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Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
ABA Says Use of Prisons Not Effective Way to Fight Crime by ABA Says Use Of Prisons Not Effective Way To Fight Crime The increasing reliance in the U.S. on the use of incarceration as a criminal sanction is a costly and ineffective way to combat crime, according to a …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Prison Chief Gains Right to Counter-Sue Cons for Riot Damage by Prison Chief Gains Right to Counter-sue Cons for Riot Damage Pennsylvania Corrections Commissioner Joseph D. Lehman has been granted standing by a federal district court to litigate against inmates for extensive property damages caused by rioting at the Camp …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Washington Lifers Litigation Update by John Midgley By John Midgley This is a further update on the "lifers" litigation. The current status of the Powell case is as follows: US District Court Judge Thomas Zilly has held that SHB 1457 is ex post facto as applied to Mr. Powell. The …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Censoring Mail From Courts Violates Due Process by John Stone-El is an Illinois state prisoner whose mail to and from the courts and government officials was opened and read outside his presence. Stone-El filed suit seeking money damages and injunctive relief for the violation of his constitutional rights. He then …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Filed under: Parole, News, State Legislation
Ohio Criminal Sentencing Commission Update by John Perotti By John Perotti There have been a lot of rumors of abolishing the parole board in Ohio. Here are the facts in relation to this rumor. In 1990 former Governor D. Celeste created the Ohio Criminal Sentencing Commission to study Ohio's sentencing …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Transfer Violates Access Rights by Stanton Story is a Pennsylvania state prisoner who was transferred to the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to serve his sentence. Story filed suit under § 1983 claiming Pennsylvania DOC officials had violated his right of access to the courts because the BOP prison in …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Virginia Sets Guidelines for Terminally-Ill Prisoners by Virginia Sets Guidelines For Terminally-Ill Prisoners The state of Virginia has released a policy to handle requests by terminally-ill prisoners for early release. The policy was developed in response to a request by Alex Velazquez, a prisoner at Powhatan Correctional Center, to be …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Detroit's Former Chief Guilty of Embezzling by Detroit's Former Chief Guilty Of Embezzling Former Detroit Police Chief William Hart has been found guilty of stealing nearly $2.6 million from a special "Secret Service Fund" that was meant to fund undercover operations. A federal jury convicted the former chief of two …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Prison Costs More than Harvard by Ralph Hakim Walker Prison Costs More Than Harvard By Ralph 'Hakim' Walker An April 4, 1992 William Raspberry article on alternatives to imprisonment pointed out the folly of continuing to waste tax dollars on a system (imprisonment) that is ineffective, does not deter crime, …
Infracting Cop Cannot Hear Own Infraction by John Diercks is a prison informant in protective custody (PC) in Jefferson City, MO. While in PC Diercks approached a prison official and asked him to make the urine samples of two prisoners "disappear" in exchange for which Diercks would supply the names …
DOC Must Provide Involuntarily Committed With Treatment by Robert Cameron was convicted of rape in Massachusetts and because of prior sex offenses was found to be a "sexually dangerous" person and involuntarily committed to a treatment center operated by the Massachusetts DOC and Dept. of Mental Health. Cameron filed suit …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Blacks Likely to Spend More Time In Jail by Blacks Likely To Spend More Time In Jail Without sentencing guidelines, employed blacks are almost six times as likely as their white counterparts to face jail for drug crimes, a new Florida State University (FSU) study says. The study by FSU …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Supreme Court Defines "Frivolous" Lawsuits by The U.S. Supreme Court further defined when federal judges can dismiss as "frivolous" certain lawsuits brought by convicts and others who cannot afford to pay normal court costs. The court, in a 7-2 ruling, said it is largely up to a federal judge to …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
High Court to Decide if Convict Group is "Person" for IFP Status by High Court To Decide If Convict Group Is "Person" For IFP Status A prisoners' association, elected by the general prison population, filed a federal civil rights suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against prison authorities, alleging violations …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Rectal Search Upheld by James Terrovona is a Washington state prisoner who was transferred from IMU (Intensive Management Unit) in Walla Walla to IMU in Shelton. Upon arrival at Shelton and before being put in the IMU there Terrovona was subjected to a digital rectal search by DOC officials. He …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Filed under: Editorials, Organizing
From The Editor by Paul Wright Welcome to another issue of PLN. Please check your mailing label. If it says "Aug. 92" this means this is your next to last issue and unless we receive a donation you will be dropped from the mailing list. When your label says "final …
Article • July 15, 1992 • from PLN July, 1992
Confinement of Insanity Acquitees Who Have Regained Sanity Struck Down by On May 18,1992, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down on due process grounds a Louisiana statute that permits insanity acquittees to be confined to a mental institution on dangerousness grounds until they prove that they are not dangerous. Once …
Test for Calling Witnesses at Disciplinary Hearing by An inmate was found guilty of fighting and creating a dangerous disturbance on the basis of his being identified in a photo of the fight by an unidentified person. At the disciplinary hearing, he denied the charges and requested the name of …
Article • July 15, 1992 • from PLN July, 1992
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
Disgruntled Reader Needs Barf Bag by After reading your March 1992 issue of the PLN I was thoroughly disillusioned, disgusted, and very disappointed that PLN would allow a prisoners' news source to be used to propagate something very harmful to everyone incarcerated [in this state]. I am speaking of the …
Article • July 15, 1992 • from PLN July, 1992
Filed under: Mail, Publications/Books
NJ Prisoner Wins Censorship Suit by In April, 1991, New Jersey DOC officials at the Trenton prison banned MIM Notes (journal of the Maoist International Movement) because it contained articles on oppression at Trenton. The DOC said all future issues would also be banned. One of the prisoners, Kevin Thomas, …
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