No Right to HIV Testing by In 1989 a Kentucky state prisoner, John Doe, requested testing for the HIV virus which causes AIDS. His request was denied because he did not meet the criteria for HIV testing established by Kentucky Corrections Cabinet Policy 13.5. That policy states: "Testing for the …
Washington v. Reno, Sixth Circuit, Order, Telephone Access in Prison, 1994 35 F.3d 1093 (1994) Conchita WASHINGTON; Sunday Torres; Gloria Batton Robinson; Antoinette M. Frink; Nita Young; Patricia M. Darks; Norma Fay Cook; Angela Sanchez-Martinez; Martha Marie Preston; Titilola I. Odusanya; Alberta Anderson; Loven L. Lewis; Lori Saunders; and Reshawn …
Court Enjoins BOP Phone System by On October 13, 1993, Judge Henry Wilhoit of the U.S. District Court in Kentucky entered a preliminary injunction barring the federal Bureau of Prisons from implementing its Inmate Telephone System (ITS). The case is Washington v. Reno, case number 93-217 and 93-290. Readers should …
Damages Awarded to Paraplegic Prisoner by Robert Hicks was a pretrial detainee in the Jefferson County jail in Kentucky. He attempted to escape by climbing out of a window, his rope broke and he was severely injured in the resulting fall. After a stay in the local hospital he was …
Right to Die Rulings Grow by A quadriplegic prisoner and a woman imprisoned in a persistent vegetative state occasioned recent "right to die" rulings in two states. The California Supreme Court ruled unanimously that a quadriplegic prisoner who is not terminally ill but who must be assisted by others to …
BOP Not Liable for Guard Raping Prisoner by Lisa Flechsig was a prisoner at the federal women's prison in Lexington, Kentucky. After undergoing surgery she was taken to a local doctor's office for follow up treatment. BOP guard Bruce Trent was assigned to escort Flechsig to the doctor's office. En …
Kentucky Cons Used as Scabs by Prisoners from a privately-run jail in Louisville, Kentucky have been used as scabs in the three-month-old strike by UFCW Local 227 against Fischer Packing Company. The prisoners were brought into the plant after the strikers rejected the company's "best and final offer" by a …
The Prison Privatization Debate by Ed Mead "Prisons are by their very nature coercive and oppressive institutions, designed to disempower and destroy the resistance of those confined within them, so any discussion of `reform' is largely meaningless and futile. Prisons, whether controlled and operated by the state or private companies, …
Legal Mail May Not Be Read by Prison Guards by John Reneer is a Kentucky state prisoner. He filed suit claiming violation of his first amendment rights when prison officials read his incoming legal mail in front of him. The prison warden claims he ordered a search of Reneer's incoming …
Resistance at Lexington by Laura Whitehorn On August 12-14, the first sustained act of resistance by women prisoners in the u.s. federal prison system in 20 years took place. On Wednesday night, August 12, there was an argument between two prisoners in the central yard area ("Central Park") at about …
Gay Prisoner Entitled to Participate in Religious Services by Paul Phelps is a gay Kentucky state prisoner who sued a volunteer prison chaplain and deputy warden claiming they had violated his first amendment right to practice his religion when they refused to allow him to participate in chapel services. The …
Denial of Personal Hygiene Items States Claims by Denial Of Personal Hygiene Items States Claims A Kentucky state prisoner claimed that while he was held in a county jail he was denied personal hygiene items for two weeks which violated his Eighth amendment rights. He also claimed that jail officials …
War Repression by Laura Whitehorn By Laura Whitehorn Revolutionary greetings. Like all progressive people, I've been trying to get news (news, not military advertisements) of the war, and following the anti-war activities around the country that somehow fail to make it onto the TV news. Here at FCI Lexington, you …
Baraldini v. Thornburgh, DC, Opinion for Defendants, Female Inmates Housed in High Security Institutions, 1989 884 F.2d 615 (1989) Silvia BARALDINI, et al. v. Richard L. THORNBURGH, Attorney General, et al. No. 88-5275. United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit. Argued March 17, 1989. Decided September 8, 1989. …
KY 2006 Contract with Securus Extended Through 2012 Doc ID No: MA Page 1 758 M-05332599 4 of 2 Commonwealth of Kentucky IMPORTANT MASTER AGREEMENT Show Doc ID number on all packages, invoices and correspondence. Doc Description: Inmate Telephone Service Doc ID No: MA 758 M-05332599 4 Procurement Type: Standard …
KY Contract with MCI Worldcom 2000 Page 1 of 1 The Commonwealth of Kentucky MASTER AGREEMENT (APPROVED) Description: Telephone: (502) 564-7950 ext 0 Requisition No: IMPORTANT Show Master Agreement number on all packages, invoices and correspondence. I Cited Authority: Administered By: GLENN THOMPSON M-00288371 MA-Revenue Generating/Fixed IExpiration Date: 15 Nov …
KY Phone Rates 2011 file:///W|/telephone%20project/KY/RE%20KY%20phone%20rates.htm From: stein [stein919@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 10:09 AM To: Paul Wright Subject: RE: KY phone rates For the KY folder: Spoke with the KY DOC today, and they confirmed the following phone rates for collect calls (Ms. Dailey, 502-564-6493): Local = $1.85 Intrastate …
