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Article • June 15, 1990 • from PLN June, 1990
Filed under: Commentary/Reviews
Lehman Leaving by Pennsylvania Governor Robert Casey recently announced that Joseph Lehman, 46, the Assistant Secretary of Washington State's Department of Corrections, has been selected to head the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. Lehman will be overseeing a prison system about three times as large as Washington's which is beset with …
Article • June 15, 1990 • from PLN June, 1990
State Reneges on WSR Treaty by State Reneges On WSR Treaty The above headline is taken from an article in the Monroe Monitor of April 11th. "When a state senator gets fed up with broken promises from the state of Washington, you take notice." Said the article. It was Senator …
Article • June 15, 1990 • from PLN June, 1990
1989 Crime Rate Up 3% by One would think that with all of the new prisons constructed over the past 20 years the crime rate would be going down. Not so, according to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting System. The feds say crime was up 3% in 1989. Crime rates …
Article • June 15, 1990 • from PLN June, 1990
Editorial Comments by Ed Mead Ed Mead We are encouraged by the response to the first issue of Prisoner's Legal News. We have created some controversy. Prisoncrats confiscated the mast copy of PLN #1, another comrade and I received newsletter-related infractions, and my cage was kicked in and trashed twice …
Article • June 15, 1990 • from PLN June, 1990
From the Editor by Paul Wright by Ed Mead We are encouraged by the response to the first issue of Prisoner's Legal News. We have created some controversy. Prisoncrats confiscated the mast copy of PLN #1, another comrade and I received newsletter-related infractions, and my cage was kicked in and …
Article • May 15, 1990 • from PLN May, 1990
Guard Charged With Aiding Escape by GUARD CHARGED WITH AIDING ESCAPE An Illinois correctional officer was arrested in mid-February for allegedly providing inmates with hacksaw blades to aid in their escape from Joliet Prison. According to Nic Howell, the public information officer for Illinois DOC, the 13 year veteran guard, …
Article • May 15, 1990 • from PLN May, 1990
Prisoner Gets $500 in Records Suit by PRISONER GETS $500 IN RECORDS SUIT A prisoner in Michigan State sent a letter to DOC stating he'd received a major misconduct infraction and was found guilty. He then requested copies of the misconduct report, all statements and documents submitted at the hearing, …
Article • May 15, 1990 • from PLN May, 1990
One Day School Boycott at Monroe by ONE DAY SCHOOL BOYCOTT AT MONROE The statewide practice for enforcing attendance at prison schools is simple: three unexcused absences and they drop you. Well, some prisoncrat decided that inmate attendance at the Reformatory was not up to par with those at other …
$241,000 Damages Upheld in Beating by $241,000 DAMAGES UPHELD IN BEATING A prisoner riot broke out when thirty prisoners forced their way into an area where they fought guards who were trying to remove a drunken prisoner. During the fight, one guard was fatally stabbed and several others wounded. When …
Article • May 15, 1990 • from PLN May, 1990
Walla Walla Installs Fourth Bunk by WALLA WALLA INSTALLS FOURTH BUNK by M. H. We here at the Walls are also experiencing the governor's state of emergency. Our captors have shut down 8-Wing for remodeling. In 6-Wing they have just installed the 4th bunk on A and B tiers, and …
Article • May 15, 1990 • from PLN May, 1990
New Prison Spending Jumps by 73% by NEW PRISON SPENDING JUMPS BY 73% Federal and state corrections' systems will spend more than 6.7 billion on new prison construction in the period 1989-90, an increase of 73% compared to 1987-88, according to Corrections Compendium, a corrections research and information service. The …
Most Punished for Exercising Right to Jury Trial by MOST PUNISHED FOR EXERCISING RIGHT TO JURY TRIAL In 89% of the estimated 583,000 felony convictions in state courts during 1986, the defendant pleaded guilty instead of standing trial before a judge or jury, the U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Justice …
Article • May 15, 1990 • from PLN May, 1990
Ex - Con Charged in Francke Murder by Frank E. Gable has been charged with murder in connection with the killing of Oregon DOC Director Michael Francke. The ex-con Gable said: "I don't know how I first got implicated, but I'm real scared it's going to end in me getting …
Article • May 15, 1990 • from PLN May, 1990
Filed under: Sentencing, Good Time
SRA Offenders Get Good Time Off Term by SRA OFFENDERS GET GOOD TIME OFF TERM On March 29, 1990, in the case of In re Mota (Case No. 56284-9), the Washington Supreme Court ruled that the Department of Corrections must give good time credit for pre-sentence confinement (jail time) to …
Article • May 15, 1990 • from PLN May, 1990
Study Finds 23% of Young Black Men Under Criminal Sanctions by Nearly one out of every four black men between the ages of 20 and 29 nationwide is in prison or jail or on probation or parole on a given day, according to a new study based on records of …
Article • May 15, 1990 • from PLN May, 1990
Filthy Cell Violates Eighth Amendment by . A prisoner brought a civil rights action against the supervisory officers at the facility at which he was confined, claiming a violation of his rights under the Eighth Amendment to be free of cruel and unusual punishment. A federal appeals court found in …
Article • May 15, 1990 • from PLN May, 1990
Only Five States Not Under Court Order, Study Says by ONLY FIVE STATES NOT UNDER COURT ORDER, STUDY SAYS Only five states (Minnesota, Montana, New Jersey, N. Dakota and Vermont) are not currently involved in major litigation over prison conditions, says a newly released report from the ACLU's National Prison …
Article • May 15, 1990 • from PLN May, 1990
The Terror by Dan Pens THE TERROR The still air of my prison cell, thick with smoke, swallows my brooding thoughts, spitting them back at me stinking of loneliness. I stare at tobacco stained fingers, wondering at how I can bemoan the years taken from me, and yet steal some …
Article • May 15, 1990 • from PLN May, 1990
Filed under: Mail, Legal Mail
Requirement of Buzz Words on Envelope of Incoming Legal Mail Killed by A prisoner brought a suit challenging a Bureau of Prisons policy (P.S. 5265.8) mandating that letters from law firms, the courts, or any other communication which is considered privileged, be marked with special buzz words on the outside …
Article • May 15, 1990 • from PLN May, 1990
Witnesses at Disciplinary Hearings by The plaintiff prisoner was confined in a special housing unit following an alleged assault upon a guard who was attempting to break up a fight between two inmates. At his disciplinary hearing, he requested that the two inmates be called as witnesses. The hearing officer …
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