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Alaska Prisoners in Exile by Anthony Brown I would like to respond to a News in Brief segment of your February 1995 issue of PLN concerning the shipment of Alaska state prisoners to the Penal Detention Center [a private prison operated by the Corrections Corporation of America] in Florence, AZ, …
WSR Prisoner Murdered by Neglect by On December 12, 1994, Stanley Watson died of a heart attack at the Washington State Reformatory (WSR) in Monroe, WA. While heart attacks do happen and can be fatal Watson's death could have been easily prevented, so easily that his death amounts to negligent …
Time Barred Dismissal Reversed by The court of appeals for the tenth circuit has held that a district court erred when it dismissed a prisoner's suit as being time barred when it was not clear from the face of the complaint if the applicable time limits had been tolled. David …
Lethal Gas Execution Cruel and Unusual by Dale Gardner Derek Humphry, President of the Hemlock Society, and Judge Marilyn Hall Patel have differing views on the virtues of inhaling lethal gas. Humphry, in his how-to-suicide-it manual Final Exit, recommends the use of potassium cyanide as a quick and "humane", although …
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
CA Prisoners Riot by On July 7, 1995, more than 250 prisoners at the Sierra Conservation Center (SCC), near Jamestown, CA, engaged in a brawl and riot at the 5,900 bed minimum security prison. The fight took place in the yard and housing units between white and Latino prisoners and …
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
Standard for Gender Discrimination Clarified by The court of appeals for the eighth circuit has held that heightened judicial scrutiny may be appropriate in equal protection claims brought by female prisoners. This ruling will be of special interest to female prisoners. Women prisoners in Iowa filed a class action suit …
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
Detainees Entitled to Hygiene Items by A district court in Illinois has held that pretrial detainees are entitled to clean linen and clothes on a regular basis as well as adequate ventilation, medical treatment and food. The court begins its ruling with a quote by Dr. Karl Menninger who described …
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
IN Passes Excrement Law by Senate Enrolled Act #56, which went into effect on July 1, 1995, added a new section to the Indiana Criminal Code which makes it a crime to "knowingly or intentionally in a rude, insolent, or angry manner place blood or another body fluid or waste …
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
Judge gets Insight on Jail Reform by Sol Wachtler was the former chief judge of New York state's highest court until he was convicted in 1993 of terrorizing, stalking and harassing his ex-lover, socialite Joy Silverman, after she broke off their affair. At one point Wachtler threatened to kidnap Silverman's …
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
Feeding at the Trough by The highest paid state employee in California isn't the governor, it is Darryl Andrade, a DOC lieutenant at the Avenal State Prison who earned gross wages of $108,989 in 1994. Andrade was one of 702 California prison guards, sergeants and lieutenants who made more than …
Double Jeopardy in Prison Not Clear by In the Oct. `95 issue of PLN we re ported Massachusetts v. Forte, an unpublished state court ruling dismissing a criminal indictment because the prisoner had previously been subjected to disciplinary action by prison officials. As a result, the trial court dismissed the …
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
Surveys by - Prisoners Convicted by Drugging is conducting a survey to determine the number of criminal defendants who have gone to trial or been tried while they were under the influence of psychotropic drugs. Anyone desiring a questionnaire should write: B. Buechler, 825 Battery St. 1st Fl. San Francisco, …
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
Filed under: Classification, Furloughs
TX Abolishes Furloughs by The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) administratively abolished furloughs for prisoners on July 1, 1995. In doing so it acted three months before a recently enacted state law eliminated all the furloughs, effective September 1, 1995. Under the state law only emergency furloughs are allowed. …
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
Filed under: Work, Prison Labor, Chain Gangs
AL Adds Rock Breaking to its Repertoire by Recent issues of PLN have re ported on plans by the Alabama Department of Corrections to dress alleged exhibitionist prisoners in hot pink outfits, to reinstitute chain gangs and to chain those prisoners who refuse to work on the chain gangs to …
Prisoners Entitled to Safe Jail by The eleventh circuit court of appeals has reaffirmed that county officials can be held liable for failing to protect jail detainees from violence by other detainees. In 1990 Larry Hale was held in the Tallapoosa County Jail in Alabama after failing to appear in …
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
New Statewide Data Show Prison Rape a Widespread Problem by Over a fifth of male prisoners are sexually victimized behind bars according to a newly released survey of an entire state's prison system. A summary of results from the spring, 1994 survey, which covered all four Nebraska prisons and was …
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
Billing Prisoners for Medical Care Blocks Access by Kara Chayriques by Mark Lopez and Kara Chayriques In 1976, the Supreme Court established in Estelle v. Gamble, 429 U.S. 97 (1976), that the government has an obligation to provide medical care for prisoners. This fundamental premise has been upheld in subsequent …
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
Filed under: Family, Fathers in Prison
Old Friends Only by Adrian Lomax The public pays $25,000 a year to keep each of Wisconsin's 9,500 adult prisoners locked away. Part of what society expects to get for that considerable investment is prisoners who are changed for the better by the time they get out. One of the …
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
AZ Guards Rob and Kill by On February 16, 1995, police ar rested a retired cop and three Arizona prison guards in the robbery of an armored car and the killing of a Wells Fargo driver. On November 28, 1994, an armored car was hijacked and robbed with between $200,000 …
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
WA Doctor Fit Only for Prisoners by In the July, 1995, issue of PLN we reported the disciplinary charges filed against Dr. James McGuire, the psychologist at the McNeil Island Corrections Center (MICC) in WA. While practicing as a psychiatrist in Alaska McGuire entered into a sexual relationship with one …
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