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A Foul Trend Emerges by Tara Herivel An 1996, the Department of Labor and Industry (L&I) fined McNeil Island Corrections Center (MICC) over $13,000 for health and safety violations. L & I investigator Jeff Spann unearthed a pattern of inadequate training for health care staff, use of faulty medical equipment, …
Article • September 15, 1999 • from PLN September, 1999
Is Health Care Too Much to Ask For? by Silja JA Talvi By Silja J.A. Talvi In California's State Prison System, Female Prisoners and Their Advocates Say They're Continuing to Fight an Uphill Battle, While Prison Administrators Insist They're Doing Their Job Over the last several years, health care-related allegations …
Brief • September 8, 1999
Ryan v. Lehmann, WA, Judgment, Gender Discrimination, 1999 lR1~~~O~~[Q) 1 2 SEP ., oJ OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL LABOR &PERSONNEL DIVISION 4 "99 SEP -3 AlO:26 8 1999 BETI Y ; :'.oJ ('j!,. -.' ~ 'BY h' lO 0_. • _ . : J,..". _ OEPl'T~: 5 IN THE …
Article • August 15, 1999 • from PLN August, 1999
No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System, by David Cole (Review) by Alex Friedmann by David Cole, The New Press 218 pages, $25.00 hardcover. Review by A. Friedmann Those people who have long believed that this nation's criminal justice system is steeped in systemic racism …
Article • August 15, 1999 • from PLN August, 1999
Notes from the Unrepenitentiary by Laura Whitehorn Over the past 14+ years of my incarceration, I've been asked repeatedly to describe how I'm treated differently from other prisoners because I'm a political prisoner. It's always been easy to answer, as examples abound. Now, as I approach my mandatory release date …
Individual Capacity Claims Not Applicable to RA and ADA by Afederal district court in Colorado held that individual defendants in their individual capacities are not liable under the Rehabilitation Act (RA) or the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Additionally, these defendants were held to be entitled to qualified immunity from …
Franklin Reversed; DC Prisoners Have No Right to Qualified Interpreters by The court of appeals for the D. C. Circuit held that Spanish-speaking prisoners have no right to qualified interpreters at parole hearings, disciplinary hearings, or for medical and mental health treatment. Spanish-speaking prisoners in the District of Columbia (District) …
Article • August 15, 1999 • from PLN August, 1999
Iowa Ban on Tapes with Parental Warning Upheld by Paul Wright By Paul Wight The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit held that an Iowa prison's ban on cassette tapes with parental advisory notices due to "explicit lyrics" was permissible. Michael Herlein, a former Iowa state prisoner, filed suit …
Article • July 15, 1999 • from PLN July, 1999
Retaliation Suit States Claim by Afederal district court in Illinois held that a jail prisoner had stated a claim upon which relief could be granted in his lawsuit alleging retaliation. David Lewis was a prisoner in the Cook county (Chicago) jail in Illinois where he worked as a law library …
Article • July 15, 1999 • from PLN July, 1999
South Korea Frees Political Prisoner after 41 Years by South Korea Frees Political Prisoner After 41 Years On February 25, 1999, South Korea freed Woo Yong Gak, the world's longest serving political prisoner. Woo spent 41 years in solitary confinement in a 12' by 12' cell in the Taejon penitentiary. …
Article • June 15, 1999 • from PLN June, 1999
Notes from the Unrepenitentiary by Laura Whitehorn By Laura Whitehorn I had thought I'd be gone to a halfway house by now, since I'm only five months from my mandatory release date. But it seems the decision on releasing me has been relegated to "a higher authority." This reminds us, …
Article • June 15, 1999 • from PLN June, 1999
Failing to Provide Disabled Prisoner Showers for Two Months Cruel and Unusual by The Fifth Circuit court of appeals has held that failing to accommodate a disabled prisoner whose disability and close confinement accommodations prevented him from showering states a claim under the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause of the …
Prison Madness, by Terry Kupers, MD (Book Review) by Dan Pens Jossey-Bass, 1999 Reviewed by Dan Pens Ted Kaczynski is clearly mentally ill. So said six psychiatrists who told the court that the infamous Unabomber is an acutely psychotic paranoid schizophrenic. In addition to being quite mad, Kaczynski possesses a …
The Lucasville Trials by Staughton Lynd [Editors' note: The identity of persons who provided information to the author confidentially has been withheld. ] On April 21, 1993, 407 prisoners who for eleven days had occupied the L cell block at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF) in Lucasville, Ohio, surrendered …
Suicides Plague Florida Women's Prison by Alex Friedmann Florence Krell, a 40-year-old mother of two serving an 18-month sentence for grand theft after she failed to return her boyfriend's rental car, hanged herself from her cell door at the Jefferson Corr. Institution on October 11, 1998. She had been at …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
A Nation's Gratitude by Mumia Abu-Jamal Many governments have been founded on principles of subordination and serfdom of certain classes of the same race... [Such] were, and are, in violation of the laws of nature. Our system commits no such violation of nature's laws. With us, all the white race, …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
Illinois KKK Guard Loses Lawsuits, Goes to Prison by Paul Wright On December 4, 1998, former Illinois prison sergeant Wallace Scott Weicherding (64) was sentenced to 5 years, 10 months in federal prison after being convicted on conspiracy and weapons charges. Weicherding was arrested with five other men who called …
Article • May 15, 1999 • from PLN May, 1999
5th Circuit Upholds Mississippi Disenfranchisement Law by The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed a district court's denial of a Mississippi state prisoner's claim that he is improperly being denied the right to vote. The Mississippi Constitution denies the right to vote to any person "convicted of murder, …
New Jersey Guard's Killer Gets Life by Steven Beverly was convicted for the 1997 killing of a Bayside State Prison (New Jersey) guard. But two days later, November 11, 1998, the jury of seven men and five women said they were deadlocked on whether he should be executed. Under state …
New Jersey Porn Ban Struck Down by In two separate rulings a federal court in New Jersey held that a New Jersey statute prohibiting imprisoned sex offenders from receiving or possessing sexually oriented materials was unconstitutional. The two rulings consist of a preliminary injunction and a permanent injunction enjoining the …
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