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Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
From the Editor by Paul Wright By now the observant reader will have noticed that this issue of Prison Legal News is 48 pages in length rather than 40. PLN recently switched printers which offered a variety of services, including higher quality newsprint and also allows us to expand in …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Louisiana Prosecutors Have "Ties" to Murder by Gary Hunter Lawrence Jacobs Jr. was on trial for first degree murder in Jefferson Parish Louisiana when an assistant district attorney approached him and whispered "We're going to hang you boy." Lawrence Jacobs Sr., who was only in the courtroom to support his …
CCA Prison Under Gang Control: Death and Injury Suits Filed by Gary Hunter Two suits were filed against Corrections Corp. of America (CCA) in less than a week. On April 15, 2003 the family of Iulai Amani sued CCA and the state of Hawaii for "wrongful conduct" resulting in Amani's …
Black Prison and Jail Employees Win Discrimination Lawsuits by Kentucky In October 2002, a federal jury awarded a former Fayette County Jail guard $196,000. James Young Sr., an African American, was fired from the jail in 1993 after complaining for over a year that black workers at the jail were …
2003 Washington Legislative Round-up by Lonnie Burton In its 2003 session the Washington leg-islature enacted numerous laws affecting prisoners. Highlights of the most relevant laws are as follows: Regional Jails Substitute House Bill 1609 instructs the Sentencing Guidelines Commission to present a plan by Dec. 31, 2003, for creating "pilot …
Washington DOC Personnel In-Fighting Results in $230,000 Settlement by An acrimonious inter-employee dis-pute among staff of Washington's Department of Corrections was settled in January, 2002 by the state paying three Washington State Penitentiary (WSP) employees $230,000 and gaining both their resignations as well as promises never again to work for …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Book Review: Inmate Litigation by John E Dannenberg by Assistant Professor Margo Schlanger, Reprinted (soft back) from the Harvard Law Review, Vol. 116, No.6, April 2003; 151 pp. Review by John E. Dannenberg Inmate Litigation is a scholarly analysis on the effectiveness of prisoner civil rights litigation filed under 42 …
Good and Bad News in Haverty Aftermath: No Good Time for Ad-Seg Placement by Phillip Kassel Good and Bad News in Haverty Aftermath: No Good Time for Ad-Seg Placement by Phillip Kassel Last October, the Massachusetts Su-preme Judicial Court held that prisoners may not be maintained in harsh solitary confinement …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Prison Labor's Race to the Global Bottom by Zack Roth In the early 1990's, David Horwitz owned Kwalu, a Capetown, South Africa based company which manufactured generic tables and chairs for fast food chains, hotels, and hospitals. Furniture construction is a labor-intensive business, and though Kwalu's labor costs in Capetown …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Comatose Prisoners Expose the Limits of Mercy by Gary Hunter In Texas and California the hard line against crime has crashed against the bottom line of deficient state budgets. Short money and long sentences have politicians from both states purporting to search frantically for fiscal solutions. Texas legislators have proposed …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
California to Outfit All Prison Guards With Stab-Resistant Body Armor by California has ordered $2.3 million in stab-resistant body armor from DBH Industries' subsidiary Protective Apparel Corp. of America (PACA)enough to give body armor to all California prison guards. The order is the largest ever received from the prison industry …
Nevada Religious Group Gets Federal Money to Help Prisoners, Delivers Nothing by Nevada Religious Group Gets Federal Money to Help Prisoners, Delivers Nothing by Matthew T. Clarke Alliance Collegiums Association of Southern Nevada (ACASN), a faith-based organization led by black ministers with the stated mission of providing prisoners with support …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Filed under: Medical, Hepatitis
Colorado Denies Hepatitis C Treatment as Too Expensive by Bob Williams While much attention has been paid lately to denying AIDS/HIV treatment as being too expensive for prisoners, little focus has been aimed at those restricting or denying treatment for prisoner's infected with the hepatitis C virus. Hepatitis is spreading …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Wrongfully Convicted in California and New York Awarded Damages by Michael Rigby California On April 29, 2003, then California Governor Gray Davis signed legislation awarding two wrongfully convicted prisoners $100 per day for every day they were in prison. Ricky Daye, who spent 10 years in Folsom Prison, and Leonard …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
$115,000 Settlement in Seattle Jail Strip-Search Suit by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg King County and the City of Seattle settled a wrongful strip-search suit for $115,000 on May 21, 2003 and also agreed to change strip-search policies at King County jails. Jasmine Wells and Brian Walton, college …
New Mexico Supreme Court Rules in Disciplinary Hearing Remedies by As an issue of first impression, the New Mexico Supreme Court recently held that restoration of lost good-time credits and an order prohibiting another hearing were the proper remedies for a prison disciplinary infraction that violated a prisoner's right to …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Filed under: Media, Prisoner Media
The History of Prison Legal News by Paul Wright In May, 1990, the first issue of Prisoners' Legal News (PLN) was published. It was hand typed, photocopied and ten pages long. The first issue was mailed to 75 potential subscribers. Its budget was $50. The first 3 issues were banned …
PLN in Court by Paul Wright Since PLN started in 1990 we have been censored in prisons and jails around the country. We have always attempted to resolve censorship issues administratively, but in cases where the goal was to keep PLN out of prison at any cost, that obviously wasn't …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
From the Editor by Paul Wright This issue celebrates PLN's tenth anniversary. One thing about PLN is that we have pretty much muddled along and done the best we could. To this day, no one involved in PLN's daily operations has any professional experience in journalism or publishing. We're all …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Denial of Medication Precludes Summary Judgment by The U.S. district court for the southern district of Ohio held that a genuine issue of material fact precluded summary judgement against an arrestee who was denied needed AIDS medication during his eight-day jail incarceration. Devin Karl Murphy brought a 42 U.S.C. § …
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