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Article • September 15, 1992 • from PLN September, 1992
Preliminary Injunction Issued Against Grooming Code by Three Oklahoma state prisoners filed suit challenging the Oklahoma DOC's policy of banning any facial hair or hair longer than 3 inches in length. The prisoners claimed their religious beliefs forbid the cutting of their hair. In two cases requests for preliminary injunctions …
Article • September 15, 1992 • from PLN September, 1992
Federal Public Defenders Broke by The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts has announced that court appointed lawyers, investigators, psychologists and other experts used by the defense will not be paid after June 17, 1992, until the new fiscal year begins on October 1, 1992, because the government "ran out …
Article • September 15, 1992 • from PLN September, 1992
Freedom Sought for Spanish Political Prisoner by Juan Manuel Perez Hernandez is a 40 year old telecommunications engineer serving a 30 year sentence for his militancy in GRAPO (Anti Fascist Resistance Group, First of October, a communist organization). He is married and has a daughter. He has been in prison …
Testimonies that Palestinian Prisoners Are Tortured by A human rights group confirmed on April 1, 1992, that the Israelis have allowed security services to routinely practice torture against Palestinian prisoners. The group, called the "Israeli Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Arab Territories" known as B'tselem, said violence and …
Article • September 15, 1992 • from PLN September, 1992
Drug War Patronage by According to an investigation by the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, the Office of National Drug Control Policy which is supposed to lead the nations war on drugs has a higher percentage of political patronage jobs than any other government agency. The agency …
Article • September 15, 1992 • from PLN September, 1992
Filed under: Resources, Organizing
New Jersey Prisoners Support Network by Prisoners, ex prisoners, friends and family members of prisoners and community activists in New Jersey have begun forming a Prisoner Support Network. So far two meetings have been held to discuss ways to end various forms of repression and discrimination in the New Jersey …
Peruvian Prisoners Massacred by Paul Wright On May 5, 1992, Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori staged a coup with backing from the Peruvian military which suspended that countries parliament, constitution, writ of habeas corpus and other legal provisions. The reasons he gave for the coup were that he needed greater freedom …
Article • September 15, 1992 • from PLN September, 1992
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Voting
On the Upcoming Presidential Elections by Ed Mead During the next several months the mass media will be pulling the wool over the eyes of working people in America. They will be doing this by using Gulf War type saturation coverage of the elections. In many ways it is all …
Washington Feces Watch and Visiting Policy Create Liberty Interest by Rogaciano Mendoza was a prisoner at the Washington State Penitentiary (WSP) at Walla Walla in 1989 when prison officials discovered a broken balloon containing a white substance in the visiting room bathroom being used by Mendozas 6 children. Mendoza was …
Article • September 15, 1992 • from PLN September, 1992
Exhaustion of State Remedies Not Required to Challenge Parole Board Procedures by Exhaustion of State Remedies Not Required to Challenge Parole Board Procedures in Federal Court The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit has held that a prisoner who is dissatisfied with the procedures used to consider his …
Article • September 15, 1992 • from PLN September, 1992
Editorial by Ed Mead Editorial Comments By Ed Mead First of all, readers should have noticed that we printed fourteen pages of the PLN last month, four more than our usual number. The reason for this bonus was due to an unexpected increase in contributions from prisoners and family members. …
Article • September 15, 1992 • from PLN September, 1992
The Proposed Prison in Florence, CO: A "New and Improved" Marion by The Proposed Prison in Florence, CO: A "New and Improved" Marion The United States Penitentiary at Marion, located in Southern Illinois, opened in 1963 to replace Alcatraz, which closed that same year. Marion is the most maximum security …
Indiana Control Unit Prisoners File Suit and Strike by Paul Wright On May 4, 1992, the Indiana Civil Liberties Union filed a class action suit in the Marion County, Indiana, Superior Court. The action is Taifa Vs. Bayh, and challenges numerous conditions of confinement at the Westville, IN, Maximum Control …
Prisoner Entitled to Protection and Toilet Access by Kenneth Young is an HIV positive federal prisoner who was transferred to the US Penitentiary at Lewisburg, PA. While in the transfer segregation unit at Lewisburg Young was sexually assaulted by his cellmates several times. He repeatedly requested protective custody from a …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
High AIDS Rate Behind Bars by People entering U.S. prisons have high HIV infection rates and transmission of the virus that causes AIDS continues among prisoners because of intravenous drug use and homosexual activity, Federal health officials said June 4 in Atlanta. As of November 1990, there were 4,519 cases …
NCCHC Asks Congress to Improve Prison Health Care by NCCHC Asks Congress To Improve Prison Health Care Carl C. Bell, M.D., chairman of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care's (NCCHC) Board of Directors, in testifying to a congressional subcommittee, stated that "...the Federal Government must act to improve health …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Court Rules on Service and Venue by Arnold Huskey is a BOP (Bureau of Prisons) prisoner confined at the US Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. He filed suit in the District of Columbia claiming BOP officials had violated his constitutional rights by misclassifying him under 28 C.F.R. § 524.72 (h) resulting …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Study Finds Sentencing Bias in Washington State by Anew study has found that Hispanics in Yakima County are more likely to receive long prison sentences than whites. The study was performed by political scientist David Hood and sociologist Ruey-Lin Lin, both of Eastern Montana College in Billings. It was based …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Guards Need Not Disclose Identity Of HIV-Positive Cons by A prisoner in the medium security unit of a Nebraska state prison brought a federal civil rights lawsuit against the warden and other prison personnel, claiming that they subjected him to cruel and unusual punishment by: (1) conspiring to conceal the …
Interstate Compact Does Not Create Liberty Interest by Fred Pletka was an Iowa prisoner in disciplinary confinement at the Iowa State Penitentiary when he was transferred to Texas under the interstate corrections compact. Shortly after arriving in Texas Pletka was released into the general prison population. Later, when he was …
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