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Publication • July 12, 2016
Filed under: CIA, Mail, Mail Regulations, FBI
Mail Cover Surveillance - Problems & Recommendations, NACDL, 2015 MAIL COVER SURVEILLANCE: PROBLEMS AND RECOMMENDATIONS A Report by NACDL’s Fourth Amendment Advocacy Committee Reporter: Steven R. Morrison April 19, 2015 Mail Cover Surveillance: Problems and Recommendations Steven R. Morrison Reporter, NACDL Vice-Chair, Fourth Amendment Advocacy Committee April 19, 2015 Introduction …
Seventh Circuit Affirms Prison Policy Banning Adult Magazines, with Caveats by Derek Gilna Tobias Payton, a prisoner at the Stateville Correctional Center in Illinois, was denied access to a number of adult magazines depicting naked or scantily clad women, and filed suit in federal court alleging violation of his First …
Courts Divided on Confidentiality of Attorney-Prisoner Email by Derek Gilna The fact that prosecutors and corrections officials read emails between prisoners and their lawyers comes as no surprise to most defense attorneys, many of whom find it ironic that the very public officials paid to enforce the laws do not …
Filing • June 30, 2016
PLN v. Cook County, IL, Complaint, Censorship, 2016 Case: 1:16-cv-06862 Document #: 1 Filed: 06/30/16 Page 1 of 12 PageID #:1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS PRISON LEGAL NEWS, a project of the HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, Plaintiff, v. COUNTY OF COOK, ILLINOIS; …
Brief • June 17, 2016
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Brief • June 15, 2016
Kirk v. Carson City, NV, Settlement, Postcard-only Mail Policy, 2016 • ,1 JOHN L. THORNDAL JAMES G. ARM >'.'!Oot~,.... CRAIG R. DE STEPHEN C. BALKENBUSH PAU L F. EISINGER CHARLES L. BURCHAM BRIAN K. TERRY ROBERT F. BALKENBUSH PHILIP GOODHART CHRISTOPHER J. CURTIS KATHERINE F. PARKS KEVIN R. DIAMOND BRIAN …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
UK Prisoner Pen Pal Program Relieves Feelings of Isolation by Derek Gilna Prison is not a place conducive to maintaining good mental health, whether in the United States or elsewhere. The Ministry of Justice in the United Kingdom has found that depression and suicide are major problems in that nation’s …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Newspaper Ban at Cook County Jail Violates First Amendment by Derek Gilna Although courts give broad latitude to corrections officials to restrict access to materials that might negatively impact institutional security, that latitude does not generally extend to blanket bans on newspapers. On July 6, 2015, a federal district court …
Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016
Music Publishers Sue Companies Providing Mixtapes for Prisoners by Matthew Clarke In early 2015, UMG Recordings, Capitol Records, Universal Music Corp. and several other record labels and music producers filed a federal lawsuit against companies that provide mixtapes to prisoners in at least 40 states. The suit claimed that mixtapes …
Publication • 2016
North Carolina Banned Books List - 2016
Brief • May 29, 2016
Hebert v. USA, US, Amicus Brief - Berman, 6th Am due process excessive sentencing, 2016 No. 15-1190 IN THE Supreme Court of the United States MARK HEBERT, Petitioner, v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Respondent. On Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the …
Brief • May 20, 2016
Garber v. Sheriff Conway, GA, Order adopting Report and Recommendation, postcard only mail policy, 2016 Case 1:15-cv-00123-AT-JCF Document 141 Filed 05/20/16 Page 1 of 4 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA ATLANTA DIVISION ADAM GARBER, Gwinnett Cnty. ID # 99499879, Plaintiff, v. SHERIFF BUTCH …
Article • May 5, 2016 • from PLN May, 2016
Seventh Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Ex-prisoner’s § 1983 Action Regarding Computer Disk by Derek Gilna Craig A. Childress was an Illinois state prisoner at the Big Muddy River Correctional Center who was released from custody to mandatory supervised release in 2010. At the time of his release, a prison official …
Article • May 5, 2016 • from PLN May, 2016
Suit Filed Over New Hampshire DOC’s Restrictive Mail Policy by On December 18, 2015, the American Civil Liberties Union and the law firm of Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer and Nelson, P.A. filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of a three-year-old child and his grandmother, claiming that the New Hampshire Department of …
Brief • April 28, 2016
Ogden v. Figgins, KS, Complaint, Mail Allowed, 2016 Case 2:16-cv-02268 Document 1 Filed 04/28/16 Page 1 of 15 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF KANSAS RUSSELL K. OGDEN, BEATRICE HAMMER, and JOHN SMITH, on behalf of themselves and a class of persons similarly situated; Plaintiffs, v. PETE FIGGINS, …
Brief • April 19, 2016
Garber v. Sheriff Conway, GA, Report and Recommendation, postcard only mail policy, 2016 Case 1:15-cv-00123-AT-JCF Document 137 Filed 04/19/16 Page 1 of 34 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA ATLANTA DIVISION ADAM GARBER, Gwinnett Cnty. ID # 99499879, Plaintiff, v. SHERIFF BUTCH CONWAY, COL. …
Brief • April 15, 2016
Kirk v. Furlong, NV, Order Accepting Report and Recommendation, Postcard-Only Mail Policy 2016 Case 3:13-cv-00490-MMD-VPC Document 54 Filed 04/15/16 Page 1 of 2 1 2 3 4 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 6 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 7 *** 8 9 10 11 12 DEREK KIRK, Case No. 3:13-cv-00490-MMD-VPC Plaintiff, v. …
Article • April 1, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
South Carolina Sheriff Resigns, Pleads Guilty to DUI by In 2012, a historic $599,000 settlement was reached between Prison Legal News and then-Berkeley County, South Carolina Sheriff Wayne DeWitt after the Berkeley County jail rejected PLN’s monthly publication and books mailed to prisoners at the facility. At the time, the …
Article • April 1, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Delayed Washington Competency Evaluations and Treatment Violate Due Process by Mark Wilson “The state has consistently and over a long period of time violated the constitutional rights of the mentally ill – this must stop,” declared a Washington federal district court. “The in-jail wait time” before transferring incompetent criminal defendants …
Article • April 1, 2016 • from PLN April, 2016
Sacramento County Settles Former Jail Prisoner’s Lawsuits for $3,800 by Matthew Clarke In February 2015, Sacramento County, California agreed to settle three pro se federal civil rights actions filed by a former Sacramento County jail prisoner alleging theft of his mail, opening of his legal mail outside his presence and …
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