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Police Report Inadmissible in Rape Case by William Miller is a Michigan state prisoner. He filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claiming that he was subjected to cruel and unusual punishment when a prison supervisor and two guards were informed he was in danger, did nothing to protect him …
Article • March 15, 1995 • from PLN March, 1995
Filed under: Work, Prison Industries
Ohio Offshore Industries Project by Dan Cahill In the state governments effort to market prisoners as cheap labor it has unveiled the Ohio Offshore Industries Project. This marketing campaign offers companies a vast pool of cheap prison labor as an attractive alternative to foreign based production. Companies have been moving …
Article • March 15, 1995 • from PLN March, 1995
Filed under: Family, Marriage
MI DOC Visitor Ban Overturned by Randy Kelley is a Michigan state prisoner who was infracted and found guilty by a prison disciplinary board of sexual misconduct, namely, cupping his hands over his wifes breasts during a visit. As a result, both he and his wife were given a permanent …
Article • March 15, 1995 • from PLN March, 1995
CA Prison Guards - A Potent Political Interest Group by Dan Pens By Dan Pens There is a well fed political interest group feasting at the California public trough, and most taxpayers are unaware of the huge growth in this creatures appetite and political clout. It has grown from a …
Article • March 15, 1995 • from PLN March, 1995
Prison Weight Lifting is a Nonsense Issue by Paul Wright Across the country Republicans have seized on prison weigh-lifting as a no risk political "issue" to make big hoopla over. The corporate media has abetted this by running sensationalist stories of prisoners bulking up by pumping iron. So far Mississippi …
Article • March 15, 1995 • from PLN March, 1995
MI DOC Has Duty to Give Women Prisoners Legal Aid by Past issues of PLN have detailed the long running saga by Michigan state prisoners to ensure their right of access to the courts [See: PLN, Nov. 1994] whereby the DOC must provide them with either law library access or …
Article • March 15, 1995 • from PLN March, 1995
Liability for Filming Search Affirmed by In the November, 1994, issue of PLN we reported Ayeni v. Mottola, 848 F Supp 362 (ED NY 1994) which denied qualified immunity to Secret Service (SS) agents who allowed a CBS television crew to film the search of a familys home. The Ayeni …
Article • March 15, 1995 • from PLN March, 1995
Medical Indifference Suit Requires New Trial by William Hathaway is a New York state prisoner. In 1973 he underwent hip fusion surgery and had three metal pins inserted into his left hip joint. He continued to experience pain after the surgery and in 1977 sought medical assistance from Dr. Schlesinger, …
Article • March 15, 1995 • from PLN March, 1995
WA "Corrections" Committee by Paul Wright By Paul Wright On September 6, 1988, Diane Ballisiotes was killed by Eugene Kane, a prisoner on work release in Seattle, Washington. Kane had been serving time for two assaults on women and was paroled despite DOC psychologists stating he was at high risk …
Article • March 15, 1995 • from PLN March, 1995
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
TX Parole Board Can't Use Voided Priors by John Cook is a Texas state prisoner. In 1964 he was convicted of burglary. In 1982 he was convicted of indecency with a child and received a 20 year sentence which included a ten year enhancement for the 1964 conviction. In 1987 …
Settlement Reached in MT Prison Case by A settlement agreement has been reached between attorneys for prisoners at the Montana State Prison (MSP) and Montana state officials responsible for running the prison. The case, Langford v. Racicot, was originally filed on December 30, 1993. The National Prison Project of the …
Article • March 15, 1995 • from PLN March, 1995
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by Morocco: On November 24, 1994, the Moroccan Human Rights Organization reported that the head of Morocco's delegation to a UN anti-torture conference was Kadouri Yousfi. Yousfi now heads the Moroccan national security apparatus but in the 1970's and '80's he was warden of the infamous Derb …
Article • March 15, 1995 • from PLN March, 1995
Editorial by Dan Pens This is the best part about being an editor. Every other month I get to sit down and write whatever comes to mind. And I know itll be read by over a thousand people. Hey! Wait a second... whatta ya flipping that page for? Oh well, …
WA Prisoners Under Attack by Paul Wright By Paul Wright Someone once said that no citizen's life, limb or property was safe while the legislature was in session. Substitute "Prisoner" for "citizen" and you have an idea of what things are like in Washington. Fortunately, the Washington state legislature is …
Article • March 15, 1995 • from PLN March, 1995
Confronting the Helms Amendment by In the December, 1994, issue of PLN we reported on and analyzed the federal crime bill and discussed one of its components, section 20409, which seeks to limit prisoners ability to challenge prison overcrowding via class action suits. Elizabeth Alexander, Associate Director for Litigation of …
Publication • March 1, 1995
Filed under: Prison Life Magazine
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Contempt Finding Reversed by In 1980 prisoners at the Iowa State Penitentiary (ISP) entered into a consent decree, Dee v. Brewer, with prison officials which prohibited guards from searching or removing prisoners legal papers from their cells when the prisoner was not present, unless exigent circumstances existed. In 1993 ISP …
Article • February 15, 1995 • from PLN February, 1995
Damage Awards Can be Used for Restitution by Under Iowa state law all felons must pay victim restitution. The DOC sets up a restitution plan whereby up to half of a prisoners earnings can be confiscated and sent to the county court clerk who disburses the funds to the victims. …
Article • February 15, 1995 • from PLN February, 1995
Filed under: Mail, Mail Regulations
9th Cir Reverses Dismissal of Publisher Only Rule by PLN rarely reports on unpublished decisions because they cannot be cited as binding precedent. But in some cases prisoner litigants benefit from knowing cases that have been decided by the courts in their relevant circuits as well as new avenues of …
Article • February 15, 1995 • from PLN February, 1995
Prisoners Entitled to Free Legal Mail Postage by Several prisoners at the Iowa Mens Reformatory (IMP) f led suit under 42 U.S.A. § 1983 seeking injunctive relief from the prisons policy of denying indigent prisoners in administrative segregation any free legal or personal postage. Prisoners in ad seg are not …
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