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Twelve Political Prisoners Gave their Lives in a Death Fast in Turkey by When Aygun Ugur, an imprisoned militant from the outlawed Turkish Communist Party/Marxist-Leninist (TKP/ML), died on the 63rd day of a hungerstrike, Turkey was shocked. In a nation which is continually rocked by political crises and rebellion, this …
ADA Ruling for Deaf New York Prisoners by The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of NY ruled in favor of hearing impaired New York prisoners litigating a number of constitutional and statutory issues relating to the imprisonment of hearing impaired prisoners. The court held that the defendants, New …
Article • December 15, 1996 • from PLN December, 1996
Black Prison Movements by Review by Daniel Burton-Rose This impressive offering from the Network of Black Organizers (NOBO) provides coverage of many of the issues confronting Black and New Afrikan prisoners and their outside communities. A large portion of the writings are by political prisoners and POWs past and present, …
Article • November 15, 1996 • from PLN November, 1996
The Pelican Bay Factor by Abdul Olugbala Shakur [Editors' Note: The author submitted this manuscript in May of 1996. Because of our article backlog and space limitations we are only now printing it. The issues outlined in this article, however, have since received coverage in the mainstream press. We regret …
Court Okays Disclosure of AIDS Status by The court of appeals for the seventh circuit held that prison officials may casually disclose a prisoner's AIDS status to other prisoners and staff but that denying barber services is unconstitutional. Dennis Anderson was an Illinois state prisoner with AIDS. The prison warden …
Article • October 15, 1996 • from PLN October, 1996
No Right to Assistance in Family Law by The court of appeals for the sixth circuit held that prison officials are under no obligation to provide prisoners with the assistance of counsel in child custody cases. This is the latest installment in the ongoing saga of Glover v. Johnson, a …
Article • October 15, 1996 • from PLN October, 1996
Plaintiff Entitled to Respond to Qualified Immunity Defense by The court of appeals for the fifth circuit held a district court improperly dismissed a prisoner's civil rights complaint when it did not allow the plaintiff to respond to the defendants' qualified immunity defense. Donald Todd, a federal prisoner, filed suit …
Brief • October 14, 1996
Filed under: Racial Discrimination
Carter v. Benjamin, WA, Complaint, Racial Discrimination, 1996 P.4 509 734 7119 ,. ., 1 ,. ., 2 -3 "(l. rr". ".;(: -'.. ... 11.... '" - 4 5 IN THE SUPERIOR COORT OF mE STATE OF WASHINGTON 8 1 IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF YAKIMA B 9 VICTOR …
New Jersey MCU Suit Settled by On December 22, 1995, the federal district court in New Jersey signed a settlement order dismissing a class action suit filed by prisoners in New Jersey's Management Control Unit (MCU). The plaintiff class in the suit was composed of all black prisoners in the …
Article • August 15, 1996 • from PLN August, 1996
5th Circuit Bars Ad Seg Claims by The court of appeals for the fifth circuit has held that in the wake of Sandin v. Connor, 115 S.Ct. 2293 (1995) administrative segregation does not constitute a deprivation of any constitutionally protected liberty interest. Rolando Pichardo is a Texas state prisoner. Prison …
Article • August 15, 1996 • from PLN August, 1996
BOP Ad Seg Rules Don't Create Liberty Interest by The court of appeals for the seventh circuit held that federal Bureau of Prison (BOP) rules do not create a liberty interest in federal prisoners not being placed in administrative segregation and once in segregation federal prisoners are not entitled to …
Article • August 15, 1996 • from PLN August, 1996
Notes from the Unrepenitentiary by Laura Whitehorn [Editor's Note: With this issue of PLN we introduce a new columnist, Laura Whitehorn, whose column will appear quarterly (February, May, August, and November). Laura is an anti-imperialist prisoner of war confined in the Federal Bureau of Prisons. When most people think of …
Canada's Prison Chief Resigns by The head of Canada's prison service resigned immediately after a report was released April 1, 1996, about the abuse of female prisoners at the Kingston Prison for Women in April of 1994. "I have come to the conclusion that a change in leadership would be …
Women Prisoners Win Court Access Claim by Past issues of PLN have reported the class action suit filed by women prisoners in Nebraska concerning a wide range of prison conditions. See: Klinger v. Nebraska DOC, 824 F. Supp. 1374 (D NE 1993); 31 F.3d 727 (8th Cir. 1994) and 887 …
Article • August 15, 1996 • from PLN August, 1996
U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Kansas Civil Commitment Case by In 1990, the year PLN began publishing, the Washington State legislature passed the country's first civil commitment law. Dubbed the 'Sexual Predator Law," it empowered the state to institute civil proceedings against prisoners nearing the end of their terms of …
Cavity Search in Public States Claim by The court of appeals for the tenth circuit held that strip searches by members of the opposite gender may violate the fourth amendment. Willie Hayes, a Colorado state prisoner, filed suit claiming his fourth, eighth and fourteenth amendment rights were violated when he …
Washington Legislation Passed by The Washington legislature was in session for a mercifully short 60 day session between January and March, 1996. In that period several hundred anti-prisoner and anti-defendant bills were introduced, at a cost of $1,500 each. While several passed the legislature about half of those passed were …
Attorney Fees Awarded in Death Row Brutality Case by A federal district court in South Carolina awarded a prisoner's attorney $29,516.50 in attorney fees and $1,856.17 in costs pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988. Cecil Lucas is a death row prisoner in South Carolina. After becoming drunk and combative with …
Alabama Prison Chief Fired over Women in Chains by Alabama's prison commissioner, Ron Jones, was abruptly fired on April 26th after announcing plans to put female prisoners on chain gangs. Jones had ordered the warden at Julia Tutwiler State Prison for Women to develop the chain-gang policy. He said the …
Article • July 15, 1996 • from PLN July, 1996
Gang War Assault States Claim by A federal district court in New York held that a prisoner who was attacked as part of a "war" between Hispanic and Jamaican prisoners stated an eighth amendment claim for prison officials' failure to protect him. Ted Knowles is a New York state prisoner …
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