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Retaliatory Threats Illegal by Leon Burgess is a Missouri state prisoner. Burgess disrupted a prison disciplinary hearing and guards responded by holding him down, while he was handcuffed, as another guard tried to force a towel into his mouth. When that failed the guard wrapped the towel around Burgess neck …
DA Liable for Preventing Court Appearance by Tobin Lemmons is an Oklahoma state prisoner. While in jail he filed a workers compensation complaint against his former employers with the aid of an attorney and law firm he hired for this purpose. On two occasions in 1991 the state judge before …
Court Clerk Suable by Don Curry is an Illinois state prisoner who was convicted of sexual assault in 1990. He filed a notice of appeal in the county court. Illinois law requires, upon receipt of a notice of appeal, that the circuit court clerk prepare and deliver a copy of …
Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
TDCJ Grows & Grows by The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) had a 1994 budget of $1.84 million dollars. According to the Texas Comptroller that is slated to grow to $3 billion by the year 2000. Texas currently has an incarceration rate of 553 per 100,000 (the highest in …
Harassing Searches State Claim by Alnoraindus Burton is an Illinois state prisoner. He filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claiming that after he filed administrative grievances against prison guards who used racist slurs against him he was subjected to a widespread campaign of harassment and retaliation by the guards. …
PI Granted to Satanist by Robert Howard is a federal prisoner at FCI Englewood in Littleton, CO. He is also a Satanist. Howard made several requests to prison officials seeking to practice satanic rituals. Prison officials denied his requests and Howard filed suit claiming that the denial of his requests …
Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
Filed under: Media, Access to Media
Silencing the Oppressed: No Freedom of Speech for Those Behind the Walls by Ronald Kuby by Ronald Kuby and William Kunstler Introduction On any given day in America, more than a million and a half people[1], in prisons and jails[2] spend their days subjected to the most rigorous censorship, denied …
Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
WY Trailer Visits Taken by Wyoming penitentiary warden, Duane Shillinger, issued a memorandum to "All Inmates" notifying them that the "Family Visiting Center" would be closed effective April 1, 1995. The warden said he regrets making this difficult decision. The reasons stated in the memo for terminating the trailer visit …
Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
S&L Looters Do less Time than Petty Thieves by Paul Wright S&L Looters Do Less Time than Petty Thieves by Paul Wright Fraud in the Savings and Loan Industry: White Collar Crime and Government Response was written by University of California, Irvine, criminology professor Henry Pontell and associate professor Kitty …
Prison Worker Compensation Law No Bar to Bivens by Loren Bagola is a federal prisoner. He filed a Bivens suit against Bureau of Prisons (BOP) officials claiming that he lost his right hand when he was forced to operate prison machinery that officials knew to be unsafe. He claimed that …
Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
Prisoners With Children by The Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents [CCIP] was created to produce documentation on and demonstrate model services for these special children and their families. CCIP has four components which include 17 individual projects. The Information Component conducts research, provides technical assistance and produces publications. One …
Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
Prisoners as NAFTA Export? by Worried about the cost of California's new Three Strikes And You're In Law--recently made a constitutional amendment by the success of Prop 184? Some say it will bankrupt California as we convert the State into a 21st Century Gulag. The voters pamphlet conservatively predicted that …
Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
BOP Set to Stun Prisoners by A Bureau of Prisons (BOP) reader sent us a photocopied BOP Policy Statement (P.S. 5558.10) dated September 30, 1994. The policy statement authorizes the BOP to force "maximum custody inmates" to wear what it describes as a "Remote Electronically ACtivated Technology (REACT) Stun Belt" …
Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
Filed under: Visiting
IL Visiting Rules Create Liberty Interest by Prisoners have no constitutional right to visit, thus any such right which can be enforced in court must be created by the state. In the March, 1994, issue of we gave an ample discussion to visiting rights and privileges with numerous case citations. …
Harsher Prison Measures Opposed: "Family Values" Stop Here by Davis Oldham By Dan Tennenbaum and Davis Oldham Seattle WA -- On March 20th, about 30 people braved a heavy downpour and strong winds to demonstrate against state Republican efforts to curtail prisoner rights. Friends and family members of prisoners, as …
Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
MS Prison Rights Litigator Threatened by Julio Wicks is a pro se litigator who has been struggling for years to improve conditions at Mississippis Parchman Penitentiary, which he characterizes as a "Plantation." As he puts it, "There are 8,000 Black slaves [of a total prison population of 10,000] on this …
Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
Ohio Activist Needs Help by John Perotti Readers of this paper will recall my article "Spilt Milk", detailing human rights abuses at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (Luke) located in Lucasville, OH and how I was set up in retaliation for witnessing the beating of an inmate and writing about …
Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
Editorial by Dan Pens by Dan Pens Welcome to the special 28-page 5th anniversary issue of PLN. With this issue we begin our sixth year of continuous publishing. Our first issue was ten pages, typewritten, photocopied and mailed 1st class to 75 readers. A lot has happened over five years. …
Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
WA Civil Commitment Sham by In 1989 Washington State passed a controversial "Sex Predator Law" (RCW 71.09) to allow for the "civil commitment" (indefinite incarceration) of "dangerous sexual predators." The law allows the state to file commitment papers on prisoners who have completed their maximum terms of incarceration and are …
Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
NC DNA Testing Statute Upheld by Past issues of PLN have reported on the legal and political issues involved in DNA testing. Several states and the federal government have passed laws in the last five years which mandate the taking of blood from prisoners in order to compile a DNA …
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