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Article • June 15, 1994 • from PLN June, 1994
" due to his being a plaintiff in Knecht et al. v. Voinavitch, et al. Case number C-1-94-12 (SD OH) (Judge Speigel). Justice Watch issued press releases and we expressed our respect and solidarity ...
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
on injustice. The recent box-office blockbuster, In the Name of the Father, chronicles the wrongful conviction, based on confessions obtained by torture, of alleged IRA guerrillas in England. The February 1 ...
claim, the court held that Mitchell had stated a claim despite not suffering significant injury. The key inquiry under Hudson v. McMillian, 503 U.S. 1, 112 S.Ct. 995 (1992) was that the guards acted ...
. We cannot think of a better case for an award of punitive damages." The court held that the ratio of punitive to compensatory damages (12 to 1) was well within reason. The court reversed the award ...
Article • April 15, 1997 • from PLN April, 1997
of Corrections issued administrative regulations severely limiting the family visiting program. As the young woman quietly sobbed, four prison guards openly laughed at her pain. On November 1, 1996, the CDC ...
Article • September 15, 1994 • from PLN September, 1994
was passed on a 37 to 1 vote in the state senate. Corrections officials predicted the move would lead to more violence in state prisons unless the legislature provides other activities to keep prisoners busy ...
Article • March 15, 1997 • from PLN March, 1997
Filed under: Organizing
on-site visits at MCAC. On May 1, 1996, the DOJ issued a "Notice of Findings," in which it cited unconstitutional conditions at MCAC, with regards to: inadequate medical and mental health care, insufficient ...
Article • October 15, 1996 • from PLN October, 1996
considered for parole after the date of the original opinion filed November 1, 1995." The court denied relief to the plaintiffs on their claims concerning consideration of favorable completion of furloughs ...
Article • June 15, 1995 • from PLN June, 1995
under the chapel and spending a lot of time there. Wellborn told Miller he would "<%1>take care of it" and that the prisoners were probably making wine. A secretary overheard the conversation ...
Article • March 15, 1997 • from PLN March, 1997
, constitutes a "crisis." The Public Relations technique of Crisis Management is used to counter the accumulated effects of bad publicity, and it works like this: Step 1) Management takes a few half-hearted ...
prisoners, the policy covers prisoners with mobility, vision, or speech impairments. The main elements of the DOC policy are: (1) Effective access - Prisons must provide disabled prisoners with "equal ...
offenses, violent offenses, and most drug offenses) committed after July 1, 2000 will, in addition to their SRA determinate prison sentence, be sentenced to a term of community custody (i.e. parole ...
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
is used for gambling. The new rules went into effect on June 1st for people entering the system after that date. Those of us already here have to be in compliance by June 1, l993, or upon transfer ...
Article • September 15, 1995 • from PLN September, 1995
of intent, determine (1) whether a legitimate interest in the use of force is evident from the circumstances, and (2) if so, whether the force used was necessary to further that interest.... [citing Bell ...
Article • June 15, 1997 • from PLN June, 1997
in the sixth circuit to apply the In Forma Pauperis (IFP) provisions of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) uniformly to all complaints or notices of appeal filed on or after March 1, 1997. Judge Martin's ...
Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994
formulated four key demands: 1) Quality health care for all women prisoners - hire an HIV/AIDS specialist now, 2) High nutritional diets and vitamin supplements for HIV+ prisoners; 3) Support peer education ...
hundred dollars in damages. See: Knecht et al v. Voinavitch et al, Case No. C-1-94-12 (S.D. Ohio W.D.). This is the first [?] case to have gone to a jury dealing with a state created liberty interest ...
. See: Farmer v. Brennan, 114 S.Ct. 1970 (1994) PLN, Vol. 5, No. 7. To survive summary judgment on his eighth amendment claim Hale "was required to produce sufficient evidence of (1) a substantial risk ...
to prison disciplinary procedures, its purpose is to 'provide a standardized system consistent with constitutional due process for ascertaining whether [prisoner] misconduct has occurred. WAC § 137-28-005(1 ...
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
that it would like to do so but due to lack of funding it cannot. The Peru article took up 1 <$E2/3> pages, which I feel could have been better used to report legal news. As a transsexual, I feel that if PLN ...
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