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Article • May 15, 2001 • from PLN May, 2001
Prisoner Bound by Jailhouse Lawyer's Work by by Paul Wright Afederal district court in Texas has held that a prisoner who relies on other prisoners to prepare his legal pleadings is bound by the content of those pleadings. Nhan Kiem Tran is a federal prisoner in Texas who was convicted …
Secular Humanism: Philosophy or Religion? by The D.C. Circuit has held that federal prison officials were entitled to qualified immunity for refusing to recognize secular humanism as a religion. Ben Kalka, a former federal prisoner, sought to form secular humanism groups to meet in prison chapels. At his last unit …
Article • May 15, 2001 • from PLN May, 2001
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by News in Brief: Argentina: On December 29, 2000, 11 political prisoners of the Movimiento Todos Por La Patria ended a hunger strike begun on September 6, 2000, after president Fernando de la Rua signed a decree reducing the prisoners' life sentences. The prisoners had been convicted …
Article • May 15, 2001 • from PLN May, 2001
The Prisoner's Guide to Survival: A Comprehensive Legal Assistance Manual for PostConviction Relief and Prisoners' Civil Rights Actions by Sam Rutherford By L. Powell Belanger PSI Publishing, Inc. (745 Pages) Reviewed by Sam Rutherford The Prisoner's Guide to Survival is a new legal research tool that covers all aspects of …
Due Process Violation, Plain Error Reverse Marijuana Conviction by The Michigan Supreme Court reversed a state prisoner's conviction for possession of marijuana after finding that the prosecution had improperly introduced inculpatory statements made by the defendant at an earlier prison disciplinary hearing. Raymond Wyngaard was a prisoner of Michigan's Kinross …
Three Florida Guards Charged with Beating 'Gunner' by Three Florida state prison guards were arrested October 6, 2000 and charged with kicking and beating a prisoner so severely that his crushed right testicle had to be surgically removed. The beating was administered by guards as a form of "counseling" to …
Article • May 15, 2001 • from PLN May, 2001
Voluntary Agreement with MINNCOR Not Enforceable Contract by Voluntary Agreement With MINNCOR Not Enforceable Contract A state court of appeals in Minnesota has held that the Voluntary Agreement signed by prisoners laboring under MINNCOR's administration is not an enforceable contract. Kenneth Murray, a Minnesota state prison, filed suit in state …
Washington DOC Settles Sex Harassment Suit for $250,000 by WA DOC Settles Sex Harassment Suit for $250,000 In December 2000, the Washington Department of Corrections paid $250,000 to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by a former community corrections officer who says she was fired after complaining to superiors about …
Article • May 15, 2001 • from PLN May, 2001
$74,000 Awarded to Slashed New York Prisoner by In July 2000, New York court of claims judge Ferris Lebous awarded $74,000 in damages to a prisoner slashed in an attack by another prisoner. On February 19, 1991, Billy Blake was in the segregation unit of the Shawangunk Correctional Facility. When …
Article • May 15, 2001 • from PLN May, 2001
Second Circuit Cautions District Courts To Use Proper Sandin Analysis by Acourt of appeals for the SecondDistrict has, once again, cautioned the district courts against using an improper analysis when analyzing conditions in Special Housing Units to determine whether a liberty interest is implicated under Sandin v. Canner, 515 U. …
Article • May 15, 2001 • from PLN May, 2001
Bogus Felons List Results in Suppression of Florida Votes by Ronald Young Bogus Felons List Results In Suppression of Florida Votes by Ronald A. Young Undoubtedly, it was the politically motivated decision handed down by five U.S. Supreme Court justices to put a halt to counting untallied Florida votes which …
Article • May 15, 2001 • from PLN May, 2001
US Supreme Court Allows BOP Limit on Early Release Statute by Roger Smith The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld 28 C.F.R. § 550.58(a)(1) (vi)(B) (Regulation), a federal Bureau Of Prisons (BOP) regulation modifying 18 U.S.C. § 3621(e)(2)(B) (Statute). The Statute provides that federal prisoners with nonviolent convictions may receive up …
Homemade Paper Spear Is Not a Deadly Weapon by Homemade Paper Spear is Not a Deadly Weapon The Washington state Court of Appeals held that a spear, made from paper rolled into a rigid shaft and tipped with a golf pencil, used to jab a guard through prisoner's cell door …
Texas Prisoner Raped By Wackenhut Guard Entitled To Discovery Protection by An appeals court in Texas has held that, under the Texas rape victims shield laws, Rule 412, 509(c)(1) and 510(b)(1), Texas Rules of Evidence, a prisoner who was raped by a guard and is suing Wackenhut may not be …
Brief • May 14, 2001
Day v. District of Columbia, Release, Guard Beating, 2001 RELEASE ~OW ALL MEN' BY THESE PRESENTS, That It I,eonard Day, DCDC No 201154 {SSN _ ,DOB 05/01/61 residing at Central Facility for consideration of the sum of _ Ten 1'housand Dollars ($10,000.00), lawful money of the United states, the receipt: …
Brief • May 14, 2001
Banks v. Yokemick, NY, Jury Instructions, Wrongful Death Police Excessive Force, 2001 15E9BANF 1 . -." ( 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK -----------------------------------x MAYBELL E. BANKS, as Administratrix of the Estate of her son KENNETH BANKS, and on her own behalf, 5 Plaintiff, …
Brief • May 9, 2001
Filed under: Strip Searches
Lee v. District of Columbia, DC, Settlement, Strip Search Sex Abuse, 2001 Q, h, i'l l§;1.W .(:.u , , RELEASE KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I. John Lee, Jr. S S # _ s i d i n g at the HA M L\ N S-f N. {;. …
Brief • May 8, 2001
Filed under: Excessive Force
Celestine v. US, CO, Settlement, Excessive Force, 2001
Brief • May 1, 2001
Goode v. WA DOC, WA, Appeal Disciplinary Sanction of Dismissal, Neglect of Duty, 2001 1 BEFORE THE PERSONNEL APPEALS BOARD 2 STATE OF WASHINGTON ) ) ) Case No. DISM-99-0065 ) ) ) FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF ) LAW AND ORDER OF THE BOARD ) ) ) ) 3 …
Brief • May 1, 2001
Morales v. Ventura County, CA, Complaint and Demand for Jury Trial, Police Shooting, 2001 1 2 3 PETER M. WILLIAMSON, Bar No. 97309 WILLIAMSON & ASSOCIATES 13915 Panay Way, Suite One Marina del Rey, California 90292 Tel: (310) 822-3377 Fax: (310) 821-7027 4 5 Attorneys for Plaintiff ANTHONY MORALES 6 …
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