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Article • November 15, 1990 • from PLN November, 1990
Editorial Comments by Ed Mead EDITORIAL COMMENTS Welcome to issue #7 of the Prisoners' Legal News. As I write this issue, #6 has not yet been mailed out to readers, and #5 has just been banned from the Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla. The warden there said "the article, …
Article • October 15, 1990 • from PLN October, 1990
Wetmore v. Gardner by At 735 F.Supp 974, is the ruling of Federal Judge Quakenbush on the states Motion to overturn the jury verdict in favor of Mr. Wetmore challenging the policy of rectal "probes" by officials at the Walla Walla Penitentiary. The jury found the policy unconstitutional and awarded …
Article • October 15, 1990 • from PLN October, 1990
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
Expression by V Martinez By V. Martinez When the prison gates slam behind an inmate, he does not lose his human qualities. His mind does not become closed to ideas. His intellect does not cease to feed on free and open interchange of opinions. His yearning for self-respect does not …
Article • October 15, 1990 • from PLN October, 1990
Filed under: Mental Health
Mission of SOC To Change by The Special Offender Center (SOC) is going to become another Intensive Management Unit (IMU). The proposed change is scheduled to take place on July 1, 1991. The SOC was designed and built to house prisoners with mental problems, and has served in that capacity …
Article • October 15, 1990 • from PLN October, 1990
Government Spending for Civil, Criminal Justice Reached $61 Billion in 1988 by Government Spending For Civil, Criminal Justice Reached $61 Billion In 1988 Federal, state and local governments spent $61 billion for civil and criminal justice in 1988, a 34 percent increase since 1985, the U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of …
Article • October 15, 1990 • from PLN October, 1990
Death Row Abolished by Mark LaRue By Mark LaRue For several months it was rumored that death row was being closed down and everyone with a death sentence was being moved to the other tiers in IMU or 5 Wing [protective custody, editor]. No one believed the rumors of course. …
Article • October 15, 1990 • from PLN October, 1990
Prisoners on Purpose by Prisoners On Purpose "A Peacemakers Guide to Jails and Prisons" is put out by Nukewatch. It deals with the experience of nuclear resisters (these are people who engage in civil disobedience/civil resistance to nuclear weapons and power, by blockades, hammering missiles, etc.) who have been imprisoned …
Article • October 15, 1990 • from PLN October, 1990
Use of Jailhouse Informants Faulted by Use Of Jailhouse Informants Faulted A grand jury has issued a stinging rebuke of the Los Angeles district attorney's office for failing to assure that "jailhouse informants" called as prosecution witnesses repeatedly over the last decade were telling the truth. "Very little effort was …
Article • October 15, 1990 • from PLN October, 1990
Police Torture in Ohio by Police Torture In Ohio Dayton Ohio City Manager Richard Helwig has reprimanded police officials for a "breakdown of command" that allowed allegations of police torture of a drug suspect to go unreported for six months. Greer, a drug suspect, with a clothes iron several times …
Article • October 15, 1990 • from PLN October, 1990
The Ultimate Hunt by This is what jackets had embroidered on them that were given away by Jerry Hodge, the Vice-Chairman of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice. The occasion was for Hodge and two of his cronies to "hunt" prisoners from the Huntsville prison using tracking dogs. The prisoner …
Article • October 15, 1990 • from PLN October, 1990
Prisoners Can't Be Punished for Refusing to Perform Unconstitutional Assignment by Prisoners Can't Be Punished For Refusing To Perform Unconstitutional Assignment In a recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals, Fruit V. Norris, 905 F2nd 1148 (8th Cir. 1990), the court held that "prison inmates are protected from punishment …
Article • October 15, 1990 • from PLN October, 1990
Prison Resources by Paul Wright As you read through PLN you'll notice that few if any of our articles are reprints from other publications. We think it's better to be original than to duplicate the efforts of others and we have only 10 pages to get our message out. Whenever …
Article • October 15, 1990 • from PLN October, 1990
Filed under: Crime, Sentencing
Judicial Highpoints by Terry Dorsey, convicted in a Sacramento, California, Superior Court of shooting "Billy," the first police dog to die "in the line of duty," was sentenced to eleven years and eight months in state prison. This sentence was imposed in spite of the fact that the dog had …
Article • October 15, 1990 • from PLN October, 1990
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews, Crime
It Costs Too Much and It Does Not Work by Ed Mead It Costs Too Much And It Does Not Work By Ed Mead We need to prove it! According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), during the period between the end of 1988 and the end of 1989, …
Article • October 15, 1990 • from PLN October, 1990
Women in Prison by Women In Prison This is the topic covered in two parts by the publication "New Directions for Women" in the March/April and May/June, 1990 issues. The number of women in prison is about 7% and rapidly growing due to mandatory sentences, harsher laws, etc. All too …
Article • October 15, 1990 • from PLN October, 1990
What's Wrong With This Picture? by The Washington State Court of Appeals recently handed down a ruling that demonstrates how "equal justice" really works. In State v. Allert, 58 Wn.App. 200 (1990), the court upheld an exceptional sentence below the applicable guideline range for Terry Allert. Mr. Alert, the former …
Article • October 15, 1990 • from PLN October, 1990
Filed under: Mental Health
Walls Gets "Special Needs Unit" by Mark LaRue By Mark LaRue With increasing numbers of mentally ill people being sent to prison here in Washington, prison officials finally decided that something must be done to treat their particular needs here at the Penitentiary. Dubbed a "Special Needs Unit" in a …
Article • October 15, 1990 • from PLN October, 1990
BOP Hotline by The federal Bureau of Prisons has a special phone service for those looking for someone they believe to be held in local, state or federal prisons. Contact: Inmate Locator Hotline Bureau of Prisons, Dept. of Justice 320 1st St., NW, Rm 640 Washington, DC 20536 (202) 724-3126 …
Article • October 15, 1990 • from PLN October, 1990
Clallam Bay Gets Computer Phones by Starting on August 8th, prisoners at C.B.C.C. were treated to a new phone service, one run by a computer. You pick up the phone ant the machine asks for your name and the number you want to call. It hen dials the number and …
From the Editor by Paul Wright By Paul Wright Welcome to PLN #6. When we started this publishing project we didn't know how far we'd get. We decided to see how much support our efforts would generate. Issue #4 paid for itself, and #3 almost did, so it looks like …
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