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Ohio Death Row Uprising by In the November '97 PLN , we reported "Tensions Rise in Ohio Prisons." Our coverage of the September 5, 1997 uprising on Ohio's death row at the Mansfield Correctional Institution (MANCI) was based entirely on published press reports, and as such was woefully inadequate. PLN …
Torture Info Wanted by Bonnie Kerness, longtime prison rights activist; PLN supporter; and Associate Director of the American Friends Service Committee, Criminal Justice Program, is seeking information from U.S. prisoners who have been subjected to the use of restraint chairs (aka "the chair"), four-point restraints (aka "the motorcycle"), stun belts, …
Article • December 15, 1997 • from PLN December, 1997
Pepper Spray Report by Julia Lutsky Research Review: "Use of Force Policies and Training Recommendations: Based on the Medical Implications of Oleoresin Capsicum," by Darrell Ross, PPCT Director of Research. Oleoresin Capsicum (OC; pepper spray) is now widely used by police departments throughout the country for the control of "resistant …
Article • November 15, 1997 • from PLN November, 1997
Pepper Spray Uprising in Arkansas by Wrightsville Arkansas, prison farm labor camp, July, 1997. The sweltering daytime temperature tops 100 degrees. It's still more than 80 degrees just after midnight. And then a spark is lit. A guard at the Arkansas DOC Wrightsville Unit, reportedly acting on a tip, went …
Oklahoma Pulls Out of TX Rent-A-Jail by The state of Oklahoma announced in July that it would pull 500-plus prisoners out of the Limestone County Detention Center, in part because of a conflict over the use of pepper spray on "unruly inmates." Limestone County, Texas, contracts with a private firm, …
'Training Video' Reveals Beatings in Texas Rent-A-Jail by The state of Missouri was swift to react to the explosive national news coverage resulting from the release of a video tape showing Missouri prisoners being kicked and beaten during a "shake down" at a Texas Rent-A-Jail. The state of Missouri announced …
Article • September 15, 1997 • from PLN September, 1997
Pepper Spray too Dangerous for DOC Training? by In September of 1996, Paul M. Sullivan, health compliance officer for the North Carolina Department of Labor sent a letter to Mr. Franklin Freeman of the North Carolina Department of Correction (DOC). An alert reader obtained a copy of this letter and …
Beating Damages Affirmed; PLRA Not Retroactive on Vacated Attorney Fees by The court of appeals for the seventh circuit affirmed a jury verdict awarding damages to two prisoners who were beaten by prison guards and then denied medical care for their injuries for nearly two days. The court held that …
Macing and Restraints State Eighth Amendment Claim by The court of appeals for the fourth circuit held that not allowing a prisoner to wash after being maced and placing him in four point restraints created a fact question requiring a trial to determine if his eighth amendment rights were violated. …
Pepper Spray Madness by Lynn Wilson [The author is an attorney in private practice in Seattle, Washington, and a frequent writer on police accountability issues. She is also on the Steering Committee of the National Coalition on Police Accountability. This article first appeared in the Spring 1996 Issue of COVERT …
Less than Lethal Force Liability by The April, 1995, issue of the Creighton Law Review contains and extremely informative article titled Less Than Lethal Force Weaponry: Law Enforcement and Correctional Agency Civil Law Liability for the Use of Excessive Force, by Neal Miller. While much of the article's focus is …
Article • October 15, 1996 • from PLN October, 1996
Pepper Spray Unsafe? by COPWATCH, a citizens' group in Berkeley, CA, has noted an increase of in-custody deaths, and has pointed to pepper spray as possibly causing or contributing to those deaths. According to Berkeley Police Department Captain Doran, however, police officials consider pepper spray a safe alternative to firearms …
Article • February 15, 1996 • from PLN February, 1996
Suspect Peppers in LA by Clay Huff I was reading through a few old PLNs and ran across an article on page 11, Vol. 5, No. 10, (Oct. 1994) concerning pepper gas [spray]. In 1992 prisoners here at Angola [LA] bucked work call after one section [of prisoner workers] was …
Brief • April 15, 1995
Horton v. Williams, WA, Cohen Declaration 1, Pepper Spray Youth, 1995 1 2 3 THE HONORABLE ROBERT J. BRYAN 4 5 6 A?R 1 9 7 PF?()JECf 8 9 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA 10 11 12 13 JAMES HORTON, et al., on behalf of …
Brief • December 6, 1994
Horton v. Williams, WA, Order on Motion for Preliminary Injunction, Juvenile Pepper Spray, 1994 ENTERED ON DOCKET DEC 1 By Deputy 2 qI? 1994 L flt_ Ll 3 DEC - 6 1994 4 5 ' i ' t, "I_,: ,,.___.1 CLERK U.S. DISTRICT COUflT flY WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT …
Brief • November 28, 1994
Horton v. Williams, WA, Reply to Memo in Opposition to Motion for Preliminary Injunction, Juvenile Pepper Spray, 1994 .. THE HONORABLE ROBERT J. BRYAN 2 3 · -mrn ""'""""""'"" WMW ,_,,,,,,_ r:Nrrnrn _,,W•m~... 1m:t1vrn 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA 9 …
Brief • October 27, 1994
Horton v. Williams, WA, Memo Supporting Motion for Preliminary Injunction, Juvenile Pepper Spray, 1994 ·: ',:,·" l - ·, ., .•,; THE HONORABLE ROBERT J. BRYAN 1 2 ·-~.•-Hurn ·---- LODGY'.ti 3 * 4 ~"'"'=-~-·~N'ftllEO ---RECEIVED OCT 2 '71994 * ScAf ILi:: CLERK U.S. DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTf11CT OF WASHINGTON …
Horton v. Williams, WA, Declaration of Michael A. Milan, Use of Pepper Spray in Juvenille Detention Facility, 1994 THE HONORABLE ROBERT J. BRYAN UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA JAMES HORTON, et al., on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, No. C94-5428 RJB …
Brief • October 24, 1994
Horton v. Williams, WA, Declarations, Youth Pepper Spray, 1994 THE HONORABLE ROBERT J. BRYAN 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA 8 9 10 11 12 JAMES HORTON, et al., on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, 13 …
$273,000 Settlement for Gassing by A hallucinating diabetic was sprayed in the face with a chemical spray called "Freeze + P." after he had been arrested and tried to escape. The spray contains tear gas and a red pepper derivative. After being held in the Montgomery County, Alabama, jail for …
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