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Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998
Florida Finally Learns the Meaning of Ex Post Facto by In a one paragraph memorandum opinion the Supreme Court of Florida held that the retroactive cancellation of provisional credits, previously awarded pursuant to statute, violates the ex post facto restrictions of the state and federal constitutions. As a result of …
Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by CA : On January 8, 1998, Lancaster state prison guard Elizabeth Begaren was shot and killed by four men while driving on a freeway. The assailants chased Bergaren's vehicle and forced it to stop on an on ramp in Anaheim where she was shot in front …
Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
Book Reviews by Paul Ortiz Profits First! Convict Labor in America Alex Lichtenstein, Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South (London and New York: Verso, 1996). Matthew J. Mancini, One Dies Get Another: Convict Leasing in the American South (Columbia S.C.: …
Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
Profits First! Convict Labor in America, book: Worse than Slavery, D. Oshinsky by Paul Ortiz In Worse than Slavery, David Oshinsky writes about a world of forced toil with which we are more familiar: the great agricultural slave labor camp of Parchman Farm in the Mississippi Delta. Actually, Oshinsky's canvas …
Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
Profits First! Convict Labor in America, book: Twice the Work of Free Labor (Book Review) by Paul Ortiz A. Lichtenstein The United States, in the throes of a vicious social war against the poor, is poised on the brink of dismantling New Deal legislative prohibitions such as the Ashurst-Sumners Act …
Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998
Prior Dismissals Count as Strikes by The court of appeals for the third and ninth circuits joined the fifth, seventh and tenth circuits in holding that 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g) applies to cases dismissed before the PLRA's April 26, 1996, enactment. Section 1915(g) prohibits prisoners from proceeding with in forma …
Prison Disciplinary Proceedings Cognizable Under § 1983 in Florida by Prison Disciplinary Proceedings Cognizable Under § 1983 In Florida AFlorida state appellate court held that a denial of staff assistance, documentary evidence, and witness testimony in a prison disciplinary hearing states a due process claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, …
Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
Prison Jobs and Free World Unemployment by Adrian Lomax In May, 1996, the Fabry Glove & Mitten Company opened a production facility in Wisconsin's Green Bay Correctional Institution. The company hired 70 prisoners as laborers, later adding 30 more. The prisoners, who operate cutting and sewing machines, earn $5.25 per …
Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998
Prison Phones Discussed by As more and more prison systems use automated phone systems that automatically record and monitor conversations there are increased questions about the legality of such systems. This ruling arose from an indirect challenge to the Massachusetts Inmate Telephone System (MITS). The MITS requires prisoners to obtain …
Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998
Tenth Cir. Upholds IFP Provisions by The court of appeals for the tenth circuit held that the PLRA's IFP provisions, requiring full payment of all filing fees, were constitutional. All circuit courts to consider the issue have held likewise. The court also upheld the censorship of the magazine Muhammad Speaks …
Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998
Filed under: Prison Labor, Organizing
Texas Prison Labor Union by The Texas Prison Labor Union (TPLU) was established in 1995 by Texas prisoners and outside supporters. The state had just completed a $1.5 billion prison expansion program, and it now incarcerates close to 150,000 prisoners in a vast network of more than 100 prisons. One-hundred …
Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998
AZ Prisoners Have Right to Attend Paternity Hearings by An Arizona state court of appeals held that Arizona prisoners have a right to attend paternity hearings in person or telephonically. Lenny Valentine, an Arizona state prisoner, had a paternity judgment entered against him. A hearing to establish a child support …
Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998
Bad Faith Appeals by The court of appeals for the District of Columbia circuit held that 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(3) precludes prisoners from appealing without full prepayment of the filing fees if the district court certifies that the appeal is not taken in good faith. The issue was one of …
Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998
$60,000 Judgement Against Florida DOC Reinstated by James Quigley A Florida appellate court reversed a trial court order setting aside a jury verdict against the Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) and granting the DOC a new trial. The court directed the lower tribunal to reinstate the jury award of $60,000 …
Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998
Alaska Classification Subject to Court Review by The supreme court of Alaska held that prison classification hearings are adjudicatory determinations subject to judicial review and that Alaska prisoners have a state constitutional right to rehabilitation. Richard Brandon is an Alaska state prisoner transferred to a privately run prison in Florence, …
Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
WA County Launches Slave Labor Center by Construction crews were hard at work in February, l998, pounding nails, framing walls and stirring Spackle to remodel a building adjacent to the Whatcom County (WA) Courthouse. Pictured on the front page of the Bellingham Herald , they looked like any typical hard-working …
Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998
Filed under: Organizing, Work Strikes, Parole
Work Strike Suppressed and Sabotaged in Ohio by Daniel Burton-Rose The October 16th, 1997, issue of the Cleveland black community newspaper The Call and Post printed a letter announcing a statewide work strike by Ohio prisoners on November 1st. The letter was signed by Prisoners United For Equal Justice. The …
Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998
Unicor Steals Glove Business From Private Firms by The Genco Corporation of Tennessee is among 10 private firms that have contracts with the Defense Department to manufacture gloves for the U.S. military. Suppliers of military gloves are not a happy lot these days, though. Complaining loudly of unfair competition, the …
Union Reverses Position on Private Prisons by Last May, when a bill was introduced in the Tennessee legislature to privatize the state's entire corrections system, the private prison industry achieved a major coup by winning the support of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, a 1.3 million-member …
Article • May 15, 1998 • from PLN May, 1998
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
Slaves-R-Us Corporate Partners Wanted by [The following "Marketing Focus" fax from the Oregon Department of Corrections found its way to PLN , the full text of which is reproduced here.] Prime land, buildings, and labor available to nursery industry. Nursery products-related individuals and business interested in expanding operations through public-private …
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