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Article • December 15, 1991 • from PLN December, 1991
Executions Report Issued by Eleven states executed 23 people last year, the U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced on September 29th. The Bureau said as of December 31, 1990, there were 2,356 people being held on death row in 34 states. Between 1976, when the U.S. Supreme …
Article • December 15, 1991 • from PLN December, 1991
Written Findings of Disciplinary Hearing Held Inadequate by An Illinois prisoner launched a 1983 challenge to the prison disciplinary hearing committee's finding of guilt on several infractions, including one charging him with conspiracy to murder a Unit Manager. The civil rights complaint alleged a number of constitutional infirmities in the …
Court Supports Supervisory Liability Claim by James Johnson, a prisoner at the Cummins Unit of the Arkansas Department of Corrections, appealed from the district court's dismissal of his §1983 complaint. The complaint alleged that Johnson suffered an inguinal hernia, which was diagnosed in January 1984. The prison doctor recommended surgery …
Prison Guards May Not Be Fired for Testifying on Prisoner's behalf by Prison Guards May Not Be Fired For Testifying On Prisoner's Behalf Salvatore Ziccarelli was employed as a guard at the Cook County (Chicago) jail in Illinois. While there he became acquainted with a prisoner facing the death penalty. …
Article • December 15, 1991 • from PLN December, 1991
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
The Criminalization of Poverty by Sabina Virgo The Criminalization Of Poverty By Sabina Virgo Sabina Virgo is an activist in the Los Angeles area. The following is an edited version of a speech given in L.A. on International Human Rights Day, December 8, 1990.) An anonymous poet in the 1700s …
Evidence Must Be Presented at Disciplinary Hearing by Evidence Must Be Presented At Disciplinary Hearing Eddie Griffin, a Pennsylvania state prisoners was infracted for possessing a fermented beverage. Prison guards destroyed the liquid in question prior to the disciplinary hearing. At the hearing Griffin was found "guilty" solely on the …
Article • December 15, 1991 • from PLN December, 1991
Prisoners May Not Be Subjected to Freezing Temperatures by In 1982 outside temperatures at the Stateville prison in Illinois plunged to 22 degrees below zero with a wind-chill factor of 80 degrees below zero. The heating system in a cell block with 300 men malfunctioned and frigid air circulated through …
Article • December 15, 1991 • from PLN December, 1991
New York Prisons Profiled by A prisoners' advocacy group in New York City on September 27 released a profile of the state and city inmate population and found a pattern of minority offenders being increasingly locked up for nonviolent crimes. The Correctional Association of New York said there are more …
Article • December 15, 1991 • from PLN December, 1991
Oklahoma Must Provide Adequate Funds for Its Public Defenders by In a highly significant case the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that by failing to adequately fund it's appellate public defenders the Oklahoma State Legislature deprives prisoners of their right to due process and equal protection of law under …
Article • December 15, 1991 • from PLN December, 1991
Civil Commitment by Carrie Roth by Carrie Roth, Prison/Community Alliance The Special Commitment Center (SCC) is a block of prison cells in the Special Offenders Center (SOC) in Monroe, WA. Eleven men are now housed in the prison under the Civil Commitment law passed in 1990. Although the center is …
Article • December 15, 1991 • from PLN December, 1991
No Liberty Interest in Prison Jobs by No Liberty Interest In Prison Jobs The 7th circuit in an en bane ruling held that neither the due process clause nor Illinois statutes create a protected liberty interest in a prisoner holding one prison job over another. Phillip Wallace is an Illinois …
Article • December 15, 1991 • from PLN December, 1991
From The Editor by Paul Wright By Paul Wright Welcome to the December issue of PLN . When you receive this issue the whole commercialized Christmas season will be in full swing. So in the spirit of giving, if you haven't donated to PLN yet this is a great time …
Article • December 15, 1991 • from PLN December, 1991
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
Letters From Readers by More On Plight Of The Young This letter is in response to a letter to the editor printed in the September issue of the PLN, titled "Plight Of The Young. " The thing with brother Barry Massey, in particular - the U.S. judicial systems sanctioning of …
No Minimum Wages for Convicts by No Minimum Wages For Convicts Prisoners are not entitled to minimum wages or overtime pay, according to a federal appeals court. Prisoners who worked in the plasma program operated by a private company (Cutter Biological) on prison grounds sued, asserting that they were covered …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime
Caging America: The U.S. Imprisonment Binge by Patricia Horn By Patricia Horn [The following is an edited version of an article reprinted from the September, 1991, issue of Dollars & Sense magazine. It was edited by Ed Mead.] "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Mandatory Sentencing Flops in Florida by Mandatory Sentencing Flops In Florida Florida offers a classic example of how mandatory sentencing laws and large-scale incarceration of drug offenders can produce an unbalanced correctional system and possibly reduce public safety, according a new study by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency …
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
Due Process Distinguished by A mobile home park owner sued the city of Rocklin, California, over a rent control ordinance claiming it was taking his property without just compensation or due process. The District Court dismissed the complaint. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed and remanded the case back …
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). …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Filed under: News
Pig Park Update by Readers of PLN will recall that we have previously reported the fact that the Washington State Penitentiary (WSP) in Walla Walla has bought 40 plus acres from the department of Wildlife for $80,000 which will be used as an "employee park" According to an August 22, …
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