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Article • September 15, 1994 • from PLN September, 1994
WA DOC Enjoined From Taking Costs by Past issues of PLN have reported on the tactic seized upon by the Washington Attorney General's office to retaliate against prisoners who exercise their right of access to the courts, namely billing prisoners for the costs incurred by the AG in litigating [See …
Article • September 15, 1994 • from PLN September, 1994
Michigan Prisoner Challenges Jury Selection Process by Dan Pens PLN rarely reports on criminal law cases, but when we think one will interest our readers we print it. Such is the case with an interesting legal struggle going on in Michigan. PLN reader Emmett Jones (see his article on page …
Article • September 15, 1994 • from PLN September, 1994
Prison Racial Segregation Illegal by In 1970s a federal judge issued an injunction enjoining racial discrimination in the operation or administration of the Louisiana State Penitentiary (LSP) at Angola, LA. The court ordered prison officials to immediately correct the effects of any past racial discrimination and to maintain Angola as …
Article • September 15, 1994 • from PLN September, 1994
Further Developments in WA Powell Case by John Midgley This is a further update on developments in the Powell litigation. The Attorney General's office recently filed in the Ninth Circuit a document in which they claimed that the Indeterminate Sentence Review Board will treat superintendents' recommendations for parole under RCW …
Article • September 15, 1994 • from PLN September, 1994
PA Supreme Court Justice Sentenced by On June 13, 1994, Rolf Larsen, a justice on the Pennsylvania state Supreme Court for the past sixteen years, was removed from office and sentenced to two years' probation for arranging to have his doctor prescribe tranquilizers in the name of court workers. He …
Article • September 15, 1994 • from PLN September, 1994
S.Ct. Distinguishes Habeas and Section 1983 by The two most common suits filed by state prisoners in federal courts are 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus petitions which challenge the length or legality of confinement and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suits which seek money damages for civil rights violations. There …
Article • September 15, 1994 • from PLN September, 1994
Airway Heights Opens by The Spokane Spokesman Review reports that on July 15, 1994, the 1,024 bed Airway Heights Correctional Center (AHCC) officially opened near Spokane, Washington, by accepting its first 40 medium security prisoners. The prison cost Washington state tax payers $113 million to build and was slated to …
Article • September 15, 1994 • from PLN September, 1994
Filed under: News, News in Brief
News in Brief by WA: On June 3, 1994, former King County (Seattle, WA) jail guard Andre Gantt, 35, was sentenced to 26 months imprisonment after pleading guilty to two counts of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. The drugs in question were cocaine and marijuana which …
Article • September 15, 1994 • from PLN September, 1994
From The Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor By Paul Wright Welcome to another issue of PLN. In the March, 1994, issue of PLN we started the News in Brief column which carries little tidbits we think readers might be interested in but which either don't merit an article …
Brief • September 7, 1994
Filed under: Accidents
Gay v. WA DOC, WA, Complaint, McNeil Island Ferry Dock Accident, 1994 2 3 4 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON 5 IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF PIERCE 6 7 MARION AVON GAY and FERNIE WAYNE GAY, husband and wife, ) ) ~4 ) Plaintiffs, 8 …
Brief • September 1, 1994
Filed under: Sexual Assault
Corcoran v. State of Washington, WA, Settlement Agreement, Rape Victim, 1994 . . RECEIVED TORTS DiVISION ... . ~ ·91 SEP 1 Arl 10 32 , SUPERIOR COURT 1'.1 rn OFi\~~:SHn~iGTe~I3~R~H~:COiJNT¥ lOF KING ,I J \ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ rx z ~ ~ m ~7 8 9 10 …
Brief • August 17, 1994
Filed under: Accidents
Olin v. WA DOC, WA, Tort Release, DOC Parking Lot Accident, 1994 • . " S~." Lu rt.: . [;. ,'Fci U 'J'" RISr\ MAHAGEMEN' I "gA Claim #31007613 AUG 10 A10 :00 ~EASE(TORT) FOR AND IN CONSIDERATION of the sum of One Thousand Five Hundred Dollars and 001100 Cents …
Horton v. Williams, WA, Amended Complaint, Juvenile Confinement, 1994 '• I 1 2 THE HONORABLE ROBERT J. BRYAN 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT QF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA 9 10 11 12 13 14 JAMES HORTON, JAMES BARNHART, JEROME PAYTON, J.B., through his next …
Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994
Little Diversity in WA State Courts by A survey conducted by the Washington State Supreme Court's task force on diversity in the judiciary yielded not very surprising results. Out of 451 state judges in Washington 95 percent, all but 22, are white. Only three of those 22 are in courts …
Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994
Prisoner Unrest in Georgia by GA Prisoner, Anonymous By A Georgia Reader On Sunday, June 19, 1994, prisoners at Hancock Correctional Institution in Sparta, Georgia revolted in one of the worst prison riots in Georgia history. Damages were estimated at over one million dollars. Establishment media reports erroneously blamed the …
Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994
Recidivism Revisited by Michigan's corrections department recently released a five-year study of its paroled prisoners that reached the same conclusion as a similar six-year Louisiana study released last year: 55.2% of Michigan's 1986 parolees never returned to prison (nor did 56% of Louisiana's 1987 released prisoners). 5-year follow-up study on …
Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994
Filed under: Medical, HIV/AIDS
TB Alert by David Gilbert By David Gilbert Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading infectious killer in the world. Long considered conquered in the industrialized nations, TB is now making a comeback in the U.S. Prison is one danger zone for this disease which can be spread by airborne bacteria. In …
Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994
FBI Heroin Dealer by FBI agent Kenneth Withers stole one hundred pounds of high quality heroin from FBI evidence lockers and then sent mail solicitations with a one ounce sample packet of heroin, to drug dealers whose names he had acquired from FBI files. Withers, a seven year FBI veteran, …
Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994
WSR Consent Decree Loses S. Ct. Challenge by Paul Wright By Paul Wright As consistently reported in PLN, most recently in the March, 1994, issue, prisoners at the Washington State Reformatory (WSR) have been involved in nearly 13 years of litigation involving prison officials' challenge to the consent decree they …
AZ Medical Care Unconstitutional by This lengthy (76 pages) opinion deals with a DOC-wide class action suit filed by Arizona state prisoners challenging the medical and dental care, treatment available for seriously mentally ill prisoners, and unequal medical treatment provided to females compared to that provided male prisoners. District court …
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