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Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
Spending on Corrections Rises Sharply by Spending On Corrections Rises Sharply Federal, state and local governments in the United States spent $61 billion in fiscal year 1988 for civil and criminal justice, an increase of 34 percent since 1985, according to a report recently issued by the U.S. Department of …
Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
Filed under: Parole, News, State Legislation
The Parole Board Audit Report by Ed Mead Ed Mead The Legislative Budge Committee (LBC) has issued its preliminary report on the Indeterminate Sentence Review Board (ISRB). The December 14, 1990, report was an audit that examined the operations of the Board in the context of the dual sentencing system …
Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
Mothers in Prison by Mothers In Prison [The following article about Mothers in Prison was excepted from the "Pacific" section of the December 2, 1990, issue of the Seattle Times/P-1, and then edited further to meet the informational needs of Prisoners' Legal News readers.] Lori and Raynette are both inmates …
Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
Filed under: Sentencing, Good Time
Prison Officials Liable for Not Correctly Computing Prisoner's Sentence by A federal prisoner brought a Bivens action against the warden and administrative systems manager for failing to investigate his claim that his sentence was miscalculated. The prisoner repeatedly asked prison officials to correctly compute his sentence to show time he …
Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
No Blood For Oil by Paul Wright By Paul Wright As we go to press with this issue of PLN the United States is preparing to attack Iraq in the Persian Gulf. There's a large number of veterans from past imperialist adventures still in prison throughout the United States today. …
Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
New York Report Matches National Study Results by A study released in October of 1990 found that nearly one out of every four young black men in New York state is under the control of the criminal justice system on any given day. The results of the joint study by …
Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
Texas Woman Wins $125,000 Settlement by A woman won a $125,000 settlement from the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles that may set a precedent for more civil suits involving parole decisions. The woman was raped by a man who had been sentenced in 1977 to 123 years in prison …
Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
Insufficient Facts to Support Exceptional Terms by Insufficient Facts To Support Exceptional Terms Division One of the Washington State Court of Appeals has vacated an exceptional term imposed by the parole board due to insufficient facts in the record to support the sentence imposed by the board. Luis Vega, while …
Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
Response To "Tread Carefully" by Paul Wright Response To "Tread Carefully" By Paul Wright In Issue #1, Vol. 2, of PLN we had an article by Mark LaRue titled "Tread Carefully With Sex Offenders." In it Mark discusses, among other things, SSB-6259. This bill in the state senate, which passed …
Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
Women Prisoner's Hunger Strike in Texas by Ana Lucia Gelabert Women Prisoner's Hunger Strike In Texas By Ana Lucia Gelabert Gatesville, Texas, November 28, 1990. At 12 midnight tonight at least eight women prisoners at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Mountain View unit will begin an indefinite hunger strike …
Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
Prisoner Assaulted by Guard by Prisoner Assaulted By Guard A prison employee was held liable for $1,000 after sticking the barrel of his revolver in the inmate's mouth and cocking the trigger. The prisoner had sought damages for assault in a federal civil rights suit against the prison employee. He …
Deliberate Indifference Demonstrated by Proof of prison administrators' "consistent pattern of reckless or negligent conduct" in providing prisoners with medical care is enough to establish the deliberate indifference to prisoners' serious medical needs necessary to make out an Eighth Amendment violation and hence to subject the officials to civil liability. …
Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
Nutraloaf and the Law in the Northwest by Wasseneh Taddasse Nutraloaf And The Law In The Northwest By Wasseneh Taddesse Nutraloaf is a dog-food type substance fed to prisoners on segregation status, generally to those who have committed some additional infraction while on that status. As with all repressive measures, …
Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
Prison's Water Contaminated by Ray Luc Levasseur By Ray L. Levasseur Prisoners at the U.S. Penitentiary, Marion, Illinois, have said for years that the government is poisoning us with contaminated water. The government has categorically denied these accusations. On September 28, 1990, a report issued by the Agency for Toxic …
Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
Florida DOC Officials Harass Women by A recent investigation by Florida DOC investigator Clayton Lambert of complaints of sexual harassment made by several female employees against Martin Correctional Institution (MCI) warden David Farcas and Southeast Florida DOC director William Rouse. The six women claimed that Rouse and Farcas made sexual …
Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
Habitual Criminal Case Update by You may recall that last year the Legislature passed SHE 1457 (now in RCW 9.95.013) which directed the Board to review all habitual criminal minimum terms and to apply SRA guideline ranges to them. You may also know that - as usual - the Board …
Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
Clallam Bay Prisoner Brutalized by Paul Wright By Paul Wright On December 17, 1990, at about 6:35 in the evening several prisoners got into a fight in the F-Unit (Close Custody) rotunda area. Eventually guards carted the participants of that fight off to the "hole." At about 7:10 that evening …
Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
Filed under: Editorials, Media, Censorship
From The Editor by Paul Wright By Paul Wright Welcome to the tenth issue of PLN . As our readers may recall issues 6, 7 and 8 of Vol. 1 of PLN had been censored by prisoncrats at the Washington Corrections Center in Shelton, WA. The excuse they had given …
Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
Filed under: Work, Prison Labor
Exception to Slave Labor by D.H. Washington Exception To Slave Labor I would like to commend the staff of PLN (issue #8) because, in my opinion, it is the best issue yet. I was impressed with the listing of competent authorities for the facts and figures presented in the articles. …
Article • January 15, 1991 • from PLN January, 1991
Rejection Process by Last Thursday I got a rejection slip in the mail for PLN #7! The reasons listed were: 1) the mail contains threats of physical harm against any person or threat of criminal activity - then in quotes "chewing policeman's hand off', 5) The mail concerns plans for …
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