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Article • June 15, 2002 • from PLN June, 2002
Texas Appeals Court Grants Prisoner Mandamus on Discovery by by Matthew T. Clarke A state appeals court in Texas has conditionally granted a prisoner's petition for a writ of mandamus to order the judge of a Texas state district court to hear and rule upon the prisoner's request for discovery …
Article • June 15, 2002 • from PLN June, 2002
Complaints Must Be Concise, To the Point by The court of appeals for the Eleventh circuit held that a district court erred when it dismissed a former pre trial detainee's Bivens suit for lack of jurisdiction and for failing to state a claim. The court chastised the plaintiff's attorney for …
Brief • June 13, 2002
Plata v. Davis, CA, Stipulation for Injuctive Relieft, Medical Neglect, 2002 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 FILffi BILL LOCKYER, Attorney General of the State of California PETER J. SIGGINS, Chief Deputy Attorney General ROBERT R. ANDERSON Chief Assistant Attorney General PAUL D. GIFFORD Senior Assistant …
Brief • June 12, 2002
Prison Legal News v. Schumacher, OR, Amended Complaint, DOC Mail Censorship, 2002 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 MARC D. BLACKMAN RANSOM BLACKMAN LLP 1001 S.W. Fifth Street, Suite 1400 Portland, OR 97204 (503) 228-0487 (telephone) (503) 227-5984 (facsimile) marc@ransomblackman.com OSB No. 73033 …
Lake et al v. State of Washington, WA, Complaint, DOC employee litigation sexual harassment, 2002 • ... ,. / . .. J \ 1 ~ed9ed F:ecelpt11lll FILED, C:" 1!Ie~g~~bL~~~w,.~H9~~t%t .r:t:-daYOf~,200~-~ 2 3 :... ::: '" ".': !) M -. ,'! J ,; ;. 4 ", •.• I . .~ '. …
Brief • June 3, 2002
Filed under: Medical
Small v. Los Angeles, CA, Settlement, Jail Medical Neglect, 2002 June 3, 2002 Honorable Board of Supervisors 383 Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration 500 West Temple Street Los Angeles, California 900l2 Re: Larry Small and Rosa Small v. County of Los Angeles Los Angeles Superior Court Case No. BC 208 …
Publication • 2002
Filed under: Contractor Misconduct
Federal Bureau of Prisons, Management of Construction Contracts, 2002 FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS MANAGEMENT OF CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Federal Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) mission is to protect society by confining offenders in the controlled environments of prisons and community-based facilities that are safe, humane, and appropriately secure. The …
Placement of Homeless Persons with Severe Mental Illness in Supportive Housing, University of Pennsylvania, 2002 Culhane.qxd 5/28/02 10:26 AM Page 107 · Housing Policy Debate Volume 13, Issue 1 © Fannie Mae Foundation 2002. All Rights Reserved. 107 107 Public Service Reductions Associated with Placement of Homeless Persons with Severe …
Tenth Circuit Discusses Religious Rights in BOP by Yu Kikumura is a federal political prisoner and member of the Japanese Red Army, who has been greatly harassed by authorities during his incarceration. His religious practices mix Buddhism and Christianity. Beginning in 1997, Kikumura tried to obtain pastoral visits from Reverend …
Ohio Prison Supervisors Possibly Liable for Employing Known Racist Guard by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a district court's grant of summary judgment to Ohio prison officials and remanded for trial a case involving alleged official indifference to the actions of a known racist guard. The appeals …
Eighth Amendment Challenge to California Integrated Yard Policy Is Triable by Marvin Mentor In a California prisoner suit claiming cruel and unusual punishment for the prison's "integrated yard" policy, the Ninth Circuit US Court of Appeals ruled that the factual question presented could proceed to trial, thus rejecting prison defendants' …
County Supervisors Liable for Indemnifications by John E Dannenberg County Supervisors Liable For Indemnifications by John E. Dannenberg The Los Angeles (LA), California County Board of Supervisors made official decisions, and thus a policy, to indemnify their county sheriffs so as to willfully (i.e., in bad faith) protect the sheriffs …
Cold, Vermin and Sewage in New York Prison May Violate Eighth Amendment by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg A New York state prisoner who had been subjected to inhumane and unsanitary living conditions was found by the Second Circuit US Court of Appeals to have stated a claim …
Article • May 15, 2002 • from PLN May, 2002
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by California: On December 12, 2001, Don Lanier Jr., 34, a guard at the Wasco State Prison and a karate instructor, was sentenced to nine months in the Kern county jail after pleading guilty to unlawful intercourse with a minor. The charges stem from Lanier having consensual …
Bailing Out the Private Prison Industry by Judith Greene The private-prison industry is in trouble. For close to a decade, its business boomed and its stock prices soared because state legislators across the country thought they could look both tough on crime and fiscally conservative if they contracted with private …
Hawaiian Women Prisoners File Suit Over Sex Abuse, Torture in Oklahoma Private Prison by Lonnie Burton When the State of Hawaii opted in 1998 to send its female prisoners to a privately run Oklahoma prison, it had no idea what was in store for these women. What ensued over the …
Suicides, Staff Negligence Plague Private Arkansas Juvenile Prison by Lonnie Burton In October 2001, a just-completed state investigation concluded that Houston-based Cornell Company, the private firm that runs Arkansas's Alexander Youth Services Center, was negligent for failing to monitor an at-risk youth who committed suicide. The suicide was the second …
Article • May 15, 2002 • from PLN May, 2002
From the Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to PLN 's 12th anniversary issue. PLN first started publishing in 1990 and this marks 12 years and 144 consecutive issues. PLN is the longest publishing independent, prisoner-produced magazine in U.S. history. While we have had our ups and downs over the years …
Article • May 15, 2002 • from PLN May, 2002
Failure to Timely Pay Filing Fee Dismissal Reversed by The Court of Appeals for the Seventh circuit held that a district court erred when it dismissed a prisoner's suit for failure to pay the filing fee in a timely manner. Bernard Beyer, a Wisconsin prisoner held in a private prison …
U.S. Cited for Human Rights Violations by Gary Hunter ( On May 15, 2001, at a human rights conference in Geneva, the United States was denounced for its inhumane and discriminatory practices. Amnesty International and the U.N. Committee Against Torture cited the U.S. for oppressive tactics by both public law …
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