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Article • May 15, 1996 • from PLN May, 1996
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by Greece: After a 12 day uprising at a 150-man maximum security prison in Corfu, 44 prisoners escaped by digging out of the prison on March 9, 1996. Sixteen were recaptured within a few hours of the escape. The uprising was part of a protest by Greek …
Texas Grooming Code May Violate RFRA by The court of appeals for the fifth circuit held that a district court erred in dismissing a Texas prisoner's claim that prison grooming regulations, requiring that prisoners be clean shaven and have short hair, violated his rights under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act …
Article • May 15, 1996 • from PLN May, 1996
From the Editor by Paul Wright This issue marks PLN's sixth year of publishing and 72 consecutive issues. For anyone familiar with alternative publications in general and prison publications in particular this is a significant milestone. Ed Mead and I started PLN on a trial basis in 1990, we decided …
Article • May 15, 1996 • from PLN May, 1996
A Doctor in Prison by D.C. I was dismayed by the article on page six of the November '95 PLN about the WA Doctor Scandal. I am a board certified family physician who is doing two five-year hits for third degree sexual assault of two female patients. I hope when …
Brief • May 7, 1996
Martin v. Pataki, NY, Order, Green Haven Correctional Facility Photographs PO, 1996 09/04/03 THU 17:19 FAX 212 450 5588 DPW 28-60 141010 ···: .·· .:( GEORGE E. PATAKI, GOVERNOR NEW YORK STATE, PHILIP COOMBE, JR., ACTING COMMISSIONER OF NEW YORK STATES DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICE, RONALD F. NELSON, DEPUTY SUPERIN­ …
Brief • April 25, 1996
Van Wijk v. State of Washington, WA, Complaint, Negligence Rape Victim, 1996 RECE1"l.ED - 1 '" I<ir.g CCiur~,. SUQ'lrior C~I.n C:tllk's Office -. ' - ... . , 2 Cl ARLES V. JOHNSGi·~ . APR 2, 5 1996 ' 3 ~~;"i-. ~~'":",,, .." ..\:",,, r... Q~.,,·l·;~ .'-i', IN THE SUPERIOR …
Article • April 15, 1996 • from PLN April, 1996
Parole Change Violates Ex Post Facto Clause by In the July, 1995, issue of PLN we reported the supreme court's ruling in Morales v. California Department of Correction, 115 S.Ct. 1597 (1995) which held that legislatively extending the time in which a prisoner can appear before a parole board does …
Damn Lies and Statistics by Most PLN readers are well aware of the conservative PR campaign designed to convince legislators and the voting public that the courts are threatened with drowning in a deluge of prisoner-initiated litigation. The National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) has developed model legislation designed to …
Article • April 15, 1996 • from PLN April, 1996
Racist Guards at Florida Prison by Dan Pens Rarely do you find reports of racist actions of prison guards in the mainstream press. Most editors wouldn't consider it news for white prison guards to display racial hatred towards their black captives. Ho-hum. But the Palm Beach Post featured several lengthy …
Grievance Discipline Struck Down by The court of appeals for the ninth circuit affirmed a lower court ruling that found Oregon DOC rules that punished prisoners for using hostile, sexual, abusive or threatening language in their written grievances to be unconstitutional. Jeff Bradley, an Oregon state prisoner, was infracted for …
Article • April 15, 1996 • from PLN April, 1996
Fourth Circuit Rules on IFP Statute, Again by In the July, 1995, issue of PLN we reported Nasim v. Warden, Maryland House of Correction, 42 F.3d 1472 (4th Cir. 1995) in which the fourth circuit court of appeals reversed a district court's dismissal of a prisoners' § 1983 suit as …
Article • April 15, 1996 • from PLN April, 1996
Iowa Supreme Court: Hearing Required Before Prisoner Funds Seized by The Iowa state supreme court has held that prisoners must be afforded a hearing before prison officials seize funds sent to the prisoner from outside sources in order to pay court ordered restitution. In 1982 Jerry Ashburn was convicted of …
Article • April 15, 1996 • from PLN April, 1996
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
The Keepers and the Caged: Heroes and Necromancers in the Prison System Today (Book Review) by Michael Spencer by Jean Marie Christenson; Kendall/Hunt Publishing 241 pages. $14.95 The Keepers and the Caged is a compilation of 21 personal interviews conducted by the author with Washington State prisoners, prison administrators, and …
Article • April 15, 1996 • from PLN April, 1996
Not All Prisoner Lawsuits Are Frivolous by Jon O Newman by Chief Judge Jon O. Newman, Second Circuit Court of Appeals [Editor's Note: The following article is reprinted from the January, 1996, issue of The Corrections Professional. Judge Newman is the chief judge of the U.S. Second Circuit Court of …
Disciplinary Findings Must State Evidence Relied On by A federal district court in Illinois held that a disciplinary committee's report finding a prisoner guilty of misconduct must state the charges the prisoner was found guilty of and the evidence supporting each of the charges. Alvin Oswalt, an Illinois state prisoner, …
Administrative Reversal of Disciplinary Sanction Doesn't Bar Suit by Afederal district court in New York held that the administrative reversal of a disciplinary sanction does not bar a § 1983 suit for money damages if the prisoner had already been punished with all or part of the sanction prior to …
Article • April 15, 1996 • from PLN April, 1996
Michigan Consent Decree Not Changed by It seems that not a year goes by where PLN does not report at least two or three rulings concerning the ongoing effort by the Michigan DOC to vacate the various consent decrees it entered into with prisoners to settle various conditions lawsuits in …
Article • April 15, 1996 • from PLN April, 1996
Georgia Prisons Enter Dark Ages by According to a PLN reader in Georgia, "Our ex-[Prisons] Commissioner, Dr. Allen Ault, got into a battle with Zig-Zag Zell Miller [Georgia's Governor]. Miller ordered him to cut-off TV's and phones during the day, cut the phone time to 10-minutes per call, and take …
Article • April 15, 1996 • from PLN April, 1996
Seventh Circuit Decides "Mail Box" Rule by In a case of first impression in that circuit, the court of appeals for the seventh circuit ruled that a prisoner's pleadings are considered "filed" with the court when they are given to prison officials for mailing. The case involves an Illinois state …
Article • April 15, 1996 • from PLN April, 1996
Pelican Bay Psychiatrists Resign in Protest by In the August '95 issue of PLN we reported Madrid v. Gomez, the suit challenging conditions at the Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, CA. Federal district court judge, Thelton Henderson, ordered the California Department of Corrections (CDC) to implement significant improvements …
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