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Con Awarded $1,500 For Inadequate Book Access by A prisoner housed in a maximum security building at a Delaware prison filed a lawsuit challenging the adequacy of the legal resources available to him. The court found the legal resources provided constitutionally inadequate and awarded him $750 in compensatory and $750 …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Home Release Status Revoked for Exercising Right to Silence by Adrian Lomax By Adrian Lomax Steven Asherman was doing a fourteen-year bit for manslaughter in the Connecticut prison system. After he had served three years, the keep [guards] approved Asherman's application for Supervised Home Release. SHR is not parole, but …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
Suit Filed Over Telephone Services by South Carolina prisoners have filed a class action suit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 and 47 U.S.C.201(b) and 202(a) of the Federal Communications Act. The defendants are officials in the South Carolina DOC and the U.S. Sprint telephone company. The prisoners allege that the telephone …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Looking Back, Learning Lessons, PLN's Early Days by Ed Mead By Ed Mead When the PLN first started out we experienced a lot of banning at various prisons, both in Washington State and elsewhere. One such event took place when the second issue of the paper was banned from both …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Washington Lifers Prevail in District Court by John Midgley By John Midgley, Attorney At Law U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Zilly has ruled in the Powell case that SHB 1457 is ex post facto as applied to Mr. Powell's first-degree murder sentence. The state has been directed to determine Mr. …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Amnesty International Condemns Abuse of Women Cons by From: World Perspectives Amnesty International (AI) has launched an appeal to governments around the world to stop the rape and sexual abuse of women during detention. In a recently published report AI said women all over the world are subjected to sexual …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Pleas for Medical Attention Ignored by Adrian Lomax Pleas For Medical Attention Ignored By Adrian Lomax [Editorial Note :While medical neglect by our captors is nothing new, we are printing this piece because of the commonness of the events described, not because it is "news " to those of us …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Filed under: Gay/Lesbian, Media
Gay/Lesbian Prisoner Anthology Seeks Submissions by Cold Iron , an anthology of writing and art by and about lesbian, gay and queer prisoners, is seeking submissions. Any work that reflects the experiences and concerns of lesbian, gay and queer prisoners, their lovers, families or friends will be considered. "I am …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Prison Officials Assault Public Records Law by Adrian Lomax By Adrian Lomax Ayear ago bills were introduced in both houses of the Wisconsin legislature that would have changed the state's public records law so that prisoners would no longer have any right to inspect government records, including those maintained by …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Washington's Prisons to Reach 10,000 by Washington's Prisons To Reach 10,000 Washington State's jammed prisons soon will hold a record 10,000 inmates, and the state is stepping up construction of more cells to head off the unrest that often comes with overcrowding. "We've been pretty lucky that we haven't had …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Control Units: Isolation in 1992 by NJ AFSC By N.J. Community Relations Program American Friends Service Committee In 1975, after the tumultuous years of the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, and the prisoner's rights movement, Trenton State Prison in New Jersey established an administrative isolation unit for politically dissident …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Hand Me Downs by Dan Pens By Dan Pens I was only five. My mind didn't belong entirely to me yet. So much of it belonged to the world, especially to whomever I was with, and double-especially to adults, and triple especially to Grandpa 'cause he knew everything. He was …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Crime Rates Continue Upward Climb by Ed Mead By Ed Mead Preliminary figures from the FBI's recently released Uniform Crime Reports show violent crimes reported to police last year increased by 5 percent, continuing a seven-year trend of increases. The rate of violent crime per capita rose to the highest …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Filed under: Juveniles
Trafficking in Children Condemned by Trafficking In Children Condemned From: World Perspectives The UN Commission on Human Rights, located in Geneva, has released a report on child slavery, child trafficking and child prostitution. It says 10 years ago the number of children aged 10-14 who were victimized in one or …
Beating Violates Eighth Amendment by Alfred Flowers is a Louisiana state prisoner who was handcuffed and shackled after a disciplinary hearing, then beaten and kicked by three prison guards without provocation. Flowers suffered a sprained ankle, small abrasions and limited movement range of his limbs as a result of the …
Pelican Bay Conditions Suit Filed by The Pelican Bay Information Project (PBIP) is an independent citizens' group that has formed in response to the complaints of prisoners. The group is composed of prison visitors, writers, ex-prisoners, lawyers and human rights advocates. Since Pelican Bay's 1250 cell Security Housing Unit (SHU) …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Filed under: Editorials, Media, Censorship
From The Editor by Paul Wright By Paul Wright Welcome to another issue of the PLN. We encourage our readers to submit articles and information about happenings in their areas so we can publish them in the paper. However, what some folks have done recently is send us bundles of …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
Publications to Read by Ed Mead Publications To Read By Ed Mead You can't expect to understand the world and its political processes unless you have accurate information on these subjects. The Middle East, for example, is an important area of concern to the people of this nation - we've …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Prisoner Litigant and Prison Law Library Secondary Resource List by Robert Pierce By Robert Pierce In the field of law, books that deal with an overall view of a topic, those that are used in teaching law, or that are encyclopedic in nature, are known as secondary resource materials. These …
Brief • June 4, 1992
Schmolke v. State of Washington, WA, Complaint, 1992 - . - '\1-:'::-:: ":2 JUH 1.\ Pr1 1 20 JUH - '-:' \<":lO? .",-- , :.?AL'S ,0\ I • ~. I _ l ,., 1... ?iA 3 4 5 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT, THURSTON COUNTY, STATE OF WASHINGTON ROBERT RYAN SCBMOLKE, …
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