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Article • June 15, 1993 • from PLN June, 1993
Adequate Notice of Disciplinary Charges Required by Henry Benitez is a New York state prisoner. He was infracted in a four page disciplinary report for allegedly violating eight different rules. A few hours later he was given another infraction report consisting of an additional four charges. A few hours later …
Article • June 15, 1993 • from PLN June, 1993
DC Not Proper Venue for BOP Suits by James Cameron is a federal prisoner. While at the penitentiary at Terre Haute he suffered a massive heart attack. Prison doctors stated he should receive a low sodium diet. The prison at Terre Haute could not provide a special diet and the …
Article • June 15, 1993 • from PLN June, 1993
Filed under: Court Access
Arizona Court Access by RC I am in receipt of your March issue of PLN, and find that the info is/will be very useful. In regards to Access to the Courts (Casey v. Lewis), I feel I should inform you of some facts about the above. This thing, access to …
Article • June 15, 1993 • from PLN June, 1993
Initiative 595: Regulated Tolerance by The citizens of Washington state will have a chance to make real progress in the area of drug law reform if the Washington Citizen's for Drug Policy Reform (WCDPR) is successful in getting Initiative 595 on the state General Election ballot this fall. It will …
Article • June 15, 1993 • from PLN June, 1993
BOP Can Deny Halfway House Placement by William Lyle is a Bureau of Prisons (BOP) prisoner serving a sentence for firearms and explosives violations. At his pre-release classification review his unit team recommended Lyle be placed in a halfway house for 60 days to ease his reentry into the community. …
Article • June 15, 1993 • from PLN June, 1993
Filed under: Editorials, Media, Censorship
From The Editor by Paul Wright From the Editor Welcome to another issue of PLN. As you will have noticed, PLN has a new look. We are trying out this new, expanded format because we had pretty much exhausted the newsletter format and had a backlog of material. This new …
National Prison Project Journal - Infamous Punishment The Psychological Consequences of Isolation, 1993 "Infamous Punishment": The Psychological Consequences of Isolation The NPP JOURNAL continues its in­ depth coverage of supermaximum secu­ rity prisons. In the Fall 1992 issue, we ran an overview article, "The Marioni­ zation of American Prisons," and …
Publication • 1993
Filed under: Overcrowding
1993 Supplement -National Directory of Corrections Construction NIJ, July 1993 :-~ - U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice.Programs National Institute of Justice · National Directory of Corrections Construction i 1993 Supplement ----M-----~--------- --- . .: -: __________ ......,, l About the National Institute of Justice The National Institute of …
Publication • 1993
Infamous Punishment The Psychological Consequences of Isolation, NPPJ,1993 "Infamous Punishment": The Psychological Consequences of Isolation The NPP JOURNAL continues its in­ depth coverage of supermaximum secu­ rity prisons. In the Fall 1992 issue, we ran an overview article, "The Marioni­ zation of American Prisons," and a piece on Barlinnie, the …
Article • May 15, 1993 • from PLN May, 1993
Retaliatory Denial of Parole Actionable Under Section 1983 by Isa Shabazz is an Oklahoma state prisoner. He filed suit under § 1983 alleging that the Oklahoma parole board has a policy, practice and custom of denying parole to prisoners who choose to exercise their civil rights by suing prison officials. …
Court Dissolves 1-800 Injunction by Iowa state prisoners filed suit seeking preliminary and injunctive relief against an Iowa prison policy prohibiting them from calling their attorneys toll free 1-800 numbers. They claimed this practice violated their right of access to the courts. The district court agreed and granted a preliminary …
Guard Convicted of Beating Prisoner by As a general rule PLN doesn't report criminal cases. This is an exception because it directly pertains to prisoner civil rights and because its so unusual for prison staff to be charged, much less convicted, of assaulting prisoners. Michael Newman was a jail guard …
Due Process Protects Detainees from Violence by Raul Valencia is a pre-trial detainee in Brewster County, Texas. During a jail disturbance guards smashed Valencia's head into cell bars, choked him into unconcioussness and, after handcuffing him, beat him. Valencia filed suit under§ 1983 claiming this treatment violated his constitutional rights. …
Court Enjoins Torture of Jail Prisoners by Two Mississippi jail prisoners tried to escape from the jail by smashing their way out. Their attempt failed and guards secured and restrained them in an interrogation cell. The sheriff questioned the two men as to the location of their escape tools, which …
Mentally Ill Entitled to Health Care by H.B. is a woman prisoner in the Arizona DOC. She suffers from schizophrenia and becomes hostile and threatening when she doesn't take her medication. HB's legal guardian filed suit on her behalf claiming that the DOC's pattern of placing HB in lockdown constituted …
Improved Jail Conditions Merits Attorney Fees by Two Wood County, Texas, jail prisoners filed suit under § 1983 claiming the jail had practices of denying prisoners access to the courts, improper classification, punitive isolation without due process, inadequate medical care, denial of reading material and overall unacceptable jail conditions. The …
Article • May 15, 1993 • from PLN May, 1993
Organizations Not "Persons" for IFP Status by The Men's Advisory Council is a group of elected representatives of prisoners at a prison in California. When the prison discontinued the practice of providing free tobacco to indigent inmates the Council filed a civil rights complaint in federal court. They sought leave …
Article • May 15, 1993 • from PLN May, 1993
Filed under: Damages, Mental Health
Psych Prisoners Have Right of Court Access by Lonnie Hatch is a patient confined in the Arkansas state hospital following his acquittal, by reason of insanity, of criminal charges. Hatch filed suit under § 1983 claiming hospital officials had violated his right of access to the courts by denying him …
Section 1983 Proper Remedy for Illegal Confinement by Spencer Parker is a Texas state prisoner. He filed suit under § 1983 claiming he was arrested and indicted for a burglary even though no evidence linked him to the crime. After nine months in jail the charges were dropped and he …
Article • May 15, 1993 • from PLN May, 1993
Failure to Treat Illness Violates Eighth Amendment by Derrick Williams is an Illinois state prisoner. As a result of a car accident he suffers from chronic infectious inflammation of the bone marrow. After being imprisoned a DOC doctor examined Williams and prescribed medication and a course of treatment. Prison officials …
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