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Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008
From the Editor by Paul Wright With the election past there has been a change in the faces of government and the election of Barak Obama is a historic occasion in US history with the election of a black man to the presidency for the first time. Whether there is …
$2.75 Million Verdict in Dehydrated Michigan Prisoner’s Death by A Michigan federal jury awarded $2.75 million to a prisoner’s estate in a case claiming deliberate indifference to serious medical needs. The prisoner, Jeffrey Clark, was having mental health problems and died due to the effects of dehydration and inhumanely hot …
Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008
StopMax: The Fight Against Supermax Prisons Heats Up by Jessica Pupovac “When I left Angola,” says Robert King Wilkerson, who spent 29 years in solitary confinement in Louisiana’s notorious Angola State Penitentiary for a crime he was later found innocent of, “I said, ‘I may be free of Angola, but …
Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief: by Arkansas: On June 9, 2008, Rolanda Barron, 33, the director of nursing at the Tucker unit prison was arrested after a search disclosed she was smuggling tobacco into the prison as well as cell phones, cell phone chargers and batteries, all of which are prohibited in …
Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008
Filed under: Mental Health, Suicides
$635,000 Settlement in Wisconsin Woman Prisoner’s Suicide by The family of a Wisconsin prisoner who committed suicide has agreed to accept a $635,000 payment from the state to settle a federal lawsuit. The suit claimed that Taycheedah Correctional Institution (TCI) prisoner Angela Enoch was able to strangle herself with torn …
Article • December 15, 2008
Stick to Your Guns: Restoration of Tennessee "Firearm Rights" by David L. Raybin By David L. Raybin of Hollins, Wagster, Weatherly & Raybin, P.C. "When can I get my gun rights back now that I have finished serving my time?" Hopefully the client has the sense to even ask the …
Article • December 15, 2008
ARE FALSE IMPRISONMENT RECOVERIES TAXABLE? by Robert Wood By Robert W. Wood* News stories about prisoners released from custody following the discovery of exculpating evidence have become commonplace. As CSI fans will attest, one path that can lead to this result involves DNA evidence, a relatively recent scientific phenomenon.1 A …
Article • December 15, 2008
Dangers of a preventive detention law by David C Fathi By David C. Fathi | January 1, 2009 PRESIDENT-ELECT Barack Obama has said he'll close the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay. The question is how. If the government has evidence that Guantanamo detainees have committed crimes, it should put …
Sentenced to rape: LGBT inmates face unusually high risk of sexual assault in prison by Meghann Myers Sentenced to rape LGBT inmates face unusually high risk of sexual assault in prison BY MEGHANN MYERS It's been 60 years since the United Nations General Assembly issued the Universal Declaration of Human …
Nebraska Appeals Court: Failure to Exhaust Remedies Jurisdictional Defect by The Nebraska Court of Appeals held in this case that a prisoner's failure to exhaust his administrative remedies deprived the district court of jurisdiction over his civil rights lawsuit. On May 22, 2003, Dukhan Iqraa Jihad Mumin, a Nebraska prisoner, …
Texas: $232,000 Settlement, $82,000 Award in Prison Employees' Discrimination Suits by In 2003 and 2004, plaintiffs in two separate lawsuits prevailed on their claims of racial discrimination against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). In the most recent lawsuit, four auditors in the Community Justice Assistance Division of TDCJ …
Article • December 15, 2008
Filed under: Organizing, Voting, Elections
Many Iowans Mistakenly Identified as Felons, Purged From Voter Lists by A large number of voters in Iowa were mistakenly purged from the voter rolls due to a faulty state-promulgated list that showed they were felons. Rick Brown, 47, of Madrid, a postal worker, was a typical case. Brown never …
Article • December 15, 2008
$1,250,000 Settlement in Michigan Police Shooting Death by The Township of Clinton, Clinton Township Michigan, has agreed to settle a wrongful death action for $1,250,000 in 2008. Clinton Township officers were called to the home of Zephonia Baher in order to remove an unwanted guest, Tim Antoine Curry. Curry was …
Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008
Filed under: Media, Tapes/Music
Ruling Against Expression is No Music to Prisoners’ Ears by David Hudson ??by David L. Hudson, Jr.? “Prison walls do not form a barrier separating the inmate from the protections of the Constitution.” So wrote Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in the 1987 decision Turner v. Safley. But the statement has …
Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008
An Execution in the Family: One Son’s Journey, by Robert Meeropol; St. Martin’s Griffin, 273 pages, $14.95 by David Preston An Execution in the Family: One Son’s Journey, by Robert Meeropol; St. Martin’s Griffin, 273 pages, $14.95 Reviewed by David Preston The Rosenberg case: for most Baby Boomers it is …
Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008
Connecticut DOC Settles Prisoner Hogtying Death For $900,000 by Connecticut DOC Settles Prisoner Hogtying Death For $900,000 The Connecticut Department of Corrections (CDC) settled a wrongful death complaint for $900,000 when a prisoner who was hogtied in a prison classroom died of traumatic asphyxia from the application of such restraint. …
NIC Report: Wisconsin Jails Racist and Dangerous by Gary Hunter On January 31, 2008, the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) issued a 139-page report detailing numerous flaws in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin jail system. The Milwaukee House of Correction (HOC), the Community Corrections Center (CCC) and the County Jail Facility (CJF) …
Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008
Wyoming American Indian Prisoner Wins Consent Decree to Receive Feathers by Wyoming American Indian Prisoner Wins Consent Decree to Receive Feathers In a victory for American Indian prisoners, the Wyoming State Penitentiary (WSP) has entered into a consent decree that allows a prisoner to possess up to four eagle feathers …
Article • December 15, 2008 • from PLN December, 2008
Filed under: Sentencing, Habeas Corpus
“Habeas Hints” by Kent A. Russell by Kent Russell This column is intended to provide “habeas hints” to prisoners who are considering or handling habeas corpus petitions as their own attorneys (“in pro per”). The focus of the column is on habeas corpus practice under AEDPA, the 1996 habeas corpus …
California DOC Settles Sadistic, Hate-Motivated, Three-Year Starvation Death Of Sikh Prisoner For $1 Million by Marvin Mentor California DOC Settles Sadistic, Hate-Motivated, Three-Year Starvation Death Of Sikh Prisoner For $1 Million by Marvin Mentor The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) settled a lawsuit brought by the survivors of …
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