Prison Tobacco Sales Are Not Punishment by David Steading, an Illinois state prisoner filed suit under § 1983 claiming violation of his 8th amendment rights because prison officials had failed to provide a smoke free environment for all Illinois prisoners. The district court dismissed the suit and the court of …
Written Findings of Disciplinary Hearing Held Inadequate by An Illinois prisoner launched a 1983 challenge to the prison disciplinary hearing committee's finding of guilt on several infractions, including one charging him with conspiracy to murder a Unit Manager. The civil rights complaint alleged a number of constitutional infirmities in the …
Prison Guards May Not Be Fired for Testifying on Prisoner's behalf by Prison Guards May Not Be Fired For Testifying On Prisoner's Behalf Salvatore Ziccarelli was employed as a guard at the Cook County (Chicago) jail in Illinois. While there he became acquainted with a prisoner facing the death penalty. …
Prisoners May Not Be Subjected to Freezing Temperatures by In 1982 outside temperatures at the Stateville prison in Illinois plunged to 22 degrees below zero with a wind-chill factor of 80 degrees below zero. The heating system in a cell block with 300 men malfunctioned and frigid air circulated through …
No Liberty Interest in Prison Jobs by No Liberty Interest In Prison Jobs The 7th circuit in an en bane ruling held that neither the due process clause nor Illinois statutes create a protected liberty interest in a prisoner holding one prison job over another. Phillip Wallace is an Illinois …
Why Do Legal Work? by F L Dwight Correctional Center is served educationally by Lewis University, " A Christian Brothers University." Lewis University offers courses entitled Paralegal I and II (16 weeks each), which I have decided to take. According to Lewis University, "the primary purpose of this course is …
Prisoners Entitled to Exculpatory Evidence In Disciplinary Hearings by Prisoners Entitled To Exculpatory Evidence In Disciplinary Hearings Four prisoners at the U.S. Penitentiary at Marion, IL., were accused of murdering another prisoner. They were infracted and found "guilty" of the murder at a prison disciplinary hearing. Prior to the hearing …
Bad Water, Backed Up Toilet States Claim by A prisoner filed a civil rights lawsuit alleging that the conditions in the housing unit in which he was confined violated his eighth and fourteenth amendment rights. The trial court refused to dismiss the claim that living conditions in the housing unit …
News from Dwight Womens' Prison by F L News From Dwight Womens' Prison By L.F. Geraldine Smith is only the third woman to be sentenced to death in the history of the State of Illinois... the first occurring in the 1800s and the second in the 1930s. There was almost …
Women's Report by F L Prisoner's Legal News is an excellent monthly magazine that I sincerely hope is generating interest and financial support, to which I will soon be adding. The major concern among most women in prison is the welfare of their children, many of whom were declared to …
The New and Improved Marion by Paul Wright By Paul Wright As we were preparing this issue of PLN we received several articles describing the horrible conditions of control units in Florida, New Jersey and Marion, Illinois. Most Washington prisoners are familiar with the local version of this phenomenon: the …
Prison's Water Contaminated by Ray Luc Levasseur By Ray L. Levasseur Prisoners at the U.S. Penitentiary, Marion, Illinois, have said for years that the government is poisoning us with contaminated water. The government has categorically denied these accusations. On September 28, 1990, a report issued by the Agency for Toxic …
Long-term Negligence Might State a Deliberate Indifference Claim by A state prisoner alleged that he suffered from chronic foot problems and that prison officials refused to provide him with adequate medical care, thereby inflicting cruel and unusual punishment. The trial court dismissed the complaint. The U.S. Court of Appeals reversed …
Marion Prison to be Replaced by Marion Prison To Be Replaced It's gonna get worse, fellas. A March 30th report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons says the BOP is going to replace the federal prison at Marion, Illinois, with a new maximum-security penitentiary in Florence, Colorado. Marion was …
Guard Charged With Aiding Escape by GUARD CHARGED WITH AIDING ESCAPE An Illinois correctional officer was arrested in mid-February for allegedly providing inmates with hacksaw blades to aid in their escape from Joliet Prison. According to Nic Howell, the public information officer for Illinois DOC, the 13 year veteran guard, …
Mark LaRue Gets 14 More Years by MARK LARUE GETS 14 MORE YEARS After spending more than five years in Walla Walla's segregation unit as a result of his political work on the inside, Mark LaRue was subjected to an involuntary out-of-state transfer. He was then bounced from one jurisdiction …
Bono v. Saxbe, IL, Order, Control Unit Strip Searches and Lighting, 1980 527 F.Supp. 1182 (1980) Victor BONO et al, Plaintiffs, v. William E. SAXBE et al, Defendants. Civ.No. 74-81-E. United States District Court, S. D. Illinois. December 24, 1980. James R. Burgess, Jr., U. S. Atty., S. D. Ill., …
Bono v. Saxbe, IL, Order, Confinement of Inmates in Marion Penitentiary Control Unit, 1978 450 F.Supp. 934 (1978) Victor BONO et al., Plaintiffs, v. William SAXBE et al., Defendants. Civ. No. 74-81-E. United States District Court, E. D. Illinois. April 19, 1978. 936 935 *935 *936 G. Flint Taylor, Jr., …
Murillo v. Wexford, IL, Complaint, Medical Neglect, 2017 3:17-cv-03181-MMM-JEH # 49 Page 1 of 40 E-FILED Tuesday, 21 November, 2017 02:39:59 PM Clerk, U.S. District Court, ILCD Iv IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE CENTRAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS JASMINE MURILLO, individually and as Plenary Guardian of the Estate …
Craine v. City of Chicago, IL, Complaint, False Arrest & Malicious Prosecution, 2020 Case: 1:20-cv-06325 Document #: 1 Filed: 10/26/20 Page 1 of 9 PageID #:1 FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION ALANDIS CRAINE, Plaintiff, v. CITY OF CHICAGO, EMMETT MCCLENDON, Star #1467, LUIS ESCOBEDO, Star #11877, and …
