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Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
Bureau of Prisons Estopped from Denying Sentence Reduction by A federal district court in Colorado granted a habeas corpus petition reducing a federal prisoner's sentence by one year for successfully completing a drug treatment program. The court held the BOP was estopped from denying the sentence reduction having initially granted …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
$22,500 to Seattle WA Jail Brutality Suit by The King County (Seattle) jail in Washington settled a brutality suit on January 26, 1998, by paying a former jail prisoner $22,500. Lonnie Burton was a prisoner in the King County jail when he alleged he was attacked without provocation by jail …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
Filed under: Visiting
WA DOC Investigators Can't Detain Visitors: Drugs Suppressed by Astate appeals court in Washington held that prison investigators lack the authority to detain and question visitors, therefore any drugs found after a search had to be suppressed. William Dane, a Washington state prisoner at the Clallam Bay Correction Center (CBCC) …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
WA Prison Telemarketing Elicits Controversy - Again by Paul Wright In December 1997 and January 1998, statewide media attention spotlighted a "shocking" prison tele- marketing partnership between the Washington state Parks and Recreation Department and the Department of Corrections (DOC) Correctional Industries (CI). For two years prisoners at Clallam Bay …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
U.S. Supreme Court Clarifies § 1983 Claims by David C Fathi John Midgley and David C. Fathi Recently, the United States Supreme Court has made it difficult for prisoners to successfully file claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that "necessarily imply" the invalidity of a conviction or a decision that …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
WI Predator-Law Poster Boy Gets Released by On Halloween, 1973, nine-year-old Lisa French disappeared while trick-or-treating in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Gerald Turner, a neighbor and friend of the French family, was ultimately convicted of abducting, raping and murdering the girl. Dubbed the Halloween Killer, Turner languished in the maxi- …
Through the Civil Commitment Looking Glass by Tamara Menteer If the object or purpose of the Kansas [civil commitment] law had been to provide treatment but treatment were adopted as a sham or mere pretext, there would have been an indication of the forbidden purpose to punish . -- Justice …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
WI Guard Settles Discrimination Suit for $105,000 by Ablack prison guard who filed a discrimination suit against the Wisconsin Department of Corrections agreed to a $105,000 settlement in December, 1997, shortly after a U.S. district court judge ruled the case would go to trial. An unusual term of the settlement …
Union County, NJ, Jail Guards Convicted by In June, 1995, twenty-five political asylum seekers were hauled in chains from a federal INS Detention Center in Elizabeth, NJ, to the nearby Union County Jail. The 25 immigrant detainees many of whom are refugees who escaped religious and political persecution in their …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
Jericho: Thoughts From Political Prisoners in Leavenworth by Jaan Laaman JERICHO 98 -- as many people already know and we hope many more soon will know, is the nationwide March 27th rally in Washington DC, calling for the recognition and release of all political prisoners in America. Here are some …
Article • August 15, 1998 • from PLN August, 1998
From the Editor by Dan Pens Greetings and welcome to the 100th consecutive monthly publication of PLN . Who knew when Paul Wright and Ed Mead put out the first rough and tumble issue of PLN in May 1990, that it would flourish and prosper for 100 months? Certainly not …
Brief • August 10, 1998
Austin v. Hopper, AL, Judgment, Chain-Gang Claim, 1998 IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE .... MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA , MICHAEL A. AUSTIN, RICHARD ELLIOT, OGlE LEE HAYES, CHARLES ORLANDER GUESS, WARREN LEATHERWOOD, and KERVIN GOODWIN, Plaintiffs, v. Defendant. oJ . '" _ •• ) ) …
Louima v. New York, NY, Complaint, Police Brutality, 1998 _....... . Case ". 1:98-cv-05083-SJ-CLP Document 1 Filed 08/06/98 Page 1 of 40 PageID #: 391 tr-- ... . lJNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK .: : n~ 1, rl C r :"' ·~ I _u '- 2 …
Brief • August 3, 1998
Harris v. District of Columbia, DC, Complaint, Youth Center Attack, 1998 - ............ 'c( . Ji i'"'"'. 'I {j 1•. / i, to "", :\J ;' " '. l SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Civil Division ~.~ :"'»-" ' ' ],0'1 .:;,..., ..ty"' •• : 1 ROY DARYL …
Brief • August 1, 1998
Golitko v. Cohn, IN, Indigence Affidavit Appeal, 1998 STATE OF INDIANA COUNTY OF MARION ) )ss: ) JOHN GOLITKO, et al., Plaintiffs, v. INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION, et al., Defendants. IN THE MARION CIRCUIT COURT CAUSE NO. 49C01-9711-CP-2717 ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) MOTION TO …
Brief • July 17, 1998
Dickens County v. US Attorney General, TX, Judgment and Order, AG's Certification Process, 1998 08/21/98 09:22 JUL 20 ' 9 6 !• " O_ F•••' IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT •.-.: ?qFOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS LUBBOCK DIVISION BRG OF DICKENS COUNTY, INC., •....-. ¿ ; ¡ (¦Q\jRt …
No Interlocutory Appeals in Decree Terminations by The court of appeals for the Sixth circuit held that it lacks jurisdiction to hear interlocutory appeals in motions to terminate consent decrees. In 1984 the United States sued the state of Michigan over unconstitutional prison conditions. The lawsuit was settled with a …
New Mexico S.Ct Grants Asylum to Little Rock Reed by Timothy Reed, better known as Little Rock Reed, fled from Ohio parole authorities in 1993, ending up in new Mexico. Ohio filed extradition papers with New Mexico authorities, expecting Reed to be apprehended and returned to their custody. The New …
Pennsylvania Consent Decree Clarified by Afederal district court in Pennsylvania held that a consent decree was applicable only to prisoners confined to six prisons named therein. The court further held that violations of the decree could be considered by the court in contempt proceedings. However, the court would only entertain …
Article • July 15, 1998 • from PLN July, 1998
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
Letter of Apology from TCI by Reader Mail Dear PLN , We are aware of the difficulties our customers have had over the past several months in attempting to obtain service from us. Demand has been so great that, because of being underfunded and understaffed, we were not able to …
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