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DOC Must Provide Involuntarily Committed With Treatment by Robert Cameron was convicted of rape in Massachusetts and because of prior sex offenses was found to be a "sexually dangerous" person and involuntarily committed to a treatment center operated by the Massachusetts DOC and Dept. of Mental Health. Cameron filed suit …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Blacks Likely to Spend More Time In Jail by Blacks Likely To Spend More Time In Jail Without sentencing guidelines, employed blacks are almost six times as likely as their white counterparts to face jail for drug crimes, a new Florida State University (FSU) study says. The study by FSU …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Supreme Court Defines "Frivolous" Lawsuits by The U.S. Supreme Court further defined when federal judges can dismiss as "frivolous" certain lawsuits brought by convicts and others who cannot afford to pay normal court costs. The court, in a 7-2 ruling, said it is largely up to a federal judge to …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
High Court to Decide if Convict Group is "Person" for IFP Status by High Court To Decide If Convict Group Is "Person" For IFP Status A prisoners' association, elected by the general prison population, filed a federal civil rights suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against prison authorities, alleging violations …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Rectal Search Upheld by James Terrovona is a Washington state prisoner who was transferred from IMU (Intensive Management Unit) in Walla Walla to IMU in Shelton. Upon arrival at Shelton and before being put in the IMU there Terrovona was subjected to a digital rectal search by DOC officials. He …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Filed under: Editorials, Organizing
From The Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to another issue of PLN. Please check your mailing label. If it says "Aug. 92" this means this is your next to last issue and unless we receive a donation you will be dropped from the mailing list. When your label says "final …
Article • July 15, 1992 • from PLN July, 1992
Confinement of Insanity Acquitees Who Have Regained Sanity Struck Down by On May 18,1992, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down on due process grounds a Louisiana statute that permits insanity acquittees to be confined to a mental institution on dangerousness grounds until they prove that they are not dangerous. Once …
Test for Calling Witnesses at Disciplinary Hearing by An inmate was found guilty of fighting and creating a dangerous disturbance on the basis of his being identified in a photo of the fight by an unidentified person. At the disciplinary hearing, he denied the charges and requested the name of …
Article • July 15, 1992 • from PLN July, 1992
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
Disgruntled Reader Needs Barf Bag by After reading your March 1992 issue of the PLN I was thoroughly disillusioned, disgusted, and very disappointed that PLN would allow a prisoners' news source to be used to propagate something very harmful to everyone incarcerated [in this state]. I am speaking of the …
Article • July 15, 1992 • from PLN July, 1992
Filed under: Mail, Publications/Books
NJ Prisoner Wins Censorship Suit by In April, 1991, New Jersey DOC officials at the Trenton prison banned MIM Notes (journal of the Maoist International Movement) because it contained articles on oppression at Trenton. The DOC said all future issues would also be banned. One of the prisoners, Kevin Thomas, …
Article • July 15, 1992 • from PLN July, 1992
Federal Cons Needn't Exhaust Administrative Remedies by A prisoner in a federal correctional institution filed a civil rights lawsuit seeking damages only for alleged deliberate indifference to his medical needs resulting from a back operation and a history of psychiatric problems. The suit was brought pursuant to Bivens v. Six …
Article • July 15, 1992 • from PLN July, 1992
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
The Pen is Mightier Than The Sword by John Adams By John Adams I'm a prisoner at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla; Washington. I've been incarcerated for more than a decade. In 1984, 1 began studying the law while fighting for my life after stabbing another inmate to …
Article • July 15, 1992 • from PLN July, 1992
CBCC Guard Arrested by Edward Fulleton, 4-1 guard at the Clallam Bay Corrections Center (CBCC) in Clallam Bay, WA, was arrested at the prison and led away in handcuffs on April 17, 1992. Fulleton was a former foster parent who is charged in Lewis county with one count each of …
Article • July 15, 1992 • from PLN July, 1992
Filed under: Medical, HIV/AIDS, Dental Care
Prison Dentist Sues to Hide AIDS by A dentist who has treated patients at the Metropolitan Corrections Center, Chicago's federal prison, recently filed a lawsuit trying to prevent the Bureau of Prisons from disclosing the fact that he has AIDS to anyone except in medically justified cases. In what lawyers …
Article • July 15, 1992 • from PLN July, 1992
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
Toward an Understanding of Today's Economic Terms by Ed Mead By Ed Mead We all hear so much about economic indicators these days, but do any of us really understand anything about them, or what they mean? How important are terms like the Consumer Price Index, Balance of Trade figures, …
Article • July 15, 1992 • from PLN July, 1992
Inmate Assaulted by Guard Wins Suit by An inmate's suit claimed that he was beaten by a number of officers in the presence of the sheriff. The court found that the beating was unprovoked. It was possible that the inmate had been talking loudly, but "that was no justification for …
Article • July 15, 1992 • from PLN July, 1992
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
We Are Making Progress by Barbara Dority A year ago, when the HOW board voted to make a donation to Prisoner's Legal News, we wrote to tell you how crucial we believe prison reform is in our country today and how excited we were about your ground breaking work. We …
Article • July 15, 1992 • from PLN July, 1992
42% of DC Young Black Men Said to Be in Justice System by More then 40 percent of the black men age 18 to 35 in the District of Columbia were "firmly in the grip of the criminal justice system" on an average day last year, according to a study …
Article • July 15, 1992 • from PLN July, 1992
Classification Does Not Violate Eighth Amendment by Frank James was a probation violator in the Milwaukee County Jail in Wisconsin. He was attacked by a parole violator over a gambling debt and had his neck broken rendering him a quadriplegic. James filed suit under § 1983 claiming that jail officials …
Article • July 15, 1992 • from PLN July, 1992
No Room for Police State in America! by America is again being set adrift upon shifting sand, just when our economy is so fragile. And so the Police State enters its battle cry, "Let's get tough on crime!" Then we watch the prime time results. Anarchy momentarily explodes, then the …
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