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Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
Clinton for Prisoners: More Bad News by Paul Wright With Clinton's election many prisoners are optimistic that there will be some changes for the better after 12 years of jackboot politics by the Republicans. In past issues of PLN I've mentioned Clinton's despicable record on the death penalty. That record …
Jury Must Be Asked If Prisoner Testimony Credible by Jeffrey Rainey was a North Carolina pretrial detainee. He claimed that in the course of a dispute with a jail guard the guard used excessive force against him by slamming him into a wall three times, injuring his back. He filed …
Death Threats and "Snitch Jacketing" by Guards Unlawful by Craig Northington is a Colorado state prisoner assigned to community placement. While going to his work site plainclothes prison officials surprised him, put guns to his head without identifying themselves as prison guards, threatened to kill him and verbally and physically …
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
Filed under: Crime, Sentencing
What's Wrong With This Picture? by Paul Wright By Paul Wright A judge in Maryland recently sentenced a university student to six months in jail after the student was discovered to have cheated on his Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), which is the test used for college admissions. The student cheated …
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
Prisoners File Record Number of Suits by Paul Wright By Paul Wright We often hear prison officials, the various attorney generals, and the courts complain about what they call a "flood" of prisoner litigation. I, for one, became curious as to how many lawsuits constitute a "flood." I have been …
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
1990 U.S. Prison Population Stats by Ed Mead By Ed Mead The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics has just come out with two more books containing figures on the nation's prison population. The first is a 32-page pamphlet entitled Census of State and Federal Correctional Facilities-1990, and the second one …
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
Battered Women in Prison by Every fifteen seconds a woman in the U.S. is beaten. One California state prison study found that 93 percent of women who had killed their mates had been battered by them. There are approximately 650 women in California state prisons for killing their abusers. The …
Court Cannot Supply Elements of Complaint by Joseph Pena is a prisoner at the Washington State Penitentiary. He was subjected to a digital rectal search without probable cause and filed suit under § 1983. Prison officials sought dismissal of the complaint on grounds Pena had failed to state a claim …
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
Kentucky Cons Used as Scabs by Prisoners from a privately-run jail in Louisville, Kentucky have been used as scabs in the three-month-old strike by UFCW Local 227 against Fischer Packing Company. The prisoners were brought into the plant after the strikers rejected the company's "best and final offer" by a …
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
NIJ To Study Roots of Crime by The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has announced its support for a vast study of the ways in which criminal offenders differ from law-abiding people, and what leads certain people into criminal behavior. Directors of the "Roots of Crime" project said it will …
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
Oregon Wants Prisoners to Pay for Incarceration by The Oregon DOC has introduced a bill into the Oregon Legislature that would allow the state to charge prisoners for their costs, which include transportation, room, board, clothing, security, medical and other living expenses. According to the DOC, the average cost of …
Federal Judge Says Prisoners Denied Access to Courts by Prisoners in Arizona have been denied adequate means to communicate with lawyers, perform legal research, and otherwise receive legal assistance, according to a recent decision by United States District Judge Carl Muecke in Phoenix, AZ. Ruling in Casey v. Lewis, a …
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
Ex-Louisiana Officials Fined for Racial Segregation by Two former Louisiana corrections officials must pay $4,000 in fines for segregating inmates by race, a federal judge said. In his ruling October 27th in Baton rouge, a U.S. District judge lowered the judgment from $10,000 recommended by a federal magistrate earlier in …
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
Filed under: Medical, Tuberculosis
Penn. Senate Warned of Possible Prison TB Epidemic by Tuberculosis may spread from state prisons and become Pennsylvania's number one health concern if officials fail to implement proper controls, a witness told a state Senate committee last November in Harrisburg. ACLU lawyer Stephan Presser said the recent discovery that nearly …
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
Disabled Executed by On January 19, 1993, the state of Virginia executed Charles Stamper. Stamper had been confined to a wheelchair since his spinal cord was injured in a prison brawl. Stamper was denied permission to walk to the electric chair in leg braces and a walker. Instead, prison guards …
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
Reviews and Correspondence by Paul Wright Crossroad: A New Afrikan Captured Combatant Newsletter is a quarterly publication which specializes in coverage of political prisoners and prisoners of war in the U.S. from a New Afrikan perspective. Recent issues have included an excellent interview with Assata Shakur, peer advocacy in AIDS …
Prisoners Win Suit Over Circulating Petition by Dennis Wolfel and three other Ohio state prisoners, including longtime PLN supporter John Perotti, were infracted and disciplined for circulating a petition complaining of brutal prison conditions. The petition was going to be sent to Amnesty International, the international human rights group, to …
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
Prisoner Entitled to Religious Diet by Warren Bass is a New York state prisoner who filed suit under § 1983 after being denied a diet of meals prepared in accordance with his religious beliefs. The defendant prison officials moved for summary judgement on the basis of qualified immunity from money …
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
Court Cannot Dismiss Suit if Partial Filing Fee Paid by Autry Clark is an Ohio state prisoner. He filed suit against Ocean Brand Tuna claiming he bought cans of cat food from the prison commissary that had been re-labelled as tuna fit for human consumption. Clark became ill after eating …
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
Filed under: Sentencing, Good Time, Parole
Maxed Out Washington Cons Have Right to Earn Good Time by This is a case that will only be of interest to prisoners in Washington state, as our system of issuing good time credits is probably the strangest in the nation. This case deals with a Washington state prisoner who …
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