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English Only Rule Not Applicable to Group Prayers by Aprison rule requiring prisoners to communicate in the "English language only" can not reasonably be construed to apply to prayers, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held in a civil rights case. Therefore, the court concluded, prison officials …
The Telephone Game by Nearly a year and a half after a scandal about purchasing involving the North Carolina Coin Tel Company has passed. The grand jury has finally indicted two people in the illegal activities. The indictments handed down against D.R. Hursey and Michael A. Weaver focus on a …
Campaign of Repression by Mumia Abu-Jamal By Mumia Abu Jamal The most repressive regime in America just got more repressive. In November, 1992, the Pennsylvania (PA) Department of Corrections implemented revised administrative directives 801/802. [ Editors Note: These rules affect only prisoners in administrative and disciplinary segregation. ] With planned …
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
FLA Death Penalty Games by Frank Valdez I'm in the midst of challenging the reappointment of a guy named Spalding to the Capital Collateral Representative (CCR) post of Florida (that's the state funded agency that handles collateral appeals for indigent capital/condemned prisoners). I'm still on direct appeal, but I feel …
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
Washington Women in Prison by Vicki McLemore by V.M. This has been called "The Year of the Woman" in the field of politics, but apparently those politics extend only as far as the media. Certainly there is no evidence of discrimination or abuse coming to a halt within the confines …
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
The Black Political Voice by Gerald D Fuller by Gerald D. Fuller Maryland's disenfranchisement statute has its roots in the federal constitution. The state would have its citizens believe that Maryland's election laws which govern disenfranchisement are fair and impartial and are not discriminatory where blacks are concerned. It is …
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
Prisoners as Workers: Court Defines Applicability of FLSA by Ed Mead By Ed Mead Court Defines Applicability of Fair Labor Standards Act Many years have passed since the era of liberal court rulings in the field of prisoners' rights. These ground-breaking decisions were handed down in the wake of a …
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
CEML Update by [CEML is the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown, an anti-control unit group. PLN recently received the following letter from CEML concerning their activities. ] This has been the busiest of times for CEML. First, work continues to prevent the opening of the new control unit at …
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
Prisoners as Workers in Washington State: New Law Will Increase Exploitation by Ed Mead By Ed Mead The 1993 session of the Washington State Legislature has passed a new law that will dramatically increase the number of prisoners working in this state's institutional industries. Governor Lowry should have signed Senate …
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
Freedom for Puerto Rican POWs by Today the United States government holds in its custody many Puerto Rican women and men, criminalizing them for having fought for the independence of their country. Like George Washington in his day, they are anti-colonial combatants. Washington's contemporary, Thomas Paine, defended in Common Sense …
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
Women Prisoners Hold AIDS Walkathon by The April 24, 1993," Fight AIDS" Walkathon, held at the women's maximum security Shawnee Unit of the federal prison in Marianna, FL, was a great success. Eighty women participated, walking 1636 laps, over 300 miles. Over 90% of the prisoners joined in the effort, …
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
Grievance Appeals Necessary by Leck II, Jack Being incarcerated now for over nine years between the federal BOP and the state of Alaska, I have found that many prisoners who file grievances do not follow up on them. Many get "pissed off" and go with that attitude when initially filing …
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
News from Florida by M L News From Florida It seems that the governor of this state [Florida] is trying to pass a 25¢ tax on every pack of cigarettes to raise money for the construction 21,000 additional prison beds to keep the violent offenders behind bars longer and, if …
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
MI Phone Rip Off by B K I have read the article which appeared in PLN (Vol. 4, number 4) by Paul Wright about the prison telephone system. I was amazed to learn that the Washington DOC telephone contract states that the commission checks are sent to each institution and …
Article • September 15, 1993 • from PLN September, 1993
Editorial by Ed Mead RESIST GRANT: In my last editorial comments I waxed eloquent on the increased cost of our current publishing format and the need for us to obtain new readers in order to sustain the cost of these increased pages. More paying subscribers, I pointed out, would ensure …
Brief • August 23, 1993
Filed under: Interpreters
Lopez v. Riveland, WA, Order, Deny Motion to Appoint Counsel, Spanish Interpreters, 1993 0'" I l-! .. 2 ~F1LEIl _ENTERED lHOGED _ RECE!'JED " -- 3 AUG 2 3 4 "'. 5 -q 6 "~ 7 "~\ BY \~~j . ~".' ....:... CLERl\ u.s. OISTflICT COUR"I WESTERN DISTflICT OF WASHINGT~~PU1Y …
Article • August 15, 1993 • from PLN August, 1993
Ad-Seg WACs Do Not Create Liberty Interest by PLN recently reported Farr v. Blodgett, [PLN, Vol. 4, No. 6] in which the district court for the Eastern District of Washington held that the Washington Administrative Code (WAC) created a due process liberty interest for Washington state prisoners to remain out …
Article • August 15, 1993 • from PLN August, 1993
Default Appropriate for Obstructing Discovery by This is not a prison case but a personal injury suit concerning the faulty design of Suzuki Samurais. We are reporting it in PLN because obstruction of the discovery process by litigants is quite common and this is a good case explaining the sanctions …
Article • August 15, 1993 • from PLN August, 1993
No Cause of Action for Defamation by Two Ohio prisoners approached a unit supervisor to discuss a cell change; one of them sought to be moved into a cell occupied solely by another prisoner. The supervisor then either directly told them or implied that the cell's occupant was a homosexual. …
Article • August 15, 1993 • from PLN August, 1993
Federal Tort Claims Act Requires Exhaustion by William McNeil was a federal prisoner who was without counsel when he filed his suit under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA). The complaint sought money damages arising from his alleged injury by the U.S. Public Health Service. McNeil submitted a claim for …
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