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Detainee's Beating is Cruel and Unusual by Detainee's Beating Is Cruel And Unusual Marcus Miller was a detainee in the Tulsa, OK, jail when he was ordered out of the jail law library. Miller refused and jail guards knocked him to the floor, handcuffed him and put him in a …
'Partial Victory' In Attica Prisoners' Case by From: Workers World Newspaper A bitterly divided jury returned a mixed verdict Feb. 4 in the lawsuit by former inmates at Attica Prison against four former New York state officials. The suit by the Attica Defense Committee grew out of the bloody, murderous …
Maximum Security Unit Prisoners Win Access Suit by The U.S. District Court for Delaware ruled in favor of the inmates at the Delaware Correctional center's Maximum Security Unit (MSU). The prisoners claimed in a 1983 action that the law library services provided at the MSU facility were wholly inadequate. The …
Article • January 15, 1992 • from PLN January, 1992
Police Chief Faces Conspiracy Count by Cross City, FL (11/91) - Charges of conspiracy to commit perjury have been lodged against the Cross City police chief and a state correctional officer who are accused of arranging for a man to impersonate an inmate during hearings of prison brutality charges. The …
Passin' Gas by Clark Stuhr Here at the Washington State Penitentiary's Intensive Management Unit (IMU) there is no end to the mental and physical torture being inflicted upon the inmates. The latest of which are the new use of force tactics being used by IMU staff since the placing of …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Pelican Bay News by Hello from Pelican Bay State Prison - SHU. I have some legal news. The following prisoners, Bwana Millon, James X. Williamson, Thomas Fetters, and Nicholas X. Delamat have joined in a writ of mandamus petition in state superior court, county of Del Norte (case no. 91-141-X). …
Unlawful Orders Cannot Be Enforced With Violence by A female California state prisoner was ordered to submit to a strip search by male prison guards. She refused to be strip searched and was Tasered. She filed suit under the Fourth, Eighth and Fourteenth amendments. The District Court applied an Eighth …
Article • September 15, 1991 • from PLN September, 1991
Remembering Attica: Twenty Years Later by Ed Mead By Ed Mead On September 13, 1978, prisoners at Walla Walla celebrated Attica Day by holding a sparsely attended memorial talent show in the prison's auditorium. On September 13, 1979, the Washington Coalition Against Prisons (WaCAP) braved heavy rain to stage a …
Article • August 15, 1991 • from PLN August, 1991
Justice for Jimmy Haynes? by John Perotti Justice For Jimmy Haynes?? ? By John Perotti On February 9, 1984, Jimmy Haynes, a black prisoner, was beaten and then murdered by 12 white guards at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF) al Lucasville, Ohio. The cause of death was a crushed …
Mere "Institutional Security" Claim Not Enough by Mere "Institutional Security" Claim Not Enough A former prisoner of the Nevada State Prison brought a federal civil rights complaint against guards claiming that his fourth, eighth and fourteenth amendment rights were violated. He contended the violation occurred when guards forced him to …
Article • June 15, 1991 • from PLN June, 1991
Aftermath MANCI Control Unit & Perotti Update by Numerous organizations inquired into the beatings of six prisoners in the AC Control Unit at Mansfield, Ohio prison by 35 guards. The Cleveland ACLU has requested a written explanation and investigation into the matter. A civil rights complaint was filed by a …
Prisoner Victims of Guard Assault Win Damages by Prisoner Victims Of Guard Assault Win Damages Ten prisoners in the D.C. jail learned they were being transferred to another facility. A number of the inmates passively resisted the transfer. They alleged that after the transfer, they were beaten by correctional officers. …
Article • June 15, 1991 • from PLN June, 1991
Inhumane Living at CCI by Angelo Crimi Inhumane Living At CCI By Angelo Crimi CHILLICOTHE, OHIO - Prisoners at Chillicothe Correctional Institution (CCI) confined in the segregation unit are constantly subjected to cruel and unusual punishment. Prisoners are confined to a building that is over 100 years old and the …
Article • April 15, 1991 • from PLN April, 1991
Beating in the MANCI Control Unit by John Perotti Beating In The MANCI Control Unit By John Perroti MANSFIELD, OHIO - On February 8, 1991, in the super-max administrative control unit (AC-Isolation) at the Mansfield Correctional Institution (MANCI) high tech prison, designed after the U.S. Penitentiary at Marion, II, 35 …
Article • March 15, 1991 • from PLN March, 1991
Prison Discipline Study by The Prisoner Rights Union (PRU) in California in 1989 started a survey to determine the prevalence of extreme forms of discipline in the American prison system. To do so they mailed out questionnaires to prisoners in 41 states across the U.S. Based on useable returns from …
Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
Prisoner Assaulted by Guard by Prisoner Assaulted By Guard A prison employee was held liable for $1,000 after sticking the barrel of his revolver in the inmate's mouth and cocking the trigger. The prisoner had sought damages for assault in a federal civil rights suit against the prison employee. He …
Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
Clallam Bay Prisoner Brutalized by Paul Wright By Paul Wright On December 17, 1990, at about 6:35 in the evening several prisoners got into a fight in the F-Unit (Close Custody) rotunda area. Eventually guards carted the participants of that fight off to the "hole." At about 7:10 that evening …
Article • January 15, 1991 • from PLN January, 1991
Walla Walla IMU Stops Using Fire Hoses by Clark Stuhr By Clark Stuhr Within the last few months I have noticed that WSP IMU staff no longer use the fire hose to discipline outraged inmates. No my friend, instead these outraged prisoners can plan on getting a healthy lung full …
Article • December 15, 1990 • from PLN December, 1990
Fifth Circuit Adopts Reactionary Standard in Excessive Force Claim by Fifth Circuit Adopts Reactionary Standard in Excessive Force Claims A state prisoner filed a civil rights complaint in federal court against two guards who assaulted him during a cell search. The convict received an elbow fracture during the struggle. The …
Article • November 15, 1990 • from PLN November, 1990
Severe Injury Not Required for Damage Claim Against Guards for Assault by Severe Injury not Required for Damage Claim Against Guards for Assault A prisoner filed a civil rights complaint against guards for assaulting him. A jury awarded the prisoner with compensatory and punitive damages. The state appealed. On appeal …
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