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Article • December 15, 2007 • from PLN December, 2007
BJS Releases Statistics on Vets in Prison in 2004 by Veterans were about half as likely as non-veterans to be imprisoned in 2004, but more than twice as likely to be serving time for a sex offense, the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics said in a report released on May …
Perry v. City of Gary, IN, Complaint, Police Brutality, 2007 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA PERCY PERRY, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) ) ) ) v. THE CITY OF GARY, INDIANA, ) CORPORAL ANTHONY BLOOD, AND ) OFFICER IRVING GIVENS, ) ) Defendants. ) Complaint …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Medical, Skin, Veterans
Failure to Treat Florida Prisoner's Agent Orange Disease Unconstitutional by The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that prison officials' failure to provide prescribed treatment to a prisoner suffering from effects of Agent Orange violated his Eight Amendment rights. The Florida prisoner was a Vietnam Veteran who was exposed to …
D.C. Circuit Reverses U.S. Gulf War POWs' $959 Million+ Prisoner Abuse Award by On June 4, 2004, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit reversed a federal court's award of more than $959 million in a case filed by U.S. Gulf War POWs who were allegedly abused while held …
Article • May 15, 2007
Continuing Claim Doctrine Applies to Deductions from Military Pay for Incarceration Costs by Continuing Claim Doctrine Applies to Deductions from Military Pay for Incarceration Costs The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has held that periodic deductions from a federal prisoner's military retirement pay constituted continuing claims, …
Article • October 15, 2005
Flashbacks: Vietnam And Capital Punishment by by Michael Mello Professor of Law Vermont Law School Capital punishment in our time has always reminded me of the Vietnam war. Certain blood for uncertain reasons," as Tim O'Brien wrote of his war. The only measure of success was the body count. No …
Veterans' Disability Check Unlawfully Seized to Pay State Restitution Fine by John E Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The Third Circuit US Court of Appeals held that a New Jersey statute providing for seizure of a prisoner's federal veterans' disability benefits check to pay a state restitution fine was void …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN March, 2003
Veteran's Benefits Deposited to Prisoner Trust Account Cannot Be Attached by The Ninth Circuit US Court of Appeals held that veterans benefit funds deposited to a state prisoner's prison trust account could not be attached by prison authorities, even to pay an overdraft they accorded him for dental appliances he …
Article • July 15, 2001 • from PLN July, 2001
Kentucky Judge Orders Hepatitis C Treatment by A federal court in Kentucky has ordered the Kentucky Department of Corrections (KDOC) to provide hepatitis C treatment to a prisoner suffering from both hepatitis C and cirrhosis of the liver. In response, the KDOC has implemented a treatment plan whereby up to …
Article • January 15, 2001 • from PLN January, 2001
Hepatitis C, A 'Silent Epidemic' Strikes U.S. Prisons by Silja JA Talvi It's been called the nation's most insidious virus. A "silent epidemic" that has swept the nation, hepatitis C is now the most common, chronic, bloodborne infection in the U.S. Because the virus often causes no noticeable symptoms for …
Washington 35% Law Struck Down, in Part by PLN has reported extensively on Wright v. Riveland , the class action lawsuit challenging Washington state statute RCW 72.09.480 [ PLN , Jun. Aug. Dec. 1996; May, 1997]. The law allows the DOC to seize 35% of all money sent to prisoners, …
Article • August 15, 1990 • from PLN August, 1990
Filed under: Reviews, Military, Veterans
Storm Warning by Paul Wright By Paul Wright This is a bi-monthly magazine put out by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (anti-imperialist). There are a disproportionate number of veterans in the gulags in this country, as most prisoners have noticed by now. Storm Warning (SW) is free to prisoners; …
Article • July 15, 1990 • from PLN July, 1990
Filed under: Military, Veterans
Vietnam MIAs in Perspective by The MIA (Missing In Action) issue has been exploited by the U.S. government to block normalization of relations with Vietnam. Many prisoners have uncritically swallowed the state's propaganda on this issue. We'd like to put it in a more statistically accurate context: The French still …
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Filed under: Military, Veterans
Us Doj Report Veterans in State and Federal Prisons in 2004 2007 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report May 2007, NCJ 217199 Veterans in State and Federal Prison, 2004 By Margaret E. Noonan BJS Statistician and Christopher J. Mumola BJS Policy Analyst …
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Filed under: Military, Veterans
Bojs Veterans in Prison or Jail 2000 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Revised 9/29/00 Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report January 2000, NCJ 178888 Veterans in Prison or Jail By Christopher J. Mumola BJS Policy Analyst In 1998 there were an estimated 25,062,400 veterans in the United …
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