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Article • January 15, 1991 • from PLN January, 1991
Federal Court Upholds Slave Labor by Can a Mississippi prisoner collect damages for a violation of his constitutional and civil rights because he was forced to work on private property without pay? The U.S. Court of Appeals says no, even in the face of a state law prohibiting inmates from …
Article • January 15, 1991 • from PLN January, 1991
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Reviews
Reviews by Paul Wright By Paul Wright Sentencing Guidelines Commission Meetings. The SGC meets about every month or so to review how the SRA is working, its effects on prison and jail populations in the state of Washington, what recommendations to make to the legislature, trends in prison population due …
Article • January 15, 1991 • from PLN January, 1991
Attorney General Uses Erroneous Information by A former inmate of the Reformatory filed a personal restraint petition because Earned Time credits had not been applied to his sentence once he had served two-thirds of his sentence. The petition alleged that he should be entitled to regain earned time credits that …
Article • January 15, 1991 • from PLN January, 1991
Walla Walla IMU Stops Using Fire Hoses by Clark Stuhr By Clark Stuhr Within the last few months I have noticed that WSP IMU staff no longer use the fire hose to discipline outraged inmates. No my friend, instead these outraged prisoners can plan on getting a healthy lung full …
Article • January 15, 1991 • from PLN January, 1991
Rich Get Richer, Poor Get Poorer by In 1990, the richest 1% of the people have almost as much in after-tax income as the poorest 40%. To put it another way, 2.5 million rich people each take home 36 times as much as each 100 million poor. In 1980 it …
Article • January 15, 1991 • from PLN January, 1991
Editorial by Ed Mead Editorial Comments by Ed Mead Welcome to issue #1 of the second volume of our little newsletter. With the new year you will notice that we have added a more polished look to the paper. In the past Paul and I would type up the paper …
Brief • January 2, 1991
Bates v. Lynn, LA, Consent Decree, Death Row Inmates, 1991 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA M. WAYNE BATES, JR., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Civil Action No. 89-65-B Magistrate Stephen Riedlinger BRUCE LYNN, et al., Defendants. CONSENT DECREE This cause of action originated with the filing of a …
Brief • December 21, 1990
Filed under: Prohibited Persons
Special Counsel v. DEA, USA, Order, Prohibited Personnel Practice, 1990 UNITEt, STATES OF ~.!I~R.IC~, MERIT SYSTEMS PROTEt:'!'I )N BOARD ) ) . SPECIAL COUNSEL, Petitioner, 1, DOCKET NUMBER ' HQ12149010028 ) ) ) ) v. DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINIS'I'RATION, Agency. DEC 2. 1 l.990 DATE: ) _________________ j ) ) s;at.herine …
Article • December 15, 1990 • from PLN December, 1990
Filed under: Work, Prison Labor
Making Cons Work Without Pay Does Not Constitute Involuntary Servitude by Making Cons work Without Pay Does Not Constitute Involuntary Servitude Four prisoners sued prison officials for placing them on administrative segregation status for refusing to work without pay. The court dismissed the complaint as frivolous. The judge noted that …
Article • December 15, 1990 • from PLN December, 1990
State Liable for Delay in Diagnosing and Treating Prisoner Injury by State Liable For Delay In Diagnosing And Treating Prisoner Injury A New York state prisoner slipped on a wet flight of stairs and injured his right knee. During the next 3-1/2 years he continuously complained to prison officials of …
Article • December 15, 1990 • from PLN December, 1990
U.S. House & Senate Pass Watered Down Version of Crime Bill by U.S. House & Senate Pass Watered Down Version Of Crime Bill In a last-minute effort to get out of town, the U.S. House and Senate quickly worked out differences over their respective versions of the 1990 Crime Bill. …
Article • December 15, 1990 • from PLN December, 1990
CBCC Legal Services Scam by Paul Wright By Paul Wright On October 26, 1990, some 42 prisoners at CBCC showed up for what had been purported t be a "legal seminar" by Jean Schiedler Brown. It got started a half-hour late at 10 AM. It turns out Ms. Brown and …
Article • December 15, 1990 • from PLN December, 1990
Sore Loser by Right now the US government is claiming to be outraged by "violations of international law" on the part of the Iraqi government. This is a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black. In 1986 the World Court in The Hague found the United States guilty …
Article • December 15, 1990 • from PLN December, 1990
Filed under: Civil Procedure, Complaints
Prisoners' 1983 Suits by JD Enquist J. D. Enquist This is part two of the article Prisoners' 1983. It will be written from a somewhat different slant; your due process rights as protected by the Fourteenth Amendment. Prison employees are taught that in order to be effective they must view …
Article • December 15, 1990 • from PLN December, 1990
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Crime
Could Sending People to Prison Actually Cause Crime? by Ed Mead Could Sending People To Prison Actually Cause Crime? By Ed Mead According to the U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), the nation's state and federal prison population increased by 42,862 prisoners, or six percent, during the first …
Article • December 15, 1990 • from PLN December, 1990
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
Parole Board Action Alert by [The following notice was sent to us by a prisoner activist at Walla Walla.] If you have been subjected t a parole revocation or ".100" hearing in the last couple of years, you may want to do something about the outcome. If so, read on... …
Article • December 15, 1990 • from PLN December, 1990
Sixteen Executed During 1989 by Sixteen Executions During 1989 In 1976 the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty. Since then 13 states have executed 120 people. Last year (1989) eight states executed 16 people. Eight of them were white and eight were black. They'd spent an average of seven …
Article • December 15, 1990 • from PLN December, 1990
Filed under: Organizing, Overcrowding
Demonstration Against Double Bunking at Twin Rivers Prison by About a dozen members of the outside community held a demonstration in front of the Twin Rivers Correctional Center on October 21st. The protest was sponsored by the Ethnic Minority and Prison Task Force (PO Box 667, Edmonds, WA 98020), and …
Article • December 15, 1990 • from PLN December, 1990
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
Thinking About Women by David Gilbert By David Gilbert On the streets I had women on my mind all the time, but that was nothing compared to being in prison. On many nights I lie in my cell just thinking about women - missing loved ones, remembering times together, and …
Article • December 15, 1990 • from PLN December, 1990
Magistrate Recommends Continued Single Celling at Reformatory by Ed Mead There has been a long and bitterly fought struggle by prisoners at the Washington State Reformatory to enforce a consent decree mandating single celling. The consent decree is a product of a 1978 civil rights complaint filed by Evergreen Legal …
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