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Disciplinary Hearing Violations Enjoined by A federal district court entered an injunction in a class action suit which challenged the systematic denial of due process in prison disciplinary hearings. Prisoners at the Statevile Correctional Center in Illinois filed a class action suit claiming they were denied due process under a …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by Brazil: On May 28, 1998, 22 prisoners were killed by other prisoners at the Barretto Campelo prison. Designed to hold 400 prisoners, the prison held 1,200 at the time of the incident. Police claim the killings occured as a group of prisoners sought to avenge the …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
The Tough-On-Crime Myth: Real Solutions to Cut Crime by Daniel Burton-Rose American penal reform movements have a long and distinguished history: that of middle-class activists working to check the excesses of the centralized state against the underclass. Some of the reformers had good hearts, some didn't. Either way, they're responsible …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class and Criminal Justice by Daniel Burton-Rose Jeffrey Reiman's book is an excellent antidote to The Real War on Crime and The Tough on Crime Myth. First published in 1979 and now in its fifth revised edition, The Rich Get …
Probable Cause Required for Visitor Body Cavity Search by A federal district court in Utah held that prison officials must have probable cause and a valid search warrant before subjecting a prison visitor to a body cavity search. Stana Laughter is married to a Utah state prisoner. Laughter visited her …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
Proof of Administrative Exhaustion Required by Proof of Administrative Exhaustion Required: A federal district court in California held that prisoners filing suit have to provide proof, at the time of filing, that they have exhausted their administrative remedies pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a). "Before he may properly file an …
Risk of Serious Harm States Claim by A federal district court in New York held that jail officials can be held liable for exposing jail detainees to a significant risk of serious harm, whether or not any injury actually occurs. The court also held that jail conditions intended to be …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
STGMU-tized in New Jersey by T.R. On March 4, 1998, approxmately 170 NJ state prisoners were rounded up by the Special Operation Group (S.O.G.) and Internal Affairs, cameras in hand, and shipped to this [Northern State] prison. We were handed a memo signed by the Assistant Commissioner, Howard Beyers and …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
Prisons Promoting Tourism by Alex Friedmann As states spend an increasing amount of their budgets to expand their prison systems they increasingly seek ways to replenish impoverished state coffers. One major source of revenue is tourism, and some states are well-known for their tourist attractions -- such as Disneyworld and …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
Sentence Runs During Wrongful Release by The Arizona supreme court held that when a prisoner is incorrectly released before his sentence expires the sentence continues to run and the offender is entitled to any good time credits he would have accrued had he remained in custody. The court also held …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
Racism in the Ranks by Willie Wisely By W. Wisely Agroup of prison guards at the California Institute for Men, in Chino, call themselves SPONGE, an acronym for the "Society for the Prevention of Niggers Getting Everything." In Wasco prison, a guard wears a sheet over his head while working …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
TDCJ PLRA Forms Okay by TDCJ PLRA Forms Okay: The court of appeals for the fifth circuit denied a prisoner's motion to proceed on appeal with IFP status because he refused to fill out a Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) form authorizing withdrawals from his prison trust account to …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
The Real War on Crime: The Report of the National Criminal Justice Commission (Book Review) by Daniel Burton-Rose by Steven R. Donziger, Editor Harper Perennial, 1996, $15.00 by Daniel Burton-Rose The Tough-On-Crime Myth: Real Solutions to Cut Crime, by Peter T. Elikann Insight Books, 1996, $24.95 The Rich Get Richer …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
Consent Decree Termination Upheld by Consent Decree Termination Upheld: In the April, 1997, issue of PLN we reported Hadix v. Johnson , 947 F. Supp. 1100 (ED MI 1997) where a district court struck down 18 U.S.C. § 3626 as unconstitutional. Section 3626 allows for the immediate termination of consent …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
Convict Mine Labor in the Information Age by Dan Pens One hundred years ago the U.S. economy was in the heyday of its Industrial Age. Steel was king. Railroads, machine tools, heavy manu- facturing. All fueled by coal. Some of that coal was hacked out of the earth by companies …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
A Zoo Within a Prison by On April 18, 1998, a fleet of buses, trucks, and police cruisers rolled up to the SCC's subterranean asylum. It was moving day. Washington sex offenders have continually been snared by the civil commitment process since 1990. Because only one has been deemed "cured" …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
CA Tort Claim Not Required for Administrative Exhaustion by CA Tort Claim Not Required for Administrative Exhaustion: A federal district court in California held that it is not necessary for CDC prisoners to submit a California Tort Claims Act (CTCA) complaint to the state Board of Control before filing suit …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
CBCC Warden Fired in Telemarketing Hoopla by As part of the CBCC shake up that occurred over publicity of prisoner Parker Stanphil sending holiday cards to women whose addresses he obtained while employed at his Correctional Industries telemar-keting job, Clallam Bay Corrections Center (CBCC) superintendent Robert Wright was fired. In …
CCA Sells Self; Wackenhut Creates REIT by In July 1997 the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) spun off a related company, the Prison Reality Trust, which was formed to purchase CCA's prisons under a lease-back arrangement [ PLN Dec. 97]. Prison Realty is a real estate investment trust, or REIT, …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
Cheaper to Exile Prisoners? by Dan Pens The state of Connecticut closed its Northeast Correctional Institution (NCI) in July 1997 in a budget-cutting move. Just seven months later, state legislators called for the governor to reopen NCI because of overcrowding in the state's other prisons. But the administration of Gov. …
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