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Retrial for Damages Alone Appropriate by Tommy Williams is a Missouri state prisoner who was stabbed several times by two other prisoners. Williams filed suit against a guard and several other officials claiming they were deliberately indifferent and acted with reckless disregard to his safety when they knew the prisoners …
Article • February 15, 1993 • from PLN February, 1993
APA Partially Applicable to Arizona's DOC by Arizona's Administrative Procedures Act (APA) exempts the Department of Corrections in the formulation of policies that concern only inmates. Brad Wilkinson, a convict at the Tucson Prison Echo Unit, was denied a visit with a religious leader. This was done pursuant to a …
Pre-Trial Detainees Don't Have to Work by Jorge Martinez is a federal pre-trial detainee. He filed suit claiming that while he was held at the US Medical Center for federal prisoners he was denied proper medical care for a dislocated shoulder, was force fed after seven days on hunger strike, …
Article • February 15, 1993 • from PLN February, 1993
States Must Furnish Equivalent of Jailhouse Lawyers for Filing Prisoner Complaint by On page one of the July 1992 issue of PLN (Vol. 3, No. 7) we printed a report on a new ruling that promised to have widespread implications for prison law libraries. That case was Gluth v. Kangas, …
Article • February 15, 1993 • from PLN February, 1993
Temp Workers Come to Prison by The warden at the John Lilly Correctional Center in Boley, Oklahoma, has initiated a program of using temporary workers (he calls them "Temp Cops") to save money. The temp cops are off-duty policemen used to supplement the guard staff. The American labor movement has …
BOP Agency for APA Purposes by Garvin White was a federal prisoner at Leavanworth who was accused of attempting to escape and was transferred to Marion. At Marion he was infracted for the attempted escape. The hearing officer did not render a verdict until 4 months after White's arrival at …
The Prison Privatization Debate by Ed Mead "Prisons are by their very nature coercive and oppressive institutions, designed to disempower and destroy the resistance of those confined within them, so any discussion of `reform' is largely meaningless and futile. Prisons, whether controlled and operated by the state or private companies, …
Article • February 15, 1993 • from PLN February, 1993
Letter from Exile by Ray Luc Levasseur Remember Eugene Debs? One of the first Socialists I ever read, before I moved on to the hard-core. I used to quote him in letters - "where there is a lower class I am of it, where there is a criminal element, I …
Article • February 15, 1993 • from PLN February, 1993
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
Publication Reviews: Nationalist Struggles by Ed Mead By Ed Mead Nationalist Struggles You will no more learn the truth about various nationalist struggles going on around the world by merely reading the bourgeois media than you will learn about the realities of this nation's criminal justice system by watching TV …
Religious Standards Applied by Gary Bear is an Iowa state prisoner. He is part Native American and sought to participate in Native American Religion (NAR) ceremonies at the Iowa Penitentiary, but was prohibited from doing so by the prison's NAR consultant because he did not have a Bureau of Indian …
Serial Litigators by Adrian Lomax A recent Associated Press story reported that the state of Wisconsin is spending more than a million dollars a year defending lawsuits filed by prison inmates. The story identified two Waupun prisoners as "serial litigators," responsible for numerous legal actions. A state lawyer was quoted …
Article • February 15, 1993 • from PLN February, 1993
Sundiata Acoli Needs Letters by In 1973 Black Panther members Sundiata Acoli and Assata Shakur were captured after a shootout with New Jersey state troopers. One of their comrades, Zayd Shakur, and a police officer were killed. Now, twenty years later, Sundiata is up for parole (Assata escaped from custody …
Article • February 15, 1993 • from PLN February, 1993
From The Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor Welcome to another issue of PLN. First off everyone at PLN would like to thank Steven Mitchell and the folks at Friends of the North Country for their generous donation of $655.00 to PLN. To date, this is the biggest lump …
Damages Awarded in Beating Case by Rickke Greene is an Oklahoma state prisoner. While in a segregation unit Greene was scalded by another prisoner and received second degree burns. After not being treated at the prison infirmary he was returned to his cell, knocked to the floor, kicked and beaten …
Brief • January 28, 1993
Kaiser v. Sacramento, CA, Consent Decree, Jail Conditions, 1993 .. . L. B. ~, county·counsel . J!ICHELE BACH,' Supervising Deputy ·· · State Bar No. 88948 · STEVEN.. KAISER, Deputy. County· ·Counsel · Sta't;e Bar No. 10.5150. ·COQNTY. OF SACRAMENTO 7 O·O H Stre~~ 1 · ·suite 2 650 Sacramento, …
Article • January 15, 1993 • from PLN January, 1993
Exposure to AIDS Contaminated Sewage Banned by Prisoners at a Missouri county jail were involved in the large scale cleanup of raw sewage at the jail hospital. The sewage was contaminated with the AIDS virus from AIDS patients in the jail hospital. Prisoners were not provided with protective clothing during …
Article • January 15, 1993 • from PLN January, 1993
Free Speech for Whom? by Mumia Abu-Jamal [EDITOR'S NOTE: In the Dec., 1992 issue of PLN we reported that supporters of Mumia Abu Jamal, the former Black Panther on death row in Pennsylvania accused of killing a cop, had shouted down Penn. Governor Casey at a forum in New York …
Article • January 15, 1993 • from PLN January, 1993
Pendleton News by J Ford I am writing to you from inside the walls of Pendleton, the Indiana State Reformatory. Since November of 1991 we have gone through a systematic deprogramming. All programs have been abolished. Vocations, education, spiritual, and psychiatric for 80 percent of our population. Very few in …
Article • January 15, 1993 • from PLN January, 1993
On Taking DNA Samples by Dale Gardner [The following letter was written in response to our article "Taking DNA Samples Violates Ex Post Facto Clause" in the September 1992 issue of the newsletter.] My name is Dale Gardner. I am currently incarcerated in the State Correctional Institution; Huntingdon, PA. I …
Article • January 15, 1993 • from PLN January, 1993
Filed under: Work, Prison Labor
Length of Work Day Increasing by One of the most ancient ways to increase returns from the exploitation of labor, Karl Marx noted in Volume I of Capital, is to lengthen the working day. Slave owners, feudal lords, and capitalists had that device in common. In a recent book, The …
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