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Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Comatose Prisoners Expose the Limits of Mercy by Gary Hunter In Texas and California the hard line against crime has crashed against the bottom line of deficient state budgets. Short money and long sentences have politicians from both states purporting to search frantically for fiscal solutions. Texas legislators have proposed …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
California to Outfit All Prison Guards With Stab-Resistant Body Armor by California has ordered $2.3 million in stab-resistant body armor from DBH Industries' subsidiary Protective Apparel Corp. of America (PACA)enough to give body armor to all California prison guards. The order is the largest ever received from the prison industry …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Wrongfully Convicted in California and New York Awarded Damages by Michael Rigby California On April 29, 2003, then California Governor Gray Davis signed legislation awarding two wrongfully convicted prisoners $100 per day for every day they were in prison. Ricky Daye, who spent 10 years in Folsom Prison, and Leonard …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Grievance Procedure Not Required by PLRA in All Lawsuits by The Ninth Circuit court of appeals has held that California state prisoners who seek only monetary damages in federal civil rights suits need not file a prison grievance before filing suit. MacArthur Rumbles, a California state prisoner, filed a civil …
Heck Does Not Bar Evidence in Shooting Case by Ronald Young The U.S. district court for the East ern District of California held that a prisoner was not precluded from introducing evidence contradicting factual findings of disciplinary proceeding instituted against prisoner as a result of incident. Vincent Marquez, a California …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
BOP Prisoners Eligible for Drug Treatment Without Documented History of Abuse by A U.S. District Court in Oregon found a federal prisoner was eligible for participation in a drug treatment program and a one-year sentence reduction upon successful completion of that program. Martin Kuna, a prisoner at the Federal Correctional …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
California Parole Rescission Panel's Disagreement With Granting Panel Fails The "Some Evidence" Standard by John E Dannenberg California Parole Rescission Panel's Disagreement With Granting Panel Fails The "Some Evidence" Standard by John E. Dannenberg The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that a California life prisoner's rescission of his …
Article • May 15, 2000 • from PLN May, 2000
Ninth Circuit Holds Exhaustion of Remedies Mandatory Before Filing Suit by The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Ap-peals joined eight other U.S. Courts of Appeals in holding that the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) mandates, under 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a), that administrative remedies must be exhausted prior to a prisoner …
Article • April 15, 2000 • from PLN April, 2000
Filed under: Sentencing, Parole
California's No Parole Board by Marvin Mentor With no change in the statutory standards for lifer parole hearings, the CA Board of Prison Terms (BPT) has reduced its rate of parole grants from 50% in 1978 to 0.2% in 1998. In April, 1999, newly elected Governor Davis (who has the …
Article • April 15, 2000 • from PLN April, 2000
Prison Must Provide Medication Supply to Released Prisoners by by Matthew T. Clarke The Ninth Circuit has held that prison officials must provide a supply of medications to prisoners requiring medication when they are released from prison. Timothy Wakefield, a California state prisoner who requires psychotropic medication to control his …
Article • April 15, 2000 • from PLN April, 2000
Eleven Guards Injured in CA Ruckus by Eleven guards were treated for injuries resulting from a November 22, 1999 incident at the High Desert State Prison in Susanville, California prison authorities said. One guard had two teeth knocked out, The Sacramento Bee reported, during an attack by about 60 prisoners …
ADA Applies to Parole Claims by The court of appeals for the Ninth circuit held that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) applies to claims that prisoners are denied parole primarily due to past histories of substance abuse. The court held that habeas corpus is not the sole remedy for …
California PIA Chief, Folsom Mayor, Arrested by On January 27, 2000, Reggie "party meister" Drew, 57, was arrested in a room at the B-7-B Motel in a seedy industrial area of North Sacramento. Drew was charged with five felony and misdemeanor counts for soliciting an undercover policewoman for unspecified sex …
$1.5 Million Settlement in CA Jail Suicide Attempt by On June 6, 1996, a California man was arrested on charges of drunk driving after being involved in a traffic accident. He was unable to make bail and was confined in the Los Angeles county jail to await trial. While in …
Guarding Their Silence: Corcoran Guards Acquitted of Rape by Christian Parenti The acquittal in November, 1999, of four California prison Guards charged with arranging for a young prisoner to be raped by Corcoran State Prison's notorious "Booty Bandit" was the result of a massive legal and political show of force …
Article • March 15, 2000 • from PLN March, 2000
CCPOA Runs Corcoran TV 'Ads' by The California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA), a union representing California prison guards, has launched a year-long campaign of 30-second television ads aimed at improving the public perception of Corcoran prison guards. The five 30-second ads all begin with the line: "Corcoran officers: They …
New Folsom Year Long Lockdown by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely Northern California Mexican prisoners have been locked down since November 21, 1998, at New Folsom Prison's C Facility. The lockdown began when Northern and Southern California Mexican prisoners, long time enemies, fought on the yard. Ken Hurdle, an ombudsman …
Article • February 15, 2000 • from PLN February, 2000
Filed under: Civil Procedure, Costs
Indigence is Cause to Retax Costs by The court of appeals for the Ninth circuit held that a district court abused its discretion in denying a motion to retax costs when the losing plaintiff was indigent and the effect of taxing costs against the plaintiff would chill future civil rights …
California Guards Abuse Young Prisoners by Willie Wisely by W. Wisely In a developing investigation eerily reminiscent of the abuse, corruption, and cover-ups at Corcoran prison, California Youth Authority guards stand accused of beating, and setting up fights between, youthful offenders at Youth Correctional Facility (YCF) in Chino, California. A …
Brief • February 3, 2000
Filed under: Medical
Shumate v. Wilson, CA, Order, Medical Care, 2000 Case 2:95-cv-00619-WBS-JFM Document 399 Filed 02/03/2000 Page 1 of 6 Case 2:95-cv-00619-WBS-JFM Document 399 Filed 02/03/2000 Page 2 of 6 Case 2:95-cv-00619-WBS-JFM Document 399 Filed 02/03/2000 Page 3 of 6 Case 2:95-cv-00619-WBS-JFM Document 399 Filed 02/03/2000 Page 4 of 6 Case 2:95-cv-00619-WBS-JFM …
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