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Prisoner May Not File Unsigned Complaint for Another Prisoner by The Fifth Circuit court of appeals has held that the a pro se prisoner's civil rights complaint was time barred even though a prisoner assisting the pro se prisoner filed a timely unsigned complaint. Raul Gonzales, a Texas state prisoner, …
Article • June 15, 1999 • from PLN June, 1999
Error to Dismiss Rule 41(C) Motion Without Allowing Conversion to Bivens Action by Error to Dismiss Rule 41(c) Motion Without Allowing Conversion to Bivens Action The Fifth Circuit court of appeals has held that a district court erred when it dismissed a prisoner's motion under Rule 41(c), Federal Rules of …
Article • June 15, 1999 • from PLN June, 1999
They Killed a Man, Not a Number by David Hill [Editor's Note: South Carolina killed Andy Smith on December 18, 1998. He was the 500th person executed in the U.S. since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Like a thousand other editors, I wanted to cover it. I asked …
Violence Takes a Toll at New Mexico Wackenhut Prison by Ronald Young The 1200-bed Lea County Correctional Facility (LCCF), a New Mexico state prison operated by Florida-based Wackenhut Corrections Corp., has been plagued by nine prisoner stabbings during its first six months of operation, including two that resulted in the …
Article • June 15, 1999 • from PLN June, 1999
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by News In Brief Antigua: A fire started by prisoners at the centuries-old Her Majesty's Prison in St. John, capital of the former British colony, sent 17 people to a hospital with minor injuries on Jan. 28, 1999. AZ : On Feb. 18, 1999 charges against three …
Article • June 15, 1999 • from PLN June, 1999
From the Editor by Paul Wright Since the November, 1996, issue of PLN we have had a Prison Litigation Reform Act News section. Starting with next month's issue we will no longer run a separate PLRA News section in PLN . When the PLRA was enacted in April, 1996, it …
The Lucasville Trials by Staughton Lynd [Editors' note: The identity of persons who provided information to the author confidentially has been withheld. ] On April 21, 1993, 407 prisoners who for eleven days had occupied the L cell block at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF) in Lucasville, Ohio, surrendered …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
The Sounding Tree: Voices Along the Razor Wire, by Lee Dickenson (Book Review) by Daniel Burton-Rose Reviewed by Daniel Burton-Rose Lee Dickenson writes in the voice of an embittered veteran. For more than a decade and a half he manned a war zone, where the monotonous routine was sharply punctuated …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
Filed under: Private Prisons, Reviews
Private Prisons in the United States: An Assessment of Current Practice (Review of Report) by Alex Friedmann Reviewed by Alex Friedmann In 1997 Congress instructed the Attorney General's office to undertake a study of prison privatization, to include a review of legal issues and existing research regarding cost effectiveness. The …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
California Habeas Handbook: A Practical Guide to Habeas Law for California Prisoners (Review) by This 37 page booklet by attorney Kent Russell is designed for pro se California prisoners to understand the time limits and filing requirements of the federal Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AFDPA). Russell uses easy …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
Behind the Razor Wire: Portrait of a Contemporary American Prison System (Review) by Paul Wright by Michael Jacobson Hardy. 136 pp, 50 BW photos. New York University Press Reviewed by Paul Wright "Prisons do their dirtiest work in the dark. The evil they perpetrate depends on a kind of willed …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
Public Access to Documents Resources by Paul Wright The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is a trade organization of journalists. The Committee publishes a number of very reasonably priced, authoritative and comprehensive publication that are invaluable to journalists, muckrakers, those seeking access to government information and those litigating …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
Publication Reviews by Voices Behind the Walls is a bi-monthly newsletter published by Pennsylvania prisoners. Each issue covers news and events in the PA prison system as well as commentaries on the criminal justice system. Subscriptions are $10 for prisoners and $20 for everyone else. Contact: VBTW, P.O. Box 474, …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
Individual Legislators May Intervene to Terminate Prison Suits by Individual Legislators May Intervene To Terminate Prison Suits by Matthew Clarke The court of appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that, under the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), individual state legislators could intervene in prison release litigation. In 1972, David Ruiz, …
Prisoner Must Show Imminent Danger at Time of IFP Request to Avoid PLRA Three-Strikes Dismissal by The court of appeals for the Fifth Circuit has held that a prisoner who is subject to the three-strikes provision in the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) must show that he is under imminent …
Suicides Plague Florida Women's Prison by Alex Friedmann Florence Krell, a 40-year-old mother of two serving an 18-month sentence for grand theft after she failed to return her boyfriend's rental car, hanged herself from her cell door at the Jefferson Corr. Institution on October 11, 1998. She had been at …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
White Guard, Black Guard: Racism in Washington Continues by Jennifer Vogel Charles Jackson and Collins Bailey, two of only a handful of African-American prison guards working at the Clallam Bay Corrections Center about 40 miles west of Port Angeles, were lost. They'd been on the way to an outdoor barbecue …
Tainted Plasma Traced to Arkansas Prison: Bill Clinton's Blood Trails by St Clair, Jeffrey by Jeffrey St. Clair The year Bill Clinton became governor of Arkansas, the Arkansas state prison board awarded a hefty contract to a Little Rock company called Health Management Associates (HMA). The company got $3 million …
Jury Awards $2.3 Million for Slain San Quentin Prisoner, State Settles for $2.5 Milliion by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely On Monday, November 30, 1999, a federal jury awarded more than $2.3 million in damages to the family of a prisoner shot to death by a San Quentin guard. The …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
No Liberty Interest in Ohio Ad-Seg Rules by The court of appeals for the Sixth circuit held that Ohio prisoners have no state created liberty interest in remaining free of administrative segregation (ad-seg). Alvin Jones, an Ohio state prisoner, filed suit claiming that a 2k year placement in ad seg …
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