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Article • September 15, 2005 • from PLN September, 2005
Hawaii Settles Class Action Wrongful Imprisonment Suit for $1.2 Million by Michael Rigby The state of Hawaii has agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle a class action federal lawsuit involving hundreds of wrongfully imprisoned individuals. The state also agreed to implement measures ensuring the timely release of prisoners. The …
Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005
New York Senator Returned To Jail After Illegal Release by Michael Rigby By Michael Rigby Most people will accept that certain perks are available to a state’s top lawmakers. What is unacceptable, however, is that these perks often continue even after the public trust has been violated. The case of …
Arbitrary Draconian Restrictions on Texas Parolees by by Matthew T. Clarke Texas parolees have been subjected to a number of draconian measures not necessarily related to their conviction. For instance, parolees who were not convicted of sex offenses have been made to register as sex offenders and take sex offender …
Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005
$800,000 Awarded to Wrongly Convicted Tennessee Man by After maintaining his innocence for 22 years, Clark McMillan was released from prison after DNA evidence cleared him of raping a 16 year-old in 1980. McMillan was released from a Tennessee prison in 2002 after DNA testing revealed a former Memphis resident …
Army Prison Ban On PLN Containing Postage-Stamp-Exchange Ad Is Enjoined, But Ban On Internet Mail Up by Army Prison Ban On PLN Containing Postage-Stamp-Exchange Ad Is Enjoined, But Ban On Internet Mail Upheld by John E. Dannenberg The U.S. District Court (D. KS) enjoined Ft. Leavenworth prison officials from banning …
Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005
Report: Federal Prison Guards Sexually Abuse Prisoners With Near Impunity by Michael Rigby By Michael Rigby Federal prison guards and other employees who have sex with prisoners are rarely prosecuted, and when convictions do result the punishment is often trivial, according to a report by the Justice Department’s Office of …
Louisiana Prison Writer Free After 44 Years by Michael Rigby Award-winning prison journalist and civil rights figure Wilbert Rideau, once described as “the most rehabilitated prisoner in America,” is free after spending more than four decades behind bars. Ironically, Rideau’s freedom came not from being exonerated, but from being found …
$1 Million L.A. County Jail Rape Award Overturned by by Marvin Mentor The California Court of Appeal, in an unpublished opinion, reversed a Los Angeles (L.A.) County jury verdict that had awarded $1 million in damages to a jail detainee who was brutally beaten and raped in his L. A. …
Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005
Los Angeles County Settles Parolee's Overdetention Suit For $80,000 by Los Angeles County paid $80,000 to settle a California parolee's overdetention suit that alleged failure to process release information for one week. On June 4, 2001, William Green was arrested by his parole agent on a violation for failing to …
Article • August 15, 2005 • from PLN August, 2005
U.S. Supreme Court: State Prisoners May Challenge Unconstitutional Parole Procedures Under § 1983 If Earlier Release Doesn't Necessarily Follow by U.S. Supreme Court: State Prisoners May Challenge Unconstitutional Parole Procedures Under § 1983 If Earlier Release Doesn't Necessarily Follow by John E. Dannenberg The U.S. Supreme Court held that state …
Maricopa County, Arizona, Settles Wrongful Imprisonment Suit For $1.4 Million by On April 6, 2005, a man falsely imprisoned for a decade on Arizona's death row settled with Maricopa County for $1.4 million. Ray Krone, once dubbed the snaggletooth" killer, was sentenced to death in 1992 based on testimony that …
PLN in Court by by Paul Wright Since PLN started in 1990 we have been censored in prisons and jails around the country. We have always attempted to resolve censorship issues administratively, but in cases where the goal was to keep PLN out of prison at any cost, that obviously …
Article • July 15, 2005 • from PLN July, 2005
California Parole Condition Prohibiting Computer Access For Molester Ruled Unreasonable by The California Court of Appeals granted habeas corpus relief sought by a paroled child molester who complained that the condition of parole forbidding him from either using a computer or getting on the Internet was unreasonable. Ramon Stevens was …
Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
Filed under: Sentencing, Habeas Corpus
Habeas Hints by Kent A. Russell This column is intended to provide habeas hints" to prisoners who are handling habeas corpus petitions as their own attorneys (in pro per). The focus of the column is post-conviction practice under the AEDPA, the 1996 law which now governs habeas corpus practice throughout …
Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
California's Parole-Violator Cell-Study Education Program Portends Increase In Recidivism by California's Parole-Violator Cell-Study Education Program Portends Increase In Recidivism by Marvin Mentor A well-intentioned but struggling new rehabilitative in-cell, tutored, self study program for California parole violators (Bridging Program), participation in which cuts five days per month off eligible violators' …
Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
U.S. Supreme Court Holds § 1983 Proper to Challenge Execution Procedure by U.S. Supreme Court Holds § 1983 Proper to Challenge Execution Procedure In an extremely limited," unanimous decision, the United States Supreme Court held that an Alabama death row prisoner properly utilized 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to challenge a …
Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
$95,000 Settlement For Imprisonment Based On Falsified Police Report by by John E. Dannenberg The Los Angeles, California County Sheriff's Department sought $95,000 authority from the L.A. County Claims Board (Board) to settle a wrongful incarceration federal civil rights lawsuit brought by a plaintiff whose conviction had been predicated upon …
Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
Texas Now Requires D.A.'s Approval For Wrongful Conviction Compensation by by Matthew T. Clarke An amendment to the 2001 Texas law allowing compensation of the wrongly convicted requires that people applying for compensation present a letter from the district attorney who convicted them certifying the person's innocence. In 2001, State …
Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
Ohio Awards $1,402.92 Award For 11 Days False Imprisonment by by Michael Rigby An Ohio prisoner should be awarded $1,402.92 for 11 days of false imprisonment, a magistrate recommended to the Ohio Court of Claims on October 21, 2004. On September 14, 1999, plaintiff Glen Wilson was sentenced to two …
Article • June 15, 2005 • from PLN June, 2005
Flight From California Parole Agents' Attempted Arrest Constitutes Felony Escape by The California Court of Appeal held that a parolee who fled an attempted arrest by his parole agent was a prisoner" nonetheless and that his actions supported his later conviction of felony escape. Parolee Aaron Nicholson unknowingly had a …
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