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Article • July 15, 2008
Suffolk County Jail Ordered To Provide Newspaper Access To Prisoners by Suffolk County (New York) Jail prisoner Donato Manicone brought federal civil rights action against the jail for denial of medical assistance and claimed that he was denied access to newspapers. The medical claim was dismissed as not factual but …
Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
PLN Sues Massachusetts DOC Over Book Ban, Added to Approved List One Week Later by For the past five years Prison Legal News has been unable to sell or distribute books to prisoners in Massachusetts because PLN was not on the Dept. of Correction’s (DOC) approved vendor list. Massachusetts prisoners …
Publication • 2008
California Banned Books List - 2008
PLN Obtains Injunction Against Fulton County Jail in Censorship Suit by Alex Friedmann On February 4, 2008 the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia (Atlanta Division) granted a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit filed by Prison Legal News over censorship at the Fulton County Jail. PLN brought …
BOP Removes Religious Books; Capitulates After Public Outrage, Lawsuit by In June 2007, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) began removing thousands of religious books from its prison chapels. The purge of religious literature, which occurred nationwide, was part of a long-delayed post-September 11 directive intended to prevent radical Islamic …
WI ACLU Overview of Prisoners' First Amendment Rights by Larry Dupuis EASTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN BAR ASSOCIATION Pro Bono Continuing Legal Education Program Prisoner Litigation An Overview of Prisoners' First Amendment Rights March 29, 2007 Larry Dupuis, ACLU of Wisconsin Foundation IMPORTANT NOTE: This outline was prepared in March 2007. …
Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007
PLN Files Censorship Suit Against Fulton County Jail in Georgia by On October 22, 2007, Prison Legal News filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia against Fulton County and Sheriff Myron Freeman, due to a Fulton County Jail policy that prohibits prisoners from receiving …
National Conference for Prison Book Projects Held in Urbana-Champaign by Brian Dolinar On November 3, 2007, a conference in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois brought together 88 participants from 29 different prison book projects across the country. A similar event of this kind has not taken place since a 2002 conference in Philadelphia. …
California DOC Settles Federal Suit to Permit Bible Study Materials; Establishes Pilot Program For Screening Books and CDs by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) settled a lawsuit brought by Jesus Christ Prison Ministry (JCPM) that sought to overcome CDCR's rigid bar …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
California DOC Pays PLN’s Attorneys $320,000 In Fees/Costs Related To Mail Censorship Settlement by John Dannenberg California DOC Pays PLN's Attorneys $320,000 In Fees/Costs Related To Mail Censorship Settlement by John E. Dannenberg In June, 2007, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) and Prison Legal News (PLN) stipulated …
Breathtaking Abuse of the Constitution - Sheriff Arpaio's assault on the First Amendment by Michael Lacey Breathtaking Abuse of the Constitution Joe Arpaio, Andy Thomas and Dennis Wilenchik hit New Times with grand jury subpoenas By Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin Published: October 18, 2007 This newspaper and its editorial …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
California Ban On Hardcover Books Held Unconstitutional by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The U.S. District Court (N.D. Cal.) held that the policy by California?s Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP) Security Housing Unit of banning prisoners? possession of hardcover books violated their First Amendment rights. During the course of …
Louisiana Prisoner Denied Religious Materials Under “Approved Vendor” Policy Settles Suit for $21, 786.13 in Damages and Fees by Louisiana Prisoner Denied Religious Materials Under "Approved Vendor" Policy Settles Suit for $21, 786.13 in Damages and Fees The State of Louisiana has settled with a prisoner who was denied religious …
Article • May 15, 2007
No Punishment for Possessing Inflammatory Papers, $1,000 Jury Award Upheld by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that a prisoner cannot be punished for simply possessing "revolutionary" material, supervisors were liable for constitutional violations surrounding prisoner's placement in segregation, and a jury award of $1,000 was …
Article • May 15, 2007
Third Circuit Upholds "Publisher Only" Rule by Third Circuit Upholds "Publisher Only" Rule The Third Circuit Court of Appeals held that a Delaware prisoner's affidavit was insufficient to controvert a prison warden's affidavit, justifying a publisher-only policy. In the district court the prisoner responded to prison officials' motion for summary …
Article • May 15, 2007
Prison Officials Must Support Mail Policy With Evidence by The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held in an Alabama case that "Alabama must show how applying its sweeping regulation [prohibiting prisoners in segregation from sending or receiving mail from other prisoners] . . . furthers its legitimate penological objectives. Alabama's …
Article • May 15, 2007
Ninth Circuit Invalidates Sexually Explicit Photograph/Publication Ban by In 1982, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a Montana prison rule prohibiting nude photographs was too broad and that less restrictive alternatives existed. The court also held that a ban on sexually explicit magazines such as Hustler violated the …
Article • May 15, 2007
Eighth Circuit Reverses Summary Judgment on Segregation Mail Ban by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed an Arkansas district court judgment granting summary judgment to prison officials in a case involving the denial of mail privileges to segregated prisoners. The court noted that the district court acknowledged that the …
Article • May 15, 2007
Georgia Prison Censorship Rules Violate Procunier Standard by A federal court in Georgia held that a prison's mail censorship rules were invalid under Procunier v. Martinez, 416 U.S. 396, 94 S.Ct. 1800 (1974). The court held that the practice of intercepting outgoing letters that prison officials "believed were misleading" or …
Prison Ban on Writing Religious Leaders Invalidated, Muslim Magazine Allowed by The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that an Atlanta federal penitentiary policy of not allowing prisoners to correspond with religious leaders was unconstitutional and remanded for an order allowing such correspondence. The court also held that Black Muslim …
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