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Search of Legal Files Violates Consent Decree by Search Of Legal Files Violates Consent Decree A prisoner at the Iowa State Penitentiary filed a federal civil rights complaint in which he contended that the search of his legal papers by guards, outside his presence, violated a consent decree entered into …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Filed under: Organizing, Voting
Universal Suffrage: Give Us A Voice! by Tom Sparks Universal Suffrage was originally created to provide assistance to those convicted in the American justice system in the defense of those constitutional rights that are supposed to exist, and in regaining those rights that have been unjustly lost. Our intention is …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Privacy Right Not To Be Viewed Naked by Opposite Sex Prison Guards by Privacy Right Not To Be Viewed Naked By Opposite Sex Prison Guards A Colorado state prisoner filed suit under § 1983 claiming violation of his rights to due process and equal protection when he was placed in …
Prison System Increases Cell Integration to Avoid Fines by Faced with the threat of millions of dollars in fines, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice began increasing the number of racially integrated, two-person cells July 1. Before July only about 2 percent of the system's 11,000 double cells were integrated; …
Unlawful Orders Cannot Be Enforced With Violence by A female California state prisoner was ordered to submit to a strip search by male prison guards. She refused to be strip searched and was Tasered. She filed suit under the Fourth, Eighth and Fourteenth amendments. The District Court applied an Eighth …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Violent Crime Rate Up, Again by There was a sharp increase in violent crimes according to the final statistics for 1990 gathered by the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program. The FBI reported murder and rape rates increased 9 percent last year, and robbery and aggravated assault rose 11 percent. …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Sheriff Can't Release AIDS Test Results by Sheriff Can't Release Aids Test Results While awaiting transfer from a county jail to an Alabama prison, a convicted prisoner was given the opportunity to voluntarily submit to an AIDS test. he did so, but only after being assured by the county health …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Right to Practice Religious Beliefs by Right To Practice Religious Beliefs C.D. Mosier, an Oklahoma state prisoner, is a practitioner of Native American religious beliefs which prohibit him from cutting his hair. The Oklahoma DOC has a grooming code which requires that it's prisoners have short hair, however, exemptions can …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Prison Guards: Victims or Villains? by Paul Wright Prison Guards: Victims Or Villains? Review By Paul Wright This is the title of one of two articles in the latest issue [o]f "Blueprint for Social Justice." Both articles are written by female former prison guards who describe their experiences working as …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Washington Supreme Court Rules on Lifers by John Midgley Washington Supreme Court Rules On Lifers John Midgley, Attorney At Law As most prisoners in the system now know, the Washington Supreme Court in August handed down its decision in the " lifer" case, In re Powell, et al., 117 Wn.2d …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Info on Free by Info on FREE Salutation and congratulations.... Yesterday I received my first copy of the Prisoners' Legal News, a victory all the same. I was impressed. [PLN only recently overturned a statewide ban on the newsletter in Texas.] I have been active in several ongoing litigations here …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Can't Search Visitor Leaving Prison by Prison officials suspected that an inmate's minor sister had been smuggling marijuana in to him during her regular visits. An officer was posted to watch the inmate and his sister during the next visit. He did not see them pass anything. At the close …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Editorial by Ed Mead Editorial Comments By Ed Mead Welcome to another issue of our little newsletter. The first thing I want to do this month is extend a hearty expression of good wishes to one of our favorite outside readers, Jonathan Nelson, who is today serving 30 days in …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
Reviews by AUTONOMI is an English language magazine published in Denmark with an autonomous and anti-imperialist outlook. The latest issue, number 6, has articles on political prisoners in the U.S., an update on the trial of members of the Communist Workers Group in Denmark who were convicted of committing various …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Attention Former PAP Members by Jane Kuja If you are a former member of the PAP or know the whereabouts of any past members, we'd appreciate hearing from you. Send any correspondence to: Jane Kuja, P.O. Box 507, Auburn, WA 98071.
Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
Materials for Imprisoned Parents by Materials For Imprisoned Parents The Clearinghouse at Pacific Oaks has a large number of publications and materials available at very low costs that deal with children who have parents in prison and prisoners with children. Many of the materials are bilingual (English and Spanish) and …
Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
NCADP Conference in Seattle by NCADP Conference In Seattle The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (NCADP) will be holding it's annual convention in Seattle on Friday, November 1st through Monday, Nov. 5, 1991. The conference will be held at the Meany Hotel in the University District and will …
Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
Remembering Attica Correction by Beryl Sanders by Beryl P. Sanders, Community-Help Foundation Unlimited I think I should first make a few points clear before I start. This article is to make a couple of corrections because this much needed newsletter gets into the hands of many readers. For fear that …
Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
Getting Counsel Appointed in Civil Rights Cases by Paul Wright Getting Counsel Appointed In Civil Rights Cases By Paul Wright The vast majority of prisoner rights cases are initiated and filed by prisoners representing themselves. This is due to a variety of reasons but the primary one is that most …
Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
Notary Update by I'm writing in response to the letter from Lucasville, Ohio, about notarization. I'm copying this as I have it written down in my legal file: Prison Law Monitor, 3PLM, February 1981 - Expense of notarizing statement can be avoided. Also includes ideas that are easily seen as …
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