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Article • May 15, 2004 • from PLN May, 2004
Prisons Nationwide Fail to Treat HCV Epidemic by John E Dannenberg Prisons Nationwide Fail To Treat HCV Epidemic by John E. Dannenberg The JeopardyTM answer is: "The national average treatment rate for HCV-infected prisoners." The winning question is: "What is approximately 1%?" With HCV [Hepatitis-C] infection rates in state prisons …
BOP Doctor Indicted, Pleads Guilty to Sexual Assault by Bob Williams BOP Doctor Indicted, Pleads Guilty To Sexual Assault by Bob Williams On May 14, 2003, Dr. Carlos Baez, 41, a staff obstetrician-gynecologist in the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), was indicted on three counts of sexual abuse of a …
Article • May 15, 2004 • from PLN May, 2004
From the Editor by Paul Wright This issue marks the 14th anniversary of Prison Legal News. With this issue we will have published 169 issues. At this point, PLN is the longest, continuously publishing independent publication whose content is mostly written and produced by prisoners and ex-prisoners in American history. …
Article • May 15, 2004 • from PLN May, 2004
Filed under: Medical, Hepatitis
$50,000 HCV Settlement and New Treatment Protocol Approved in Colorado by Bob Williams $50,000 HCV Settlement and New Treatment Protocol Approved in Colorado by Bob Williams The federal district court in Colorado has approved a settlement awarding $50,000 and treatment for hepatitis-C (HCV) infection to six named plaintiffs. The Colorado …
Article • May 15, 2004 • from PLN May, 2004
Filed under: Prison Labor, Medical
Colorado Slammed by West Nile Virus But Ignores Prisoners by Bob Williams Loren Gasiorowski, 41, awoke one morning with a big mosquito bite on his forearm and one on his shoulder. Within days he couldn't leave his cell. After being sick for two weeks he couldn't take it any more. …
Denial of Grievance Forms Excuses Failure to Exhaust by Denial of Grievance Forms Excuses Failure to Exhaust The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a Pennsylvania federal district court's dismissal of a state prisoner's civil rights suit for failure to state a claim. Pennsylvania prisoner Mark Mitchell was incarcerated …
Florida Work Release Prisoners Ripped Off by Private Transport Company by David Reutter Florida Work Release Prisoners Ripped Off by Private Transport Company by David M. Reutter In response to a new law, effective Oc-tober 1, 2003, that prohibited state prisoners from driving state vehicles, the Florida Department of Corrections …
Article • May 15, 2004 • from PLN May, 2004
Excessive Heat Still Plagues Baltimore Women Detainees by Bob Williams Despite a 2002 federal district court Consent Order finding conditions at the Women's Detention Center of the Baltimore City Detention Center (WDC) unconstitutional due to excessive heat and despite an injunction issued to immediately remedy the problem, WDC women continue …
Another Troubled North Carolina Jail by Michael Rigby Prisoner suicides, mistaken releases, jailers indicted for selling drugs and dispensing sex, prisoners caught with drugsall occurred at the Cumberland County Detention Center, a $36 million North Carolina jail, in the seven months following its February 2003 opening. On March 23, 2003, …
Article • May 15, 2004 • from PLN May, 2004
Third-Party Beneficiaries Can Enforce Terms of Settlement by Bob Williams The Tenth Circuit court of appeals has held that a prisoner was entitled to seek enforcement of a two-decade old settlement agreement as a third-party beneficiary and invoke the court's continuing jurisdiction. In 1981, Kenneth Floyd and nine other Colorado …
$13,500 Damages Paid to Two Illegally Detained Washington DOC Prisoners by The Washington state Division of Risk Management (DRM) paid claims totaling $13,000 to two state prisoners who were illegally arrested and incarcerated by the Washington Department of Corrections. Michael Buffington had been sentenced in King County Superior Court to …
Brief • May 13, 2004
Filed under: Jury Instructions
Trinity Door v. Oconee Co, GA, Jury Instructions, government accountability witness credibility, 2004 Case 3:02-cv-00067-CAR Document 59 Filed 05/13/04 Page 1 of 12 Case 3:02-cv-00067-CAR Document 59 Filed 05/13/04 Page 2 of 12 Case 3:02-cv-00067-CAR Document 59 Filed 05/13/04 Page 3 of 12 Case 3:02-cv-00067-CAR Document 59 Filed 05/13/04 Page …
Brief • May 12, 2004
Degorski v. Wilson, IL, Complaint, Jail Beating, 2004 Case: 1:04-cv-03367 Document #: 1 Filed: 05/12/04 Page 1 of 9 PageID #:1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS or::? u1 ~ . , •<J ( EASTERN DIVISION ' ( I .. . JAMES DEGORSKI, DOCKETED~ Plaintiff, MAY …
Article • May 11, 2004
Former Military Police Officer Jailed for 17 Yrs Describes Routine Mistreatment and Brutality in U.S. Prisons by We speak with former military police officer Paul Wright, editor and founder of Prison Legal News, who was recently released from prison after serving 27 years for murder about the physical and sexual …
Jails for Jesus by Samantha M. Shapiro Pastor Don Raymond isn't trained in corrections and is not employed by the government, but he runs a new 140-person wing of the Ellsworth, Kansas, medium-security prison that draws prisoners from throughout the state system. In the phylum of prison staff, Raymond defies …
City Immune in California Drunk Tank Beating Suit Because Prisoner Was Criminal, Not Civil Detainee by The California Supreme Court ruled that California Govt. Code § 844.6(a)(2) [governmental immunity for injury to prisoner] prevented a city jail detainee who had been beaten by another drunk tank prisoner from maintaining a …
Article • April 15, 2004 • from PLN April, 2004
Filed under: Mail, Mail Regulations
Kansas Gift Subscription Ban Rejected by State Court But Upheld By Federal Court by John E Dannenberg Kansas Gift Subscription Ban Rejected by State Court But Upheld By Federal Court by John E. Dannenberg In two independent but inconsistent rulings, Kansas Department of Corrections (KDOC) policy IMPP 11-101 (banning gift …
Article • April 15, 2004 • from PLN April, 2004
From the Editor by Paul Wright With our recent expansion to 48 pages we will be bringing readers more information than ever before and we also hope it will be more timely than it has been in the past. Readers that send us newspaper clippings and similar information help us …
Article • April 15, 2004 • from PLN April, 2004
Alabama Restores Voting Rights to Some Ex-Prisoners by On June 24, 2003, Republican Alabama governor Bob Riley announced he was vetoing the felons' voting bill passed by the state legislature. The bill would have made it easier for certain felons to have their voting rights reinstated. Alabama law imposes a …
Another Death in a Wisconsin Prison by Gary Hunter "Unremarkable." That's what prison nurse Jolinda Waterman called Donnie Powe's condition when she relegated him to an observation cell. Guards perfunctorily recorded his declining health right up until he died, face down on the floor of his 6 by 8 foot …
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