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Article • November 15, 1998 • from PLN November, 1998
Filed under: Organizing, Work Strikes
With Advocates Lke These: Capitulation, Collaboration and CURE-Ohio by Paul Wright In the May, 1998, issue of PLN we reported on the November 1, 1997, statewide work strike in Ohio. The purpose of this article isn't to rehash last year's events but to examine basic questions of advocacy versus activism, …
Youngstown Break-Out Leads to Political, Financial Fall-Out by Alex Friedmann On July 25, 1998 a half-dozen prisoners, including four convicted murderers, cut through two fences and escaped from the CCA-operated Northeast Ohio Correctional Center in Youngstown, Ohio. According to Warden Jimmy Turner the successful break-out was due to errors by …
Article • November 15, 1998 • from PLN November, 1998
Trial Required in Kosher Diet Claim by Afederal district court in Kansas held that a trial was required to resolve disputed issues of material fact in a Jewish prisoner's lawsuit over the denial of a Kosher diet. Jimmy Searles is a Kansas state prisoner. While housed at the Hutchinson Correctional …
Washington Good Time Loss Implicates Due Process by AWashington state appeals court held that prisoners have a due process right to challenge the validity of prior minor infractions at disciplinary hearings that involve the loss of good time for allegedly incurring more than four minor infractions in a six month …
Brief • November 10, 1998
Stacy Sund Settlement with WA DOC, 1998 \ .JJ STANDARD TORT CLAIM FORM Pursuant to RCW 4.92, this fonn is proVided for your c~)Dvenience when filing ca lon claim against the State of Washington. If filing a .claim involving an accident with a vehicle operated by a state employee, please …
Filing • November 6, 1998
Catalyst, PLN, Piper v. Box Elder Co., et al., UT, Complaint, censorship, 1998
Brief • November 6, 1998
Catalyst, PLN, Piper v. Box Elder Co., et al., UT, Complaint, censorship, 1998
Brief • October 29, 1998
Filed under: Censorship, PLN related
PLN v. Cook, OR, Complaint, Censorship, 1998 RECEIVE D ALISON HARDY , O SB 11 9 8060 Oregon Law Center 813 SW Alder Street Portland, OR 91205 Tel. (503) 295-2760 FAX (503) 295-0676 MARC BLAC KMA.."l, OSB 1173033 Ransom Blackman 100 1 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1400 Portland, OR 97204 Te …
Brief • October 26, 1998
Rodriguez v. City of New York, NY, Complaint, Jail Guards Ignore Prisoner's Fatal Heart Condition Ignored, 1998
Article • October 15, 1998 • from PLN October, 1998
Ohio Sells Prison Records by The state of Ohio has sold its state prison records, dating back to 1972, to the on-line information service Lexis-Nexis. Other states are expected to follow. Lexis-Nexis is a private on-line computer service that provides news, business and legal information. The service also features on-line …
Article • October 15, 1998 • from PLN October, 1998
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
Ohio Union Officials Protest Prison Labor by Ohio state prisoners performed 2.9 million hours of unpaid "community service" labor in 1997 at schools, fairgrounds, churches and other locations. But when the St. Clairsville, Ohio, Board of Education recruited unpaid prison labor in the construction of an outdoor classroom, representatives of …
Article • October 15, 1998 • from PLN October, 1998
Nebraska Prisoners Have Right to Defend Against Suit by The Nebraska court of appeals held that prisoners have a due process right to defend themselves against lawsuits. Frances Thompson, an animal rights activist, and PLN subscriber, imprisoned in Nebraska, was sued by the University of Nebraska for unpaid student loans. …
Article • October 15, 1998 • from PLN October, 1998
New Trial After Magistrate Conducts Jury Selection by The court of appeals for the Eleventh circuit held that a magistrate presiding over jury selection, when the plaintiff objects, constitutes reversible error and is not subject to a harmless error analysis. Albert Thomas, a Georgia state prisoner, sued state prison officials. …
Nine Florida Prison Guards Indicted, Fired by Nine Florida state prison guards were indicted July 10, 1998, on federal conspiracy and civil rights violation felony charges in the death of a prisoner who was chained, beaten, and left to bleed to death. A tenth guard, presumably the one who broke …
No Administrative Exhaustion for Bivens Suit by No Administrative Exhaustion for Bivens Suits The court of appeals for the Ninth and Tenth circuits held that federal prisoners filing Bivens suits for money damages against Bureau of Prisons (BOP) officials need not exhaust administrative remedies where congress has made no provision …
No Exhaustion Required for Money Damage Claims by A federal district court in Illinois held that where prison administrative remedies do not provide for money damages there is no administrative remedy available for prisoner plaintiffs to exhaust within the meaning of 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a) of the PLRA. Section 1997e(a) …
Article • October 15, 1998 • from PLN October, 1998
Phone Profits 'Benefit' Jail Detainees by The Stanislaus County (CA) Jail has a contract with Correctional Communication Corp., a private telephone company that caters to the Prison-Industrial Complex, to provide phone service to the jail's 1,100 captive consumers. There are more than 100 phones in the county's jails. More than …
Manslaughter Charges Against Three TX Guards Dismissed by In the July '97 issue of PLN we reported the beating death of Texas prisoner Gary Crenshaw, 31, at the hands of French Robertson unit guards. On June 30, 1997, a Jones County grand jury indicted Sgt. Monte Baker and guards Michael …
Article • October 15, 1998 • from PLN October, 1998
Maryland Indigent Court Cost Suit Settled by On July 1, 1997, U.S. district court judge Marvin Garbis approved the settlement of a class action suit involving the collection of previously waived indigent court costs. In 1991 the Maryland legislature enacted a Budget Reconciliation Act, 1991 Md. Laws, Ch. 3, § …
Article • October 15, 1998 • from PLN October, 1998
Kansas Prisoners Entitled to Halfway House Credits by The Kansas court of appeals held that prisoners whose halfway house status is revoked are entitled to credit for the time spent in the facility, but are not entitled to credit for time spent on house arrest. Bradley Cordill, a Kansas state …
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