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New York Prisoners Win Injury Awards, Lack of Expert Testimony Detrimental by Michael Rigby New York Prisoners Win Injury Awards, Lack Of Expert Testimony Detrimental by Michael Rigby In two separate cases, New York courts of claims awarded $3,500 to prisoners pursuing pro se personal injury claims against the state. …
Article • November 15, 2004 • from PLN November, 2004
$600,000 Settlement in California Prisoner Shooting Death by Marvin Mentor $600,000 Settlement In California Prisoner Shooting Death by Marvin Mentor California Department of Corrections (CDC) officials settled a wrongful death complaint for $600,000 brought by the survivors of Octavio Orozco, a prisoner at Pleasant Valley State Prison (PVSP) in Coalinga, …
Article • November 15, 2004 • from PLN November, 2004
Prison Town Legislators Represent Prisoners' Interests? Not Quite by Peter Wagner On June 7, 2004, talks between the New York State Senate and the Assembly on how to best reform the draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws broke down. Publicly, the dispute is over ideological disagreements, but an obscure Census quirk that …
Texas Prisoner's Retaliation Claim Survives Summary Judgment by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth. Circuit reversed a district court's dismissal of a prisoner's complaint that prison officials retaliated against him for exercising his right to file a grievance. Robert Hart, 38, is a prisoner at the 2,800-man Albert …
Article • November 15, 2004 • from PLN November, 2004
Nevada Trust Account Interest, Less Accounting Costs, Belongs To Prisoners by In two separate decisions, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals determined whether the Nevada Department of Prisons (NDOP) procedure of reallocating interest earned on prisoner trust accounts constituted an unconstitutional "taking" in violation of the Fifth Amendment or …
Brief • October 15, 2004
Terrell v. District of Columbia, DC, Complaint, Prisoner Stabbing, 2004 ORiG'~lAL SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Civil Division .. ROBERT TERRELL #08266-007 - FCI Petersburg P.O. Box 1000 Petersburg, VA 23804 Plaintiff v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Serve: Darlene Fields Office of Attorney General 441 4th Street, N.W. Washington, …
Article • September 15, 2004 • from PLN September, 2004
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: In March, 2004, Jefferson county jail guard Antonio Allums was charged with misdemeanor assault for attacking jail prisoner Michael Boler in the jail by choking him, slamming his head against a wall and then trying to cover it up. Boler was attacked for no apparent …
Article • September 15, 2004 • from PLN September, 2004
Filed under: PLRA, Filing Fees (PLRA)
Pro Se Tips and Tactics by Daniel E. Manville Before starting on my1 first, of many, pro se articles, I want to thank John Midgley on behalf of the hundreds, if not thousands, of prisoners that he has helped through these eight years. He has taken difficult legal concepts for …
Article • September 15, 2004 • from PLN September, 2004
World Court Rules Against U.S. for Consular Notification Failures by by Matthew T. Clarke On March 31, 2004, the International Court of Justice (also known as the World Court) held that the United States was in violation of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (VCCR). The case was brought by …
California Private Prison Uprisings Kill 2, Injure 66 by Marvin Mentor Interracial prison riots occurred on October 27 and December 3, 2003 in two southern California privately-contracted minimum security prisons. Because California private prison contractors have no weapons not even pepper spray the riots continued for up to 90 minutes …
Article • September 15, 2004 • from PLN September, 2004
Filed under: Medical, HIV/AIDS
Report Faults Vermont Policies in Prisoner Deaths; Retaliation Precedes PLN Writer's Suicide by David Reutter by David M. Reutter An independent investigation into the deaths of seven prisoners concludes that Vermont Department of Corrections (VDOC) policies were partly to blame for some of the deaths. The deaths occurred between November …
Article • September 15, 2004 • from PLN September, 2004
Captive Audience: Ohio Wants to Bring Prisoners to Jesus, the Law Be Damned by Kevin Hoffman On August 12, 2003, the Marion Correctional Institution played host to a most unlikely revival. The Promise Keepers, the international men's Christian ministry, put on a four-hour service for about 1,000 men, more than …
Article • September 15, 2004 • from PLN September, 2004
Four Prisoners Injured in Shooting at Washington D.C. Jail by Four prisoners were injured in a shooting in the maximum security section of the Washington D.C. jail just after 2 p.m. on December 20, 2003. The shooting appeared to be a prisoner-on-prisoner assault, said Corrections Department spokesman Darryl J. Madden. …
Article • September 15, 2004 • from PLN September, 2004
The American Correctional Association A Fraud on Texas Taxpayers by C.C. Simmons The American Correctional Association A Fraud on Texas Taxpayers by C. C. Simmons In June, 2002, the Texas state prison system was finally released from 29 years of federal court oversight. The longest running civil rights class-action lawsuit …
Article • September 15, 2004 • from PLN September, 2004
BOP Good Time Credits Must Be Calculated Against Sentence, Not Pro-Rated to Time Served by John E Dannenberg BOP Good Time Credits Must Be Calculated Against Sentence, Not Pro-Rated To Time Served by John E. Dannenberg The U.S. District Court (W.D. Wisc.) held that good time credits available to federal …
Article • September 15, 2004 • from PLN September, 2004
Ill-Equipped: U.S. Prisons and Offenders with Mental Illness by Tara Herivel Human Rights Watch, 2003, 215 pp. Reviewed by Tara Herivel [In the interests of full disclosure, the author of this review contributed to the following Human Rights Watch Report as a source, and this magazine contributed to the gathering …
U.S. Supreme Court: ADA Title II Implicates Due Process Right of Physical Access To The Courts by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The U.S. Supreme Court held that Title II of the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), 42 U.S.C. § 12132, which guarantees disabled individuals access …
Iraqi Dungeons and Torture Chambers Under New, American Trained Management by Leah Caldwell Just a year ago, Attorney General John Ashcroft pointed to the Iraqi prison system as a shining example of the freedoms that the U.S. would bring to Iraq. He said, "Now, all Iraqis can taste liberty in …
Article • September 15, 2004 • from PLN September, 2004
Former Ohio Parole Chief, Parole Attorney Alliance Raises Ethical Concerns by Michael Rigby A business partnership between former head of the Ohio Parole Board, Margarette Ghee, and Ohio prisoner-turned-parole attorney, Derek Farmer, has raised ethical concerns in the legal and criminal justice communities. After serving 18 years on a 1974 …
$10,000 Awarded in Colorado Magazine Confiscation by Bob Williams A Denver Federal Judge has awarded $10,000 plus costs and attorney fees to a state prisoner whose sexually explicit magazines were confiscated for content reasons. Michael Milligan, a prisoner in the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC), was transferred without warning from …
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