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Build Jails, Not Schools: Ohio Prison Building Corruption by Bill Dunne The apparatus of repression provides frequent examples of the corruption endemic to late capitalism. It is hugely expensive, miniminaly accountable, and has no clear product by which to gauge its performance. Military fraud and waste are cliche. Endless police …
Article • January 15, 2001 • from PLN January, 2001
University Cancels Sodhexo-Marriott Contract by Students from Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, declared victory August 14, 2000 in a two month struggle to keep a catering company with ties to the forprofit prison industry from taking over the school's food service contract. In July, school administrators announced that the …
Article • January 15, 2001 • from PLN January, 2001
Sodexho Bows to Pressure, Announces Sale of CCA Stock by Bowing to pressure from angry U.S. and Canadian student activists, Paris based Sodexho Alliance (SA) announced plans to sell its 8 percent stake in Corrections Corporation of America, as soon as CCA completes a corporate restructuring. But in a statement …
Article • January 15, 2001 • from PLN January, 2001
States of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons by Mumia Abu-Jamal Edited by Joy James. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000). 352 Pages Reviewed by Mumia AbuJamal Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky once opined that the nature of a civilization could be discerned by examining its prisons. If that is so, James …
PLRA Attorney's Fees Cap Applies to Nonprisoner Intervenors by The Fourth Circuit has held that a publisher who intervened in a law suit filed by prisoners is subject to the attorney fees cap of the Prison Litigation Reform Act. Virginia state prisoners Donald Hodges and Michael Flores sued Keen Mountain …
Pubic Hair Search of Released Jail Detainee Unconstitutional by A federal district court in Alabama held that a sheriff's policy of searching prisoners' pubic hair as they were released from jail was unconstitutional. The court also held that jail officials were entitled to qualified immunity from money damages for strip …
IFP Litigant Entitled to Amend Complaint by The court of appeals for the Second circuit held that a district court erred when it dismissed an indigent pro se prisoner's complaint without affording him an opportunity to amend the complaint and cure the defect. Benjamin Cruz, a Connecticut state prisoner, filed …
Article • January 15, 2001 • from PLN January, 2001
Hepatitis C, A 'Silent Epidemic' Strikes U.S. Prisons by Silja JA Talvi It's been called the nation's most insidious virus. A "silent epidemic" that has swept the nation, hepatitis C is now the most common, chronic, bloodborne infection in the U.S. Because the virus often causes no noticeable symptoms for …
Louisiana Prison System Exceeds Administrative Statutory Authority by The Court of Appeals of Louisiana for the First Circuit has held the Department of Public Safety and Corrections (DPSC) exceeded its statutory authority when it referred prisoners to a "Special Court" for the additional forfeiture of good time when they had …
Article • January 15, 2001 • from PLN January, 2001
U.S. S.Ct. Upholds PLRA Automatic Termination Law by On June 19, 2000, a divided U.S. supreme court upheld the constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 3626(e)(2). In 1996 congress enacted the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA). Among the PLRA's provisions are 18 U.S.C. § 3626(b)(2) which allows for the "immediate termination" …
Florida X-Wing Guard Acquitted in Valdes Beating by The first of five Florida State Prison guards to be tried in connection with the beating death of "XWing" prisoner Frank Valdes was acquitted by a jury in a rural county dominated by the state "corrections" industry. In the October 1999 PLN …
Article • January 15, 2001 • from PLN January, 2001
Wisconsin Supermax Bans Local Paper by When the southwestern Wisconsin town of Boscobel celebrated the grand opening of a 509bed supermax prison in September 1999, the festive atmosphere was likened to a carnival or state fair so happy were the townspeople to bring in jobs, jobs, jobs. Venders hawked sodas, …
Filing • January 10, 2001
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Brief • January 2, 2001
Diaz v. Suffolk County Sheriff, MA, Complaint, Excessive Force, Discrimination, 2001 COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS SUFFOLK, SS. SUPERIOR COURT C.A. NO. 99-3956G ******************************* MANUEL DIAZ, et al * * plaintiff * * v. * * SUFFOLK COUNTY SHERIFF * RICHARD ROUSE, * SGT. E. MATICCI, and * several JOHN DOES * …
Brief • December 19, 2000
Ashman v. Marshall, MA, Complaint, Unsanitary Prison Conditions, 2000 COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS SUFFOLK, ss. SUPERIOR COURT CIVIL ACTION NO. _ DENTON ASHMAN, KENNETH BERNSTEIN, FREDERICK CHRISTIAN, STEPHEN DOHERTY, RICHARD EILERTSEN, SCOTT FREZZA, DAMON GENTILE, ROBERT GRADY, CRAIG HOLLIDAY, ANDREW KILBURN, TED OTSUKI, CLINTON RICHARDSON, GEORGE SCHINDLER, MICHAEL THOMPSON, HUNG TROUNG …
Brief • December 19, 2000
Ashman v. Marshall, MA, Complaint, Inhumane Confinement Conditions, 2000 COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS SUFFOLK, ss. SUPERIOR COURT CIVIL ACTION NO. _ DENTON ASHMAN, KENNETH BERNSTEIN, FREDERICK CHRISTIAN, STEPHEN DOHERTY, RICHARD EILERTSEN, SCOTT FREZZA, DAMON GENTILE, ROBERT GRADY, CRAIG HOLLIDAY, ANDREW KILBURN, TED OTSUKI, CLINTON RICHARDSON, GEORGE SCHINDLER, MICHAEL THOMPSON, HUNG TROUNG …
Article • December 15, 2000 • from PLN December, 2000
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News in Brief by NEWS IN BRIEF: AZ: On September 12, 2000, 20 Hawaiian prisoners at a Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) prison in Florence rioted and took a guard hostage. While complaining about the way their rice was cooked, prisoners took CCA guard Dean Goodwin hostage for 15 minutes. …
Excessive Force Claims Require Administrative Exhaustion by The court of appeals for the Sixth circuit held that prisoners filing suit seeking only money damages for excessive use of force by prison employees must exhaust their administrative remedies before they file suit. Dwight Freeman, an Ohio state prisoner, filed suit seeking …
Sexual Assault, Beatings State Claim by The court of appeals for the Second circuit held that a district court erred when it, sua sponte, dismissed a prisoner's claim that he was beaten and sexually assaulted by guards. The court also held that the lower court erred when it dismissed the …
En Banc Sixth Circuit Addresses Mental Health Care by By Matthew T. Clarke Anthony Wade was a Michigan state prisoner who committed suicide by taking an overdose of anti-depressant Sinequan (Doxepine) pills. During the year Wade was in presentencing incarceration at the Wayne County Jail (WCJ), he suffered from depression …
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