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BOP Possession Offense Requires Specific Intent by The U.S. court of appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1791(a)(2), which makes it unlawful for federal a prisoner to possess a "prohibited object," is a specific intent crime, and intent to use the object as …
Article • March 15, 2001 • from PLN March, 2001
Permanent Injunction Granted for Kosher Diets by The Colorado Federal District Court granted a permanent injunction against the Department of Corrections (CDOC) finding the CDOC in violation of the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment for failing to provide Colorado Prisoners with a kosher diet. As reported in the …
Article • March 15, 2001 • from PLN March, 2001
Consent No Defense For Guard Accused of Raping Prisoner by by Matthew T. Clarke A federal district court in Delaware has held that a prison guard may not use consent as a defense in a suit by a prisoner alleging he raped her. Dorothy Carrigan, a Delaware state prisoner, filed …
Article • March 15, 2001 • from PLN March, 2001
SHU Should Be Compared to Conditions Experienced by All Prisoners by SHU Should Be Compared To Conditions Experienced By All Prisoners The Second Circuit has held that, to determine whether a ninetyday stay in a Special Housing Unit (SHU) is atypical and significant, it should be compared with the typical …
Court May Reduce Post-Judgement Attorney's Fees Rate and Billable Hours by The Ninth Circuit has held that the district court may reduce the rate of pay and number of billable hours for postjudgment work by prevailing civil rights attorneys in prisoner cases when the postjudgment work is less complex and …
Article • March 15, 2001 • from PLN March, 2001
NJ Prisoners Entitled to Cross Examine Witnesses by Holding that a prisoner was entitled to cross examine and to confront the complaining witness at a prison disciplinary hearing, a New Jersey appellate court reversed the sanctions imposed on a prisoner accused of tampering with a locking device on a gate. …
Article • March 15, 2001 • from PLN March, 2001
"The Judge Gave Me Ten Years--He Didn't Sentence Me to Death" by Anne-Marie Cusac "The Judge Gave Me Ten Years--He Didn't Sentence Me to Death" Prisoners with HIV deprived of proper care By Anne-Marie Cusac In prisons and jails across the country, prisoners with HIV or AIDS are denied proper …
Article • March 15, 2001 • from PLN March, 2001
Oregon Compelled Parole Statute Not Retroactive by The Oregon Supreme Court affirmed a lower court decision, which held that the retroactive application of a 1985 "compelled parole" statute violated the constitutional prohibition against ex post facto laws. In 1985 the Oregon legislature enacted ORS 144.245(3) that mandates: "In no case …
Improperly Installed Bunks State 8th Amendment Claim by The court of appeals for the Sixth circuit held that a prisoner's complaint that bunk beds are improperly installed upside down, and the anchor bolts' protrusion into the sleeping area states an eighth amendment claim. Tennessee prisoner Forrest Zayne Brown filed a …
Article • March 15, 2001 • from PLN March, 2001
Second Circuit Holds That Gang Member Designation Regulation is Not Ex Post Facto by The Second circuit court of appeals held that a Connecticut DOC administrative directive making prisoners classified as safety threats ineligible to earn good time credits was not ex post facto and that a Connecticut statute did …
Article • March 15, 2001 • from PLN March, 2001
PLRA Doesn't Apply to Civil Commitments by The court of appeals for the Ninth circuit held that the Prison Litigation Reform Act does not apply to people civilly committed as "sexually violent predators." Sammy Page is civilly committed under California's Sexually Violent Predators Act. Page filed suit in Federal court …
Article • March 15, 2001 • from PLN March, 2001
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by AK: In December 2000, Jeffrey Wiseman, 44, a guard at the Palmer Correctional Center in Palmer was charged with theft and fraudulent use of a credit card stemming from his theft of jail prisoners' credit cards and using them to buy goods. When confronted by police …
$1.18 Million in Santa Clara Co. Sexual Assault/Harassment Suit by $1.18 Million In Santa Clara Co. Sexual Assault/Harassment Suit Female prisoners were awarded a total of $1,180,000 in damages and attorney's fees in the settlement of a suit filed against the Santa Clara County, California, Board of Supervisors and Department …
New York Prayer Rule Struck Down by by Matthew T. Clarke The Second Circuit court of ap- peals has held that Rule 105.11 of the New York State Department of Corrections Services (DOCS) Standards of Inmate Behavior (the Rules) violates the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment when used …
Article • March 15, 2001 • from PLN March, 2001
Federal Religious Freedom Law Passed by On July 27, 2000, Congress unanimously enacted Senate Bill 2869, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA), which was signed into law by president Clinton, as a public law 106-274. The bill passed congress in two weeks and tries to …
Article • February 15, 2001 • from PLN February, 2001
Filed under: Reviews, Media, Prisoner Media
Book Review: Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing by Mumia Abu-Jamal Fyodor Dostoevsky's old adage about measuring a civilization by reviewing its prisons if followed in the U.S. context is a condemnation of this nation's own version of the gulag archipelago. A cross-section of prisoner's writings submitted to the …
Bag'm, Tag'm and Bury'm; Wisconsin Prisoners Dying for Health Care by Dan Pens [The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (www.jsonline.com) published an investigative series titled: "Wisconsin's Death Penalty," by Mary Zahn and Jessica McBride, October 22-24, 2000. Wisconsin doesn't have capital punishment, but the Journal Sentinel revealed the routine "execution" of state …
Article • February 15, 2001 • from PLN February, 2001
WA Law Libraries Threatened; DOC Proposes Budget Cuts by On December 5, 2000, deputy DOC secretary Eldon Vail informed the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) executive staff and administrators of the DOC's 2001-03 biennium budget reduction package. The state of Washington has recently been subjected to conflicting ballot initiatives, which …
Article • February 15, 2001 • from PLN February, 2001
Food Strike Puts Washington DOC on Spin Control by Dan Pens Prison food sucks. That's no big secret. And it should come as no surprise that for any given meal only a fraction of prisoners may bother to show up at the chow hall. Turkey A'la King? Good luck! But …
Article • February 15, 2001 • from PLN February, 2001
From the Editor by Paul Wright From The Editor Paul Wright For the past five years, the January issue of PLN has contained our annual index. We decided to discontinue the practice last year because as PLN grew so did the index. It has gotten to the point that an …
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