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Brief • March 28, 2001
Zamani v. LAPD, CA, Appellant Brief, Racial Profiling, 2001 1. STATEMENT OF JURISDICTION This is an action brought originally in the United States District Court, Central District of California, brought by plaintiff under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to vindicate his rights under the First, Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment to the …
Deadly Nostalgia: The Politics of Boot Camps by Christian Parenti The short, stout eighth grader Gina Score, was never much of an athlete. But that didn't matter to the staff at South Dakota's Plankinton boot camp for girls, where militarystyle discipline and calisthenics were the modus operandi and, as staff …
Article • March 15, 2001 • from PLN March, 2001
The Spirit of Freedom and Resistance, Long Kesh Prison Closed by Julia Lutsky Her Majesty's Prison Maze, also called Long Kesh, is a high security prison located about ten miles from Belfast in Northern Ireland's County Antrim. The largest of Northern Ireland's prisons, it was established on the site of …
Article • March 15, 2001 • from PLN March, 2001
U.S. Isolates Political Prisoners by Ronald Young Two recent federal appeals court decisions highlight some of the repressive measures used by U.S. authorities to isolate and silence political dissenters. Though the methods used by the two political prisoners involved in these cases may be distasteful to some people, Americans must …
Article • March 15, 2001 • from PLN March, 2001
Feds Continue Abuse of El-Hage by In a telephone interview with The New York Times, April ElHage said federal jail officials in Manhattan have been retaliating against her husband, Wadih ElHage, ever since two codefendants in the case were accused of stabbing and critically wounding a guard. The two codefendants, …
Lorton Conditions Unconstitutional by A federal district court for the District of Columbia held that a prisoner stated claims for an assortment of constitutional injuries and a violation of the Lorton Act. The defendants' motion to dismiss the complaint or, in the alternative, for summary judgment was denied in part. …
Colorado Prisoner Challenges 'Sex Offender' Label by The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a Colorado prisoner's classification as a "sex offender" is subject to due process considerations. In 1985, the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) modified its Administrative Regulation governing classification to include a Sex Offender Component in …
Article • March 15, 2001 • from PLN March, 2001
Second Circuit Holds That Gang Member Designation Regulation is Not Ex Post Facto by The Second circuit court of appeals held that a Connecticut DOC administrative directive making prisoners classified as safety threats ineligible to earn good time credits was not ex post facto and that a Connecticut statute did …
$1.18 Million in Santa Clara Co. Sexual Assault/Harassment Suit by $1.18 Million In Santa Clara Co. Sexual Assault/Harassment Suit Female prisoners were awarded a total of $1,180,000 in damages and attorney's fees in the settlement of a suit filed against the Santa Clara County, California, Board of Supervisors and Department …
Article • March 15, 2001 • from PLN March, 2001
Federal Religious Freedom Law Passed by On July 27, 2000, Congress unanimously enacted Senate Bill 2869, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA), which was signed into law by president Clinton, as a public law 106-274. The bill passed congress in two weeks and tries to …
Conditions Claims Viable in WA PRP by A Washington state appeals court held that conditions of confinement claims are cognizable under the state's Personal Restraint Petition (PRP) system. In doing so, the court upheld a ban on a sex offender's correspondence with his 11-year-old niece. Robert Arseneau was convicted of …
MO Prisoner Awarded $130,000 in Retaliation and Haircut Claims by On February 4, 2000 a federal jury in the Eastern District of Missouri awarded $130,000 in damages to Jerry McCrary. McCrary, who is black, filed suit claiming that while imprisoned at the Potosi Correctional Center in Missouri on August 16, …
DC District Court Denies Guards' Summary Judgment Retaliation Case by A federal district court in the District of Columbia has denied prison guards' motion for summary judgment and set for trial a civil rights suit alleging that guards retaliated against prisoners who complained of a guard's repeated unsolicited sexual propositions. …
Guard Reinstated After Nazi Flag Flap by Ronald Young New York state prison guard Edward Kuhnel was suspended from his job on December 12, 1996, two days after a picture of a Nazi flag flying outside his home appeared in a local newspaper. Pursuant to the grievance procedure outlined in …
Article • January 15, 2001 • from PLN January, 2001
States of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons by Mumia Abu-Jamal Edited by Joy James. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000). 352 Pages Reviewed by Mumia AbuJamal Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky once opined that the nature of a civilization could be discerned by examining its prisons. If that is so, James …
Pubic Hair Search of Released Jail Detainee Unconstitutional by A federal district court in Alabama held that a sheriff's policy of searching prisoners' pubic hair as they were released from jail was unconstitutional. The court also held that jail officials were entitled to qualified immunity from money damages for strip …
Brief • January 2, 2001
Diaz v. Suffolk County Sheriff, MA, Complaint, Excessive Force, Discrimination, 2001 COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS SUFFOLK, SS. SUPERIOR COURT C.A. NO. 99-3956G ******************************* MANUEL DIAZ, et al * * plaintiff * * v. * * SUFFOLK COUNTY SHERIFF * RICHARD ROUSE, * SGT. E. MATICCI, and * several JOHN DOES * …
Illinois Supermax Hunger Strike by Dan Pens By Dan Pens Displaying remarkable solidarity while encaged under unimaginably oppressive conditions, more than half of the 273 prisoners at the Tamms Supermax prison in downstate Illinois began a hunger strike by refusing their breakfast on May 1,2000. Prison officials said 173 prisoners …
Article • December 15, 2000 • from PLN December, 2000
Perpetuating Crime, Consolidating Power by Janet Stanton Perpetuating Crime, Consolidating Power: The Race & Class Logic of Mass Incarceration An Interview with Paul Wright by Janet Stanton Arthur Stamoulis's (Common Courage Press) audiotaped interview with Paul Wright offers the listener a concise overview of the most disturbing issue confronting our …
Brief • November 22, 2000
Amaechi v. DC DOC, DC, Release Officer, Racial Discrimination, 2000 Memorandum • Government of the District of Columbia RELEASE KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, OLIVER C. AMAECHI, residing at 17949 Milroy Drive, Dumfries, VA 22026, for consideration of the sum of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00), lawful …
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