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Article • October 15, 2002 • from PLN October, 2002
Honolulu Police Officers Indicted in Jail Food Scandal by From January 1995 to September 2000, while prisoners at the Honolulu Police Department were eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and prepackaged, reheatable meals, their captors were eating top sirloin and rib eye steaks at taxpayers' expense. Assistant Police Chief Rafael …
Article • October 15, 2002 • from PLN October, 2002
Summary Judgment Denied in Colorado Hepatitis-C Treatment Suit Based on Lack of Internet Access by Bob Williams The Colorado Federal District Court has denied summary judgment for the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) in a suit seeking treatment for a prisoner infected with the hepatitisC virus (HCV). Several prisoner cases …
Boot Camp or Boot Hill? Troubled Teens Suffer From Too Much Tough Love by Roger Hummel Boot Camp Or Boot Hill? Troubled Teens Suffer From Too Much Tough Love by Roger Hummel On February 15, 2002, Charles Long II was arrested on murder and child abuse charges growing from the …
Audit Shows Folsom Prison Mismanaged by Gary Hunter In December 2001, the state inspector general concluded an excoriating audit of a city-run prison in Folsom, California. The audit was the result of a six-month investigation that met a great deal of resistance from Folsom officials. It "revealed deteriorating buildings, broken …
Article • September 15, 2002 • from PLN September, 2002
From the Editor by Paul Wright Over the years, PLN has conducted a number of sample mailings to potential subscribers. This has always been a good way to expand our circulation, but such mailings are expensive to do. We have long recognized that our best outreach resource is our readership. …
Article • September 15, 2002 • from PLN September, 2002
Filed under: Medical, HIV/AIDS
From the Editor by Willie Wisely by Paul Wright Over the years, PLN has conducted a number of sample mailings to potential subscribers. This has always been a good way to expand our circulation, but such mailings are expensive to do. We have long recognized that our best outreach resource …
Article • September 15, 2002 • from PLN September, 2002
Sixth Circuit Rules PLRA 150% Fee Cap Constitutional by by Matthew T. Clarke The Sixth Circuit court of appeals has held that 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(d)(2), the section of the Prison Litigation Reform Act, which limits losing civil rights defendants' liability to 150% of the damage award, did not violate …
Article • September 15, 2002 • from PLN September, 2002
California Prisoners Remanded to Jail for Resentencing Do Not Accrue Jail Behavior Credits by California Prisoners Remanded To Jail For Resentencing Do Not Accrue Jail Behavior Credits For the narrow question of which behavior credits apply to a state prisoner remanded to county jail solely for resentencing, the California Supreme …
Article • September 15, 2002 • from PLN September, 2002
California Prisoner Gets New Heart by Gary Hunter In early January 2002, an unidentified California prisoner received a heart transplant at the Stanford Medical Center. It was the first time any state prisoner has received an organ transplant; and it is not without controversy. Inflated prison populations, longer prison sentences, …
Article • September 15, 2002 • from PLN September, 2002
BOP Prisoner Awarded $900 in Van Accident by A federal district court in Illinois held that Chong Won Tai, a federal prisoner, was injured due to negligence by the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and awarded Tai $900 in damages. Tai was injured while being transported from one prison to another …
7-up To Pull TV Ad Under Pressure from Human Rights Groups by Under pressure from Stop Prisoner Rape, a nonprofit human rights organization, and nearly 100 other human rights, HIV/AIDS, prisoner rights, and sexual violence organizations, Dr. Pepper/Seven Up, Inc. has decided to stop airing a national television commercial that …
Article • September 15, 2002 • from PLN September, 2002
The High Cost of Prosecuting Capital Crimes by As many local governments are discovering, there is a new twist on an old saying: Nothing is certain except the death penalty and higher taxesand the high cost of capital punishment. Quitman County in Mississippi raised taxes three times in the 1990s …
Article • September 15, 2002 • from PLN September, 2002
Filed under: Organizing, Death Penalty
Lessons From the Law by Mumia Abu-Jamal by Mumia Abu Jamal For many jailhouse lawyers, the texts of court rulings are read with a close and rapt attention that would be the envy of any conscientious law professor. The writer knows one guy, who, after years of study of criminal …
Girls Sue Alabama Juvenile Prison for Abuse by Five girls who were incarcerated at the Chalkville juvenile lockup in Alabama have filed a massive $171 million lawsuit against the agency that runs the jail, the Department of Youth Services (DYS). The suit charges, among other things, that the girls were …
CYA Suit Alleges Abuse of Juveniles by Anne Mania The California Youth Authority (CYA) houses 6,000 juvenile offenders and was once considered a model for juvenile justice in this country. However, after decades of declining funding and worsening conditions, the California Youth Authority has deteriorated to where severely mentally ill …
Article • September 15, 2002 • from PLN September, 2002
U.S. Supreme Court: No Death Penalty for Retarded; Juries Must Impose Death Sentence by David Zuckerman June was a good month for many death row prisoners. In Ring v. Arizona , 122 S.Ct. 2428 (2002) and Atkins v. Virginia , 122 S.Ct. 2242 (2002), the Supreme Court placed new and …
Georgia Prison Guards Caught in Bondage Videos by More than 150 law enforcement officers from various Georgia agencies including the Department of Corrections, have been moonlighting as actors in gay bondage videotapes since 1980. Sold over the internet, the tapes include scenes of kidnapping and torture. In November 1999, Hays …
PLRA Allows California Religious Preliminary Injunction by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has upheld the grant of a preliminary injunction to California Muslim prisoners .See: Mayweathers v. Terhune, 136 F. Supp. 2d 1152 (E.D. Cal. 2001). Prison officials appealed the injunction …
Article • September 15, 2002 • from PLN September, 2002
Connecticut Retroactive Application of 85% Rule Violates Ex-Post Facto by The Connecticut Supreme Court has decided that retroactive application of a State law raising the time for parole eligibility from 50% to 85% of time served violates the ex post facto clause of the U.S. Constitution. The court further found …
Then They Came for the Lawyers: The Persecution of Lynne Stewart by On April 9, 2002, in a chilling first application of the USA-Patriot Act (pushed into law after 9-11), the U.S. government indicted attorney Lynne Stewart along with three Arab men, Mohammed Yousry, Ahmed Abdel Sattar, and Yassir Al-Sirri. …
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