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Detainees Entitled to Non-Punitive Conditions by Pretrial detainees, who have not been convicted of any crimes, may not be punished in any manner. This includes housing them in jail conditions that could be construed as punitive. Dale Miller filed suit over conditions at the Cook County (Chicago) Jail. He claimed …
Pelican Bay Ruling Issued by One prisoner publication hailed it as "A Moral Victory for Prisoners." The headline in a correctional trade magazine proclaimed "State Wins Pelican Bay Suit." Interpreting the 345-page Madrid v. Gomez opinion is difficult at best, and as shown by the contrasting headlines above, a reader's …
Article • August 15, 1995 • from PLN August, 1995
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by Canada: On May 10, 1995, a government panel investigating why more than 11,000 Canadians, most of them hemophiliacs, contracted AIDS and hepatitis in the 1980's, announced that it had traced the illness to blood products made with blood from Arkansas state prisoners, many of whom later …
Article • August 15, 1995 • from PLN August, 1995
From The Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor By Paul Wright Welcome to another issue of PLN. Readers may recall that in the July, 1994, issue we ran an article concerning the suit filed by Ed Mead (PLN's former co-editor) and myself against the Washington state parole board. After …
Brief • August 7, 1995
Uribe v. Riveland, WA, Order, Attorney Fees and Costs, Discrimination Case, 1995 II 2 '- - Pf2: / 2 3 - ... - ........ -'-·:"i!, 4 O' - \ - IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHI~{~_. S " • _.1. IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF THURSTON …
Publication • August 1, 1995
Use of Force Handbook LAPD 1995 j I I ' LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT August 1995 DNC 06884 , TABLE OF CONTENTS Department Policy ............... ......... ... .......... ... 1 Use of Force-Policy 1 Use of Force Options ......... ... ..... .................. . 2 Verbalization 2 Compliance Techniques 5 OC …
Brief • August 1, 1995
Washington v. Reno, KY, Settlement Agreement, Telephone Services in Prison, 1995 Washington v. Reno United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, Lexington Division November 9, 1999, Decided ; November 9, 1999, Filed CIVIL ACTION NO. 93-290 Reporter: 1999 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 22485 CONCHITA WASHINGTON, ET AL., PLAINTIFFS …
Brief • July 26, 1995
Allaway v. Martin, NY, Plaintiff Motion to Compel Discovery, Guard Excessive Force, 1995 UNITED STAI'ES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK CHARLES ALLAWAY, Plaintiff, -againstCorrectional Officers STEPHEN MARTIN, HOWARD PICKMAN, SCOTT DARRAH, JAY SISKAVICH, RONALD BOYSE, and D. DuBREY, Correctional Sergeants HAROLD BOYLE and TIMOTHY MURTHA, Lieutenant BRUCE McCORMICK, …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
Warden Survey Released by On December 21, 1994, Illinois US senator Paul Simon (D) released a survey he had conducted of 157 prison wardens across the country. Simon told a news conference he was releasing the survey because it was time for a "reality check" as congress gears up for …
Books Available: Barred: Women, Writing and Political Detention by Barbara Harlow Barred: Women, Writing and Political Detention, by Barbara Harlow, examines and presents the writings of women political prisoners in Northern Ireland, Palestine, El Salvador, Egypt, South Africa and the United States. The book gives an analysis of the dynamics …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
Who's Treating the Doctor by In September, 1994, the Washington DOC hired James McGuire to work as a psychiatrist at the McNeil Island Corrections Center (MICC). His work involves diagnosing and prescribing drugs to sex offenders, among other prisoners at the facility. This in itself is unremarkable. What is unusual …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
Dismissal for Failure to Amend Complaint Reversed by The court of appeals for the second circuit has held that a pro se prisoner's complaint should not be dismissed for failure to file a clear and concise complaint, failing to comply with the pleading requirements of Federal Civil Procedure and for …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
NJ Sex Offender Registration Ruled On by In 1990 Washington state passed the Community Protection Act which contained provisions requiring that sex offenders register with police and it also allowed law enforcement officials to notify the public of the sex offender's address, criminal history, etc. Since then several other states …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
Private Physician Subject to Section 1983 Liability by Private physicians who show deliberate indifference to prisoners serious medical needs may be sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 even though they are not prison employees. With the increased trend of prison systems contracting out prisoner medical care this fourth circuit decision …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
Confinement Claim Barred by Res Judicata by The May, 1995, issue of PLN reported on Rooding v. Peters. 864 F. Supp. 732 (ND IL 1994) in which the court found unconstitutional an Illinois DOC policy which required prisoners to serve at least 60 days in an IDOC facility, even if …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
No Interlocutory Appeal of Discovery Order by In a sharply worded opinion the eighth circuit court of appeals has described the limited circumstances in which it will entertain an interlocutory appeal from a district courts discovery orders. The case involves Sherman White, an Iowa state prisoner, who filed suit under …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
Filed under: Searches, Drug Testing
MI Drug Patch Testing by A reader submitted a copy of a MDOC memorandum from the acting warden of Egler Prison, in Jackson Michigan, which we quote in full: AThis facility has been selected to participate in a Pilot Study of the PharmChem Sweat Patch as a means for testing …
Helms Amendment Ruled On by In the December, 1994, issue of PLN we analyzed various provisions of the federal crime bill that was passed that year. One of the provisions was the Helms amendment which limited the relief that federal courts could grant in class action suits brought by prisoners …
Article • July 15, 1995 • from PLN July, 1995
Litigation Status Report Available by The National Prison Project of the ACLU has issued its latest, updated status report on state prisons and the courts. The report gives a detailed listing, by state, indicating which prisons and prison systems are under court order or consent decrees to limit their populations …
51 Months for Sex With Prisoners by Suspended Gulf County (Pensacola), FL Sheriff Al Harrison, 52, was found guilty by a federal jury on January 27, 1995, of seven misdemeanor counts of violating the civil rights of five former female prisoners at the Gulf County Jail over a period of …
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