, at about 6:35 in the evening several prisoners got into a fight in the F-Unit (Close Custody) rotunda area. Eventually guards carted the participants of that fight off to the "hole." At about 7:10 that evening …
Article • December 15, 1990 • from PLN December, 1990
Fifth Circuit Adopts Reactionary Standard in Excessive Force Claim by Fifth Circuit Adopts Reactionary Standard in Excessive Force Claims A state prisoner filed a civil rights complaint in federal court against two guards who assaulted him during a cell search. The convict received an elbow fracture during the struggle. The …
Article • November 15, 1990 • from PLN November, 1990
Severe Injury Not Required for Damage Claim Against Guards for Assault by Severe Injury not Required for Damage Claim Against Guards for Assault A prisoner filed a civil rights complaint against guards for assaulting him. A jury awarded the prisoner with compensatory and punitive damages. The state appealed. On appeal …
Article • August 15, 1990 • from PLN August, 1990
Struggle in Ohio by Paul Wright Struggle In Ohio By Paul Wright There have been 5 prisoners and one staff member (schoolteacher) killed at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio since 1990 rolled in. Governor Celeste ordered an investigation into all aspects of SOCF operations by the State …
Article • July 15, 1990 • from PLN July, 1990
Pleading Supervisory Liability by Prisoner seeking to sue prison officials in section 1983 Civil Rights actions must allege either personal involvement and/or supervisory liability by administrators in order to state a claim. "To hold supervisors liable under section 1983," the court said at page 645, "a plaintiff must show that …
Indonesia Murders Long Term Political Prisoners by On the 16th of February, 1990 four prisoners: Sater Suryanto, Johannes Surono, Simon Solainman and Norbertus Rohayan, were taken from their cell in Cipinang prison in Jakarta (capital of Indonesia) and taken to an uninhabited island in Jakarta Bay where they were shot …
$241,000 Damages Upheld in Beating by $241,000 DAMAGES UPHELD IN BEATING A prisoner riot broke out when thirty prisoners forced their way into an area where they fought guards who were trying to remove a drunken prisoner. During the fight, one guard was fatally stabbed and several others wounded. When …
Political Prisoners Beaten by Novara, Italy On January 30, 1990, 20 political prisoners (members of the Red Brigades) held a sit-in, in the political prison to protest the continued solitary confinement of a fellow prisoner based on a guard's trumped up allegations. After 30 minutes of refusing to return to …
Brief • February 25, 1987
Bruscino v. Carlson, CA, Motion for Relief for Brutality, Conditions of Confinement, 1987 654 F.Supp. 609 (1987) Ronnie BRUSCINO, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Norman CARLSON, et al., Defendants. Civ. No. 84-4320. United States District Court, S.D. Illinois, Benton Division. February 25, 1987. 611 610 *610 *611 Nancy Horgan, Donna Kolb, …
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