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Brief • October 27, 1994
Horton v. Williams, WA, Memo Supporting Motion for Preliminary Injunction, Juvenile Pepper Spray, 1994 ·: ',:,·" l - ·, ., .•,; THE HONORABLE ROBERT J. BRYAN 1 2 ·-~.•-Hurn ·---- LODGY'.ti 3 * 4 ~"'"'=-~-·~N'ftllEO ---RECEIVED OCT 2 '71994 * ScAf ILi:: CLERK U.S. DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTf11CT OF WASHINGTON …
Horton v. Williams, WA, Declaration of Michael A. Milan, Use of Pepper Spray in Juvenille Detention Facility, 1994 THE HONORABLE ROBERT J. BRYAN UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA JAMES HORTON, et al., on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, No. C94-5428 RJB …
Brief • October 24, 1994
Horton v. Williams, WA, Declarations, Youth Pepper Spray, 1994 THE HONORABLE ROBERT J. BRYAN 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA 8 9 10 11 12 JAMES HORTON, et al., on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, 13 …
Ad-Seg Placement Without Hearing Illegal by Huey Wright is a New York state prisoner. In 1983 Wright was attacked in his cell by two other prisoners and placed in segregation on disciplinary charges. Three days later the disciplinary charges were dismissed by a hearing officer but Wright was retained in …
$273,000 Settlement for Gassing by A hallucinating diabetic was sprayed in the face with a chemical spray called "Freeze + P." after he had been arrested and tried to escape. The spray contains tear gas and a red pepper derivative. After being held in the Montgomery County, Alabama, jail for …
$1.7 Million Settlement for Beating by A homeless man arrested for not paying a $100 fine for shoplifting food was booked into the Los Angeles County Jail. He refused to take an X-ray test for tuberculosis and was placed into an unsupervised hallway with a much taller prisoner who had …
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
The Forgotten Crime Victim by Willie Wisely In the seemingly unending clamor for revenge against people in prison and those accused of committing a crime, a particularly vulnerable, unchampioned, group remain overlooked. Casualties of America's "War On Crime," a growing number of people have lost their lives to the unchecked …
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
Filed under: Medical, HIV/AIDS
No Right to HIV Testing by In 1989 a Kentucky state prisoner, John Doe, requested testing for the HIV virus which causes AIDS. His request was denied because he did not meet the criteria for HIV testing established by Kentucky Corrections Cabinet Policy 13.5. That policy states: "Testing for the …
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
U.S. Number 1 (in Murder, Violence, Imprisonment, etc.) by The United Nations released its 1994 Human Development Report in mid June, 1994. According to the report, the United States is first in murders, first in military spending, first in rapes and first in road accidents in the industrialized world. It …
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
Prisoner Mail Trashed at Waupun by In the editorial in the September, 1994, issue of PLN, we noted that subscribers at the Waupun Correctional Institution at Waupun, WI. had complained of not receiving their issues of PLN. Shortly thereafter we learned why. The August 4, 1994, edition of the Wisconsin …
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
Amnesty Criticizes OK Control Unit by On June 14, 1994, Amnesty International (AI) released a report harshly criticizing the control unit at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary (OSP) at McAlester. An AI investigation team toured the prison's H. Unit in March, 1994, and found that some 350 prisoners are held 23 …
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
Name Change Statute Upheld by Kevin Mathews is a Texas state prisoner who filed suit under § 1983 challenging the constitutionality of § 32.22 of the Texas Family Code. The statute in question prohibits convicted felons from changing their names unless the person has been discharged from parole or probation, …
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
Fraudulent Police Chemist Flees Justice by A former West Virginia state police chemist, Fred Zain, 43, accused of rigging criminal evidence in two states is missing and being sought by Texas authorities. Texas state district Judge Mickey Pennington issued what is called a "capias warrant" in Texas, meaning any law …
MS Prison Officials Indicted by On June 14, 1994, US Attorney Alfred Moreton III made public a grand jury indictment of six current and five former Mississippi state prison officials in the 1991 beating of Larry Floyd, a prisoner at the Mississippi State Penitentiary (MSP) at Parchman. The five former …
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
CBS Liable for Filming Search by This case has nothing to do with prison litigation. We are reporting it because it deals with the ongoing propaganda war being waged against criminal defendants and poor people. It is the first reported court decision to hold a television broadcaster liable for accompanying …
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
The Fire Inside by Ray Luc Levasseur October, 1994, marked the eleventh year of collective punishment at the United States penitentiary, Marion. It marked a decade of lockdown, control unit regimes and government lies. No doubt the federal Bureau of Prisons will commemorate the event by rolling out its propaganda …
Agreement Reached in State-Wide Pennsylvania Prison Case by On Aug. 12, 1994, lawyers representing the prisoners announced that they have reached a settlement with the State of Pennsylvania in Austin v. Lehman, the state-wide prison conditions case filed in November, 1990. The agreement has been presented to U.S. District Judge …
WA DOC Negligence Caused Prisoner Death by Paul Wright By Paul Wright In the July, 1994, issue of PLN we reported on the death of Gertrude Barrow, a prisoner at the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW) at Purdy. On May 16, 1994. Barrow died of a perforated ulcer with …
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
PR Prisoners Rebel by On July 10, 1994, more than 8,000 prisoners in 16 prisons across the US occupied island of Puerto Rico went on strike to protest overcrowding and bad living conditions. Puerto Rico's 34 prisons hold almost 11,000 prisoners. For the first ten days of the strike prisoners …
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
Eleventh Anniversary of Marion Lockdown by Tom Silverstein I was asked to put together an article to tell my side of the story of how the cruel and unjustifiable lockdown at Marion kicked off eleven years ago. I am supposedly one of the two reasons (excuses) BOP officials gave to …
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