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Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
IL DOC Confinement Policy Illegal by The director of the Illinois DOC (IDOC) has promulgated a regulation under which all prisoners that it receives must be held for at least 60 days before they are released. Ronald Rooding was convicted and sentenced to one year in jail. After deducting good …
Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
FL Ends Early Release by On December 9, 1994, Florida Governor Lawton Chiles announced that the state was ending its gain time program. The program was instituted in 1987 by then Governor Bob Martinez (R) to comply with a federal court order designed to limit Floridas extreme prison overcrowding. Under …
Article • April 15, 1995 • from PLN April, 1995
VA Parole and Good Time Laws Don't Create Liberty Interest by Orillion James is a Virginia state prisoner who filed suit seeking money damages and an injunction ordering prison officials to expunge his records of false educational information that hindered his ability to be paroled. The records in question claim …
Article • March 15, 1995 • from PLN March, 1995
Filed under: Sentencing, Good Time
BOP Good Time Ploy Exposed by Over the years has repeatedly gotten inquiries from readers in the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) inquiring about rumors that the amount of statutory good time they were eligible to earn under the new sentencing guidelines would be increased from 56 days a year …
OK Prisoners Have Disciplinary Hearing Remedy by In the May, 1994, issue of PLN we reported Waldon v. Evans, 861 P.2d 311 (Okl. Cr. 1993) which held that Oklahoma state courts could hear prisoners challenges claiming due process violations in prison disciplinary hearings. In a new ruling, the Oklahoma Court …
AZ Passes Repressive Prison Laws by As part of the national trend towards bashing prisoners the 41st session of the Arizona legislature recently passed a number of repressive laws designed to make life harder for prisoners as well as restrict their access to the courts. The laws went into effect …
Article • January 15, 1995 • from PLN January, 1995
OK Early Release Law Legal by In response to prison overcrowding, the Oklahoma state legislature has passed the Oklahoma Prison Overcrowding Emergency Powers Act, Oklahoma Statute 57, § 570-576. The act permits the prison system to release prisoners with less than medium custody convicted of lesser crimes in order to …
Article • January 15, 1995 • from PLN January, 1995
CT's "Gang Problem" by William Dwyer CT's "Gang Problem" The RICO concept of guilt by association has recently moved from the statute books and has now made its appearance into prison management. Within the past year or so Connecticuts Department of Corrections adopted a gang management policy. The policy designates …
Federal Crime Bill Passes by Paul Wright By Paul Wright In the October and November, 1993, issues of PLN, I wrote articles about the "anti-crime" proposals that had been submitted in the US Congress by democrats and republicans, respectively. I predicted then the most repressive aspects of both proposals would …
Prisoners Have Right to Prompt Sentence Computation by David Plumb is an Oregon state prisoner. He filed suit under § 1983 claiming that his right to due process under the fourteenth amendment and his right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment under the eighth amendment were violated by …
WA Prisoners Must Exhaust State Remedies by John Dewyer is a Washington state prisoner. He is serving a determinate, SRA sentence. At a prison disciplinary hearing he was found guilty of an unspecified offense and sanctioned by 15 days of segregation and 30 days loss of good time, the latter …
Infraction No Double Jeopardy Bar by Gene Newby and Raynaldo Barber were federal prisoners convicted in US District Court of assaulting and interfering with BOP guards. Prior to being criminally convicted they had been infracted and found guilty, in a prison disciplinary hearing, of the same charges. As a result …
Article • June 15, 1994 • from PLN June, 1994
No Court Review of Work Credit Denial by Daniel Waletzki is a federal prisoner. While imprisoned at the US Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, he worked in the kitchen. Prison officials refused to award him good time credits for meritorious job performance which would have reduced his sentence. The statute …
Article • May 15, 1994 • from PLN May, 1994
Filed under: Sentencing, Good Time, Parole
ISRB Must Follow Own Rules by Charles Cashaw was a Washington state prisoner. He filed a Personal Restraint Petition (PRP, a state habeas petition) challenging the actions of the Indeterminate Sentence Review Board (ISRB) in setting a minimum prison term to coincide with his court imposed maximum sentence. The court …
Article • May 15, 1994 • from PLN May, 1994
OK State Courts Can Hear Prison Suits by Dennis Waldon is an Oklahoma state prisoner. He was infracted and punished in a prison disciplinary hearing resulting in the loss of one hundred days of good time credits. Waldon filed a writ of habeas corpus and/or mandamus in the Alfalfa County …
Article • May 15, 1994 • from PLN May, 1994
FL Reforms Sentencing Law by Florida has built 10,729 new prison beds in the past five years yet has been unable to keep up with its growing prison population. In May of 1993 the Florida legislature passed the Safe Streets Initiative which has the goal of reducing prison overcrowding to …
BOP Liable for Recalculating Sentence by Kent Alexander is a former federal prisoner. In 1986 he was released after serving a three year federal sentence. Eighty days later he was arrested for "violation of parole" and placed in FCI Tucson. The prison administrative systems manager, Luis Rivera, told Alexander that …
Article • November 15, 1993 • from PLN November, 1993
No Right to Forfeit Goodtime by Helen Woodson was a federal prisoner serving twelve years on four counts of destroying government property arising out of protests at ICBM missile sites. She is a member of the Plowshares, a Christian group that takes literally the bible's command to beat swords into …
Prison Officials Liable for Holding Inmate Past Release Date by Gentry Slone is a Missouri state prisoner. He was sentenced to prison and once in prison his sentencing judge suspended Slone's sentence, effective December 21, 1989, and placed him on probation. The state did not appeal the judges order which …
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
Filed under: Sentencing, Good Time, Parole
Maxed Out Washington Cons Have Right to Earn Good Time by This is a case that will only be of interest to prisoners in Washington state, as our system of issuing good time credits is probably the strangest in the nation. This case deals with a Washington state prisoner who …
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