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Iowa Crime Legislation by Michael Brant The 1995 Iowa legislature passed a new wave of bills that affect many Iowa prisoners and ex-prisoners. Among these new laws are: The refusal of the county treasurer to renew vehicle registrations if the person has unpaid delinquent restitution; the inmate hard labor law …
Jail Detainee Entitled to Law Library Access by A district court in Texas has held that jail prisoners have a right to law library access in order to defend against lawsuits in which they are the defendant, the court also held that a "bookmobile" system of allowing prisoners to check …
Double Jeopardy in Prison Not Clear by In the Oct. `95 issue of PLN we re ported Massachusetts v. Forte, an unpublished state court ruling dismissing a criminal indictment because the prisoner had previously been subjected to disciplinary action by prison officials. As a result, the trial court dismissed the …
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
New Statewide Data Show Prison Rape a Widespread Problem by Over a fifth of male prisoners are sexually victimized behind bars according to a newly released survey of an entire state's prison system. A summary of results from the spring, 1994 survey, which covered all four Nebraska prisons and was …
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
WA DOC Gets $745,366,000 by Paul Wright In the August, 1995, issue of PLN we discussed the myriad anti-prisoner and -defendant legislation passed by the Washington State legislature in its 1995 session. The 1995 session was the longest in state history, running several months past its scheduled closing. Because the …
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
OH Visitor Search Illegal by The Franklin County Court of Appeals in Ohio has held that an anonymous letter alleging drug smuggling by a prison visitor is insufficient to constitute "reasonable suspicion" which would authorize a strip search of the visitor. Terry Morris, the warden of the Chillicothe Correctional Institution, …
Article • October 15, 1995 • from PLN October, 1995
Jail Population Report by Like the prison population the nation's jail population has soared in recent years, overshadowed by prison crowding. According to a recent Department of Justice report, Jails and Jail Inmates 1993-94, the national jail population was at an all time record high of 490,442 detainees as of …
Article • October 15, 1995 • from PLN October, 1995
US Prison Population Report by According to the Department of Justice the American prison population has grown more than 2.5 times between 1980 and 1993. As of 1993, the latest year statistics are available, 2.6% of the US adult population, 4.9 million adults, were on parole, probation, in prison or …
Article • October 15, 1995 • from PLN October, 1995
CBCC EFV Stabbing Trial by In the March, 1995, issue of PLN we reported that Todd Hiivala, a prisoner at the Clallam Bay Correction Center (CBCC) in Washington, stabbed his wife Heather several times during an Extended Family Visit (EFV) on January 7, 1995. Hiivala was shot by tower guard …
Article • October 15, 1995 • from PLN October, 1995
Disciplinary Segregation Bars Criminal Prosecution by PLN rarely reports unpublished court rulings but we do so occasionally when such rulings have a news value to readers or state a novel legal theory. This is such a case. A superior court in Norfolk County Massachusetts has held that filing criminal charges …
Article • September 15, 1995 • from PLN September, 1995
Spitting by HIV+ Prisoner Results in Attempted Murder Conviction by Paul Wright By Paul Wright Curtis Weeks, an HIV+ Texas prisoner, spit on a guard and was convicted of attempted murder. PLN rarely reports on criminal law cases and even more rarely do we do so under a by line. …
Chain Gangs Challenged in Court by In the July, 1995, PLN, we reported that the state of Alabama had reintroduced chain gangs to its prison system on May 3, 1995. We did not give much attention to the issue because it has received enormous media coverage, most of it rather …
Article • September 15, 1995 • from PLN September, 1995
No Immunity for Visitor Searches by On March 3, 1989, a Kings County Assistant DA contacted the New York DOC's Inspector General (IG) and told him that he had received information that Joseph Varrone, a New York state prisoner, was involved in drug smuggling. More specifically, the DA claimed that …
Guard Gets 10 Years for Beating Prisoner to Death by On May 23, 1995, Joel Lambright was sentenced to a 2 to 10 year sentence after being convicted of manslaughter for beating and kicking to death Michael McCoy, a prisoner. [See PLN Jan., 1995] Initially charged with murder, Lambright was …
WA Passes Record Anti-Prisoner/Defendant Legislation by Paul Wright By Paul Wright In the March, 1995, issue of PLN I gave a rundown on most of the anti-prisoner and defendant legislation then pending in the legislature. After we had gone to press for that issue Ida Ballasiotes, the rabid chair of …
Article • August 15, 1995 • from PLN August, 1995
Shackled Litigant Denied Due Process by The court of appeals for the second circuit has reaffirmed that trial courts deny pro se litigants a fair trial when litigants are shackled before the Jury and no hearing on the need for restraints is held. Ronald Davidson is a New York state …
Pelican Bay Ruling Issued by One prisoner publication hailed it as "A Moral Victory for Prisoners." The headline in a correctional trade magazine proclaimed "State Wins Pelican Bay Suit." Interpreting the 345-page Madrid v. Gomez opinion is difficult at best, and as shown by the contrasting headlines above, a reader's …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
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Warden Survey Released by On December 21, 1994, Illinois US senator Paul Simon (D) released a survey he had conducted of 157 prison wardens across the country. Simon told a news conference he was releasing the survey because it was time for a "reality check" as congress gears up for …
Books Available: Barred: Women, Writing and Political Detention by Barbara Harlow Barred: Women, Writing and Political Detention, by Barbara Harlow, examines and presents the writings of women political prisoners in Northern Ireland, Palestine, El Salvador, Egypt, South Africa and the United States. The book gives an analysis of the dynamics …
51 Months for Sex With Prisoners by Suspended Gulf County (Pensacola), FL Sheriff Al Harrison, 52, was found guilty by a federal jury on January 27, 1995, of seven misdemeanor counts of violating the civil rights of five former female prisoners at the Gulf County Jail over a period of …
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