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Contraband Cell Phones On The Rise In U.S. Prisons
Article • July 15, 2005 • from PLN July, 2005
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Telephones, Telephone Access
Contraband Cell Phones On The Rise In U.S. Prisons by Though drugs and weapons have long been a bane to prison officials everywhere, prisons around the country and the world are now experiencing a new contraband problem: cellular telephones. Texas prison officials learned how serious the problem was during a …
Nebraska Prisoners Win Summary Judgment on Phone Access and Monitoring Issues
Article • June 15, 2004 • from PLN June, 2004
Filed under: Attorneys, Attorney Client, Telephone Access, Attorney Calls, Telephone Monitoring, Access to Media
Nebraska Prisoners Win Summary Judgment on Phone Access and Monitoring Issues by Nebraska Prisoners Win Summary Judgment on Phone Access and Monitoring Issues by Matthew T. Clarke A Nebraska state district court granted Nebraska state prisoners' summary judgment on issues involving the monitoring and recording of phone calls to government …
Discipline Without Notice Violates Due Process; BOP Administrative Exhaustion May Be Excused
Article • May 15, 2004 • from PLN May, 2004
Filed under: Notice of Rules, Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA), Preliminary Injunctions/TRO's, Habeas Corpus, Telephones, Telephone Access
Discipline Without Notice Violates Due Process; BOP Administrative Exhaustion May Be Excused by Discipline Without Notice Violates Due Process; BOP Administrative Exhaustion May Be Excused A federal district court in Oregon held that a federal prisoner's procedural default in failing to exhaust administrative remedies would be waived. The court also …
Administrative Exhaustion Required in Pre-PLRA BOP Phone Suit
Article • January 15, 2004 • from PLN January, 2004
Filed under: Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA), Settlements, Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates
Administrative Exhaustion Required in Pre-PLRA BOP Phone Suit by The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the administrative remedies exhaustion requirement of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) must be met even where a court approved settlement reached prior to the PLRA's enactment does not so require. …
Acrimonious Michigan Prisoners' Rights Suit Settled After 15 Years
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2004
Filed under: Clothing, Judiciary, Prisoner Legal Assistance, Law Library Access/Adequacy, Writing Implements, Photocopies, Administrative Exhaustion, Prisoner Property, Telephones, Telephone Access, Attorney Calls, Legal Mail, Attorney Visits
Acrimonious Michigan Prisoners' Rights Suit Settled After 15 Years by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg A class-action lawsuit launched by Michigan state prisoners in 1988 which ultimately cost taxpayers $7.5 million in litigation costs was settled on November 4, 2003, resulting in prisoners gaining appropriate classification and psychiatric …
Settlement Agreement Reached in Wisconsin Supermax Suit
Article • November 15, 2002 • from PLN November, 2002
Filed under: Food, Exercise, Exposure to Cold, Reading Materials, Lighting, Exposure to Heat, Restraints, Education, Telephone Access, Ad-Seg Hearings, Mental Health
Settlement Agreement Reached in Wisconsin Supermax Suit by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) officials settled the 42 USC § 1983 class action civil rights suit brought by seriously mentally ill prisoners housed in the Boscobel, WI Supermax state prison by agreeing not to …
Claims Dismissed in First Challenge to BOP Communications Ban
Article • March 15, 2002 • from PLN March, 2002
Filed under: Political Prisoners, Attorney Client, Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA), Telephones, Telephone Access, Mail Regulations, Ad-Seg Hearings
Claims Dismissed in First Challenge to BOP Communications Ban by by Matthew T .Clarke The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered the claims in the first published challenge to the implementation of Special Administrative Measures (SAMs) by the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) dismissed without prejudice for failure to …
You're in the Hole: A Crackdown on Dissident Prisoners
Article • February 15, 2002 • from PLN February, 2002
Filed under: Political Prisoners, Attorney Client, Telephones, Telephone Access, Attorney Calls, Mail Regulations, Attorney Visits
You're in the Hole: A Crackdown on Dissident Prisoners by Anne-Marie Cusac It was September 19, 2001. Elizabeth McAlister had not heard from her husband, Philip Berrigan, in more than a week. Such silence on Berrigan's part was "most unusual," she says. Convinced that something was wrong, she telephoned the …
No Qualified Immunity for Shackling Prisoner to Hospital Bed
Article • February 15, 2002 • from PLN February, 2002
Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Jail Specific, Reading Materials, Attorney Client, Restraints, Court Appearances, Complaints, Appeals, Americans with Disabilities Act, Telephone Access, Qualified Immunity
No Qualified Immunity for Shackling Prisoner to Hospital Bed by Gregory May, a Cook County, Illinois, prisoner, filed a suit against the Sheriff and Sheriff's Department officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging their treatment of prisoners taken to Cook County Hospital is unconstitutional and violates the Americans with Disabilities …
California Dials Wrong Number
Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Telephones, Telephone Access
California Dials Wrong Number by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely In reaction to bad publicity, lawsuits, and legislative hearings following a record number of fatal shootings of unarmed male prisoners, staged fights, and the sexual abuse and medical neglect of women prisoners, California established the allegedly independent Office of Inspector …
Notes From the Unrepenitentiary: Whose Security?
Article • August 15, 2001 • from PLN August, 2001
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Monitoring, Mothers in Prison
Notes From the Unrepenitentiary: Whose Security? by Marilyn Buck Notes From The Unrepenitentiary: Whose Security? by Marilyn Buck Two children, both with mothers imprisoned at FCI Dublin, died within a two-week period. Both children were adolescent boys, aged 13 and 9, repectively. One of the children ran away from his …
Ohio 'Entrepreneur' Lands in Hot Water
Article • April 15, 2001 • from PLN April, 2001
Filed under: Crime, Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Monitoring
Ohio 'Entrepreneur' Lands in Hot Water by An Ohio prisoner will spend an additional three years and three months in prison after pleading guilty to theft charges stemming from an elaborate credit card and telephone scam he ran from behind bars. Lonny Lee Bristow, 27, was already serving a 9year …
Sweeping ADA/RA Jail Settlement Benefits Hearing Impaired Prisoners
Article • August 15, 2000 • from PLN August, 2000
Filed under: Deaf Prisoners, Fire Hazards, Jail Specific, Attorney Fee Awards, Court Appearances, Civil Procedure, Damages, Settlements, Defenses, State Law Claims, Americans with Disabilities Act, Rehabilitation Act, Interpreters, Telephone Access
Sweeping ADA/RA Jail Settlement Benefits Hearing Impaired Prisoners by by Matthew T. Clarke A federal district court in California has approved a sweeping settlement of hearing impaired prisoners' claims in a civil rights, Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and Rehabilitation Act (RA) class-action suit against the Santa Clara County (California) …
$100,000 Awarded Under ICCPR in GA Jail Suit
Article • July 15, 2000 • from PLN July, 2000
Filed under: Systemic Medical Neglect, Skeletal Injury, Gastrointestinal, Conditions of Confinement, Exercise, Jail Specific, Damages, International Law, Telephone Access
$100,000 Awarded Under ICCPR in GA Jail Suit by On February 24, 2000, a federal jury In Augusta, Georgia awarded 1100,000 in damages to a Danish citizen who was denied medical care and phone calls to his family in Denmark while he was awaiting trial in the Lincoln county jail …
West Virginia Prisoners Protest Visit/Phone Restrictions
Article • June 15, 2000 • from PLN June, 2000
Filed under: Prison Industries, Prison Rebellion, Work Strikes, Prisoner Privileges, Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates
West Virginia Prisoners Protest Visit/Phone Restrictions by Prisoners at the Mount Olive Correctional Center in West Virginia staged a walkout on Monday morning August 30, 1999 to protest a new visitation policy and problems with the phone system. More than 200 prisoners gathered in the prison's recreation yard and sat …
Washington v. Reno, KY, DOJ Report, Telephone Access in Prisons, 1999
Brief • 1999
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates
Washington v. Reno, KY, DOJ Report, Telephone Access in Prisons, 1999 Criminal Calls: Review of BOPs Management of Inmate Telephone Privileges Page 1 of 4 USDOJ/OIG Special Report CRIMINAL CALLS: A REVIEW OF THE BUREAU OF PRISONS’ MANAGEMENT OF INMATE TELEPHONE PRIVILEGES (August, 1999) ***** TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY …
Judicial Sentence of Life in Solitary Upheld
Article • March 15, 1999 • from PLN March, 1999
Filed under: Gang Policies, Criminal Prosecution, Judiciary, Telephones, Telephone Access, Mail Regulations
Judicial Sentence of Life in Solitary Upheld by The court of appeals for the Second circuit affirmed a court imposed sentence of life imprisonment in solitary confinement and prohibiting all communication with anyone except the defendant's attorney and close family members after the district court had approved them. The appeals …
Settlement in Washington State Deaf Prisoners' Lawsuit
Article • February 15, 1999 • from PLN February, 1999
Filed under: Deaf Prisoners, Disabled Prisoners, Attorney Fee Awards, Attorney Fees (PLRA), Damages, Settlements, Americans with Disabilities Act, Rehabilitation Act, Interpreters, Telephones, Telephone Access
Settlement in Washington State Deaf Prisoners' Lawsuit by Jeff Crollard Aclass action lawsuit was settled on behalf of deaf and hearing-impaired prisoners in Washington State on September 3, 1998. The settlement agreement obligates the Washington State Department of Corrections to provide qualified sign language interpreters and assistive devices, such as …
ADA/RA Apply to Jails and Give Deaf Right to TDD
Article • November 15, 1998 • from PLN November, 1998
Filed under: Deaf Prisoners, Americans with Disabilities Act, Rehabilitation Act, Telephones, Telephone Access, Qualified Immunity
ADA/RA Apply to Jails and Give Deaf Right to TDD by The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq., (ADA) and Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. § 794, (RA) apply to jails and require that deaf prisoners be given access to alternate assistance in …
NJ Prisoners Refuse to Swallow PINs
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
Filed under: Prison Rebellion, Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates
NJ Prisoners Refuse to Swallow PINs by Approximately two years ago, the entire NJ prison system switched to an "automated call" phone system. Despite a predicted hike in costs to family and friends of prisoners, very few prisoners objected in a short-lasting boycott. On September 15, 1997, the prison population …
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