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Brief • September 27, 2000
Prison Legal News v. Crawford, NV, Settlement, NV DOC Censorship, 2000 / • , '. \:~ ( , , a ,• • ,"'.- -,.' ,- ! ~ .. ,~ - . ;"nI CT ....., 1•.::: . IIIECEMO ~ SEP I 8 100l .'.L.EM" Wi. DJSTRlCT couer r , • ,I …
Brief • September 25, 2000
Filed under: Mail
Hook v. State of Arizona, AZ, Order, Inmate Mail, 2000 · L l" l SEP 2 52000 t. t1 '/I I - Fl.ED _ AiCiJVEO " ~ 1 SEP 2 3 ~ 9; - (!) \70' , fD() o. COPY 9rj-r7,t) STRICT COURT OF ARIZONA ..",._~_~S DEPUTY 4 5 6 …
Brief • September 23, 2000
Filed under: Hepatitis, Failure to Treat
Sheptin v. US, IL, Complaint, BOP Hepatitis C Medical Suit, 2000
Article • September 15, 2000 • from PLN September, 2000
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by AL: Citing "loyalty problems," on June 19, 2000, prison commissioner Mike Haley removed deputy commissioner John Shaver from his $71,000 a year job as head of the DOC's treatment programs. Shaver was transferred to a post as administrative services officer at a state prison, with a …
The Restraint Chair: Safe and Humane? by Anne-Marie Cusac Jail and prison employees call it the "strap-o-lounger," the "barcalounger," the "we care chair," and the "be sweet chair." Prisoners and their lawyers have other names for the device: "torture chair," "slave chair," and "devil's chair." They are not referring to …
Article • September 15, 2000 • from PLN September, 2000
Prison Realty/CCA Bailout Deal Canceled by On the cover of the July PLN we reported that the nation's largest private prison owner and operator, Prison Realty/CCA, verged on bankruptcy and that one of its principal shareholders, Pacific Life Insurance Co., planned to infuse a $200 million equity investment into the …
Article • September 15, 2000 • from PLN September, 2000
Deviant Doctors Dumped on Prisoners by How does a psychiatrist come by the "qualifications" required to work in a state prison? Not all prison doctors have questionable pedigrees, but the case of Dr. Valentino Andres is all too common. According to a California prisoner and PLN subscriber, Dr. Andres is …
Former Political Prisoner Settles Suit for $4.5 Million by On April 26, 2000, the city of Los Angeles, California and the federal government agreed to pay former political prisoner Geronimo Ji Jaga (formerly known as Elmer Pratt) $4.5 million to settle a wrongful imprisonment suit he had filed. Ji Jaga …
Article • September 15, 2000 • from PLN September, 2000
Penis Stomping Guard Loses Appeal by In the July '99 issue of PLN we reported the conviction of former Orleans County Jail (Albion, NY) Lieutenant John Walsh on three counts of violating the civil rights of jail detainee Norvin Fowlks. Walsh was alleged to have tormented and abused Fowlks, who …
Article • September 15, 2000 • from PLN September, 2000
Filed under: Mail, Mail Regulations
PLN Sues Nevada DOP by On June 11, 2000, PLN filed suit against the Nevada Department of Prisons for censoring PLN at all Nevada prisons. Beginning in September, 1999, Nevada prison officials have banned PLN from all Nevada prisons claiming that "inmate correspondence" and "inmate newsletters" are not allowed. Efforts …
Article • September 15, 2000 • from PLN September, 2000
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
WA and IN Prison Phone Rates Challenged by On June 20, 2000, a class action suit was filed in King county (Seattle) superior court in Washington. The suit claims that various phone companies that have contracted with the Washington Department of Corrections to provide collect call services for Washington prisoners …
Pro Se Tips and Tactics by John Midgley Supreme Court on Kind and Quality of Appellate Counsel by John Midgley In three recent decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court addressed the kind and quality of representation to which people are entitled on appeal of their criminal convictions. If your conviction is …
The Ride: Rise of the NLR by Willie Wisely THE RIDE: Rise of the NLR By W. Wisely With virtually all confirmed members of the Aryan Brotherhood indefinitely sentenced to Pelican Bay's infamous SHU, a new group moved in to fill the void on California prison yards. The pace of …
Sex Offender Label May Require Due Process by The Eleventh Circuit ruled that absent a conviction for a sex related crime, classification of a state prisoner as a sex offender (and requiring him to register as a sex offender) implicates a liberty interest under the Due Process Clause. Jeffery Kirby …
Article • September 15, 2000 • from PLN September, 2000
No Qualified Immunity from ETS Exposure by The U.S. court of appeals for the Second Circuit held that it was clearly established after Helling v. McKinney, 509 U.S. 25 (1993), that prison officials could not be deliberately indifferent to exposure of prisoners to levels of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) that …
Article • September 15, 2000 • from PLN September, 2000
Two Guards Killed During Botched Missouri Jail Escape by On June 22, 2000, a man and a woman rang the night bell of small county jail in Huntsville, Missouri, and when they were let in gunned down two guards in a botched attempt to spring a friend who was detained …
Race-Based Religious Policy Violates Equal Protection Clause by A federal district court in Virginia held that a race-based prison policy preventing non-Native American prisoners from obtaining Native American spiritual items violated the Equal Protection Clause. The court issued an injunction enjoining the application of the policy, based solely on race. …
Article • September 15, 2000 • from PLN September, 2000
Colorado DOC Attacks Jailhouse Lawyers by In March 1998, PLN reported on the case of Tebbetts v. Whitson, 956 P.2d 639 (Colo.App. 1997), where a Colorado prisoner was convicted of attempted bartering as a jailhouse lawyer and possessing another prisoner's legal papers. The Court of Appeals held the attempted bartering …
Change in Fulton County, GA: Indigent Defense, HIV, and Community Organizing by Lisa Zahren The Fulton County Jail in Atlanta is the largest jail in Georgia, with approximately 3,000 prisoners held there for months and sometimes years waiting for their cases to be resolved or to be transferred to a …
Article • September 15, 2000 • from PLN September, 2000
Prison Physician Liable for Refusal of Care by Ronald Young Prison Physician Liable For Refusal of Care The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that a federal prisoner's Biven's claim did not state a medical care claim against a prison guard who failed to have the prisoner checked out after …
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