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Perotti Needs Help by John Perotti John Perotti, Mansfield, OH On August 7, 1992, MANCI prisoncrats Bill Rachael (unit manager), Terry Knight (SHP Investigator), Mr. Fleming (SHP) and Capt. Jackson and Sgt. Harrell called a prisoner named Jerome Evans to their office and made a deal that if he set …
Contempt Order Appropriate for Consent Decree Violation by Contempt Order Appropriate For Consent Decree Violation In 1978 San Francisco jail prisoners filed suit over jail conditions. In 1982 the parties entered into a consent decree that included a limit on the number of prisoners that could be housed in the …
State Judges Can Be Sued for Injunctive Relief in Federal Court by State Judges Can be Sued for Injunctive Relief in Federal Court Carrol Olson is a Kansas state probationer convicted of issuing a worthless check. Olson sought to appeal his conviction in the Kansas Court of Appeals. The state …
Article • November 15, 1992 • from PLN November, 1992
Walla Walla News by The prison chaplain has shut down our Indian group. Stating that we are getting too political. On August 11th, 1992, he called the squad to the chapel, and they surrounded all of the Indians, and asked us to leave the area. Our "Indian" rep from Olympia …
Article • November 15, 1992 • from PLN November, 1992
Prisoners Have Right to Privacy in Their Mail by Prisoners Have Right to Privacy in their Mail David Jolivet is a Utah state prisoner who married Dorothy Pacheco, a member of a prisoner rights group named "Pepper". Prior to marrying Jolivet, Pacheco had been married to another Utah prisoner named …
Overcrowding and Violence in Washington State by Ed Mead Back in 1985 I wrote an article predicting the future impact of Washington State's then recently adopted Sentencing Reform Act (SRA). The article noted that there would be an initial drop in prison populations, followed by a rapid increase until population …
Parolees Have a Right to Bodily Privacy by Parolees Have A Right To Bodily Privacy Afemale parolee in California was ordered to provide a urine sample for drug testing by a male parole officer. While she was in a bathroom stall providing the sample, the male parole officer entered the …
Article • November 15, 1992 • from PLN November, 1992
Muslims Entitled to Prayer Oils by Three Michigan state prisoners at the Jackson State Prison filed suit under section 1983 claiming that a policy banning all use of prayer oils to Muslim prisoners violated their first amendment rights. The district court appointed counsel to represent the prisoners. Both parties moved …
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Resistance at Lexington by Laura Whitehorn On August 12-14, the first sustained act of resistance by women prisoners in the u.s. federal prison system in 20 years took place. On Wednesday night, August 12, there was an argument between two prisoners in the central yard area ("Central Park") at about …
Transferred Con Has Right to Books of Sending State by AUtah prisoner was subjected to what he claimed was an involuntary out-of-state transfer to an Arizona prison. The transferred prisoner filed a pro se habeas corpus petition in Superior Court of Arizona seeking, inter alia , access to legal research …
Article • November 15, 1992 • from PLN November, 1992
Gay Prisoner Entitled to Participate in Religious Services by Paul Phelps is a gay Kentucky state prisoner who sued a volunteer prison chaplain and deputy warden claiming they had violated his first amendment right to practice his religion when they refused to allow him to participate in chapel services. The …
Article • November 15, 1992 • from PLN November, 1992
Committee Formed to Defend Abimael Guzman by Abimael Guzman (also known as Chairman Gonzalo), the leader of the Communist Party of Peru, was captured by Peruvian government troops on September 14, 1992, in Lima, Peru. Mr. Guzman had been sought by government troops since 1980, when the PCP initiated the …
Expungement of Infraction Reversed by Michael Elkin is a New Jersey state prisoner. During the process of obtaining and testing a urine sample from Elkin, prison officials did not comply with the terms of a consent decree requiring urine samples to have a "continuity of evidence" attached and completed. Elkin …
Article • November 15, 1992 • from PLN November, 1992
Grievance Standards Changed by The Justice Department has modified the minimum standards for state prison inmates grievance procedures promulgated by the US Attorney General pursuant to § 7 of the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1997. The amendment is designed to clarify that the regulations do …
Article • November 15, 1992 • from PLN November, 1992
Parole Officers Can Be Sued by Stephen Mee was a Colorado parolee whose parole was revoked by Jose Ortega, his parole officer, for alleged harassment. Ortega kept Mee in jail despite being told by the local prosecutor that because no violation of criminal law had occurred, Mee could not be …
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Status of Reformatory Crowding Litigation by Ed Mead In 1981 prisoners at the Washington State Reformatory in Monroe entered into a consent decree with the state over the issue of double celling. The original complaint, filed by Evergreen Legal Services for Reformatory prisoners back in 1978, alleged a number of …
Article • November 15, 1992 • from PLN November, 1992
Federal Prisoners Must Exhaust Habeas Before Filing Suit by Federal Prisoners must Exhaust Habeas Before Filing Suit Amilcar Marchetti is a federal prisoner who filed a Bivens civil rights suit against various state and federal law enforcement agencies and officials. He complained that his civil rights were violated by the …
Article • November 15, 1992 • from PLN November, 1992
Editorial by Ed Mead Editorial Comments by Ed Mead It's evidently necessary for us to repeat some messages every so often. Our increasing readership turnover is such that we will always have new groups of convicts to educate. And educating folks is what we're all about. Anyway, this month's "message …
Article • November 15, 1992 • from PLN November, 1992
Washington Smoking Suit Dismissed by Ronald Guilmet is a Washington state prisoner at Walla Walla. Guilmet does not smoke and a smoker was placed in his cell. Five days later Guilmet complained to the unit sergeant that cigarette smoke bothered him. About five days after this Guilmet was assigned a …
Brief • October 27, 1992
Filed under: Discrimination
Uribe v. Riveland, WA, First Amendment to Complaint, Discrimination, 1992 RECEIVED '92 OCT 27 Prl Y 17 1 ATTORNEY GENERAL OF WASHINGTON ·ORRr-CTIO '-1'-:' ~. " '!t ':', 1(.)\1 C ' ,'C ......... • .:. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON 2 3 I. 4 IN AND …
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