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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 …
Did Warden Seek SOCF Riot? by In April, 1993, prisoners at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF) rebelled in what became the longest 2>prison siege in US history that left 10 dead. PLN has provided extensive coverage of the rebellion, its origins and its aftermath. Some SOCF prisoners have claimed …
Article • January 15, 1995 • from PLN January, 1995
WI Enacts Sex Predator Law by By Jan Starks On May 26, 1994, Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson enacted a Sexual Predator Law, officially called 1993 Wisconsin Act 479. It was designed especially for two current prisoners: Gerald Turner, who in 1973 killed 9 year old Lisa French on Halloween night …
Federal Courts Must Rule on State Law Claims in Beating by Michael McLaurin is an Arkansas state prisoner. A prison guard accused McLaurin of stealing cigarettes from another prisoner despite assurances from both prisoners that McLaurin was only holding the cigarettes as a favor to the owner. The guard struck …
Article • January 15, 1995 • from PLN January, 1995
Limits on Contact Visits With Counsel Reversed by Lee Barnett is a California state prisoner on death row. He filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claiming that prison officials had retaliated against him for filing civil rights suits against them; that he was denied contact visits with his attorney …
Article • January 15, 1995 • from PLN January, 1995
Activists Labeled "Security Threat" by Reader Mail Being labeled as a "Security Threat Group" (gang) means anyone that is organizing and whose actions are considered disruptive to the prison system. For the most part the state [OH] is not focusing on real gangs, but rather focusing on prison activists and …
Article • January 15, 1995 • from PLN January, 1995
Resource Info Wanted by Reader Mail I am in the process of compiling information for a prison resource directory. Send any info that you feel would be of benefit to prisoners, their families, ex-offenders and those working in the criminal justice arena. Any type of info can be used, i.e. …
TX Guards Charged in Beating Murder by On October 7, 1994, 15 of about 300 prisoners in the recreation yard of the Terrell Prison Unit in Livingston, TX, attacked prison staff. One guard suffered a broken nose. Prison guards beat several prisoners in retaliation for the attack. On October 9, …
Article • January 15, 1995 • from PLN January, 1995
Discriminatory Jury Selection Reversed by In the September, 1994, issue of PLN we reported on the unconstitutionality of racially discriminatory jury discrimination with regards to criminal trials. The right to a jury composed of members of the community also applies to civil rights suits. Frederick Davidson, a black Missouri state …
Article • January 15, 1995 • from PLN January, 1995
Filed under: Sentencing, News in Brief
News in Brief by Since June, 1994, 8 prisoners at the Clallam Bay Corrections Center (CBCC) were placed in segregation after they allegedly gave friends and relatives a state toll free number at which to call them. The DOC operates a boiler room operation at CBCC which contracts with other …
Article • January 15, 1995 • from PLN January, 1995
From The Editor by Dan Pens by Dan Pens Keeping these twenty pages filled and mailed out to 1,200 readers is no small task. Each month I mail out about 50 letters, 75 post cards and a dozen or so invoices to PLN subscribers. I generate most of the "routine" …
Article • January 15, 1995 • from PLN January, 1995
Pretrial Detainee Housed at Marion by Most PLN readers are familiar with the US Penitentiary at Marion, IL. The prison was totally locked down in October of 1983 and has remained that way ever since. Prisoners are locked in their cells 23 hours a day in extremely harsh and punitive …
Brief • January 1, 1995
Moffitt v. Meyers, PA, Plaintiff's Interrogatories to Mercy Health System Northeast,1995 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA GARY A. MOFFITT, Plaintiff, - against RICHARD MEYERS, JANUSZ WOLANIN, MERCY HEALTH SYSTEM NORTHEAST REGION, MERCY SPECIAL CARE HOSPITAL, MERCY HOSPITAL, NANTICOKE, and MERCY HEALTH CARE CENTER, Defendants. : : : …
Publication • January 1, 1995
Filed under: Prison Life Magazine
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Brief • December 28, 1994
Filed under: Racial Discrimination
Woodley v. WA DOC, WA, Complaint, Race Discrimination, 1994 1 2 3 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 4 6 7 8 9 10 BILLY G. WOODLEY, Plaintiff, 13 14 ) v. 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 COMPLAINT FOR …
Brief • December 23, 1994
Filed under: Retaliatory Transfers
Wright v. Rebiero, WA, Order, Retaliatory Transfer, 1994 1 2 AT SEATTLE OURT CLERIC. US. DC1IS~~~~H1NGT~~ 3 WESteRN DISlRI BY 4 5 6 J ,- 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE 9 10 11 AUL A. WRIGHT, plaintiff, 12 v. NO. C90-396R ORDER ADOPTING …
Article • December 15, 1994 • from PLN December, 1994
Death Penalty Deterrents? by Former California Governor Edmund "Pat" Brown, in his book, Public Justice, Private Mercy, recounts how a plumber convicted of robbery was among the prisoners who built California's gas chamber at San Quentin. He helped to install it and watched test pigs die as the chamber's effectiveness …
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 …
Article • December 15, 1994 • from PLN December, 1994
Prisoners Lose Pell Grants by Dan Pens A provision of the $30.2 federal anti-crime bill was the elimination of prisoners from eligibility for federal Pell Grants. Much attention was given to this portion of the debate by the mainstream media. Senators and Congressional Representatives know a good sound bite when …
Article • December 15, 1994 • from PLN December, 1994
Houston - Death Penalty Capital of USA by Dan Pens In one week this September, six separate capital murder cases were being tried in Harris County, Texas, of which Houston is the main city. Some legal observers consider this to be a national record. "They may have done this in …
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