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The Crime of Being Poor by Paul Wright "The law in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread." _ Anatole France A central part of the mythology of the criminal justice system in …
Article • June 15, 2003 • from PLN June, 2003
Texas Medical Provider Investigated for Mixing, Selling Bodies by Texas Medical Provider Investigated For Mixing, Selling Bodies Officials at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston (UTMB) are investigating the improper handling of at least 78 bodies donated to the Willed Body Program, which uses them for education and …
Wichita Kansas Pays $6.2 Million to Settle Detainees' Lawsuit by Wichita Kansas Pays $6.2 Million to Settle Detainees' Lawsuit On May 7, 2002, Wichita's City Council approved $6.2 million to be awarded to the 7,000 citizens who had their 14th Amendment rights violated. The suit filed by what the city …
Article • June 15, 2003 • from PLN June, 2003
From the Editor by Paul Wright Observant readers will have noticed that PLN's masthead has changed its message from "Working to Extend Democracy to All" to "Dedicated to Protecting Human Rights." As PLN enters its fourteenth year of publishing and advocacy on behalf of prisoners, we think this change more …
Article • June 15, 2003 • from PLN June, 2003
No Termination of Special Parole Upon Deportation by No Termination of Special Parole Upon Deportation In a case of first impression, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a term of special parole does not terminate upon the parolee being deported to his home country. Antonio Cuero-Flores appealed …
The Shame of Prison Health by Sasha Abramsky A report is sitting at the Justice Department, unpublished. It has been there for three years. Titled The Health Status of Soon-to-be-Released Inmates, it was compiled by experts who sat on three panels: one on communicable diseases, one on chronic diseases and …
Proof of Actual Rights Violation Required for Attorney Fee Award by The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, affirming the decision of a California Federal District Court, has held that a prisoner cannot be awarded attorney fees for winning a temporary restraining order (TRO) if the prisoner did not subsequently …
Article • June 15, 2003 • from PLN June, 2003
Filed under: Sentencing, Habeas Corpus
Habeas Hints by Kent Russell This column is intended to provide habeas hints for prisoners who are considering or handling habeas corpus petitions as their own attorneys. The focus of the column is habeas corpus practice under the AEDPA, the 1996 habeas corpus law which now governs habeas corpus practice …
Ohio Federal District Court Finds RLUIPA Constitutional by In a case of first impression in the Sixth U.S. Circuit, the Federal District Court for the Southern District of Ohio has refused to dismiss Ohio prisoners' religious rights claims based on the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), 42 …
YSI: Another Death, Another Settlement by Youth Services International (YSI), a company already under fire for a multitude of problems, including contract violations, financial mismanagement, prisoner mistreatment and prisoner deaths, was again in the news this past September. YSI, a subsidiary of Corrections Services Corporation, operates juvenile prisons, including boot-camp-style …
Mailbox Rule Tolls Statute of Limitations in BOP Medical Suit by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that, pursuant to the mailbox rule of Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266, 108 S.Ct. 2379 (1988), a prisoner's medical malpractice action was filed as of the date he delivered it to …
Third Circuit Holds PLRA Exhaustion Requirement an Affirmative Defense by Bob Williams Third Circuit Holds PLRA Exhaustion Requirement an Affirmative Defense by Bob Williams The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has found that the PLRA's exhaustion requirement is an affirmative defense to be pled by the Defendant. A district court …
Article • June 15, 2003 • from PLN June, 2003
Incarcerated Father Retains Child Visitation Rights by The Arizona Court of Appeals recently held that an incarcerated father had a right to visits with his infant daughter, absent proof that such visitation would harm the child. Michael M. is the father of Corianna M. Both Michael and Corianna's mother lost …
Article • June 15, 2003 • from PLN June, 2003
PLRA Physical Injury Requirement Not Applicable to First Amendment Compensatory Damages by PLRA Physical Injury Requirement Not Applicable To First Amendment Compensatory Damages A federal district court in New York has held that the Prison Litigation Reform Act's (PLRA) prohibition against seeking damages for mental or emotional injury without a …
Deposition Testimony Not Hearsay; Expert Must Satisfy Daubert in BOP Van Accident by The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that a district court erred in failing to make findings of fact on critical issues, excluding the deposition testimony of a prisoner as hearsay, and in failing to conduct a …
Article • June 15, 2003 • from PLN June, 2003
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by Arkansas: On March 25, 2003, Fulton county jail prisoners Bobby Woodrum and Brian Shanckle, both 19, escaped from the jail by handcuffing a female jail guard to a chair, stealing guns and ammunition and running off in the jail's jeep. They were recaptured without incident ten …
Beaten Philadelphia Prisoner Gets $125,000, Two Guards and Warden Get Time by Beaten Philadelphia Prisoner Gets $125,000, Two Guards and Warden Get Time by Matthew T. Clarke On May 1, 2002, two guards and an assistant warden were convicted in federal court of charges relating to the beating of a …
New Mexico Supreme court Affirms Dismissal of Phone Rate Suit by New Mexico Supreme Court Affirms Dismissal of Phone Rate Suit The New Mexico Supreme Court affirmed a district court's dismissal of an excessive phone rates case for failure to state a claim. Recipients of collect telephone calls from New …
Article • June 15, 2003 • from PLN June, 2003
Texas Tries to Hire Incompetent Doctors to Review Medical Care by by Matthew T. Clarke In October, 2002, Chancellor of the University of Texas (UT) System Mark Yudof asked Texas Health Commissioner Eduardo Sanchez to appoint a three-member panel of experts "with laudable records in correctional health care" and without …
Retaliatory Prisoner Transfer for Exercising First Amendment Rights is "Adverse Determination" Under the Privacy Act by Bob Williams Retaliatory Prisoner Transfer for Exercising First Amendment Rights is "Adverse Determination" Under the Privacy Act by Bob Williams The Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit has held that the reclassification and …
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