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Washington Municipalities Liable for Attacks by Probationers by The Washington state Supreme Court held that municipalities have a duty to protect others from reasonably foreseeable harm resulting from the dangerous propensities of probationers and pretrial releasees under their supervision. In 1990 Barry Krantz raped a 6 year old little girl …
Article • January 15, 2000 • from PLN January, 2000
A Day at the Prison Fun Park by Daniel Burton-Rose "Have you guys been here before?" a female high schooler asks two young guys in baseball caps and shorts. "We have," she goes on. "We liked it so much we came back a second time." I hear an older man …
Article • January 15, 2000 • from PLN January, 2000
From the Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to another year of PLN. This issue contains our case and subject index for 1999. In 1995 we decided that indexing PLN would greatly enhance its value as a research tool. All of our back issues are indexed and each January we have …
Article • January 15, 2000 • from PLN January, 2000
State Police Investigate Illinois Prison Industry by According to a highly critical report by the Illinois Auditor General's office released April 21, 1999, a tire recycling industry at the Downstate Lincoln Corr. Center provided up to $325,000 in free recycling services to private businesses over a 2-year period. It is …
Valdes Murder Witness Exiled, Muzzled by On the cover of the October 1999 PLN was an article describing the July 9, 1999 beating death of "X-Wing" prisoner Frank Valdes at the hands of Florida State Prison (FSP) guards. The day of the killing Valdes' partner and fellow X-Wing prisoner William …
Brief • January 13, 2000
Bogardus Deposition, CA, Dog Vehicle Search, 2000 DECLARATION OF VANNESS BOGARDUS III I, VANNESS BOGARDUS III, declare: 1. I reside in Grass Valley, California. My mailing address is 10556 Combie Road, Suite 6200, Auburn, California 95602. PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS 2. I am a retired Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff, having honorably …
Brief • January 4, 2000
Brown v. District of Columbia, DC, Release, Guard Slander, 2000 ,. . ",.' Release Form • Government of the District of Columbia RELEASE KNOW ALL MEN BY TIIESE PRESENTS, That I, Eric Brown (SSN: tJ Ie) , residing at the Youth Center of the Lorton Correctional Facility, in the City …
Brief • December 30, 1999
Goings v. DC, Release, Prisoner Attack, 1999 " ..J RELEASE KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I, Mit~hell Goings (SSN: DOB residing at 1462 4 tll Street, S\i, Washington, DC for consideration of the sum of Twenty Seven Thousand Dollars ($27,000.00), lawful money of the United States, the receipt …
Brief • December 27, 1999
Ford v. District of Columbia, Release, Prisoner Assault, 1999 J~'>;;>'" P.02/02 ~ICE ~TION e:tJlt.IS J.l:I';;;''::: • . ' 2027270431 .' Government of the District ofColumbia RELEAS~ ALL MEN BY THESE PRESBNTS, That I. GLENN FORD, DCDC # 228-390, reslding at D Sffi£€T~ Sf!. I, W~s!t..C-N6raN ~ in the City of …
Wackenhut's Woes: Guard Killed in New Mexico Riot; Prisoners Exiled to Virginia Supermax by Alex Friedmann Previously, PLN has reported problems at the Lea County Corr. Facility in Hobbs, New Mexico, one of two prisons in the state operated by Wackenhut Corrections Corp. Violent incidents at the Hobbs facility have …
Article • December 15, 1999 • from PLN December, 1999
Filed under: Civil Procedure, Appeals
Pro Se Tips and Tactics (Civil Appeals) by John Midgley If the judge or a jury rules against you, you may want to try to appeal to a higher court. In this column, I will cover some basic information about what kinds of rulings against you in federal court can …
Beaten Attica Prisoner Awarded $70,000 by After a two-week trial during July 1999, a jury ruled in favor of plaintiff Wayne Ford and awarded him $70,000 in a suit against Attica guards for using excessive force. Wayne, 32, who acted as his own attorney through much of the proceedings, said …
Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis, by Christian Parenti (Review) by Paul Wright Verso, 290 pages Review by Paul Wright The government is by no means a neutral agent dedicated to the welfare of all its citizens. Instead, it stands first and foremost to protect the …
Maximum Security University, edited by Tom Quinn (Book and Video Review) by Paul Wright Video Review by Bob Fischer and Janet Stanton Maximum Security University is a 48 minute video production by California Prison Focus depicting the deaths of four prisoners shot by guards during the notorious gladiator fights at …
Article • December 15, 1999 • from PLN December, 1999
CDC Settles Corcoran Shooting Suit for $2.2 Million by In May, 1999, the California Department of Corrections (CDC), announced it would pay $2.2 million to settle a shooting lawsuit by former prisoner Vincent Tulumis. Earlier this year the CDC settled the Corcoran shooting death lawsuit by the estate of Preston …
Article • December 15, 1999 • from PLN December, 1999
Notes from the Unrepenitentiary by Linda Evans They call themselves POWs because Puerto Rico has been fighting a war for independence since 1898, when the U.S. first invaded the island. Puerto Rico is one of the few colonies left in the world. The U.S. military and transnational corporations want to …
CSC Cancels Florida Juvenile Facility Contract by Correctional Services Corp. (CSC) announced Aug. 23, 1999 that it was withdrawing from an $8.7 million-a-year contract to operate the Pahokee Youth Development Center, a 350 bed Florida juvenile facility, 8 months before the contract is due to expire. The announcement came six …
Article • December 15, 1999 • from PLN December, 1999
Stanford University Tests Drugs on Imprisoned Juveniles by During 1997 researchers from Stanford University were allowed to conduct drug trials on 61 teenagers imprisoned at the California Youth Facility (CYA) in Stockton. According to the Associated Press, state officials have indicated that those tests may have violated a state law …
Article • December 15, 1999 • from PLN December, 1999
Virginia Juvenile Dies of Accidental Heart Attack by Dan Pens The state police were phoned and asked to send a trooper to formally charge Dandridge with assault. Meanwhile, Oak Ridge officials say, the youth was observed every five minutes through his cell door window. Nobody went into the cell to …
Article • December 15, 1999 • from PLN December, 1999
Ninth Circuit Vacates Previous Opinion Ruling PLRA's Provision Unconstitutional by Rules Taylor Not a Consent Decree In 1972, Eddie W. Taylor and George Yanich, Jr., Arizona state prisoners, filed class action suits under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 challenging Arizona's prisoner behavior and discipline rules and …
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