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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 …
Article • December 15, 1990 • from PLN December, 1990
Fifth Circuit Adopts Reactionary Standard in Excessive Force Claim by Fifth Circuit Adopts Reactionary Standard in Excessive Force Claims A state prisoner filed a civil rights complaint in federal court against two guards who assaulted him during a cell search. The convict received an elbow fracture during the struggle. The …
Article • December 15, 1990 • from PLN December, 1990
Filed under: Editorials, Media, Censorship
From the Editor by Paul Wright From The Editor By Paul Wright Welcome to issue #8 of PLN. If your mailing label says "last issue" this means that you have not made any donations to PLN or assisted us in production. (Note: this applies only to US readers). We do …
Article • December 15, 1990 • from PLN December, 1990
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
Letters From Readers by Letters form our readers are encouraged. Words in brackets [like this] reflect material added by the editors in order to better clarify a subject. Names of writers will not be published unless specific authorization is given to do so. We not only welcome the input of …
Article • November 15, 1990 • from PLN November, 1990
Filed under: Parole, News, State Legislation
The Initiative Process by M R The PLN's coverage of the "initiative" idea was good, but I don't think it left anyone feeling any less powerless than they were before. This (legislative initiative) is going to take a lot of push. People on the outside are still in the dark …
Article • November 15, 1990 • from PLN November, 1990
Free Supreme Court Opinions by The new term for the U.S. supreme court started on October 1, 1990. The Court offers free copies of its decisions for each term to interested parties. This applies only to decisions in this term, there is a limit of 5 decisions per request, be …
Article • November 15, 1990 • from PLN November, 1990
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
Lines in the Sand by Paul Wright By Paul A. Wright As we go to press several hundred thousand American soldiers are waiting in the desert of Saudi Arabia. I expect that before too long they will be attacking Iraq or Iraqi troops in Kuwait. It cannot be said that …
Article • November 15, 1990 • from PLN November, 1990
Digital Probe Costs Nevada $4,000 by A U.S. Court of Appeals, noting that a digital anal body cavity search is "humiliating, degrading and uncomfortable" and that more "narrow and restrictive means could have been used," held that the defendant Associate Warden of a Nevada prison must pay an award of …
Article • November 15, 1990 • from PLN November, 1990
Filed under: Civil Procedure, Complaints
Authority by JD Enquist By: J. D. Enquist It seems that there are increasingly more and more prisoner litigants and many of them becoming jailhouse lawyers. Or as it has been suggested, In-house Legal Consultants or Prisoners Legal consultants. The latter being of no importance, this article is focused on …
Article • November 15, 1990 • from PLN November, 1990
Filed under: Organizing
Let's Get Educated by M Bottom I liked the PLN's proposal concerning getting outside people and prisoners together to lobby the legislature to change the laws in that state. I have done similar work here (in New York), to the point of actually writing a legislative bill and having it …
Article • November 15, 1990 • from PLN November, 1990
Long-term Negligence Might State a Deliberate Indifference Claim by A state prisoner alleged that he suffered from chronic foot problems and that prison officials refused to provide him with adequate medical care, thereby inflicting cruel and unusual punishment. The trial court dismissed the complaint. The U.S. Court of Appeals reversed …
Article • November 15, 1990 • from PLN November, 1990
Filed under: Civil Procedure, Complaints
Prisoners' 1983 by JD Enquist PRISONERS' 1983 BY J.D. Enquist Ask what the most common lawsuit filed by prisoners is and instinctively the answer will be the "Prisoners' 1983." The section 1983 is the result of the Civil Rights Act of 1871. The statute was originally enacted by Congress under …
Transsexual Wins Hormones Case by A male transsexual (born with male body by psychologically a woman) prisoner sued prison officials, claiming that denying her the opportunity to continue estrogen treatments at her own expense constituted indifference to her serious medical needs. The plaintiff had a number of surgeries ant procedures …
Article • November 15, 1990 • from PLN November, 1990
Warehouses of Misery by Wm Daniel Ravenscroft By Wm. Daniel Ravenscroft, esq. What has our prison system really come to? Nothing more than a giant machine gobbling up human beings then spitting them out without the slightest concern for the collateral consequences. The California prison system has over 90,000 inmates …
Article • November 15, 1990 • from PLN November, 1990
Severe Injury Not Required for Damage Claim Against Guards for Assault by Severe Injury not Required for Damage Claim Against Guards for Assault A prisoner filed a civil rights complaint against guards for assaulting him. A jury awarded the prisoner with compensatory and punitive damages. The state appealed. On appeal …
Article • November 15, 1990 • from PLN November, 1990
Florida Corruption by FLORIDA CORRUPTION In May of 1989 the Florida Department of Law Enforcement began an investigation into drug trafficking by prison guards at the Martin Correctional Institution in Indiantown, Florida. After a 15-month investigation FDLE agents arrested 10 prison guards and 6 prisoners. Over 60 prisoners and 25 …
Article • November 15, 1990 • from PLN November, 1990
Klan Papers Get into Texas Prisons but PLN is Banned by Michael Lowe, exalted Cyclops of the Waco Ku Klux Klan, is trying to reach some 13,500 white prisoners inside the Texas prison system. And Texas prison officials are allowing the KKK publications into their prisons. Well get prisoners out …
Article • November 15, 1990 • from PLN November, 1990
Full Due Process Required Before Termination of Work Release Status by A prisoner's work release status was revoked for drug use. She was returned to prison and found guilty at a disciplinary hearing. The Court of Appeals reversed and reinstated the prisoner, holding that the due process clause itself invests …
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